Just a few books that look interesting. The second in the list seems to be equating the 'Socialistic' Home Guard of WWII with the Local Militias that the UK raised from time to time - but these were not 'Socialist' in anyway and were dependent upon status and income. As only the socially trusted and prominent could serve - providing they could afford their own uniform, weapon and ammunition - and were wealthy enough to have 'leisure' time to drill! Some UK authors are adopting the anti-intellectual language of the US - referring to the time-span 1945-1991 as being the 'Cold War'. Up until Thatcher abolished 'Free' and 'Universal' Education in the UK (and began the privatisation of the NHS and dismantling of the Welfare System and Social Housing) - the UK had far more in common with the USSR than America - but what we are seeing is the attempted re-writing of history and the establishment of a preferred narrative. The philosophy underpinning the British Home Guard of WWII grew-out of the Soviet-backed International Brigades (comprised of volunteer workers - male and female - from around the world) that fought the Hitler-backed (Catholic) General Franco during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)! My suspicion is that Duddington might well have been in the 2nd (Soke) Peterborough Battalion on the Northants Home Guard between 1940-1942 - but was then transferred to the Huntingdonshire Home Guard (keeping its designation) between 1942-1944. This is premised upon data gleamed from the Northants Home Guard book you forwarded - but the even then the author states that this Unit was still considered part of Northants Home Guard even though it was officially associated with Huntingdonshire!
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'My knowledge begins with Thomas and Mary Wyles who lived during the first half of the 1700s in Frinstead, which is a tiny, ancient town in the Maidstone borough of county Kent, in south-east England. This earlier Thomas was born in 1711 in nearby Bredgar Parish. We don’t know much more about him, or his wife, whose maiden name is still a mystery to me.' prairie wordsmith - Researching America's history, one family at a time - Wyles 'The next two generations also give up very little more than their names and where they lived. Thomas’ son, John Wyles married Sarah Frost in Linstead, Suffolk in 1773. Their son, also John Wyles, was born in 1775, and married Frances Sears in 1805, in Boxley, Maidstone, Kent. In 1806, they were in Stockbury; in 1814 they were in Newington Geat, Sittingbourne, Kent; and they were still there in 1818 when their son Thomas was born there, and he was my third-great-grandfather.'
Dear Diane I was contacted by a US Genealogist today - who asked me if I had heard of a 17th century surname in the UK - known as 'Ong'! I have heard of the Hokkien Chinese surname of 'Ong' (王) - pronounced 'Wang' (meaning a monarchal 'King') - but not an English equivalent! The Ong family is supposed to have migrated to North America in 1631 (seeking religious 'tolerance') from Suffolk - just prior to the English Civil Wars of the 1640s! Of course, 'Suffolk' derives from the Germanic 'Sud Volf' ('South Folk') and is thought to denote Germanic ettlers in the area - the nearby 'Norfolk' derives from the Germanic 'Nord Volk' or 'North Folk'! Perhaps these are settlements of the 'Angle' people (as opposed to 'Saxons' who settled elsewhere) from what is today Denmark (hence the region of 'East Anglia'). To me, the name 'Ong' sounds more like a name from the North of England - perhaps of Scandinavian origination. Either way, I have never come across this name in the UK! Thanks!
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