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The Common Room / Contemporary records
« on: Monday 04 August 08 16:59 BST (UK)  »
I've just noticed on Findmypast that they say GRO has withdrawn the sale of birth, marriage and death records and their latest records are births and deaths to 2006 and marriages to 2005. I was expecting Ancestry to update theirs to 2006 too.  Findmypast says it's necessary to contact the local register office for marriages past 2005 - does this mean records will no longer be available online?  Where do we find contemporary records now?

Thanks, all! Embarrassing question, shows I haven't been keeping up!  :-[

Mrs L

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The Common Room / Name abbreviations in writing
« on: Friday 12 October 07 20:45 BST (UK)  »
Does "Jos h" mean Josiah or Joseph?  It has been wrongly transcribed as "Josh" but when you look at the image it's "Josh". 

Thanks!


Mrs Lizzy

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Isle of Man / Just back from the Isle of Man
« on: Tuesday 02 October 07 16:41 BST (UK)  »
and wanted to say to all you who have connections with the Isle of Man, especially if you've never been - go there!  It is absolutely beautiful; we loved it to bits and can't wait to go again next year. We only had a couple of days this time but next time we plan to stay for at least a week.  How long you Rootschatters with connections there will have to stay is anyone's guess - with all there is to do there AND family history!   ;D ;D ;D


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The Common Room / Society of Genealogists
« on: Friday 24 August 07 14:10 BST (UK)  »
Is anyone a member of SOG?  It's quite expensive, bearing in mind you have the added expense of getting all the way to London, and I was wondering if people think it's worth it?  I wonder why they don't put any of their resources online?

Any thoughts, please, anyone?

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The Common Room / Historical weather records
« on: Tuesday 21 August 07 22:04 BST (UK)  »
Does anyone know if it's possible to find records of weather conditions in years past?

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Other Countries / A Passage to India
« on: Wednesday 18 July 07 23:25 BST (UK)  »
I'm looking up Brogden connections and I think some of them might have gone to East India in the 1850s/1860s.  My Ann Brogden apparently married a Nicholson some time after 1851. By 1871 she had an 8 year old daughter, Catherine, born in Umballa, East India, and the enumerator noted that her "husband had left her".  In 1871 Ann and Catherine were living with Ann's older unmarried sister Charlotte Brogden.  Charlotte never married and I can't find her in the 1861 census. Nor can I find their father, Henry Brogden (who was born about 1786 in Leeds, Yorkshire, and died I think in 1865 in Middlesex).  There were other sisters such as Julia, a possible Amelia born the same year as Julia but they may be one and the same), Emma and a brother William who was the eldest, born about 1823.  I'm wondering if the whole lot of them went to India for some reason.  I know in the very early 19th century single women went to India looking for husbands.

Does anyone know how I can find out how Ann got to India and back and whether any of her birth family went with her? I think she might have married Nicholson out there as I can't find the marriage either.

Ta!

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The Common Room / Help! Vanishing Brogdens
« on: Wednesday 18 July 07 20:22 BST (UK)  »
I've found a connection with the family of one Henry Brogden, born Leeds, Yorkshire about 1795. I can only find the old lad living in London in the 1851 census with his family of several daughters, Charlotte, aged 21, Anna, aged 20, Emma aged 18, Julia aged 13 and Harriet Vinson, his married daughter aged 26.  Henry's wife, whoever she was, is dead, and Harriet's husband James Vinson is living with the family, as are their two sons Edward and William, aged 3 and 2.  There's a further granddaughter of Henry Brogden, Harriet Vinson aged 15, only I can't see how she can be his granddaughter by Harriet, as she'd have had to be born when both her parents were 9 years old.

I've also not found the Brogdens in the 1841 census, although I think Henry died in 1865. Julia vanishes without a trace. I can't find a marriage for her, nor yet a death.

Can anyone else see them anywhere?  I've got the lergy so maybe my brain has gone AWOL or something.

thanks,

Mrs L

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Essex Completed Lookup Requests / Halstead families - Diss and Rayner
« on: Tuesday 05 June 07 17:20 BST (UK)  »
I'm interested in any information about the families of Diss and Rayner of Halstead.  My earliest ancestors in this line are William Diss, born 1730 in Halstead, and his wife Judith Rayner, born Bocking in 1731 and died in 1804.  The line then goes: - William born 1786 d 1843 - Abraham born 1827 at Ramsden, died December 1893, and his daughter Lucy Diss married my great great grandfather George Westley. Their granddaughter Kathleen Westley was my maternal grandmother.

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Grey Coats Hospital, Westminster - Completed
« on: Friday 25 May 07 19:37 BST (UK)  »
My partner's great great grandfather Alfred Gregory was living at the Grey Coats Hospital Westminster at the age of 10 when the 1841 census was taken. Does anyone know anything about this institution?

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