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Publisher	Name: Jacquie Holland;
Source ID	S225
Linked to (3)	Amy Susannah Bolstridge Living Family: Arthur William Bolstridge / Lily Francis Oseman

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My Bolstridge info is as follows:
Lily Florence Oseman m Arthur Gilbert Bolstridge on 9th July 1911 in Nechells, Birmingham; WAR

Arthur's age shown as 31 - occ musician - father Thomas - occ retired army officer

According to Edna May - one of Lily and Arthur's daughters - both Arthur and Thomas were musicians in the army and Arthur was born in Gibraltar, when his father was serving in the army there. I discovered that the records of army births abroad showed the following births Arthur W 1876 (Gib), Amy S 1872 (Boyle, Ireland) Gertrude 1877 (Gib) and Maud M 1874 (Shorncliffe nr Folkestone).

I so discovered that Thomas was in the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers (Regiment of Foot) - I have not yet been able to trace which regiment Arthur was in.

The birth cert for Arthur shows his birth date as 27.2.1876 born to Thomas and Susannah - Thomas' rank being a sergnt at that time

Thomas and Susannah Ann Beavis married in Kensington on 25/12/1871 - Thomas' father shown as Thomas - occ overseer in goods station.

According to Norman Dudley - Thomas William Bolstridge was born 8/11/1834 probably in St. Pancras to Francis Bolstridge and Ann Cosier - I also have a note of a Francis being born to them in 1832. Francis snr was born to Thomas and Rebecca Roe c1770. Although looking at these dates - I think that there is some confusion somewhere. Norman states that Francis snr died in 1840 - making him c. 70 years old and yet he had only recently fathered 2 sons - if not more?? Norman traces this line back to Thomas Bulstrode and Rebecca in Bedworth prior to 1660.

An old print out from the IGI - LDS website gave me 25 Thomas Bolstridges - all but 6 were in Bedworth or environs.

When searching for the marriage of Lily and Arthur - I logged all marriages from St. Cath's Index from 1901 to 1911 - there were 10 in the Bham area. I have no idea why this branch of the Bolstridge family seemed to have originated in Bedworth, moved to London, and then moved to th