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How to Use RootsChat (Please don't post requests here) / Old posts
« on: Friday 27 August 10 00:42 BST (UK)  »
Hello everyone, good to be back. I have been trying to find some very old posts of mine and can't see them have they been deleted? :(

Pennine

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re Barnsley Cemetry
« on: Thursday 13 November 08 22:45 GMT (UK)  »
I am trying to find out if there is a grave in Barnsley Cemetry for an Elizabeth Park of Beech Street Barnsley who would have died 1949/50 ish. Also her husband who died much earlier and for whom I do not have a given name.
Can anyone help please?

Pennine

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Darfield/Wath-Upon-Dearne
« on: Saturday 18 October 08 01:40 BST (UK)  »
I have a few ancesteral children who died in the above areas in the early 1850s to 1860s. These are not babies but children aged between 10 and 12 years. I have not yet got around to sending for death certificates. Can anyone tell me if there was an outbreak of a disease such as scarlet fever or measles or something more seroius that could have contributed to their deaths at the time?

Thank you.
Pennine

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Armed Forces / Poem
« on: Monday 15 September 08 02:30 BST (UK)  »
Amongst my dad's papers I found a hand written poem written in block capitals in ink.
It is dated 1945 to 1948 and has the inscription 35 Fld AMB RASC 'Natanya' Palestine.
The poem is entitled 'This Hostile Land'

It is a long poem so I will give you a bit of it and the last verse as some of the in-between verses are politicly incorrect in this day and age.

'We do not see the ones we fight,
Their evil deeds are done by night,
A land mine here a bomb thrown there,
A burst of bullets through the air.'

'A few more comrades gone to rest,
Britain's sons, the very best.
Far away in a foreign land,
They rest in peace beneath the sand.'

Last Verse.

'To you in Britain far away,
These last few words I'd like to say,
To you at home the war is won,
But for us out here it's just begun'

On the back of the scrappy bit of paper this poem was written on, my father's twin brother who was out there at the same time, has written 'please . for me'. I would like to know if anyone recognises this poem. Although I know the hand writing is my father's I am not sure if he wrote it. He was a bit of a poet himself so it could be his own work. If anyone recognises it and can produce the first verse I would be so interested.

Please note that I own the copywrite to this poem and it must not be reproduced without my permission.

Pennine





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Technical Help / Transfering settings
« on: Friday 12 September 08 01:03 BST (UK)  »
I have just bought a second hand laptop.  I receive the internet with the wireless set up I have. I have managed to set up a pop3 account for email but although I am receiving email from the pop3 account I cannot send it.
On my desk top computer I use BT as my ISP but the installation disk I had is now so out of date and was for dial up anyway. I have 3 email addresses via the Bt account but cannot get them to work on the lap top. Is there a way that  I can transfer my desktop computer email settings to my laptop without having to go to the trouble of requesting a new installation disk given the problems of associated with phoning BT help desk etc. in Outer Mongolia ;)
Hope you understand this.

Pennine

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Limerick / Fahy - Cappagh
« on: Thursday 10 January 08 02:03 GMT (UK)  »
This one is a puzzle. I would be so very grateful for some help in locating birth marriage and death of one John Fahy. I realise that asking for Fahy in Ireland is like asking for Smith in England. ;D I am not able to research records in Ireland myself so any clues would be gratefully received.
I do not have too much detail except to say he was born around 1894. When married, wife's name unknown, he had ten children. I know only a few of those names. Eldest child Margaret born about 1920 ish, then there were others, Bridget or Bridie, Tommy or Thomas, think there was a John and a James and more girls. Most of the children married and lived in England. I did get manage to get Margaret's British marriage certificates but they are not reliable, definitely not reliable!!!!! as she was still claiming to be 21 on her second marriage which was 10 years after her first, plus there were other inconsistencies which I will not go into here.
Whilst the children were growing up, the family lived at Dromsally, Cappaghmore, County Limerick. I do not know if Dromsally was a house name or area. This is the last address I have for them which was absolutely definite in 1949. John Fahy was either a small holder or a pig farmer.  I  wish to have some concrete detail of dates etc for the family tree, it would be lovely to know where he came from and the name of his wife and their respective parents. I believe John Fahy died sometime in the very early 1950's and his wife in the late 1950's to early 1960's.
I hope I am not being a nuisance posting this vague request. Thanking you for any help anyone can offer.
Pennine

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Bridlington or Scarborough?
« on: Monday 31 December 07 01:43 GMT (UK)  »
Following the success of my last picci could anyone tell me where this is please?
Thanks Pennine

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The Lighter Side / Help this is serious!
« on: Saturday 13 October 07 01:07 BST (UK)  »
I am appalled to discover that the names of two of my recent ancestors are being used in the heading of porn sites. Their names appear nine times on sites  with different www. addresses. I only found this out by putting their surname in the MSN search bar to see what turned up and this did. I know it is them as their nick names are used. Goodness knows where the perpetrators got the names from as I have nothing on Ancestry or Genes Reunited about these two.
How can I get their names removed from these disgusting sites.
Is this a police matter?
Pennine

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Occupation Interests / Motor man
« on: Monday 01 October 07 00:27 BST (UK)  »
I have looked through everything on this board and cannot find any reference to the above.
My GT GT Uncle stated the above occupation on his marriage certificate in 1919 in Sheffield. I believe, but could be wrong, that he may have worked in a steel works as he was also best man at my Grandfather's wedding a few months later. Previously they had both lived at the same lodging house in Sheffield and came north from Kent. Grandfather was a Tool Turner Engineer in the steel works at the time.
Anyone any ideas please?

Pennine

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