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Shropshire Lass
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Hi Jeany and Jan,
Just popped in for a minute or two.
Victoria Street is down between the prison and the river. It merges into Dorset Street which leads down to the Castle Footbridge.
In the 1881 census the girls - Elizabeth and Sarah - were living at St Michaels House and the neighbours were Long Row and Anns Hill, so that's along Ditherington Road, isn't it?
J.J. - I'm curious apart the names GAIRE and ROYSTON which appear as middle names. Do you know why they were chosen?
Also we now have a family called LUNT with several chemist shops in town. They're not part of the family who lost the initial 'B' are they?
Monica
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Hi Monica
As soon as I read your post, I remembered Victoria Street 
You are correct about Long Row - that is Ditherington, which then joins St Michaels Street, which is where St Michaels House must be (somewhere!). Can't say that I've heard of Ann's Hill  but have just found this.
Ditherington Mill: Apprentice House, c 1800 (2) 56-59 St Michaels Street
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.
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.4839
Jan
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J.J.
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Hello, Jan....
Where did you get that shot? Wow, the whole row seems to be part of the school, then...So is that more of the Tower Place buildings continunig in the background? Sorry if my questions are dumb.
Jan, don't feel you need to take photos of every place my ancestors have
lived...(or I'll send you off to Surrey, next) haha...They seemed to move about quite a bit for a while, there...Nomad Chemists!
Great of you to be thinking so much of my genealogy! I'm a lucky gal...I see
a post from Monica, so I'll go read it through!
Hugs! Jeany
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Just to let you know...........the buildings continuing in the background (to the right of the old chapel) is the original Shrewsbury Girls High School Building.
Jan
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J.J.
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Ohhh, How exciting...more chemists....!!!
i'll have to answer each question separately..
"Gaire" is used a a few times...but not sure where the name originated...
My Mother called her uncle Thomas ( the 3rd ) her uncle Gaire...I suppose he
liked his middle name best, (as did several of the family members - the rotters!)
He used it as his son Brian's middle name, and the same son named one of
his boys Gaire..... The really funny thing is that there are others...A Robert Gaire Blunt...who born in Shrewsbury, ALSO a CHEMIST!!! but I haven't made a connection yet!!!! Then there is another Robert Gaire Blunt born earlier in Southwark so perhaps this was a cousin and the other was his son? ? ? I have yet to find out!!!
Now where did Royston come from, I need to be reminded ( My husband is Metis...he says if I had a native name it would be " Memory Like Sieve!"?
There is a Rockstro !
...and interesting about the Lunt Chemists....Perhaps you could investigate this one for me, Monica? Or give me an address so that I might drop them a line?
Thanks for your input Monica...You two are my sleuths....is it sometimes easier to do other's genealogy? I find it's less headache, as in the end, I don't have to keep all their files...I have tons and I've only just begun...!!!!
All the best, Jeany
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I see, Jan, so that always was the girl's achool, but the rest was an expansion...
My mom has great memories from there. She loved the bakers coming down the street shouting "fresh rolls!"....I wonder if they kept any of the gardens in the back. She said he had a beautiful orchard with so many types of fruit, and a
wonderful garden. Thomas Porter was also into Botany...
Jeany
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Hi, Jan & Monica...
You got me thinking...Monica , if Thomas named his son Thomas Porter after his Grandma's maiden name, (speculation) maybe there was a Gaire ancestor up the tree, as a last name...but there are multitudes of Gaires ...wouldn't know where to start..... J.J.
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Hi Jan...
You are probably the person to ask...( or Monica if she is looking in)
I noticed that sometimes the blunt births were put under Mongomeryshire.
So I understand that St.Chad & Atcham were interchanged as parish districts,
but what was this other name?
I am asking because I see you are searching this area on your list, Jan. J.J.
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Shropshire Lass
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Hi Jeannie
Busy, and tired, so not doing so much at the moment - but this is a good site for finding out about registration districts, etc. - www.fhsc.org.uk/genuki/REG/sal.htm
Here's the info on where the Blunts were living:
Atcham
Created 1st July 1837. Mainly in Shropshire, but included parts of Montgomeryshire.
Sub-districts : Alberbury; Atcham; Battlefield; Condover; Montford; Pontesbury; St. Chad, St. Mary, Westbury.
GRO volumes : XVIII (1837-51); 6a (1852-1930).
It's very confusing as Montgomeryshire is over the border in Wales!
Monica
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Thanks for the reply, Monica...
We got a nasty wet storm of snow yesterday....and very cold today...but it didn't
stay as the cold rain after it melted most of it. Some of the Province got a foot of
it tho. Makes Shrewsbury look AAAAAAAAAAWEFully GOOOOD.....J.J.
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Hi JJ
St Chad's churchyard is still closed to the public 
Jan
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Hi, Jan...that's too bad...
Guess we just have bad timing in that department...but nevermind! I
appreciate all that you have already done. Those pics of the shop and
the old home were just super! J.J.
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Hi Jeany, Jan and Monica,
I have just been reading through this thread and Ann's Hill is at the top of St Michael's Street.
The St Michael's Church is just behind it. I only remember because I went to Brownies there as a child.
The one house has a stone in on the front of the house with Ann's Hill engraved on it if I remember correctly.
Hope this helps
Allie x
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Hi Allie,
I had a look when I went into town today and there it is, on the front of the building.
Time for Jan to get her camera out!
Monica
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You are all so great! I am at the Winnipeg archives doing research for my husband. Land documents...about 1300 files...eyes going buggy! At least I can put files to disc now...at 50c a printed copy that would have been quite an expense! about a quarter pound each, I think. I can only do 150 or so files at a time, though, as that's about all I have time for with setting up the microfische scanner,
and setting changes almost every frame. Getting quite good at it, tho!!!!!
Thanks for thinking of me! all the best, J.J.
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