1911 Census Regiments Overseas Especially Northants

[warproject]

Hi All.

I wondered if there is a listing or any one knows of which British regiments were

overseas at the time of the 1911 Census, especially Northampton Battalions.

I do know the 2nd were at Floriana Barracks, Malta.

T.I.A.

Sandy

[Stebie9173]

I detect someone looking at me..... !!

Yes, the 2nd Northamptons were at Floriana Barracks. Are you looking at what battalions were where or a listing of the men?

1st Battalion were nominally at Raglan Barracks at Devonport, but since they had just arrived home from India (swopping with 2nd Battalion who had just got to Malta) most were on home leave following their overseas duty.

I've already posted a statistics analysis here:

Analysis of 2nd Northamptons at Floriana Barracks, Malta per 1911 Census

Steve.

[warproject]

Not sure what that means Steve.

I wanted to find my ancestors who were serving and not at home.

Thank you for the offer.

Sandy

[Stebie9173]

Don't worry Sandy, I was just referring to the Northamptons being my "speciality"....

I'll dig the file out and get it sent to you.

The Census Excel sheet is from printouts at the NA. I was going to get digital copies from Find My Past during last night's free offer but since FMP's server slowed to a halt, I didn't get chance.

Steve.

[Sue Light]

Sandy

As a general rule, if you do an ordinary 'person search' on the 1911, put the name in as usual, and in the box for 'County' scroll down and choose 'Overseas Military.' You have to be a bit more flexible with the search term, as often only initials were used, and the dates and places of birth were not particularly accurate. It's surprising sometimes which barracks you end up in, but interesting all the same.

Sue

[warproject]

Steve I am most grateful for the Excel Spreadsheet that you shared with me.

It is amazing as all your knowledge on the Northants is.

I seem to always asking for things for nothing, yet I would like to assure

forum members I do a lot of research totally freely for folk in Northamptonshire

and have done for 25 years.

I would not like folk to think I just take without giving something back.

I hope you realise my original posting was for the actual RG14 etc number I

needed, I looked at the Help on FMP and it showed how to do it, so I will

hopefully be able to get to the area next time.

I did manage to get down 35 images, but could have got alot more if the reference

had been known to me for certain areas.

Sue thank you for your guidance which was most helpful.

Sandy

[Stebie9173]

I did sort of realise afterwards that it was not necessarily the list of men you wanted, but hey, once the work is done it shouldn't go to waste....

I don't actually have the references for the exact sheets. The NA printouts don't actually print the References on them, as I found out later

The sheets I have are in groups - 14 then 12 then 10 then an odd 2 pages = 38 pages. These last two tripped me up as I didn't realise they were missing until later. There is another 3 pages for the Infarta Military Hospital where some of the men from the battalion (included on the spreadsheet) are situated. The sick parade men have been crossed through on the barracks censuses, but I included them "in barracks".

Steve.

[warproject]

Hi Steve in case you are still looking.

The reference for the Barracks is RG14 PN 34986 RD 641 SD 11 ED 12

FMP have altered their offer for today so you can have 90 minutes any time

throughout Friday and Saturday if already a member etc.

http://www.findmypast.co.uk/world-cup.jsp?...=WorldCup160610

I down loaded all Floriana ones and quite a few others, but not the

Infarta Military Hospital. Let's hope England carries on.

Sandy

[Stebie9173]

Thanks for the update Sandy

Steve.

[ShirlD]

Brilliant! Having got nothing but an extremely late night last week, I have found some good census stuff tonight!

Thank you very much

Shirley

[Kate Wills]

Sandy,

Which names are you researching?

[MarkTurner]

Hi All.

I wondered if there is a listing or any one knows of which British regiments were

overseas at the time of the 1911 Census, especially Northampton Battalions.

I do know the 2nd were at Floriana Barracks, Malta.

T.I.A.

Sandy

If you are interested in which other British regiments were overseas at the time of the 1911 census, the 2nd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment were in Bermuda at the time.

Best Regards

Mark

[warproject]

HI Kate.

I am okay with the Hospital now thanks.

Mark thank you about the 2nd Beds at Bermuda. I did down load them yesterday.

Also some others.

Sandy