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Old newspapers.
« on: Saturday 15 March 08 19:18 GMT (UK) »

Has anyone else become totally engrossed in this web site?

<<link removed this is not a legitimate access for the generalpublic>>

I have just spent most of the day searching through old newspapers and finding all sorts of wonderful stuff.
The Northern Echo reports on the misdemeanours of my great great grandmother, whom I knew to have spent a substantial amount of time in prison. But it also tells of her attempted suicide whilst in custody ( she tried to cut her throat with a penknife!) - something which isn't mentioned in the quarter sessions reports. It has made me feel quite differently about her - I have always thought she was a bit of a hard character, given to stealing and hard drinking but maybe there was more to it than that.

I also now know what happened to my great grandfather's ship. Or at least I know that it went aground near Berwick and that there was to be an attempt to refloat her.

I know when he gained his second mate's certificate, when he became a master mariner and who qualified at the same time.

This is a wonderful site and I'm not sure I will ever find time to do housework again.

Jen



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Essex: Howe French Cant Annis Noakes Turner Marshall Makerow DUCK Spurden HARMONY
N.E.Scotland: Howe Shaw Raitt Milne Forsyth Birnie Crichton Duncan McBeath Daniel Hay Robertson Jaffrey Smith McDonald Alexander Craighead
NR Yorks: Bushby Smith Bland Iley Cunion Kendrew Thornbury Favell Lonsdale Crossland Rudd Pratt Gibson
Westmorland: Dickenson, Jackson Ewbank Waller
Staffs: White Knight
Surrey: Knight
Durham: Smith
Hants: Williams Grose Lush Venson
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Re: Old newspapers.
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 15 March 08 19:28 GMT (UK) »

Hi Jen
I don't have great stories like that but have managed to pin down a couple of deaths, and a birth that I'll have to look into

Oh yes ..and there was of course a John Newton who won prizes 4 years in a row for his gooseberries...don't know if he's mine though  Grin
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Main names:
Scotland (Travellers) - Townsend/Townsley
Lanark and Stirling - Jeffrey.
Northumberland/ Durham - Newton, Patrick, Nixon, Sharp.
Warwickshire and London - Garfield.
Ireland - Marah/Meara.
Lancashire - Wilson


other offshoots - Berry, Steven, Craig, Atkins, Fuller, McClure, Todd, McIntyre, Stewart, Conway, Buck, Heather, Winter, Letley, Beaumont

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Re: Old newspapers.
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 15 March 08 23:31 GMT (UK) »

How do you get access to the site? It keeps asking me for a username.

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Leeds - HOLMES (also at Boston Spa, Thorp Arch), SCHOLEY/SCOREY/SCHORAH (also at Stanley, Wakefield), TURVEY (also at Birmingham), WARD, WHITE, WOODHEAD (also at Halton, Whitkirk, Templenewsam).
Dewbury - CRAWSHAW, GLEDHILL, SPEIGHT
Great Horton - RAMSDEN, SHACKLETON, WOOLER
Woolsthorpe by Belvoir - SMITH
Barrowby and South Stoke, Lincolnshire - PARKER
Derby and Newhall - STREET

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Re: Old newspapers.
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 16 March 08 03:01 GMT (UK) »



Me too, I can't get past the 'username' log on!!


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Abbott In Islington
Wallwork In Bolton and Walkden
Lamb In Bolton and Ireland
Grundy In Bolton
Blackledge In Bolton
Osbaldeston  ?? ??
Barnett in Islington
Binyon in Islington
Kitchen in Bolton
Parker in Bolton
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Re: Old newspapers.
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 16 March 08 11:24 GMT (UK) »

It's fascinating, I knew a relative (distant, I hasten to add!) had been in prison for stealing a few things, but when I did a search for her name, up came a court case and inquest for her father, who died after she pushed him onto the floor after threatening him with a knife   Shocked
Think I'll be on this site all day, don't know how long the access is limited to.

Barbara    Smiley
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Norfolk - Ebbs Whiterod Zipfell
Lincs & Yorks - Sivills Predgen
Sweden - Jönsson Cronberg Andersson
Yorks - Spence Hide Hird
Durham - Dalkin Selby Renwick
Somerset - Keen Hitchins
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Re: Old newspapers.
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 16 March 08 12:07 GMT (UK) »

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Me too, I can't get past the 'username' log on!!

