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Very strange......I haven't received notification of the last 3 posts in this thread 
Thanks Allie for letting us know where Ann's Hill is - rrrrr remembering your Brownie days  Next time I'm passing by I'll take a snap!!!!!
Jan
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Hi, Jan...I have been having some buggy things happening too. Maybe too many of us put our messages up at the same time...who knows....When the site went "boing" it also was really confusing, because I'd go into an old thread and think...now didn't I answer that? But I am such a goofball sometimes...so who knows when it's just me!!!
So... I wonder now, who this Anne is that they named the hill after. You will not get anything done if you spend all your time taking pics for me HaHa, seems my family liked to move around a fair bit!!!!
Winter is coming and Shropshire is looking awefully good!!! Why didn't I win a piece of that last lottery...?
Many cyber hugs to all. URGR8 ;
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Hi JJ
Here's a few bits from this site:
www.search.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk/ content/files/102/106/343.rtf
"Ditherington Flax Mill is a grade I listed building. It lies in a semi-derelict state on the outskirts of Shrewsbury within a site which includes Grade II structures. It was one of Britain’s most important factories and is possibly the most significant building in Shropshire...
...By 1800 a house for clerks employed at Ditherington Mill had been built by a Scottish migrant to Shrewsbury, John Simpson (1755-1815), who was employed as clerk-of-works at the newly built St Chad’s Church. Simpson subsequently worked with Thomas Telford on his civil engineering projects...
...The building was constructed from the same bricks that were used for building the original mill in 1796-1797. The house was known at one time as Ann’s Hill after Simpson’s daughter."
The Flax Mill (or as most people know it, The Maltings, because that is what it became after flax went out of fashion) is an amazing building. After many years of wrangling, it is now about to be renovated.
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Monica
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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukDALBY - 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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Hi, Monica...thanks for the info.
Its fun to hear all about Shrewsbury. With the pics I now also have of the buildings ( thanks JAN!!!) and these, I can now visualize some of the places in which my ancestors lived. Wish I could see it in person! The Lottery is up at 40 million....never been so high before....a wee tiny piece of that would get me there.
Haven't been at the genealogy as much for a bit, now, but still am always checking for email from my rootschat bunch! I never thought that I would join a forum of any kind, and here I am poking around in this one all comfy!
all the very best and cyber hugs to all! Jeany
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AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH...........
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I am a nut! 
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Instead of modifying I must have done something else 
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So if you can tell me how to delete all this junk 
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I would mucho appreciate it   
Silly little guys, these, quite fitting for my icons right now...
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Dearest Jan and Monica,
Many thanks for all that you have done for me. Jan your wonderful pics & help, &
Monica for filling in so many blanks! I was really busy over the Christmas season
with so many things, that I didn't get on here, much....but want to wish you both
HAPPY NEW YEAR
and hope that you enjoyed the holidays....Thinking of you!
Many Cyber New Year Hugs! J.J.
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Many thanks to Jan & Monica for all the help and mostly history found for me on this thread. I just read it all through and enjoyed it once again...Never did
find a Rockstro or Gaire tie-in, yet, Monica, but will keep my ear to the ground...
Still hoping we can get there in a few years time and meet you both.
My mom just loves all the information you both provided on her precious birthplace, Shrewsbury. Tons of Hugs, J.J.
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Just a quick reply JJ - if ever you win the Lottery, or find yourself in the position that you are able to come to Shrewsbury, please do give me a shout. I'd happily be your tour guide 
Jan 
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We all hope we get the opportunity to take you up on that, Jan! hugs! J.J.
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....and I haven't forgotten to take photos of the Blunt graves in St Chad's Churchyard
Jan
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Well, if you have time...but as I say, if we can make it there, it's something
we hopefully can do ourselves! Oh, the more I talk about it the more real
it becomes. ...Darn the lottery for never picking my numbers! J.J.
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