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KathMc
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Re: 96 years ago
« Reply #15 on: Friday 13 April 07 10:31 BST (UK) »
Some local Girl Scouts did that at a nursing home in town. They interviewed some of the ladies, wrote a "newspaper" and then presented their project. It was a wonderful experience for everyone.

Kath
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Galway and Staffordshire: Scott
Coventry: Wells, Collins, Palmer, Moody, Beck, Mickelwright, Husbands
Ireland: McNulty (Sligo), Kealy, Murphy (Carlow) Connolly, Gillen, Powell, Ryan, Moore, Martin
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Re: 96 years ago
« Reply #16 on: Friday 13 April 07 11:13 BST (UK) »
Some care homes do run Reminiscence Activities for their clients.  It helps with maintaining memories and also self-esteem in older people.  Remembering all the things that you have done in your life can be a big boost when you are sitting in a nursing home unable to look after yourself.

There's an extract from a work book here:

www.elderlycarebooks.co.uk/ttr.pdf

I hadn't thought before about how valuable this work is for family historians.  At the moment the exercises are run with a group of older people.  It would be winners all round if our elders could exercise their memories AND have a willing listener who is thrilled at hearing their stories.

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DALBY - Suffolk and, after 1860, Birmingham.
EBENEZER - Cardiganshire & Glamorgan.
GARVEY and GRAHAM - Mayo.
HUBBARD - Birmingham.
MAUND and LEWIS - Shropshire and Birmingham.
MORGAN(S) - Cardiganshire.
SLADE - Somerset and Worcester.
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Re: 96 years ago
« Reply #17 on: Monday 16 April 07 16:01 BST (UK) »
My great aunt is 102 this year and still as sharp as pin! I love listening to her tales of childhood in London.They were VERY poor, there lodgings burnt down when she was about 10 and they were homeless! The red cross fed them! Her aunt wanted to take her to America to start a new life in 1912 but her parents wouldn`t let her go and the ship that she would have sailed on sank on it`s maiden voyage!( I realised she was talking about the Titanic)She would follow the friut and veg barrows and when no one was looking would cut the bags open with a knife to let all the fruit fall on the floor and as it did her "gang" would grab the fruit and run!It was how they survived! she said she was ALWAYS hungry!
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Re: 96 years ago
« Reply #18 on: Monday 16 April 07 16:08 BST (UK) »
No one  had the "fat" gene in those days!!

Liz
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BETTISON - Derbys
BOULTON - Dalton-in-Furness and surrounding areas
BRAND - Lincs
COCKETT - Lincs, Yorks, Lancs
DA COSTA (or variants) -  Spain or Portugal, London (Middx), ?Hull
GILCHRIST - Scotland, Lincs
HINGLEY - Derbys/Yorks
MANN - Sussex, Kent, Herts
MUMBY - Lincolnshire and Hull
PEMBERTON - Ches, Lancashire
ROBINSON - Lincs
WHITTAKER/WHITAKER - Ches/Lancs
WRIGHT- London(?Middx),Hull
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