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Berkshire / Re: Moor Hall, Cookham
« on: Tuesday 29 March 16 15:03 BST (UK)  »
Maybe the Institute Of Marketing, the current occupiers of Moor Hall would be interested, if not it may be worth contacting the Maidenhead a Heritage Centre who even if they are not interested may suggest a suitable home for the documents. Good Luck !

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Berkshire / Re: Clara Jane Cleal
« on: Wednesday 17 June 15 09:29 BST (UK)  »
LOL  Tell me about it, I have a family of Discombe's in Devon and I think there is a John Discombe in every one, neither are they very far away from each other, nightmare

 BMD doesn't seem to bring up results to anything for me, even when I test by putting in known facts and I can't work out quite why....it's a long time since I looked at family history and something has obviously changed....

Thank you for your help

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Berkshire / Re: Clara Jane Cleal
« on: Tuesday 16 June 15 19:03 BST (UK)  »
 Ah, I think I can see what happened, I've jumped the gun. I have two Williams, father & son. The son is definitely William T, (and I think was married to a Fanny) but I have no middle initial for the father. However the father was born in 1842 which would make him 75 when he married Clara. His first wife was Roseanna, my great, great grandmother who he is buried with. Roseanna died in 1914 and William in 1920.

So poor Clara had quite a few years of widowhood but there is no stray grave for me to try and find...by the looks of things anyway...

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Berkshire / Re: Clara Jane Cleal
« on: Tuesday 16 June 15 18:16 BST (UK)  »
Yes, indeed it could - I have a William Cleal, that would make Clara a Great Aunt by marriage, now I'll have to try and track down where William is buried.....

I have searched Free BMD several times, with never anything recognised, not even her name,  how did you do it so quickly ?

Many thanks for your help !

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Berkshire / Clara Jane Cleal
« on: Tuesday 16 June 15 17:44 BST (UK)  »
We are currently dealing with interring my parents ashes with my late sister who is buried in All Saints Cemetery, Maidenhead.
While I was in touch with 'outdoor Facilities' I discovered that there is a Clara Jane Cleal buried there as well as my sister, great grand parents and great great grandparents, however I have no idea if Clara Jane is a relation and I am trying to discover if she is or not.

Clara died in 1945, I looked at her Will which says she was a widow (but not who to !) She lived at 53 Park Street, Maidenhead. She left her estate between her two nieces (not equally) One was Ethel Freda Toms (b.1898) who lived in  Hanson Gardens, Southall, Middlesex and the other was Violet Ida Turnbar or Tumbar (?) . The executer was Ethel's husband John Henry Toms (b 1896 )

BTW her estate was £631 1s 7d which wasn't bad for 1945 I guess.

I thought if I could find John & Ethels marriage I may have been able to work backward to find a maiden name for Clara and then find a marriage, but no luck so far...

Can anyone help or offer suggestions please

TIA

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Family History Programs, Tree Organisation, Presentation / Importing old zip files into New Legacy install
« on: Wednesday 30 July 14 18:38 BST (UK)  »
 Hi, Here I am again looking for technical advice :-[

As XP is discontinued and my PC was about to qualify for its old age pension I bought a new computer which has Windows 8.1 installed and uses Office 2007. The browser is IE 11 (just in case that makes a difference).

My old files  were transferred over, but as I haven't looked at Family History much of late its a couple of years since I did a Legacy back up and they are all zip files which no longer seems to be the file format used.....

I also have an Ancestry tree ( but notes etc. are in Legacy)

Firstly, is there a way to transfer the old Legacy data to the new Legacy import and if not how do I go about exporting from Ancestry ?

Thank you in advance for any help

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The Common Room / Re: Family Lost on the 1911
« on: Tuesday 03 April 12 11:04 BST (UK)  »
Thanks ! Some reading for later by the looks of it  ;)

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The Common Room / Family Lost on the 1911
« on: Tuesday 03 April 12 10:53 BST (UK)  »
  I am researching the family of Minnie (nee Harman, born Denham ) and Edward William Cleal (born Taplow)
On the 2011 I can locate both parents, Minnie at Belmont House, Belmont Road, Maidenhead and Edward at The Welcome, Sipsom(?), Yiewsley. In addition I can locate William A working as a Grocers Apprentice in East Street Maidenhead with his Aunt, Alice King.
However this leaves:
Edward b.1898
Charles b.1900
Albert b.1901
Dorothy b.1903
Ivy b.1906

Another child, Minnie Rose had died in 1902

Aged between 5 - 13 I'd have expected to find them together somewhere.......any thoughts or help gratefully accepted ......

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Berkshire / Re: Moor Hall, Cookham
« on: Sunday 07 August 11 10:03 BST (UK)  »
 Sounds like the same person - had the look of someone very capable....
 I'm afraid my time in Cookham is taken up with visiting my elderly mother otherwise I'd pop into the library for you - I wonder if the local library have any kind of archive  ? They are just a few minutes away from my mother but I'm not sure of their opening hours...
 The other day as I bumped over the level crossing I suddenly thought of the very well dressed dapper man who regularly caught the train to London, quite elderly, black well cut suit and pinstriped waistcoat plus a black bowler hat - his chauffeur used to drop him at the station and collect him on his return - does that ring any bells with you ?

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