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Re: [TSL] Please any help appreciatted
Eliz Hanebury <elizhgene@gmail.com> on 04/25/2009

There are a good group of Pittsburgh directories on line at
http://www.evendon.net/PGHLookups/DirM.htm


 1890C   1895C   1897C   1895B   1898C   1899 these years are up and
fully browseable you might find a Crossley of the right name
I did check the 1900 incase they were still here, there was a man but
he was born in 1880.


Eliz


On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Valerie <valerie.c@pmce.co.za> wrote:
> I am looking for any info re a relative  Walter Crossley who was born in
> Pittsburgh in the States according to War Records he was born in 1891 but





> according to Census records in Belfast Northern Ireland he was born in 1893.
> He is listed in the 1911 Census of  Belfast Northern Ireland as living with
> my Great Aunt Eliza Tate(nee Crossley) and is stated as Walter Crossley aged
> 18yrs Machine Boy born USA - Relative  thus making his birth 1893
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> I did find a Walter Crossley on a ships record which stopped at Ellis Island
> and he is listed as about 1 month old and with his mother. I do not think
> this is the same Walter as the dates do not seem correct but then as I have
> been told already many dates which are given are not correct
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> However it is the War Grave Commission  that give his birth date as 1891 .
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> He enlisted in Belfast N. Ireland around 1914/15 and joined the Royal Irish
> rifles 8th battalion 36th Ulster Division and was sent to France
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> He fought in the Battle of the Somme and sadly on the 2nd day of the main
> battle he was killed and his body never found. He is remembered at Thiepval
> Memorial in France where we are going this year to see it and the area
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> His death according to the War Graves Commission is given as the 2nd of July
> 1916 thus making him 25, so the Census of N. Ireland in 1911 and the death
> age given are in conflict .
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> This man was a relative and my sister has his War medals which were found in
> my Dads house when he died, yet no one seems to know anything more about him
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> I should love to find any record re this Walter Crossley and perhaps if he
> is recorded with any of his family on a ship from Pittsburgh to Belfast
> Northern Ireland  though which year I do not know but definitely before
> 1911. So he msut have left Pittsburgh before 1911 since he is recorded in
> Belfast in 1911  and then died in 1916
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> I do have some names of our family relatives but so far am unable to link
> them to Walter and thus still dearly want to locate the names of his parents
> and any siblings
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> I seemed to have exhausted mush of my research and also have written to
> Pittsburgh for his Birth Certificate but they cannot find it , so I begin to
> wonder where he was born, since I also had someone search the Belfast
> records and they found nothing re his birth but surely he has to have been
> recorded somewhere or could he have been born at sea ??? I so much want to
> see whom he was in the family and why it seems so difficult to find his
> details
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> Any help at all appreciated and if I am required to join with a fee, the
> ships list I am only to happy to do that
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> Thanking your for reading this and hoping to hear any info or advice
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> Valerie and Noel Crossley
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> South Africa
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