Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.


Messages - patty38

Pages: [1] 2 3 4 ... 24
1
Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: 1921 Census: Address in Scarborough
« on: Sunday 06 February 22 18:38 GMT (UK)  »
Ii would say 9B Falsgrave Road.

2
The Lighter Side / Re: Registering a death
« on: Saturday 29 January 22 11:13 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for that everyone, it really has been a help, it seems as I was fretting about nothing, just different attitudes and ideas.

I didn't realise the age of marriage was 12 and 14, I thought it was 16 and that work started officially at 14 although unofficially it was any age, they say you learn something new every day so thank you for that.

Patty :)



3
The Lighter Side / Registering a death
« on: Friday 28 January 22 15:30 GMT (UK)  »
Does anyone know if there is an age limit on registering deaths.

I purchased a death cert for a child who died in 1879 at Newport, South Wales and the informant is his sister who would have been aged 12. This seems very young to me even in those far off days and I've always wondered if it was legal.

All the other deaths (and there were many) were registered by the mother, so I assumed she was too ill and her eldest daughter did it, but so young.

It's not of major importance and won't alter anything, but every time I look at this family I do so wonder. 

Patty  :)

4
Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: cause of death in 3year old
« on: Thursday 13 January 22 17:46 GMT (UK)  »
Could be" tabes mesentrica" a form of TB I believe.

Patty

5
The Lighter Side / Re: Do you think you have ancestors who just lied on their forms?
« on: Friday 04 September 20 19:44 BST (UK)  »
I'm sure some of my ancestors thought that truth was like a piece of elastic and could be stretched to any length, and some of them thought that lying was a way of life so it didn't matter, also that it was okay to "disappear" from time to time.
One thing that I have found though is that they didn't lie about the names of their fathers, proof of marriage is important to woman and for some reason deaths are more reliable than births.
My thoughts are that apart from respectability they had other things to worry about i.e. living and surviving so it didn't matter to them.
Patty

6
Durham / Re: Durham Records Online
« on: Monday 17 December 18 18:51 GMT (UK)  »
I've not been on recently so can't comment, but for the last few weeks have been getting very strange emails from them which have gone straight into my junk file and have been blocked by me without reading. Not sure if the messages are really from Durham Records, and it seems to have started about the time they started having problems. I really like this site and use it a lot but buy credits rather than a subscription. Not very helpful I know but it worries me :( :( :(
Patty

7
Wexford / Re: IS THE NAME CISS OR CISSIE A REAL NAME
« on: Friday 05 October 18 21:01 BST (UK)  »
My great aunt was called Kezia which, according to my mother she hated so was always called Cissie, even on the census.

Patty :)

8
The Lighter Side / Re: Was that really a crime?
« on: Saturday 11 August 18 18:34 BST (UK)  »
Sorry Carol his name was Thomas and he died in the 1880's ;D

Patty

9
The Lighter Side / Re: Was that really a crime?
« on: Friday 10 August 18 13:49 BST (UK)  »
I was surprised by this too when I found my great grandfather was given 6 months hard labour in 1855 for 'being an incorrigible rogue and vagabond'. I looked it up because it sounds almost funny now but unfortunately he wasn't a very nice man and wouldn't support his wife and children, he was in and out of jail for this and other offences all through his life. Makes it interesting though ::) .

Patty  :)

Pages: [1] 2 3 4 ... 24