Driving Test??

Discussion in 'General' started by daisy1942, Sep 19, 2017.

  1. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    Daisy

    It seems you have some research to do, emails to send and telephone calls to make, all to start finding some documents that provide concrete evidence of their past

    St Josephs Primary School, Glasgow - possible archives of attendance
    Dominic Michael Stringer - Copy of his death certificate, details above
    Evelyn Stringer - Copy of her death certificate, details above
    Dominic & Evelyn marriage certificate - Barbados Registrars Office
    Birth certificate of Dominic Jr, born 1944 - Barbados Registrars Office
    Full copy of Dominics CRS10
    Records from St Aloysius College, Glasgow - this is a fee paying school, I guess it was then, so who would have been paying these fee's, the records might tell you
    Glasgow Police records - if he was in trouble then their archives should hold some information on him
    Glasgow Electoral Registers - Dominic was born in 1919 so it would be assumed his parents where living in Glasgow at the time and possible for a few years afterwards, so they should appear in the Registers

    TD
     
  2. daisy1942

    daisy1942 Junior Member


    Yes this is Dad. I have a copy of the death certificate and what you see here is about all it says!


    And this is his wife's death
     
  3. daisy1942

    daisy1942 Junior Member

    Hi Tricky,
    Yes this is their arrival in the UK. Yes they did live for a while in Acton before eventually moving to Fulham where they both lived for most of their lives.
     
  4. daisy1942

    daisy1942 Junior Member

    Hi Dicky,

    Thank you for the suggestioins, for everyone's information this is how things stand at present:

    St Josephs Primary School, Glasgow - possible archives of attendance Records for 1920/30 no longer exist
    Dominic Michael Stringer - Copy of his death certificate, details above Certificate shows nothing more than stated above
    Evelyn Stringer - Copy of her death certificate, details above We hold a copy of this
    Dominic & Evelyn marriage certificate - Barbados Registrars Office We hold a copy of this This lists Dominic's father as John Patrick occupation carpenter - cannot find birth or death cert for him.
    Birth certificate of Dominic Jr, born 1944 - Barbados Registrars Office We hold a copy of this
    Full copy of Dominics CRS10 Hoping to get to PRO in next month will find photocopy I hold and will scan and post here

    Records from St Aloysius College, Glasgow - this is a fee paying school, I guess it was then, so who would have been paying these fee's, the records might tell you Contace ted circa 1990 and they have no records of him
    Glasgow Police records - if he was in trouble then their archives should hold some information on him Yet to find a way in!
    Glasgow Electoral Registers - Dominic was born in 1919 so it would be assumed his parents where living in Glasgow at the time and possible for a few years afterwards, so they should appear in the Registers Tried Electoral rolls they do not seem to have been listed



    Apologies to everyone for delay replying I thought I had this post on aiutomatic notice for replies.
     
  5. daisy1942

    daisy1942 Junior Member

    hi Tricky,
    thanks for all your comments and information you have researched. This is Dad's boat and Lammert si the man who recognised him from pictures we sent to him early in our quest. I am intrigued by the reference to Admiral Layton;s Diary and will read the link this evening.

    Having found the photocopies of Dad's CRS10, I have scanned them and will try to upload them after I have spoken to my computer expert who is back at Uni
     
  6. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    Hi Daisy

    To start with we do not know what information you have or do not have, so anyone on this forum must start from scratch and assume you have nothing and know nothing. If all the information you have accrued over the years from the other forums you have asked for help from had been posted on here then members would not have had to trawl through and post information you already have.

    Your fathers death certifcate says more that the information I have posted. For example it will tell you who notified the authorities of the death - this could be his wife, his son, it could be someone of significance. On the assumption that you did not have it, then it was, and still is possible, that it contains other snippets of information that none of here (except yourself) know, what did he die of, perhaps it is related to his lifestyle or particular areas of the world where he lived - I dont know, nor does anyone else trying to help you and answer your questions. Maybe it doesn't help at all, but without seeing it how do we know.

    Please avoid using capitals (sorry I meant bold) it is not necessary

    Thanks for raising an interesting thread and I wish you well in the future

    TD
     
    Last edited: Sep 24, 2017
  7. daisy1942

    daisy1942 Junior Member


    my apologies Tricky and to everyone,

    By not giving thre background on Dad I was trying to contain the focus of the thread tp the question I raised about the driving test. The other info on his death cert merely says he had a heart attack and that it was reported by the wpman he was living with at that time. I cannot see how either piece of info is relevant to my search for his wartime records or details of his early life. With a history as complex as Dad's it is way too east to get sidetracked from the specific information needed
     
  8. daisy1942

    daisy1942 Junior Member

    Hi Ron,

    Thanks for this, it is exactly the sort of thing I have been looking for., very helpful!
     
  9. rememberthem

    rememberthem ex member


    I feel I am further destroying my reputation on here, but I think I would still be failing THAT test. Oh the joy of automatics!
     
  10. Ron Goldstein

    Ron Goldstein WW2 Veteran WW2 Veteran

    Rememberthem

    To confuse you even further, when I was released from the Army in 1947 i simply swapped my Forces certificate for driving for a civilian equivalent and so never actually passed an MOT test !

    I then drove for just short of 70 years (without killing anyone) until I pranged my Toyota Yaris and took that as a message from the gods that enough was enough and promptly gave up driving.

    Best regards

    Ron
     
  11. rememberthem

    rememberthem ex member

    I recall, in the 80s, being unfashionably smitten with WW2 books, I would often be in a car with a driver cranky with a slow elderly (to us) male driver - especially if they wore hats... and I remember saying

    You never know, that old boy might have been throwing bombers or fighters around the sky, at close to uncontrollable speeds to save their life and rather enjoying the quiet life and gentle speed of a safe old age...

    I didnt learn to drive until my mid thirties and pushbiked everywhere and often found myself leaning forward and putting weight onto my feet to get up hill in the passenger seat of a car...
     
  12. jmcq

    jmcq Junior Member

    I too! and now when going downhill as a passenger
     
  13. rememberthem

    rememberthem ex member

    I now drive the infamous white van so that I can take large sheep etc to vet and pick up 160 kgs wheat or 120 kgs pet meat and I am infamous scrounger of gates panels roofing iron etc and and also never get enough sheep poo for the garden - which I collect myself.

    I so rarely am a passenger in a normal car that when I am in the normal low car I feel like I am a couple of inches off the road gravel and I cringe and brace every time I see a road hump etc

    I also often stop and offer lifts to cyclists if they are walking, as I can easily put their bike in the back and I remember when things go wrong how much of a relief it was if the bike broke down and someone offered rescue

    Back to subject..

    The Queen learnt to drive the basic army trucks didn't she? I heard she did basic services as well and changes of tyres

    I was told someone went to a Buck House party and embarrassed, said one of the loos wasnt working to a footman, I suppose, and she overheard and went in and banged it a few times and got it working again but I didnt know the person well enough to know if that was true They seemed rather stunned so I thought it might be...
     

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