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The Common Room / Re: Finding a will beneficiary called Nicola. How do "THEY" do it?
« on: Saturday 23 March 24 15:32 GMT (UK)  »
I am really struggling to believe that the police have some super secret archive to which the rest of us have no access. After all, it is reckoned that up to 25% of the drivers in this country have moved house more than once since passing their test, but have failed to inform Swansea.

Regards 

Chas

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The Common Room / Re: An interesting thought!
« on: Sunday 10 March 24 09:39 GMT (UK)  »
"the National Rail Chaplaincy Service (NRCS)"

Huh?  Why on earth are chaplains needed on trains?
It seems that people do die on trains more than we would think. So much so that there is a corporate proceedure and "code word" in the event so that all staff know what to do. 

Regards 

Chas

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The Lighter Side / Re: Myths debunked when doing family histroy.
« on: Monday 26 February 24 13:42 GMT (UK)  »
I was invited to a job interview at the "One Love Centre" in London, because I put my birthplace on the application as Bombay, India. 

When I got there, mine was the only white face for miles around. I did not get the job. 

Regards 

Chas

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The Common Room / Re: Finding the original photograph
« on: Monday 26 February 24 11:25 GMT (UK)  »
What is on the sash she is wearing? What year is that? Check newspapers for that year and the organizers of what ever the event was. She is wearing summer clothing in a known year, I think that they are two good leads. 

Regards 

Chas

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The Lighter Side / Re: Myths debunked when doing family histroy.
« on: Sunday 25 February 24 21:11 GMT (UK)  »
Yes, well, you can't choose your family ... 

Regards 

Chas

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The Lighter Side / Re: Myths debunked when doing family histroy.
« on: Sunday 25 February 24 16:36 GMT (UK)  »
We have two myths - 

1–We are descended from Florence Nightingale. The fact that she was never married and never had children is just an inconvenient factoid for most of my family. 

2–Stonewall Jackson (of American fame) is either an ancestor, or a descendant of our Jackson primogenitor. Nobody seems to know which. 

No amount of debunking is changing anybody's mind. 

Regards 

Chas

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The Lighter Side / Re: The railway revolution and its impact on our ancestors.
« on: Friday 16 February 24 21:17 GMT (UK)  »

I assume that train would be how they got to Scotland but would two children have been sent alone? They had another aunt in London but she had 6 kids of her own so unlikely to have been able to take them.
thanks
 

There was a time when people could be posted - tag round their neck with stamps on. Boys were often sent home at end of term from boarding school by post. That would mean going in the baggage car. They had to provide their own food and drink, but it was cheap ... 

Regards 

Chas

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Heraldry Crests and Coats of Arms / Re: Shared coat of arms
« on: Thursday 15 February 24 18:49 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Emma,
Firstly, a grant of arms is to a person (usually the head of the household) and not to the whole family. The eldest son would inherit the arms on the death of his father, and so on down the line. During the father's lifetime, all the sons could use the arms but with a 'difference'. That way no one could confuse people. Who was the father?, who was the son?

The trouble is that the College of Arms had no mechanism to police the arms. If one family used the arms of another (usurpation) there was very little that anyone could do.

Added to this is the fact that heraldry was in common use long before the founding of the College. For example, none of the non-royal Dukes ever had a grant. They all assumed their arms before the college was founded.

If a wealthy merchant started to use a coat of arms, who would stop him?

The General Armory gives the same arms for Busby of Addington and Busby of Uttoxeter. There might not be a common ancestor - I would look for cousins and marriages.

Regards 

Chas

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Armed Forces / Re: Royal navy barracks chatham
« on: Tuesday 13 February 24 16:15 GMT (UK)  »
Special Reconnaissance Regiment - possibly. 

Regards 

Chas

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