I tried just putting in my name, which it rejected, but then it took me to a site which suggested that if I was a library member I should put in my bar code number and password of my library.  I did that and guess what - it rejected it!

I belong to Hampshire CC Libraries and also Manchester Libraries so I'm going to see if by going to their sites I can get in.

Otherwise - HELP Jen.

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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
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WRIGHT- London(?Middx),Hull
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Re: Old newspapers.
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 16 March 08 12:16 GMT (UK) »

They have shut the door to everyone except members of Higher Education Establishments which are registered with them.  It is your University Library Number that they are asking for.

I was extremely annoyed because I was half way through a major track through Jackson's Oxford Journal and I had formed a list of references to go back to in order to transcribe the details.  It looks like a trip to Collingdale now.

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DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES CAN BE FOUND IN SURNAME INTERESTS AT FOOT OF PAGE
Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Williams, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley.
Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse
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Re: Old newspapers.
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 16 March 08 12:22 GMT (UK) »

Try just clicking on the link in Jen's post, I have just done do with no problem.

I have also been using the same link for the past two days.

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COLE Gt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset.
MONK Odiham, Hampshire.
RAM(M)EL(L), Kent.
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.
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Re: Old newspapers.
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 16 March 08 12:24 GMT (UK) »

Jebber

That's what we have been doing and this is what comes up:

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BENSON- Dalton in Furness (Ulverston) and Hull
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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Re: Old newspapers.
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 16 March 08 12:25 GMT (UK) »

Or try this link.

http://globalgenealogy.com/globalgazette/gazed/gazed156.htm


Click on Search the 19th century British Newspapers.
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Re: Old newspapers.
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 16 March 08 12:28 GMT (UK) »

Try clearing your cookies, then have another go.

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CHOULES All
COLE Gt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset.
MONK Odiham, Hampshire.
RAM(M)EL(L), Kent.
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.
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Re: Old newspapers.
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 16 March 08 12:30 GMT (UK) »

Suffolk Sue - That link works, thank you.

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BENSON- Dalton in Furness (Ulverston) and Hull
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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Re: Old newspapers.
« Reply #12 on: Sunday 16 March 08 17:30 GMT (UK) »

Hi,

I hope everyone has managed to get into the site now. I have just found that my original link is no longer working for me but that the one posted by Sue is fine. Let's hope it stays that way until we have all found eeverything of interest - which means for ever, I suspect.

Jen
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Essex: Howe French Cant Annis Noakes Turner Marshall Makerow DUCK Spurden HARMONY
N.E.Scotland: Howe Shaw Raitt Milne Forsyth Birnie Crichton Duncan McBeath Daniel Hay Robertson Jaffrey Smith McDonald Alexander Craighead
NR Yorks: Bushby Smith Bland Iley Cunion Kendrew Thornbury Favell Lonsdale Crossland Rudd Pratt Gibson
Westmorland: Dickenson, Jackson Ewbank Waller
Staffs: White Knight
Surrey: Knight
Durham: Smith
Hants: Williams Grose Lush Venson
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Re: Old newspapers.
« Reply #13 on: Monday 17 March 08 09:51 GMT (UK) »

I believe its a three week trial or something similar - get hunting whilst you can - yesterday I found an inquest in which my g grandfather was a witness & the obituary of another. Also the trial for bigamy of another ancestor's brother!

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Flexney, Godfrey  -  Oxfordshire
Street, Cave - Gloucestershire
Gibbs, Gait, Noyes, Peters, Padfield, Board, York, Rogers, Emery, Clavey - Somerset
Fook, Snell - Devon
M(a)cDonald, Yuell, Gollan, McKenzie - Rosshire
McLennan, Mackintosh - Inverness
Williams, Jones - Angelsey & Caernarvon
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Re: Old newspapers.
« Reply #14 on: Monday 17 March 08 10:05 GMT (UK) »

I've just found out about the wreck of a barque with all 18 hands lost, my relative was 1st officer and he left a widow & 8 children, I didn't know anything about his death and only thought he had two children, so lots more to find on that now
Fascinating....

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Census and bmd information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk and www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk
Norfolk - Ebbs Whiterod Zipfell
Lincs & Yorks - Sivills Predgen
Sweden - Jönsson Cronberg Andersson
Yorks - Spence Hide Hird
Durham - Dalkin Selby Renwick
Somerset - Keen Hitchins
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