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WHEN MARK CURTIS and his son Daniel started having their family tree traced three years ago, they could never have predicted what a complicated story would emerge.

Mark’s great-grandfather Frank was born in India in about 1884/5, son of a soldier called George Curtis, though by the time of Frank’s Lancashire marriage in 1909, George had become a postman. Frank’s birth and baptism were recorded twice in the Army Register Book of births, marriages and deaths, a copy of which is at the FRC, once by George’s regiment and secondly by the Royal Army Service Corps, and showed he was born in Bangalore on 15 June 1885, son of George Curtis, a sergeant in the 8th Hussars, and his wife Mary Richards.

George, son of William Curtis, a labourer, and Mary married in church at Trinulghery, Secunderabad on 30 July 1884 and the marriage record showed George was 30, so born about 1853–4. However, searches for his birth or baptism either in the army birth/baptism records at the FRC, the English and Welsh General Registration records or elsewhere all drew complete blanks. A record of George’s birth simply was not to be found.