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elinga

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Hello all , I have had a lot of help over the years regarding my great uncle and other relatives who were killed during WW!

today I have a question regarding Private Robert Arnott Millar Royal Scots Fusiliers 2000973.

I have recently came accross the pension document below , my question is  , was the pension refused or was it a referal ?

neither of which I understand !

any help would be greatly appreciated !

regards Elinga

Millar, Thomas (200973).jpg

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 Fuller context commonly helps in these situations

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Image courtesy of Ancestry

A Dependant's Pension under Article 21 of the Royal Warrant required some dependency - typically shown by some prior payments or deductions from pay etc. - however it seems that this was not always necessary and parents of single men, especially mothers initially, frequently got small pensions - typically c.5/- pw [hard to be definitive since the vast majority of the main pension files were deliberately destroyed after their use was ended]

To me, it seems clear that his mother made an initial claim as D.P. 274 [similar details are on another card - headed by her name etc. to allow for two-way indexing] and appears above to initially have been refused [Refusal] but from other annotations in the 1920s & 1930s on the card it seems one was eventually paid and it appears his father later got it too [typically instead of a mother/his wife who commonly had subsequently died] - There continue to be annotations using a later Ministry of Pension claim reference of 1/D/40368 to 2.12.38.  [Sadly for the reason given above we cannot see the full file and details.]

:-) M

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first of all , yes Tootrock I accidentally gave him an extra zero , I will amend it !

museum tom , yes that is my great uncle Thomas , but he never lived in Ayr !

oldsweets , I really cropped the card in the first place to try and find out what the word was , I could have posted the whole thing :-( 

I can also confirm,  which may change the outcome , Thomas's  father died on 26th November 1938, would that have any connection to the addition of the 2.12.1938 date written on the card ?

thanx for the assistance I appreciate it .

regards

ps just to clarify things I have tried to edit his name and number , but it wont allow me ,  must have been tired when I posted the original !

his name is Thomas Arnott Millar and his service number is 200973 

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made a mistake !
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14 minutes ago, elinga said:

Roberts father died on 26th November 1938, would that have any connection to the addition of the 2.12.1938 date written on the card ?

Possibly. Somebody certainly looked at the card and made an annotation shortly afterwards.

Craig

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Could she have made an additional claim, on the death of her husband John in 1938, after losing his income and that was the refusal?

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7 minutes ago, Peterhastie said:

Could she have made an additional claim, on the death of her husband John in 1938, after losing his income and that was the refusal?


A claim may have been possible but almost always the granting or refusal written on the card is the original case - with all the other notes being scribbled on afterwards.

Craig

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2 hours ago, ss002d6252 said:


A claim may have been possible but almost always the granting or refusal written on the card is the original case - with all the other notes being scribbled on afterwards.

Craig

I was thinking along those lines Craig , but as oldsweets said , "hard to be definitive since the vast majority of the main pension files were deliberately destroyed after their use was ended" dont suppose we will ever know :-(

 

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There are three other cards, or sides of cards for him

1.

2.

3.

Not sure how this affects an interpretation, but I thought I’d post them.

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On 17/08/2021 at 11:48, elinga said:

I can also confirm,  which may change the outcome , Thomas's  father died on 26th November 1938, would that have any connection to the addition of the 2.12.1938 date written on the card ?

Yes, I think it probably does in terms of the later dates, but as Craig has also pointed out above - probably not the initial reaction to his mother's first claim attempt.

On 17/08/2021 at 22:08, Peterhastie said:

There are three other cards, or sides of cards for him

1.

2.

3.

Not sure how this affects an interpretation, but I thought I’d post them.

Thanks Peter for these - Handy of you to post - I've now had a further look at the fronts and reverses of these three new cards [Note: the strike-throughs below are off the cards]

Card 1 = A card in the name of Mrs Jane MILLAR, D.P. 274 = I believe this was the equal first card [intended to cross-reference with original claim D.P. 274, 1/D/40368, SE.02681 card posted in full above - The original first equal has three sequential claim/office references including first and also eventually the latest one from 1938]

Card 2 = A card correcting Mrs Jane MILLAR to Mrs Jeanie Lewis MILLAR - annotated 18.1.39 like the original card posted in full above - Has an annotation John Deceased in red, i.e. different, ink at the top [the reverse has the 26 Greenwood Rows address] with the reference of D.P. 274 1/D/40368 = I believe this card is the most recent [by this date the notes appear to have primarily gone onto files and not so much also onto index cards, so we see little/less of this later period from the cards]

Card 3 = A card in the name of Mr John MILLAR and also cross-referenced with original claim card posted in full above DP/274/M, 1/D/40368  = potentially an intermediate close second to his mother's/wife's claim [This card is a bit of a further puzzle]

Looking at the original card above for his mother it does look as though there has been some confusion/correction at the pension offices over Mrs John / Mr John MILLAR and his mother's forenames - see also the original card - efforts have been made to correct this but confusion has ensured [well I seem to have initially fallen for it!]

To me, what does not seem to be in doubt is that the matter of dealing with a pension claim was active into the 1930s rather than necessarily a refusal then.

On 17/08/2021 at 23:32, elinga said:

damn Oldsweets , I dont have Fold 3 :-(

Apologies - I probably should have looked for those extra cards for myself earlier.

I now think my first posting might have been a bit off the mark - I now think the original card related primarily to his mother, but with later passing references to his father, John.

I stand by my original interpretation of "Refusal" rather than "Referral" though - and I think that was her original, not a later, claim first outcome.

As before - I think the big problem is a lack of a full pension claim(s) / award(s) file.  Hey ho!  :-/

:-) M

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Thanks Matlock.

There'a distinct similarity in the handwriting between the card you posted and the No.1 card that I posted.

I can't see that the "Refusal" comment on the card you posted matches any other handwriting/pen on the other cards.

Not that it probably means anything?

 

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