Showing posts with label COWPER. Show all posts
Showing posts with label COWPER. Show all posts

Thursday, 22 November 2012

Perfect

Came across an interesting case of bias in military registrations today.
The WWI draft card for Hinckley HENDERSON of Barstow, San Bernadino Co. had a slightly less than usual answer to the question:
Has person lost arm, leg, hand, foot, or both eyes, or is he otherwise disabled (pelase specify)?
The registrar had written "Perfect".
The more usual aswer is a non-commital No, or stark list of infirmaties.
All explained when checking the registrar's name - one Donald C HENDERSON, Hinckley's father!

This activity on the HENDERSONs, last touched back in Sep 2006, being explained by a contact from Robert, a relative of Donald's mother Margaret Aitken COOPER/COWPER.
Such contacts always make me check where I'd got to on a family, and there are several loose ends in the family of Archibald and Margaret HENDERSON, which family Linda and I had only found by accident in chasing Archibald's sister Margaret at the time.