Stephen Nulty Posted 19 September , 2007 Share Posted 19 September , 2007 Anthony Is there any chance of you summarising this thread, so that it is clear what is know, what is unknown, etc. I'm having trouble following it after all this time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Bagshaw Posted 19 September , 2007 Author Share Posted 19 September , 2007 Noel, Thanks for the continued interest, i certainly agree with your points, will keep looking Stephen, May take me a while but will summarise it!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domwalsh Posted 19 September , 2007 Share Posted 19 September , 2007 Today's electoral roll lists just a couple of Bockins in UK: Charles W Bockin Grd. Floor 27 Clarence Road North WESTON-SUPER-MARE BS23 4AW Daniel Bockin 33 Union Street DURSLEY GL11 4JT However, there are 267 Bockings, but none in Notts that I can see. There are 3 Leonard Bockings: 5 Tennyson Avenue KING'S LYNN PE30 2QG 20 Fountaine Grove South Wootton KING'S LYNN PE30 3TP0 2QG 386 Cheetham Hill Road DUKINFIELD SK16 5LB Worth a speculative letter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Bagshaw Posted 15 October , 2007 Author Share Posted 15 October , 2007 Dom, Thanks for those, sorry for the late replt only just picked it up for some reason!! Sorry about that. I went to the library on Saturady morning, looked through another paper for 1915 and 1916. Still 1917 and 1918 to do with that one, but didn't find anything. Looked at pit detahs, railway deaths and in memoriams, nothing!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmoha Posted 15 October , 2007 Share Posted 15 October , 2007 Anthony, Been looking for this Bocking fella myself in the course of my Evening Post trawl, can't find a peep. I did get 7 of the 10 names from the pit accident in 1915. One casualty was buried as an unknown, which does complicate that avenue. No sign of him though. The lack of a death certificate makes me think he must have served/died under an alias. I had a search through the online Death records for about 30 years after the war and found nothing. Sorry for being less than useful. I will keep an eye out in the Post's in memorium column though. james Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Bagshaw Posted 30 October , 2007 Author Share Posted 30 October , 2007 Hi James, Don't know how i missed your post!! Thanks for looking, at least that's something else that we can tick off for him. Reall don't know where to go from here with this. I honestly believe that i have exhausted every possible avenue. He might never be found for definite but at least there are family details and we do know he was in MW at some point. Thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greyhound Posted 30 October , 2007 Share Posted 30 October , 2007 Did you ever look into the funeral firm angle? A long shot, but if there are any old-established firms they might still have records. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Bagshaw Posted 30 October , 2007 Author Share Posted 30 October , 2007 Hi Grace, I did have a look but there is only 1 firm in MW. I have written to them but have not got any response, so unsure whether anything is there. Judging by how everything else is going, i suspect nothing!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich-Sheffield Posted 13 November , 2007 Share Posted 13 November , 2007 This chap appears on ancestry's services paper release. Not your chap I don't think, but just something else to throw into the pot. Norwich recuiting station George Henry Leonard Bocking Regiment Name: "H" Machine Gun Corps Training Battalion Regiment Number: 151096 (Looks like its actually 181096 on original image) Document Year: 1918 Approved Oct 1918, Bury St Edmonds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Bagshaw Posted 14 November , 2007 Author Share Posted 14 November , 2007 Looks interesting, thank you for that. Do you have any more details at all please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Bagshaw Posted 17 November , 2007 Author Share Posted 17 November , 2007 Looking through the Mansfield Papers today, saw this and got really excited: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Bagshaw Posted 17 November , 2007 Author Share Posted 17 November , 2007 But yet again, it wasn't the one that i was looking for!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveMurphy Posted 17 November , 2007 Share Posted 17 November , 2007 Anthony, This is a fascinating thread, which seems as though there is plenty left in the search. I personally have come to the irrefutable conclusion, after reading through the pages, that Leonard was the victim of alien abduction.... surely it is the only reasonable explanation? Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Bagshaw Posted 17 November , 2007 Author Share Posted 17 November , 2007 Dave, I haven't ruled that out either!! It is interesting, but EXTREMELY irritating!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greyhound Posted 18 November , 2007 Share Posted 18 November , 2007 Perhaps, like Elvis, he didn't die ..... he just went home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveMurphy Posted 18 November , 2007 Share Posted 18 November , 2007 Perhaps, like Elvis, he didn't die ..... he just went home. Hmmm come to think of it, I am sure I saw a guy that looked like Mr Bocking in my local takeaway last week... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stebie9173 Posted 18 November , 2007 Share Posted 18 November , 2007 ...but he's a liar and I'm not sure about you.... (Kirsty McColl, in case of cultural differences ! ) steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveMurphy Posted 18 November , 2007 Share Posted 18 November , 2007 ...but he's a liar and I'm not sure about you.... (Kirsty McColl, in case of cultural differences ! ) steve. Had to Google it but now I get it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greyhound Posted 18 November , 2007 Share Posted 18 November , 2007 Hope you got mine OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveMurphy Posted 18 November , 2007 Share Posted 18 November , 2007 Hope you got mine OK. Was all over Men in Black! Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Bagshaw Posted 16 December , 2007 Author Share Posted 16 December , 2007 Another update.............. Another fruitless search in the library last Tuesday. Nothing not a sniff, again!!!!! Have now searched The Mansfield Chronicle 1914-19, nothing The Mansfield and North Notts Advertiser 1914-19, nothing Am in the process of searching The Mansfield Reported and Sutton Times. Have completed 1914-end of 1916. 1917, 18 and 19 to go and that's all those years done. Have looked at 1920 and 1921 briefly for all 3, will have to go through in a lot more detail though i think. I need a new hobby, this one's driving me mad.................................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevem49 Posted 16 December , 2007 Share Posted 16 December , 2007 Anthony Have you put a request in the local paper for any relatives of Leonard? I put one in the Ripley and Heanor News about a 16th Bn man who must have been with my lot for a while. It went in on Thursday and one of his relatives phoned me on Friday. steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Bagshaw Posted 16 December , 2007 Author Share Posted 16 December , 2007 Hi Steve, Must admit i haven't mate. Quite why i haven't, i'm not sure. I have had contact from his Grandson but he knows absolutely nothing about him only that he died and knows his name. Nothing more. I'll give that a whirl i think, Mansfield and Bottesford EDIT: Email gone to my contact at the local paper, here's hoping............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susanhemmings Posted 16 December , 2007 Share Posted 16 December , 2007 Fingers and everything crossed for you Anthony.... oh please. if only.............EDIT;;;;;;;; (oops, i meant if only we can find him) Susan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Bagshaw Posted 17 December , 2007 Author Share Posted 17 December , 2007 The local paper are running something for me this Wednesday, fingers, eyes and toes crossed.................................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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