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Europe / Maltese Newspapers 1860's with shipping news - Any available online?
« on: Friday 22 March 24 23:05 GMT (UK)  »
Dear all,

I've been going round and round in circles with Google, so am asking you. I'd like to find 1860's Maltese online newspapers with shipping news, in English preferably, but in Italian or Maltese will also do. Much obliged if anyone here can point me to the right website(s).

Cheers,
Westoe

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Durham Lookup Requests / Gateshead St. Mary Burial - 26 October 1762 - Ann D*******y
« on: Sunday 02 January 22 07:34 GMT (UK)  »
Dear all,

This is just a preliminary query - not a look-up request per se.

I bought this burial information from Durham Records Online and it gave me just the name, the date and the church.

My question is:
Would a look-up give me any further information, or is this all there would be in the parish register at this date?

I ask because I receive the monthly email newsletter from Durham Records Online and frequently there have been updates on the information previously posted, but not yet for this church.

Well, if that's all there is, that's that. But I would just like to know for sure because this has been such an elusive family e.g. I have the will of her husband Enoch from the probate records, but no death date for him. (He made his will 22 June 1745 and probate was granted 5 November 1746. I would assume that his burial was also at St.Mary.)

If there is more information in the registers, then I would make a future request for a look-up of his burial.

Advice anyone?

Cheers,
Westoe


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Northumberland Lookup Requests / TWAS file GU.SL Incorporated Company of Sailmakers of Newcastle 1662 - 1859
« on: Wednesday 06 October 21 17:06 BST (UK)  »
Dear all,

Has anyone here actually consulted this file personally?

I have several sailmakers in my past c. 1750-1830 from Blyth, Jarrow, Gateshead and Shields and am wondering if I am likely to find any information on them in the above-captioned file.

But ... the online catalogue description doesn't give me any indication of how large a file this is, how it is organized, whether I can afford to pay for staff research from TWAS etc. etc.

So ... I am asking if anyone here has any personal experience of consulting this file to give me some general idea.

Any replies appreciated.

Cheers,
Westoe

P.S. I am in central Canada, so going in person is not an option.

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Durham Lookup Requests / Look-up in "Pubs of South Shields" by Eileen Burnett for "Admiral Rodney" + map?
« on: Thursday 05 August 21 17:01 BST (UK)  »
Dear all,

Google Books has a partial view of this book that does not include the index pages if there are any. Yet I know that the Admiral Rodney existed in the late 1700's from adverts in the newspapers for sales of ships. At least one of those ads is quoted in Amy C. Flagg's "History of Shipbuilding ...".

Last week, I lucked into a squib in the Newcastle Courant of 3 March 1792 about a runaway horse.

"The animal took fright and galloped with great fury down Pilgrim-Street, and the Butcher Bank, turned up the Side, and into the entry of the Admiral Rodney, where he struck his head with such violence against the top of the passage, that he was killed on the spot."

One of my ancestors owned the pub around then and I would love to be told
 a) if any info in that book and
 b) of a map that would locate it for me

Can anyone here help?

Cheers,
Westoe

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London and Middlesex / University Street, London - Is it now the A501?
« on: Thursday 03 June 21 15:09 BST (UK)  »
I'm going dizzy trying to find this street on Google Maps - craning my head from side-to-side and up-and-down to read the street names in the view that comes up when I search for it. I've found a death for a relative in 1879 there and I want to pin it down as she was on Frederick Street in Finsbury in the 1871 census.

Cheers,
Westoe

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Armed Forces / Napoleonic Wars - Danish prize ship NICHOLETTE JOHANNA taken by HMS NEMESIS 1809
« on: Wednesday 19 May 21 20:46 BST (UK)  »
Dear all,

HMS NEMESIS took 3 Danish prizes in 1809.

12 July 1809 she captured DODRE and FORSOGET and I can find information on their disposal.

But on the NICHOLETTE JOHANNA, taken 17 April 1809, I can find no subsequent information. Googling that name just brings up multiple copies of the same Wikipaedia article in different languages.

I believe a relative was a member of the prize crew put aboard her.

Can anyone here please point me to sources for further information on her?

Cheers,
Westoe

EDIT: P.S. I do already have The Gazette notices about the Admiralty sales of these prizes and the prize money payouts from 1810 and 1830 (yes, the wheels of bureaucracy do turn slowly, don't they?).

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Europe / Translation Dutch --> English please - part of 1866 Civil Registration of Death
« on: Monday 18 May 20 22:11 BST (UK)  »
Dear all,

I am so pleased to have finally found the death of a cousin on www.openarch.nl and I am slowly, with the help of Google Translate, working out the pre-printed parts of the form. But, between the handwriting and the foreign words,  I am very unsure of the handwritten parts. Would someone please have a look at it for me?

Here is the link:
https://www.openarch.nl/nha:2fba2b91-bdb0-4893-9928-604733c79b95

With the date of the event I have found a brief death notice in the South Shields newspaper, but no mention of the name of the vessel and I need that to get further information.

His name was John Snowdon Burfield but it is given as John Borfield in the Nederlands record.

Finding his death on that site had unexpected extras! Searching for Borfield brought up his paternal aunt and her husband (Mary Ann Burfield and William Oliver) living in Holland. No wonder I couldn't find much about them in the English records! I think Google Translate and I will be spending a lot of time together (smile).

Cheers,
Westoe

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Northumberland Lookup Requests / PHOTO REQUEST: Wooler Churchyard, stone of Rev. James Robertson and family
« on: Wednesday 06 March 19 21:05 GMT (UK)  »
Dear All,

Nearly 20 years ago (and several computers ago) I found free online and saved a photo of this gravestone. It didn't survive all the upheavals and changes in technology. Now I cannot find it anywhere on the internet. It is not on the Gravestone Photographic Resource.

RootsChatter hanes teulu has found for me that it was erected in Wooler churchyard in 1857.
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Illustrated Berwick Journal, 12 Sep 1857
WOOLER

"A very neat and chaste monument has lately been erected at Wooler Church Yard, at the place of internment of the Rev.Jame Robertson, late pastor of the first U.P. congregation, Wooler .... Rev. James Robertson, who died 1855 ....."
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Can anyone please take photographs of this gravestone for me?

It is a small obelisk with multiple names on the faces. One of those names was his son James B Robertson died Q3 1869 in Alnwick. From memory, the stonecutter had made a mistake and left the "s" off the son James' forename.

There is no rush for it, but I would very much like to have it again. I can't do it myself because I am a long way away in central Canada.

Cheers,
Westoe

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Northumberland Completed Look up Requests / COMPLETED Gravestone:Rev. James Robertson,late dissenting minister of Wooler
« on: Wednesday 06 March 19 03:07 GMT (UK)  »
Dear all,

Nearly 20 years ago (and several computers ago) I found free online and saved a photo of this gravestone. It didn't survive all the upheavals and changes in technology. Now I cannot find it anywhere on the internet and at this date I cannot remember whether it was located in Wooler Cemetery or Alnwick Cemetery. I have checked the Gravestone Photographic Resource.

It was a small obelisk with multiple names on the faces. One of those names was his son James B Robertson died Q3 1869 in Alnwick. From memory, the stonecutter had made a mistake and left the "s" off the son James' forename.

Reverend James Robertson married Q4 1809 at Edlingham to Jane Bolton, eldest daughter of James Bolton of Bewick Folly.

Does anyone reading this have access to transcripts of MI's for those cemeteries so that I can find out where it actually is before putting in another request for a photo?

Any help gratefully received.

Cheers,
Westoe

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