Tom Melville MAURICE born Symonds Yatt in 1886 (General)

by fredb , Thursday, September 24, 2009, 10:22 (5614 days ago) @ m p griffiths

Having a Methodist minister in one line of my family I know how often they moved, that family do not appear in the same place twice in any census from 1851. And children disappear from Wales and turn up in Bristol at a large Methodist school.

He should show in 1911 he would be about 25? He joins the army in 1915 and his army papers say 1915-16 Home (UK?) then East Africa, then South Africa and is discharged due to ill health in Gwele, Rhodesia, but he doesn't return to the UK, so what if he was already living in Africa and returned to join the army in 1915. He joined the Army ordinance corps, and if he already had African connections maybe that's why he was posted back to East Africa rather than the Western Front and the war in Europe? Cracking yarns LOL, nothing like a good mystery.

Is there a Baptist or Bethel Chapel near Symonds Yat? I know there's a chapel almost under Yat Rock, Symonds Yat may be an early memory rather than actual place of birth. Fred