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Topic: Are you sitting comfortably ? then I'll begin !! (Read 19504 times)
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AMBLY
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Falkland Islands "Desire The Right"
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Hi everyone
Great leaps being made ! it's so great!!
My humble opinion? Without losing track of the main hunts happening (Shaun and Reiver currently with the baton  ) I don't think it can hurt to try and contact ANYONE at all who knew or is descended from any member of the family on either Robert's or Elizabeth's side. We just never know who knew who or how well! Or who might have that precious photograph! The worst that can happen is to find someone, only to be told "I haven't a clue!" But in my expericence? With a leading question of two, they might add on "But, you can try...."
Hopefully, Gatacre's emails will unearth a death notice. And not to forget Wocky's very promising line of enquiry, that may turn something up too!
But if there is a Dobell descendant who can be found (or is ???was there not a chap somewhere in business?) or descendants of Elizabeth's brother....worth a go, I'd say.
Cheers
AMBLY
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Arranroots
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Hi Shaun
You already have the data on a website, lol!
Seriously, there are issues with putting info about living people on a website without their permission.
If descendants of this family begin to research, they will surely find this thread.
Meanwhile Annie is working on summarising the info you have so far and highlighting what needs to be done next (only you lot keep moving the goal-posts with your wonderful discoveries!)
Bear with us and we will do our bit to help you organise what you have and hopefully you are nearly "there" by now?!?
kind regards, Arranroots 
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Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SOM: BIRD, BURT aka BROWN HEF: BAUGH, LATHAM, CARTER, PRITCHARD GLS: WEBB, WORKMAN, LATHAM, MALPUS WIL: WEBB, SALTER RAD: PRITCHARD, WILLIAMS GLA: RYAN, KEARNEY, JONES, HARRY MON: WEBB, MORGAN, WILLIAMS, JONES, BIRD SCOTLAND: HASTINGS, CAMERON, KELSO, BUCHANAN, BETHUNE/ BEATON IRELAND: RYAN (WATERFORD), KEARNEY (DUBLIN), BOYLE(DUNDALK) |
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AMBLY
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Hi Shaun
It is long, isn't it - I get to abt page 8 and my eyes go wonky, so I skip to page 37 and hope I haven't missed anything !!
We quite agree on the length of the thread and as Arran said, I also happen to know our dear Annie is working on the very thing you have suggested - great minds and all that.
The idea is to summarise and start I believe a new topic with that summary. (linked to this one for those with a couple hours to spare for reading it) I think the content of the new topic may be controlled as to what goes on to it to keep it succint and manageable.
I think it'll be as good as a 'real' website too, for family researchers to find.
Certainley this thread comes up with bells if I search his or his father's name - so I'm sure that a new 'topic' would do too.
Annie's having bother with her PC at present and keeps disappearing, but I'm sure she'll appreciate a PM if you have some ideas for a summary or can give her a hand wading thru the 210+ pages of Word document pages this topic generates
Kindest Cheers
AMBLY
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clematised
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Is there a way that the in-irrelavent messages such as this can be removed from the thread to shorten it down to those messages that are helpful as many of us add to the thread to get feed back for e-mails from rootschat but we can access it through the Lancashire pages to keep it shorter.
Also if anyone has any information for this thread that is in another area outside of Lancashire can they add to the area with a reference to this thread if thats helpful
Personally I thought it worthwhile to spend the two hours reading the thread throughout but a concise version would be helpful for the research.
Edna
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Scotland and Liverpool Wilson,Conning,Cooper.Marshall
Cumberland,Liverpool, Anderson,Harrison
India, Liverpool, Lloyd.
Hollyhead anglesey,Wales, Liverpool, Jones,Williams
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AMBLY
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Falkland Islands "Desire The Right"
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Liverpool Annie - who started this topic after taking up the challenge of Michel's Quest - is actively working on the very thing , a concise Summary version of this topic - that will cover both your ideas/proposals, Rabbit B and Edna
Won't be long now, I shouldn't think!
Cheers
AMBLY
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Stumped!
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For those that don't know, here's a tip for reading this (and any other) thread offline, which I only discovered a few days ago.
At the end of the last post at the right hand side of the page is a "print" button.
Hit that and the whole thread appears in a new window.
Then go file..save as, then save as type.
I use web archive, single file, with the suffix .mht
Then save it to your pc. You can then open it up in internet explorer as one very very long page.
I don't know whether it works in Firefox.
Peter
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Gatacre
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As most letters to newpapers seeking descendants of families are published could anybody tell me where the sister of Robert Wm Stead was found to be living?
I have researched for 30 years without a computer and have had phenomenal success from newspaper letters. Perhaps our luck will strike with this Stead family if their name is printed in a local paper.
Norah
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CLEGG,BINNS Rochdale
PATTESON-BLACKWELL Rochdale
PATTESON,SMITH Bury and Manchester
GARNER, ALLEN Manchehster/Ireland
HARTLEY, Burnley
BLACKWALL/WELL Hereford City, Herefordshire
COLLINS Leominster, Herefordshire
ARMSTRONG Orleton, Herefordshire
LLOYD Orleton, Herefordshire
THOMPSON Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire
THOMPSON Dromara, Co. Down, N. Ireland
CAMPBELL Dromara, Down and Co. Tyrone N Ireland
FISHER Pennsyvania and Ohio USA
MARKS Pennsylvania USA
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Gatacre
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Thank you Shaun. I will write to the newspaper for descendants of Norah.
I will also send to the Libverpool papers.
Norah
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CLEGG,BINNS Rochdale
PATTESON-BLACKWELL Rochdale
PATTESON,SMITH Bury and Manchester
GARNER, ALLEN Manchehster/Ireland
HARTLEY, Burnley
BLACKWALL/WELL Hereford City, Herefordshire
COLLINS Leominster, Herefordshire
ARMSTRONG Orleton, Herefordshire
LLOYD Orleton, Herefordshire
THOMPSON Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire
THOMPSON Dromara, Co. Down, N. Ireland
CAMPBELL Dromara, Down and Co. Tyrone N Ireland
FISHER Pennsyvania and Ohio USA
MARKS Pennsylvania USA
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? ... and I'm sure he'd have a headstone .... I keep going back to Anfield ... I really have a strong feeling he's there !