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.


Topics - Kiltpin

Pages: [1] 2 3
1
The Lighter Side / Family Habits
« on: Yesterday at 10:22 »
Good Enough for My Granddad, It's Good Enough for Me!
When it comes to family matters, do we do things because we always do those things, unthinkingly, by rote, by force of habit? I found out this week that our family does.

My wife's first husband, while still a young man, bought The TV Times every week - BBC1, BBC2 and ITV only in those days. There were some programming conflicts, and you had to be quick to change channels so as not to miss either the start, or the finish.

He meets, courts, and then marries the woman who later became my wife. After a while, a baby son was born. There was an accident at work for which the company was to blame. While off work, recovering from broken bones, it was discovered that he had terminal bowel cancer. A long lingering illness till the end. 

The widow and son carried on with their lives till I arrived on the scene. We become a family. Eventually, step-son leaves home, marries and starts his own family. Next January he will be 40. 

We have arrived at yesterday. A throwaway remark by either my wife, or I, led to a thunderclap of realization - like St Paul on the Road to Damascus. Between us, we have been buying The TV Times for over 40 years and NO ONE READS IT! It goes in the rack and 4 weeks later goes out to the recycling. 

I am happy to say that we have given up the habit - cold turkey. I will let you know if either one of us gets withdrawal symptoms ...

2
The Common Room / The RAF List
« on: Wednesday 09 August 23 13:17 BST (UK)  »
Can anyone point me in the direction of the RAF lists, please? Post-war. Anything on-line?   

Thanks in advance. 

Regards 

Chas

3
The Common Room / Welsh Words and Relations
« on: Friday 07 April 23 10:51 BST (UK)  »
I do not know if this is common knowledge or not, but I came across this, this morning. It proved to be very useful for me. Maybe it might help others.

Regards 

Chas

4
The Common Room / Fund Holder?
« on: Tuesday 19 July 22 00:08 BST (UK)  »
Hello all,
I have just found possible relatives in the Wirksworth website.   

1861 Census 

Mary Whannell, aged 50, Married, Occupation - Fund Holder 
Margaret Whannell aged 25 Unmarried, Occupation - Fund Holder 

Any ideas? Is it some kind of private pension?

Regards 

Chas

5
The Lighter Side / North Carolina Journal of Education
« on: Saturday 11 June 22 20:09 BST (UK)  »
From the North Carolina Journal of Education, I know not what year. 

Has anyone heard of an "ayle"?  I haven't.   

Regards 

Chas

6
The Lighter Side / Witty and True
« on: Sunday 16 January 22 23:59 GMT (UK)  »
I just read this on another board - 

"Ancestry is social networking for the deceased." 

Regards 

Chas

7
The Lighter Side / Appeal to find home for Bury St Edmunds family tree featuring names dating back
« on: Tuesday 11 January 22 20:33 GMT (UK)  »
Appeal to find home for Bury St Edmunds family tree featuring names dating back to 1798 
From the Bury Free Press - Friday 7th 2022 
Pictures as well as text. 

https://www.suffolknews.co.uk/bury-st-edmunds/news/appeal-to-find-home-for-family-tree-which-dates-back-to-1798-9234049/ 

Might be of some use to someone. 

A woman who is originally from Horringer is looking for someone who may have a connection to a family tree she found dating back to 1798.
Lynn Roberts, who now lives in South Wigston, Leicestershire, does not have any children and though her family is on the tree she wants to pass it on to someone it has meaning to.
The document was discovered when Lynn’s aunt, Gladys Leonard, died and she had to come to Bury St Edmunds to collect her belongings. 

The 75-year-old said: “We collected her things from her house in Ridley Road, where she lived on the same street as my mum and her other sister, and when we got her stuff home we found it inside a small suitcase.
“My husband and I were talking about the family tree the other day and my mum had always said we were related to the Clutterhams in Bury, but they told me none of the Clutterhams were alive any more.” 

The roughly eight foot by two foot document starts with Robert Clutterham, born in Ingham on July 1, 1798, and ends with Aimee Perry, born in Corsham, Wiltshire, on March 29, 1991. 

In between those dates are surnames including Bird, Copping, Fennell, Morden and Killingback, which are thought to be from around the Bury area and Lynn hopes that someone with one of those names may see this appeal and get in touch.
She said: “Someone has taken hours to put this together and it seems like such a waste that all this work will be thrown away when I pop my clogs. 

“I would really like to give this to someone who is related to a name on this tree, so they can have a part of their own history to find out more about where they came from.”
Lynn’s mother’s maiden name, Davey, starts on the tree with Lynn’s great grandfather Edward Davey, who was born in 1860 and died in 1944 and ends with her grandfather who fought in World War One – Hamilton Major Davey, who died in 1963.
She said: “There are so many other names on this tree and though we have had contact from people who thought they were connected to it in the past, nothing has come of it. So if this this article can help get this tree to someone it means something to, that would be great."Regards 

Chas




8
The Common Room / 1921 census - blank forms?
« on: Thursday 06 January 22 16:33 GMT (UK)  »
Hello All, 

I am sure it is my fault and I am missing something obvious, but does anybody have a link to an image of a blank census form. One that can be read without the aid of an electron microscope. All the images I have seen are tiny and blurry. I just want one where I can read the headings! 

Most of my people were out doing their bit for the Empire in far flung parts of the globe. Most did not come to the UK till the early 50s. There are about half a dozen floating round the UK some where between the wars. If the census is not going to give any real information I will wait till the price is lower. 

So, is there an image available somewhere on the web? 

Regards (in hopes) 

Chas

9
Technical Help / Windows Media Player
« on: Tuesday 26 October 21 14:08 BST (UK)  »
Hello, 

I have an intermittent and peculiar problem. I have, in the past, made quite a few compilation albums - collections of artist's good work, but leaving out the bits I don't like. Other compilations from many artists, but with the same theme. 

This used to be OK, but recently WMP has been splitting up the album into all the original albums. But each of these albums has only one song - the one from the compilation. It is an easy task to put them all together again and for a while all is well. Then one song is split off again.   

I could sort of understand this happening to albums that I had made myself, but recently it has started happening to store bought albums - "The Best Of ...", or "The Greatest Hits Of ..." type of thing. 

Does anybody have an explanation, or failing that, can anybody suggest a good Media Player? 

My OP is Windows 11, but it also happened on Windows 10. It is Version: 10.0.22000.
Thanks in advance 

Regards 

Chas

Pages: [1] 2 3