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Occupation Interests / Napier Matting
« on: Friday 03 July 20 11:56 BST (UK)  »
Does anyone know what this trade is? 

I have a Charles Edward Masters on the 1911 census in South Petherton, a "Weaver of Napier Matting"
His father was also a "Matting Weaver"

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Derbyshire / William BUTT b abt 1800 Sandiacre and Hannah Butt b abt 1795 Sandiacre
« on: Tuesday 15 October 19 17:24 BST (UK)  »
I’m trying to find the family of these two going back, especially their births/baptisms and whether they are siblings.  I have Hannah’s marriage to John Stevens and her family from there.  I don’t have anything for William except for censuses and his daughter Matilda, her marriage and family afterwards.  William was buried in 1869 but doesn’t appear to have left a will.  There is an 1837 marriage for a William Butt, widower, in Derby, but ruled it out as that one is a stockinger, not a farmer

I can’t find any Sandiacre records online, in addition to the two baptisms, I’m looking for William’s marriage and whether Matilda had any siblings.

Does anyone know where I can go from here?

The family is distantly related to Robert Posnett Smith AKA Robert Postnett Stevens, well-known local cricketer and his uncle Joseph Stevens, whose will of over £100,000 in 1885 appears to require Robert to change his surname to benefit

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The Lighter Side / Head of Household and?
« on: Monday 29 April 19 16:34 BST (UK)  »
It's not something I've come across before  ;D ;D

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The Common Room / Youngest person on a census return?
« on: Friday 01 March 19 17:28 GMT (UK)  »
This enumerator was accurate enough to note that the baby was only four hours old

Sad to report though that William Colin Price died soon after - his birth registered in Q2 and death in Q3 of 1901  :(

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / If a Mulatto ...
« on: Sunday 07 October 18 10:10 BST (UK)  »
Can any read or interpret the word before Effranchised (?enfranchised)  ???


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Channel Islands Lookup Requests / William Reynolds VINES
« on: Friday 05 October 18 13:30 BST (UK)  »
I'm trying to track the marriage of William Reynolds Vines to Janet Perston, nee Robertson on Guernsey in 1847 or 48.  Father of the bridegroom was Benjamin Vines and for the bride, William Robertson.

I've got all the other dates and details for him but this one.

I can't be more precise as to the year, so if this look up request is too vague, I'll understand

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The Common Room / Funeral Feast in 1752
« on: Sunday 30 September 18 16:55 BST (UK)  »
the transcript (I hope) reads:
I do allot the sum of sixty pounds for my funeral expenses and do desire to be buried close by my mothers coffin betwixt the two tombs there and my will is that a good rump of beef a quarter of veal a quarter of mutton and a forehind of bacon shall be dressed for my funeral and that eight bushels of wheat shall be baked in great loaves for the poor people that come to my funeral and that six pounds shall be laid out in Marshfield Cakes fifty shillings in Crown Cakes thirty shillings more thereof in half Crown Cakes and the remaining forty shillings in two penny half penny Cakes and three Gallons of red wine and five of white shall be provided
That Sarah Battman may buy my shroud as good a one as will not cost less than three pounds with the winding sheet and pillow and that she may buy the hatbands and gloves for my burial and that her husband shall make me such a coffin as he made for my sister Elizabeth and the bell shall be rung three hours for knell and from eight in the morning till night on the day I am buried

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World War One / SWEET, Stanley Griffen
« on: Thursday 13 September 18 16:07 BST (UK)  »
Born 1892 in Hanham, Gloucestershire (no father's name on birth certificate), Stanley seems to have been discharged after bouts of asthma.  The papers that I can see from one site say "Marked SB" by Medical Board, deformed chest.  That was in early 1916.  The next he is dead, KIA 13 December 1917, France or Belgium.  His name is on the Cambrai Memorial, presumably because there was no body.  The register of soldiers' effect names his mother as Elizabeth Ann Sweet, although she often went by the name of Lily.
Would his regiment (The Gloucesters) be the only source of information as to how he managed to go back to war??
His name is missing from the Hanham War Memorial, and I would like to be pretty sure of my facts before pursuing having his name added


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The Common Room / Early organ donor?
« on: Thursday 06 September 18 17:26 BST (UK)  »
Peter Godfrey in 1769: "has been humbled with a bad complaint in my breast and adjacent parts" but then states that his body be opened as it may be the means of saving the lives of many others.

Is he giving his cadaver for research or for organ donation ??


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