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Technical Help / Caller Display
« on: Wednesday 27 July 11 16:55 BST (UK)  »
Just thought I would share this with you. It might save someone else a lot of frustration:

After replacing my broadband router recently I discovered the Caller Display feature on my phone was no longer working. Having tried switching off the phone and removing the batteries, and re-activating the service using *234#, I eventually tracked the problem down to the new broadband filter. After replacing the old BT one Caller Display was working again  8)

Apparently some filters have this effect, and I have to say the new one is rather cheap-looking compared to the old BT one that I've had since broadband first came to this rural backwater ;D

Mike

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The Common Room / over against the Church ?
« on: Monday 18 July 11 22:31 BST (UK)  »
I found this entry in the Parish Register of St. Mary, Whitechapel:

Burials:
Susannah Partridge, A Child over against the Church

Does anyone know what over against the Church means?
Most of the other entries say from Lion Street, etc.
Is it just that she lived near the church?

Mike

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Morilor?
« on: Sunday 23 January 11 19:57 GMT (UK)  »
Any ideas about the surname of the witness on this 1755 will?

It looks like "Morilor" to me, but I have never heard the name nor can I find it listed anywhere . . . the only other possibility is a mis-spelling . . . but for what ???

Mike

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The Lighter Side / Victorian children
« on: Tuesday 07 December 10 23:19 GMT (UK)  »
I just watched "Ian Hislop's Age of the Do-Gooders" on iPlayer . . . a fascinating insight into the lives of our ancestors as children; 4 year olds working in the coal mines and 9 year old prostitutes on the streets of London . . . no wonder so many of them died so young  :'(

Of course we all know these things happened but actual case histories somehow make it more real . . . an excellent series, well worth watching.

Mike

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Heraldry Crests and Coats of Arms / Herald and Genealogist Vol 5
« on: Sunday 21 November 10 22:55 GMT (UK)  »
Just wondering if anyone has access to the above book. I have been told there is a reference to the arms and crest of STUTTLE of ESSEX created 1714:

Arms: Vert, on a Cross Gules 5 Mascles Argent
Crest: A Stork Purple Feeding it's Young
Motto: "Servata Fides Cinera"

During some months of serious research into the Stuttle family, mainly in Essex, I have not come across anyone who seemed remotely likely to have been a member of the nobility, so I am intrigued . . .  :-\

Mike

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Staffordshire Lookup Requests / William Stuttle Marriage
« on: Thursday 15 July 10 21:42 BST (UK)  »
I am wondering if anyone has access to Wednesbury St.Bartholomew parish register. According to the IGI William Stutall married Sarah Wheatley 28 May 1799.

I think he was a son of William Stuttle, shipbuilder of Colchester and named as an executor though he never applied for probate. Circumstantial evidence only for the connection, but plenty of it.

My hope is that the register might possibly mention his origins.

Mike.

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The Lighter Side / Aldiboronliki Phoscophorine . . . ???
« on: Monday 05 July 10 21:56 BST (UK)  »
He's not in my family tree, but I came across these very strange first & middle names while browsing the 1851 and '61 censuses for Great Coggeshall, Essex and wondered if some RootsChatter might throw a little light on the subject . . . I haven't been able to find him anywhere else  :-\

Added:
HO107/1783/519/32
RG09/1109/107/32

I know they have a reputation for oddity in Coggeshall  ::) but this one has me puzzled. The surname seems to range through Cast, Cash, Cask, Cork, and other permutations, and the parents were Horatio and Mary. Their other children have relatively normal names like Sarah, Emily, Albert and Arthur.

Mike.

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The Lighter Side / Gems from the Parish Registers
« on: Wednesday 09 December 09 10:39 GMT (UK)  »
Needing a bit of a diversion after several hours searching the registers, I started noting some of the more interesting entries from the early 1700s. OK, I know it's been done before, but . . .

From the severe: "Baptized Elizabeth Daughter of Philip Post and Mary Davis Begotten in Fornication"

to the almost surreal: "Buried Eliz: Grey who was first debauched, then advis'd to poison the Infant in the womb, and to perjury by Robert Buxby an Anabaptist Preacher. X Note She dyed in Childbed"

 . . . it certainly relieves the tension after scrolling through hundreds of pages to find one or two possible relatives.

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Essex / Robert Charles Stuttle - missing birth
« on: Saturday 07 November 09 20:01 GMT (UK)  »
Can anyone help me find the birth/baptism record of Robert Charles Stuttle?

b. c.1826 Chelmsford or Colchester
m.1848 Colchester, to Hannah Stow
d.1880 Colchester

He was married as Charles Stuttle but every census lists him as Robert; only the death on FreeBMD gives his full name. 1851 & '61 give his birthplace as Colchester, the others, Chelmsford.

I have tracked all his 8 children, but found no clue to his parents.

I'm sure he must be related to my Stuttle family who were in the Colchester and East Essex area from at least the early 1700s

Mike

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