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Sussex / Dr William Long of Hailsham
« on: Friday 16 February 07 20:38 GMT (UK)  »
Dr William Long of Hailsham

Another request for help with a further part of my local history work

William Long was born near Rye (East Guilford) and was christened in January 1766 (parents Edward and Mary Long). At some stage he became a doctor, inherited £7000 and moved to Hailsham.

He had an unhappy marriage. I do not have any details, but there are possible ones in Hastings or Brighton in 1794, but I am not sure that either is correct.   

He was a well liked local eccentric, was sent to Horsham jail for debt at one stage and had a weakness for drink and women! He was in partnership with Dr James Cunningham from about 1830 and died in Hailsham in 1833.

Can anyone give me any further information please?

Rod

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Sussex / Dr J M Cunningham of Hailsham
« on: Saturday 03 February 07 21:12 GMT (UK)  »
As part of a small local history project I am trying to trace Dr James MacKay Cunningham who worked as a surgeon in Hailsham in East Sussex from about 1830 to his death in 1878.

He was born about 1802, married Catherine Neal in Lewes at St Michael’s Church on 3rd October 1828 and died 28th April 1878. His business address was in the High Street at Hailsham.

Could anyone give me any other information please?

Rod

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I would like to produce a map showing the basic movements of my ancestors from across England in the 1800s to London in the early 1900s, then all out again by the 1980s.

Is there a mapping site or some software I could use and could it be layered by census dates etc?

Thanks for any ideas?

Rod

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The Common Room / Which county to use?
« on: Friday 17 June 05 17:16 BST (UK)  »
I am having problems in tracing one relative currently. My great grandmother, Marion (b @1862 Grays Essex as shown on 1891 census), married James Ellis (born Bristol 1857) in about 1882. I was told her name was Wilson, but no luck there. James is working in the Grovenor hotel in 1881 in London and there is a marriage of a James Ellis to a Marion Faircloth (possibly born London / Middlesex 1859) in an adjacent church to the hotel in 1882. If it is her, she seems to have been named Jane Marion and switched names in childhood, some times being J Marion.

Should I seek help in Essex, Middlesex, London or Surrey, any and all of which may feature in the story, or even Gloucester of Somerset? I have been told a multi county request should not be done and I am making no progress.

Any chance of some help?

Rod





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Armed Forces Resources / Info: Notes on Basic Army Ranks
« on: Tuesday 10 May 05 16:11 BST (UK)  »
BASIC ARMY RANKS
If you have had not been involvement with the army in your life, some odds and ends can cause un-necessary confusion. Here are a few basic ranks. This is not definitive list and is a given as guide only. There are always exceptions.


INFANTRY RANKS

Private,    Pte   the basic soldier
Soldiers can also be known by other titles in older regiments that had a defined role in the past. Guardsman, Fusilier, Rifleman etc

JUNIOR NON COMMISSIONED OFFICERS (NCO)

Lance Corporal     L/Cpl
Corporal      Cpl

SENIOR NCOS

Sergeant      Sgt
Sergeant- Major    
(Also called Warrant Officers WO1 WO2)

The senior NCO ranks can vary a lot in name. There are also Colour Sergeants, Staff Sergeants, Company Sergeant Majors (CSM) and Regimental Sergeant Majors (RSM) etc. Some have unusual titles, such as a Conductor in the Ordnance.


CAVALRY RANKS

Trooper   is the basic mounted soldier
They can also be known by their specialist style, Dragoon, Hussar, Lancer etc.

Cavalry NCOs tend to follow the infantry titles.

Some Senior cavalry NCOs also have other titles, such as Corporal of Horse, the RSM in the Household Cavalry.


SUPPORT CORPS

These would include the Royal Engineers, Royal Artillery etc and can also have older rank titles

Engineer privates are called Sappers (sometimes Miners or Artificers)
Artillery privates are called Gunners and their Corporals Bombardiers.


OFFICERS

Second Lieutenants
Lieutenants
Captains
Majors
Lieutenant Colonel
Colonel

In the Napoleonic period some young officers were called Ensigns and Cornets.

Hope this is of use

Rod

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Sussex / Do you need a place visited in Sussex?
« on: Saturday 23 April 05 21:08 BST (UK)  »
Do you live a long way from Sussex, but need a place visited?

Over the summer months I will be travelling all over East Sussex for various cricket matches, probably once or twice a week. I cannot guarantee to be anywhere (or everywhere either), but if you would like me to, I can find half an hour when going to or from a match to stop off on the way.

If this would help any of you, please let me have the details of where you would like visited and what you need to know. I may not get there, and may not find what is required, but I will do what I can. Churchyards, farms, streets, villages, memorials or whatever.

All you have to do is ask!

Rod

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Sussex / The Hamlet of Hankham
« on: Friday 22 April 05 19:46 BST (UK)  »
I have reached a bit of a sticking point in my own family tree researches. So, for a bit of a busmans holiday, I am going finish off a local history project I started some time ago, on Hankham, in the Parish of Westham (between Eastbourne and Hailsham). It can also be spelt Handcombe.

I have the Webbers running the Post Office, local farmers called Foord, Gorringe, Hunter, Venn and Martin; blacksmiths called Thorpe and Geering; several generations of millers called Crisford, gentry called Rood, Schill, Owen and Breton; as well as a fine selection of shepherds and agricultural laborers called Westgate, Watson, Tucknot, Honneyset (several spellings), Paul, Marchant, Moon, Christie, Colbean, and a few others as well.

Can anyone add some additional facts for this project, other then the traces on the Victorian censuses and Directories. All snipits would be gratefully received and faithfully used.

Rod

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The Lighter Side / A place called what..!.!.!
« on: Sunday 17 April 05 21:56 BST (UK)  »
In the many hours of searching for lost relatives details, what are the funniest place names you have come across? Here are a few that came to mind to start things off;

Pratts Bottom, Kent
Badgers Mount, Kent
Dumb Womans Lane, Nr Rye (the home for many years to Spike Milligan)
Slugwash Lane, Nr Hayward Heath Sussex.

Rod


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Occupation Interests / Cornish Fishermen in Middlesex?
« on: Sunday 17 April 05 11:22 BST (UK)  »
Can anyone give me some historical background on this.

When looking at a different set of relatives in Middlesex on the 1851 census, I noticed a number of Pearce names at Chiswick, who were fishermen (the Thames was still usable in those days!). My Grandmother was a Cornish Pearce who moved to London in the early 1900s, but there is no known link to these earlier Pearces. Many of my Pearce ancestore were Cornish fishermen.

Is there some historical tradition or link between the Cornish Pearce fishing families and those of Middlesex?

Rod

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