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The Common Room / Re: Intestate
« on: Yesterday at 21:16 »
Try this link

   https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a80ded640f0b62302695f7d/choice-not-chance-flow-chart.pdf

It’s easier than trying to explain verbally

Mike

Added
The aunts and/or uncles have to have been alive on the day he died.

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Herefordshire Lookup Requests / Re: Thomas Davies
« on: Friday 12 April 24 20:23 BST (UK)  »
You have probably seen this but being named after the Lord of the manor seems unusual.

https://herefordshiregenealogy.com/2022/04/16/52-ancestor-uvedale-davies/.


Mike

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The Common Room / Re: Tracing an illusive Railway employee, London, 1930s
« on: Friday 05 April 24 21:56 BST (UK)  »
Railforums is a very fast moving site, it may be worthwhile to reply a few times just to keep your question visible.

Good luck,  mike

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The Common Room / Re: Tracing an illusive Railway employee, London, 1930s
« on: Wednesday 03 April 24 18:07 BST (UK)  »
I can only add that I think it very likely that your dining car attendant was a member of the N U R,
Warwick university’s records for the national union of railwaymen are available to search on find my past, for years between 1925-1928, it is possible he was a member in 1928.

If these have already been consulted i apologise for bringing this up again.

Mike
https://www.rootschat.com/links/01t3e/

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I well remember my first doctor, Dr Hakeem, I’m told he brought me into this world in the days before the NHS, and was our doctor for the next 20 years.

He did his “rounds” on a bike, in those days you asked the doctor to call rather than go to see him.

When the NHS came along you went and sat in his front room and waited your turn, nothing changed,
you described your symptoms and a relaxed laid back doctor said, I will prescribe you a tonic, off you went feeling much better.

I remember my elder sister having acute appendicitis, off to hospital for an operation, three weeks in hospital, with a real possibility that complications could be fatal.

When he retired he was replaced by a compatriot, Dr Naidoo, equally reassuring and laid back, you left again with your tonic, reassured that this would cure everything, it obviously did, since I am still here ;D ;D ;D.

I stayed with this practice till I retired.


Mike



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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Local GRO Index Access for Birmingham
« on: Friday 22 March 24 21:02 GMT (UK)  »


So I'm thinking if I buy that certificate, (and I want to), I have a 50:50 chance that that page has the wrong wedding on.

So I think I need to now double check the 'Local' Gro's.  I'm just not sure where I do that.
My guess would be they might be accessible in Birmingham Library.  Can anyone confirm that?

Grateful for any pointers.  New to all this


Do you not enter the names of the marriage you want as well as the ref no,? so you will get the correct certificate that way.


Mike

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Technical Help / Re: PDF images from GRO
« on: Friday 22 March 24 13:25 GMT (UK)  »
Perhaps Google “insecure download blocked”, if you are using Chrome browser it has somethings to try, I don’t use chrome ;D.

Mike

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Factory??
« on: Sunday 17 March 24 16:08 GMT (UK)  »
Just had a look at “ships capstans” on Google, looks reasonable, but I would think things like this came from a general heavy engineering firm or foundry and would be supplied to a shipbuilder as a finished item.

Mike

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Factory??
« on: Sunday 17 March 24 16:03 GMT (UK)  »
Lightening it a lot seems to show, on the right,behind the gent with the overcoat what looks to me to be a ship's capstan on a wheeled trolley, this has a gearwheel on the bottom, so is a powered capstan,
It’s big, not part of a little machine ;D.


Mike

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