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I'm exploring the parish register of Greystoke, Cumberland. There are 17th century records of collections for various purposes - rebuilding churches, the victims of fires (including London), French Protestants and others.
I'm stumped on this one from 29th August 1669:
Collected for the poor distressed Christians who were taken prisoners beyond the sea at Lyer Alley the sum of eight shillings sevenpence halfpenny.
My guess is that they were victims of Barbary pirates - but where is Lyer Alley? Probably somewhere on the Atlantic seaboard of Europe, or in the Mediterranean, from the context, but I cannot make sense of Lyer Alley. Likely to be a bad phonetic spelling......
Any guesses welcome!
Thanks for your input.....

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I'm looking at our church's records. A goodly proportion are already online, in various places but accessible - familysearch and findmypast as well as findagrave. Fortunately there was Victorian transcription which needs digitising; other gaps, notably on burials, would come from our more recent registers.
Now the transcription projects I've looked at tend to give transcribers records to transcribe, rather than accepting transcriptions that have already been done. I can see why - issues like quality control and uniformity of input come to mind.
However we would like to put our data out there.
So let's say we transcribe the burial registers from 16th to early 19th century. How can we get that data online and findable (so not hidden away on our church or village website, for example)?

I cannot find Ruby Eileen Simons, née Dowling, after 1926. I wonder if anyone else can do so? Here’s an outline of what I know.

Ruby Eileen Dowling was baptised in Simla on 1st November 1893. Her parents were Robert Henry Dowling 1866 – 1899, who died in Quetta, and Jane Ellen Rutledge 1873-1894, who died in Simla. Both families seem to have been well-established in India. I don’t know what happened to her after she was orphaned.
She's not in the UK 1911 census, presumably still in India. She sailed 1st Class Calcutta to London arriving 9th Sept 1915; occupation Nurse; last residence India; intended residence England. She is not in the Nurses' Register up to 1934. Perhaps she was never a Registered Nurse?
She married Selwyn Barrett Glascodine Simons (hence my interest in her) in 1919 in Oswestry.
There was a son Michael Edward Glascodine Simons born in London in 1921; he died in 2006 and I believe had no issue.
Now the plot thickens. Selwyn went, alone, to the United States, arriving at Ellis Island in 1924, later remarried and settled in Canada. I can’t find a divorce from Ruby; perhaps there wasn’t one.
My great-aunt, who seems to be very reliable, wrote that Ruby abandoned Michael and that he was brought up by another family entirely. She claims that Ruby asked Selwyn’s mother for money to go and join Selwyn in America but instead once she had the money went to Kenya to a beauty parlour.
This fits because Ruby is on a passenger list to Mombasa, Kenya leaving in July 1924, alone. She was declared insolvent in Nairobi in 1926. And that’s the last trace I’ve found of her – she’s not in the 1939 Register and she’s not the Ruby E Simons who married Harry W Grove in 1936 – the birth dates don’t fit.
So what happened to her? Any assistance after 1926 welcomed! Many thanks - Graham