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Hi Alex,
The information on marriage of “Other Ranks” is very interesting.
My Robert Tyzick was a Private in the 63rd Regiment of Foot when he got married. The regiment had just returned in 1865 from a tour of nine years in North America and was due to depart for India in 1870.
His marriage information states his parents as Thomas Tyzick and Mary Smith. Agnes (his wife’s) parents are given as John Morrison and Elizabeth Smith. There were two children John Tyzick (b1868) and Elizabeth Tyzick (b1870). They both died in 1871, John in January and Elizabeth in October. The father’s first name on both certificates is stated as Thomas not Robert and place of death as Campbell Street, Wishaw.
I called out the 1871 census for Campbell Street, Wishaw and there is not a Tzsick family on the street. There is a Thomas Smith, Agnes Smith and an Elizabeth Smith and Elizabeth’s age is given as 10 months, which is about right for Elizabeth Tyzick.
Now some information on my great grandparents.
According to their children’s birth certificates, the marriage of Thomas Smith and Agnes Morrison varied between 1866 and 1867, the first child’s certificate showed Jan 1867. I have tried “scotlandspeople”, the Edinburgh Registry Office and there is no record of a marriage between a Thomas Smith and Agnes Morrison.
On Thomas Smith’s death information his parents are given as Thomas Smith and Mary Smith and on Agnes’s death information her parents are John Morrison and Elizabeth Smith.
My Uncle Thomas Smith told his son that his grandfather had deserted from the army and that Smith was not their real name; it was a Polish surname we should have.
The 1901 census states that my great grandfather Thomas Smith was born in Sheffield, England.
I know that all these facts do not prove 100% that the Tyzicks became the Smiths in 1871, but I can find no other information on the Tyzicks after 1871.
Thanks again,
John
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