17 May 2021

Today I thought I would order copies of all the wills that we have found probate records for. I wrote a utility to list the probate records from our gedcom files:

• Ethel Ellen Dunmore, 11 Oct 1983, Birmingham – ordered
• Anastatia Coady, 6 Dec 1929, London, England – ordered
• Anastatia Coady, 19 May 1931, London, England
• Henry Arthur Alcock, 11 Mar 1931, Birmingham, England – ordered
• Beatrice Mabel Rogers, 9 Oct 1972, Bristol – ordered
• William Patrick Alcock, 7 Mar 1973, Oxford – ordered
• Frank Dunmore, 18 Mar 1957, Bristol – ordered (not sure this is correct)
• Alfred Facer, 15 Feb 1913, Oxford, England – ordered
• Lionel E Facer, 30 Apr 1945, Birmingham, England – ordered
• Blanche Mabel Facer, 24 Nov 1964, Exeter – ordered
• Margaret Emily Dunmore, 9 Feb 1983, Bristol
• Herbert Matthew Owen Clarke, 30 May 1951, Birmingham, England
• Muriel Clara Facer, 25 Jan 1974, Manchester
• Sylvia Ann Esther Wreford, 15 Jul 1993, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
• Ernest Rowney, 6 Feb 1923, London, England – ordered
• Jane Palmer, 17 Sep 1956, Llandaff – previously ordered
• Ethel Mary Harvey, 6 Oct 1988, Llandaff
• Hilda Elizabeth Harvey, 24 Feb 1995, Llandaff
• Howard John Hemmings, 1 Oct 1990, Brighton – ordered
• Jane Cranogwen Hemmings, 21 May 1993, Llandaff
• John Chambers, 22 Dec 1950, York, England – ordered
• Daniel Dineen, 22 Dec 1948, Llandaff – ordered
• Sarah Anne Deneen, 2 Apr 1964, Oxford, England
• Elizabeth Hall, 4 Mar 1987, Brighton
• George Wilson Hall, 1 Jun 1956, Newcastle Upon Tyne – ordered
• Ronald Percival Turl, 31 Oct 1969, Ipswich – ordered
• James H Dunn, 15 Apr 1988, Llandaff
• Charles Chambers, 8 Apr 1975, Ipswich, Suffolk, England
• Sarah Elizabeth Jane Deneen, 15 May 1989, Llandaff
• Nanette Hall, 19 Mar 1968, Wakefield

I also searched for and ordered the following

• Frank Hemmings, 1916
• Elizabeth Hinksman (Peak), 1937
• James Hall, 1941 (not sure this is correct since middle name was Harold)
• Richard Hinksman, 1942
• Benjamin Snowling, 1892
• John Snowling, 1892
• Martha Dineen (Allen), 1963

I also ordered some copies of Bernard Girard Alcock’s wartime identity paper from Jersey in 1942. They show that he was sent to a camp in Germany and one appears to contain a photograph of him. They arrived within an hour.

The first document is a “blue” identity registration dated 1940 that gives his name as Bernard Girard Alcock and address Stella Maris, Langley Park, St. Saviours. Date of birth 25 Jan 1925, Bedford, England. His occupation is butcher and he was single. His hair was auburn, eyes grey. He had never served in a military service.¹

The second document is an identity card, number 23142 with the same information as above plus a an attached photograph. In faint pencil, probably at a later date, is written “Transported to Germany on 29.9.42”²