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England / Re: Mary Ann Cohen Islington death 1843, which church register?
« on: Yesterday at 20:33 »
Could be one of 4 churches which had cemeteries:

Holy Trinity, Islington
St John The Evangelist, Upper Holloway
St Mary the Virgin, Islington
St Paul, Canonbury

See also:
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/MDX/Islington/churches

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with Welsh Placename
« on: Monday 08 April 24 18:00 BST (UK)  »
Problem is you are looking at an Englishman's attempt at a Welsh word!! :o

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Ireland / Re: Trying to ID location on birth certificate
« on: Sunday 07 April 24 16:33 BST (UK)  »
For what it's worth - I agree! ;)

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Technical Help / Re: Help with “C drive full” issue, please
« on: Saturday 06 April 24 21:14 BST (UK)  »
Back in the dim, dark, distant past before Windows :o, we had a user at work who tried to be clever.
He freed up disc space by deleting some files - Command.com and io.sys - essential system files!
Then he wondered why his PC failed to work! ;D

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The Common Room / Re: Why so much Scottish DNA?
« on: Saturday 06 April 24 16:48 BST (UK)  »
No need to go back so far.
Just 500or 600 years!

Classical Gaelic, otherwise known as Early Modern Irish, covers the period from the 13th to the 18th century, during which time it was used as a literary standard in Ireland and Scotland. This is often called Classical Irish, while Ethnologue gives the name "Hiberno-Scottish Gaelic" to this standardised written language. As long as this written language was the norm, Ireland was considered the Gaelic homeland to the Scottish literati.

Later orthographic divergence has resulted in standardised pluricentristic orthographies. Manx orthography, which was introduced in the 16th and 17th centuries, was based loosely on English and Welsh orthography, and so never formed part of this literary standard.

From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goidelic_languages

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The Common Room / Re: Why so much Scottish DNA?
« on: Saturday 06 April 24 16:26 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Vance Mead on Saturday 06 April 24 15:55 BST (UK)
I can see how Northern Ireland and Scotland would be connected. I have ancestors who moved from Ireland to Glasgow in the 19th century. But Brittany seems like any family connection would go back at least a thousand years.

Brittany is one of the 6 Celtic Nations.
Scotland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Wales, Cornwall, Brittany.

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The Common Room / Re: Battles and Commanders names used as forenames
« on: Saturday 06 April 24 15:48 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: fiddlerslass on Saturday 06 April 24 14:50 BST (UK)
The Boar war is a good example of how battles and Military men can influence baby names.

That would be the Boer war! ;)

Dutch/Afrikaans for farmer.

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The Common Room / Re: Battles and Commanders names used as forenames
« on: Saturday 06 April 24 13:50 BST (UK)  »
I don't suppose Nile Rogers was named after the Battle of the Nile? :D

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Channel Islands Lookup Requests / Re: Birth Marriages and Deaths Prices in Guernsey
« on: Friday 05 April 24 18:53 BST (UK)  »
Ask them! ;)

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