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Thanks again Mark. Appreciate your kind comments. I love doing it we can learn so much by others lives! I was going to reply hours ago to this but got lost in findmypast.co.uk which i have a subscription to and lo and behold time went and i had to go out. I did find Tom's Boer War information on FMP so i don't know why i didn't look there myself!! DUH! Anyways i have now delved deeper in to the census info for Tom and his family and I'll post what i've found below because someone might come to 'own' the family one day

Findmypast.co.uk
BMD Transcripts
Birth:
CUTTS, Tom
Registration district: Doncaster
County: Yorkshire
Year of registration: 1883
Quarter of registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
Vol: 9C Page No: 671

Marriage:
CUTTS, Tom married SLATER, Rachel
Registration district: Rotherham
County: Yorkshire
Year of registration: 1904
Vol: 9C Page No: 1162

Boer War
There he is Mark…just as you said. Only extra info on the record in FMP is Westminster Dragoons. I don’t know why I didn’t think to look on FMP in the first place!



1891 English census
Ecclesiastical Parish of St Margaretts [sic]
Registration district: Rotheram
Civil Parish: Swinton
Address: 102 Queen Street, Swinton, Yorkshire

CUTTS family
Maria, Head, Widow, 41, born 1850 Everton, Lincs., Laundress
[The earlier 1871 census shows Maria’s husband as William CUTTS, labourer aged 25 born 1846 in the village of Adwick le Street]

George William, Son, Single, 20, born 1871 Mexborough, Yorks., Coal Miner
Alice, Daughter, 14, born 1877 Everton, Lincs., Assisting mother at home
Charles, Son, 11, born 1880 Swinton, Yorks., Scholar
Irena, Daughter, 8, born 1883 Swinton, Yorks., Scholar
Tom, Son, 6, born 1885 Mexborough, Yorks., Scholar
Edith Annie, Daughter, 5, born 1887 Mexborough, Yorks., Scholar
Emily, Daughter, 4, born 1887 Mexborough, Yorks.,, Scholar
Fred, Son, 2, born 1889 Swinton, Yorks.,

1901 Census English Census
Ecclesiastical Parish of St Margarets
Registration district: Rotheram
Civil Parish: Swinton
Address: 46 Wath Road, Swinton, Yorkshire

Maria, aged 51, is still a widow and has no occupation listed
[In the Death entries there is a Maria CUTTS death registered at Halifax in first quarter of 1938 aged 87, I’d say that would be her]

Sarah Jane, another daughter has appeared, Single, 25, born 1876 Old Denaby, Yorks,, confectioners Assistant

Tom, 17 [birth year now states 1884], Trammer in coal mine.

Fred, 11 [birth year now states 1890]
William, aged 9 born 1892, Swinton, Yorks, another son has appeared indicating Maria was pregnant at the previous census and therefore had only just become a widow at that time. The only William CUTTS dying around this time that is listed in the Parish records collection on FMP was one who was buried on 7 Dec 1890 aged 44 [date of birth c1846 so fits in], place of burial is Sheffield; Dedication: St Philip]. Dates are slightly out with William Jnr’s birth year and William Snr’s death year but this is not unusual for records of the time.

1911 Census England
Registration district: Rotheram
Civil Parish: Swinton
Address: 23 Cambridge Street Roman Terrace near Mexborough, Yorkshire
Their house had 4 rooms.

CUTTS, Tom, Head, Married, 27 [born 1884], Coal miner Hewer
CUTTS, Rachel, Wife, Married 6 years, 26, born 1885 Ardwick on Dern Yorks.
CUTTS, William Thomas, Son, 5, born 1906 Swinton
CUTTS, Edith, Daughter, 3, born 1908 Swinton
CUTTS, John, Son, 1, born 1910 Swinton


Passenger Lists
Mr Tom CUTTS
Departure date: 6 July 1956
Port of dep: London
Dest. Port: New Zealand
Ship: Rangitoto
Contract ticket no.: 1478, CUTTS Mr Tom; class of travel – 1; Port – Wellington; Sex - M, 10.9.83, M[arried], Address in the UK: C/- Mrs Brookes 64 Newlands Pk Grove, Scarborough; retired; Country of last permanent residence: NZ; Country of intended permanent residence:NZ.
[Possibly was coming back from a holiday in the UK as he had fought in WW1 as a New Zealand soldier anyway even though his wife was still in England at that time.]

Cheers
Sarndra

Sarndra,

That's a tremendous research output in so short a time.

I can empathise with the feeling of having to do something else when you're in the middle of some research too!

Kind regards
David

Mark/Sarndra,

A thought. Should we try to construct some forum threads to guide people on how to use Ancestry and FMP? There are some things I know and others I don's so I would find this information of use.

Does this information already exist elsewhere?

Regards
David

forum threads for Ancestry and FMP would be lovely for us unhandy people to follow.
IL.

Thanks Ian and good morning/evening!

Do you think we should have a checklist of places to go/steps to take and how to perform a search on that site and what information it contains?

David
Just back from being blown all over the rifle range at Malabar! YES, YES, give us some clues on how to use 'em. Even just point form would really help. I am quite serious about this!
Kind regards
IL.