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Offline Lydart

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History of a family in ten objects
« on: Wednesday 26 May 10 21:56 BST (UK) »
I've been listening with great enjoyment to the BBC radio series "The History of the World in 100 Objects"


Would it be interesting if we put together a collection of ten objects we have, which illustrate the history of our own families ?   Not census returns or certificates, but actual 'things'.



A list will do; a photo of the collection would be better !
Dorset/Wilts/Hants: Trowbridge Williams Sturney/Sturmey Prince Foyle/Foil Hoare Vincent Fripp/Frypp Triggle/Trygel Adams Hibige/Hibditch Riggs White Angel Cake 
C'wall/Devon/France/CANADA (Barkerville, B.C.): Pomeroy/Pomerai/Pomroy
Som'set: Clark(e) Fry
Durham: Law(e)
London: Hanham Poplett
Lancs/Cheshire/CANADA (Kelowna, B.C. & Sask): Stubbs Walmesley

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Re: History of a family in ten objects
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 27 May 10 02:02 BST (UK) »
what a lovely idea Lydart  :)

I'd probably end up with 10 miner's lamps  ;D

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Re: History of a family in ten objects
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 27 May 10 06:24 BST (UK) »
Great idea.    To illustrate our History, what would I choose???

Well an old well loved shoe or boot  due to a lot of travelling plus the main trade of my Scottish and Leicester ancestors.  But apart from that I just cannot think straight off the top of my head.  So will ponder.

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Re: History of a family in ten objects
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 27 May 10 06:56 BST (UK) »

Hmmm.  Tricky one Lydart.

I think that I'd have to start with dirt... for all them ag labs that I have, and maybe a horse or two for the stockmen here in Aus. 

Some gold for the prospectors, some dirty dishwater for the women through the ages and some mouldy soggy wood for the mariners.

Kangaroo feather for those that served in the Lighthorse, handcuffs for the police and beadles and a cotton reel for the Lancashire mill girls.

A beer glass for the gr grandfather that had lots of money from hotels but drank it all away and lastly a blank piece of paper for the printer in London.

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Re: History of a family in ten objects
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 27 May 10 07:11 BST (UK) »
I haven't got to ten yet but I would have many miners lamps (I've already got my husband's - all polished and sitting in my glass cabinet), a flat cap for my Yorkshire folk.  I don't know too much yet about my Scottish side yet but I'd have to include maybe the Scottish thistle as they're growing all over my paddocks at the moment.  A packet of salt for my Cheshire flatman, and maybe a model of a canal boat. Some old boots and maybe a shamrock for my Irish bootmakers. India poses a problem, - maybe a sari for their military service out there.  And Australia, ...where do I start.  Riding boots, a shovel for the convict side, a beach towel and zinc cream?

I'll have to keep thinking, this is harder than I thought.
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Re: History of a family in ten objects
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 27 May 10 07:30 BST (UK) »
My 10 Objects:

saddles
plough
hammer
chalk - teachers
pen & ink
needle & thread
crochet hook
sewing machine
rolling pin

Regards, Gazania
ALDERMAN, Bucks
BELK, Yorkshire, London
CARLING, Bedfordshire
CUNDITH,CUNDILL, Yorkshire, PALIN. Lincolnshire
FOX, Essex; Camberwell Surrey
LANE, Cork IE;Askeaton LIM, Liverpool, Clifton, Bristol
VOLLER, Surrey
WALL Clonlara Co Clare Ireland
WAREHAM, Esher, Surrey; London
WINCH, Surrey

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Re: History of a family in ten objects
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 27 May 10 10:47 BST (UK) »
Having set this challenge, I now find it quite hard to make my own list, but will try !   These are all objects I have still ...


1. To represent the ag. labs - a well worn spade which was my grandfathers (although he was a generation or two beyond the ag. labs)

2. Grandfathers wooden stool, which he cut down and repaired from an old Post Office stool, where he was a sorter during the depression.

3. My mothers sampler of Dorset buttons, which she was taught how to make by her grandmother, who had been a Dorset button maker

4.  One of those wooden shoe lasts or leather working tools of my fathers - he was apprenticed to a  bespoke shoe maker

5.  A WW2 ration book !

6.  Flower pots and flowers = my Hampshire grandmother who loved flowers, and was a great gardener, despite being exiled to a life in London, and who passed on her love of gardening to me !

7. An African basket or water pot to represent me and my children

8.  Something political ... I've got an old voting card ... to represent the women in my family who fought for womens votes

9. Books ... all the family valued education and reading ... maybe my uncles old school atlas, which showed most of the world still pink !

10.   Can I have something quite big, which I dont actually possess ?  If so, a Canadian covered wagon from the 1890's, which my great aunt lived in and gave birth to some of her children in, and which was the start of a long line of Canadian cousins !







Dorset/Wilts/Hants: Trowbridge Williams Sturney/Sturmey Prince Foyle/Foil Hoare Vincent Fripp/Frypp Triggle/Trygel Adams Hibige/Hibditch Riggs White Angel Cake 
C'wall/Devon/France/CANADA (Barkerville, B.C.): Pomeroy/Pomerai/Pomroy
Som'set: Clark(e) Fry
Durham: Law(e)
London: Hanham Poplett
Lancs/Cheshire/CANADA (Kelowna, B.C. & Sask): Stubbs Walmesley

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Re: History of a family in ten objects
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 27 May 10 12:42 BST (UK) »

1.  "Russian John's" wooden tool chest (empty).....he built railway carriages

2.   My grandpa's wooden tool chest (empty).....he repaired London transport buses.

3.   Grandma's 2 flat irons (still using them in 1960s !).....her mother and grandmother both laundresses.

4.   Instructions for building a television (Dad made it so that we could watch the coronation in 1953).

5.  Ration book (WW2)

6.  My identity card......issued in 1949.

7.  Medals issued to my grandma for good attendance/conduct etc. at school; 1 bronze, 1 silver and 1 gold

8.  Small table made by my dad just before he left school.

9.  Swimming certificates won by my mother in 1930s.

10. Medals awarded to my uncle (RAF); shot down in WW2.


I've got them all in my house apart from my uncle's medals;  my dad still has those.



Nanny Jan
Howard , Viney , Kingsman, Pain/e, Rainer/ Rayner, Barham, George, Wakeling (Catherine), Vicary (Frederick)   all LDN area/suburbs  Ottley/ MDX,
Henman/ KNT   Gandy/LDN before 1830  Burgess/LDN
Barham/SFK   Rainer/CAN (Toronto) Gillians/CAN  Sturgeon/CAN (Vancouver)
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Re: History of a family in ten objects
« Reply #8 on: Friday 28 May 10 11:16 BST (UK) »
Here's the link to the BBC programme and where you can see all the objects ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/
Dorset/Wilts/Hants: Trowbridge Williams Sturney/Sturmey Prince Foyle/Foil Hoare Vincent Fripp/Frypp Triggle/Trygel Adams Hibige/Hibditch Riggs White Angel Cake 
C'wall/Devon/France/CANADA (Barkerville, B.C.): Pomeroy/Pomerai/Pomroy
Som'set: Clark(e) Fry
Durham: Law(e)
London: Hanham Poplett
Lancs/Cheshire/CANADA (Kelowna, B.C. & Sask): Stubbs Walmesley

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