Genealogy Chat

This is quite a useful site:

http://www.liverpoolhistoryprojects.co.uk/

they have a section on fallen heros but I couldn't see your relative. You may want to double check:


http://www.liverpoolhistoryprojects.co.uk/fallenheroes/

From Lancashire BMD:

1912 Marriage:


FOSTER Bridget SANDFORD Michael Toxteth Park, Register Office or Registrar Attended Liverpool REG_TP/48/34

They either married at a register office or they may have been non conformist e.g. catholic so the registrar attended the ceremony.

Hi

If you live close to where this person was living, find out where copies of the old local newspapers are kept.
They are a very valuable source of info on a soldier who died, was wounded or captured.
There is usually a lot of details that you will not find elsewhere.
These entries frequently show a small photograph of the soldier.
They are usually stored on microfilm at the larger libraries or the nearest archive.
If you can get access to these, you might need to look at a years print of the paper to find him after his date of death.
This was not reported in the paper until his death was confimed.
For one person in my family tree, the death was comfirmed by a letter to his wife about 7 months after he died.

Regards
Andrew.

Hi all,
Many thanks for all your info and taking the time to help. I am so excited with this info as I didnt know Michael and Bridget had any children at all. Im not very experienced at all this yet so will have a think as to what to do next. If you want info from a birth cert do you have to buy them?
Thanks again,
Kim xxxxxx

My son has just come in and had a look at the address and he thinks it could be Dinorben Street.

We found this street name in a list of Liverpool street names.

Kath. x

Perhaps the birth certificate of one of the children would give you an address:-

Name: Bridget Sandford
Year of Registration: 1913
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
Mother's Maiden Name: Foster
District: Liverpool (1837-1934)
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8b
Page: 138

or:-

Name: Michael Sandford
Mother's Maiden Surname: Foster
Date of Registration: Jan Feb Mar 1916
Registration district: W Derby
Registration county: Lancashire
Volume Number: 8b
Page Number: 1073

Kath. x

If you would like to try to try to read the address it is here:-

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=1219&path=S.Sa.San.35333

Kath. x

The marriage was 26 May 1912.

There were also 2 children of Michael & Bridget, Bridget born 2 Oct, 1913, Edge Hill and Michael born 13 Dec. 1915, Edge Hill.

This looks like the marriage of Michael and Bridget:-

Name: Michael Sandford
Year of Registration: 1912
Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun
Spouse's Surname: Foster
District: Toxteth Park
County: Lancashire
Volume: 8b
Page: 334

Kath. x

If the first one Margaret posted is yours then his wife was called Bridget Sandford (nee Foster). His records are on Ancestry but there is very little left of them and not much that is legible on them.

Attestation at Seaforth, 25th Aug. (can't see the year).

There is an address for his wife of 38 ????? Street, Edge Hill, Liverpool.

Kath. x

Or this one?

Name: SANDFORD
Initials: M S
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Gunner
Regiment/Service: Royal Garrison Artillery
Unit Text: 335th Siege Bty.
Age: 41
Date of Death: 27/07/1917
Service No: 134976
Additional information: Husband of Flora Sandford, of 16, Loudoun Rd., St. John's Wood, London.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: VIII. E. 25.
Cemetery: CITE BONJEAN MILITARY CEMETERY, ARMENTIERES

This one?

Name: SANDFORD, MICHAEL
Initials: M
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Unit Text: 13th Bn.
Date of Death: 23/07/1916
Service No: 13163
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Pier and Face 1 D 8 B and 8 C.
Memorial: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

Hi, I have a relative,Michael Sandford,died in ww1 and wondered how I go about finding his enlistment details, thinking it would give me an address,next of kin etc. He also had medals from this war and I wondered who got these.
Many thanks,
Kim