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Joseph Boam retweeted
Young men being called selfish for not wanting to go and die in a ditch in totally avoidable wars nothing to do with us by those who never fought. The premise is laughable and pitiful in equal measure. If they were to make it back they would be dragged through the courts by people who hated their guts before they went. This is why we must reject status quo foreign policy. We've seen enough of it, the second and third order effects it has on our country, and many of us rightly want nothing to do with it.
‘I am utterly DISGUSTED by your rampant, pathetic cowardice.’
Former Metropolitan Police detective Peter Bleksley BLASTS @alexarmstrong after he suggested he wouldn’t fight for his country.
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Joseph Boam retweeted
Check out this brave and courageous speech from Alex. 🫡👏🏼
My full monologue from tonight 👇
“Give us a reason to want to fight and die for this country again”.
On @GBNEWS
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Joseph Boam retweeted
🚨Episode 1 of UNDER SIEGE is out now.
Britain’s most complained-about councillors. One podcast.
Local politics. Unfiltered.
piped.video/1RhvIgFKHrA?is=yce2…
open.spotify.com/episode/1mt…
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The Leicestershire County Council standards committee is RIGGED, I will fight this and stand up for freedom of speech.
Censorship and bullying has no place in our councils.
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Joseph Boam retweeted
This is mad. No poppies in a pub?!
George is joining me at 9.45pm on @GBNEWS to talk through the incident.
VETERANS wearing a Poppy are BANNED from from Wetherspoons
WOW. Manager of Gosport Wetherspoons states it’s ‘Company policy’ to not allow anyone in with a Remembrance Poppy on as it ‘could be political’
I can’t believe what I just heard from our nations biggest pub chain.
Veterans wearing a poppy are banned from Wetherspoons.
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Joseph Boam retweeted
VETERANS wearing a Poppy are BANNED from from Wetherspoons
WOW. Manager of Gosport Wetherspoons states it’s ‘Company policy’ to not allow anyone in with a Remembrance Poppy on as it ‘could be political’
I can’t believe what I just heard from our nations biggest pub chain.
Veterans wearing a poppy are banned from Wetherspoons.
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Joseph Boam retweeted
Reform UK will ensure the British government puts British people first.
How is that controversial?
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Wordsley North Councillor Samuel Hussey’s Weekly Update (25/10/2026)
Until next Sunday, I hope you all have a fantastic week!
#wordsley #dudley #westmidlands #Update #reform #ReformUK #awareness
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Joseph Boam retweeted
This is a total betrayal of Brexit Britain and his Makerfield pitch.
He is also deluded to say immigration was different when we were members of the EU.
We will fight this dishonesty.
🔺 EXCLUSIVE: Andy Burnham has opened the door to Britain readopting the European Union’s free movement rules, arguing that an “honest discussion” is needed, reports @benrileysmith
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There is a real opportunity to make Leicestershire great again and I will do my best to make sure we do not lose it.
More information on this soon.
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Joseph Boam retweeted
I’ll say it til I’m blue in the face: only British citizens should be entitled to benefits.
We must put the British people first.
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Good job we’ve got three days of water, wind up radios and all the rest of it.
And if it comes to it, there are plenty of second hand rubber dinghies sitting on the beaches down south.
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🧬 Any genealogy or ancestry experts fancy helping me solve a family history mystery?
I’ve hit a complete brick wall with this one, despite spending hours searching through every type of record you can think of…
I’m trying to identify a man named Joseph Boam, who is explicitly named as the illegitimate father of Sarah Wilmot (born May 1839 in Turnditch, Derbyshire).
Sarah’s marriage register from 28 January 1855, when she married George Gratton at Duffield, names her father as Joseph Boam, labourer. There’s even a handwritten note stating:
“Sarah Wilmot was an illegitimate Daughter of Maria Wilmot by Joseph Boam.”
I’ll attach a photograph of the original register.
Sarah’s mother was Maria Wilmot (baptised 1821 in Turnditch), daughter of Robert and Catherine Wilmot.
Maria also had another daughter, Harriet Wilmot (born around 1843, baptised 1844). Harriet’s baptism doesn’t name a father. Could Joseph Boam have fathered both girls? Possibly, but there’s currently no evidence establishing that.
I’ve found several Joseph Boams living around Derbyshire at the time, including one baptised in Turnditch in 1800 and another in Mugginton in 1816, who later married Maria Fearn/Calladine in Duffield in 1841.
These villages are only a few miles apart, and I’ve even visited the local churchyards looking for clues, but I still can’t establish which Joseph was Sarah’s father or find anymore potential Joseph’s who were in the area at the time. If Joseph only fathered Sarah then he may have passed away before the 1841 census perhaps?
My question is: who exactly was Joseph Boam, the labourer named in Sarah Wilmot’s 1855 marriage record as her father? I literally cannot find anything to link any Joseph to this Joseph.
If anyone has experience with Derbyshire genealogy, bastardy or poor law records, or researching illegitimate births in the 1800s, I’d genuinely appreciate any suggestions or help.
This is one mystery I simply cannot crack! (Yet)
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