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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Lancashire => Topic started by: manmack on Saturday 09 July 05 10:22 BST (UK)
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are there any directorys online that will give me the names and occupations of folks from the levenshulme area of manchester,mack
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Hi Manmack,
What sort of year's are you looking at ?
Sarah
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YOU COULD TRY
http://www.historicaldirectories.org/
Directories cover 1840's to 1911
Good Luck
SKIPPY
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sarah/skippy,i lost my post sorry for the late reply,sarah any directory during or just before ww1,mack
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Hi Manmack,
If you find nothing on the site that Skippy recommended, I could always go to the library and have a look for you. (It may be next week)
Just let me know who I am looking for, possible trades or even addresses if you have any and I will do my best.
Sarah :)
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hiya sarah,ime afraid my research is to long and complicated,you would be in the library forever,i have been researching my local war memorials for two years,i have managed to find 580 out of 600+,but 30 of them are proving difficult,to explain what i mean,i will use one of the 30 names,i need to find out if a g boucher was living in levenshulme around the ww1 period or a boucher family,after that,i have to find which one of the g bouchers listed in the cwgc is mine,but those details were between 5 and 10 years old,so anyone still connected to him has either died,moved or remarried, ???why didnt i just take up something easy like train spottin,if i can be of help to you,please let me know,i have crazy things like,the army deserters lists for 1828-1840,police [m/c] enrolement lists for 1858-1918,m/c grammar school register and about 3000 other ref books involving the military,regards,mack
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Aside from the Manchester orientated trade directories I have seen Levenshulme included in some suburban or urban directories for Stockport!
Manchester's Central Library also has some voters lists (not concurrent years) which include Levenshulme.
To manmack,
Could you please tell me what years your m/c grammar school register covers? as I am loking for some ancestors who might have been pupils there.
Eastman
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sorry eastman,only just seen this,the school reg covers from the day it opened till about 1952,i no longer have it,but can get my hands on a copy,mack
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Hi manmack,
It would be great if you could get the m/c Grammar registers back.
I am looking for a Lawrence Hargreaves BENSON b1895 (Chorlton registraton district)
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For some reason free BMD have him down as Lawrence Barrington BENSON but I have never seen him named thus?
With thanks in advance,
Eastman
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eastman,if you can wait till next friday i will get the register out from manchester central library and check for you,unless you can get there before then,its in local studies,but in the meantime i CAN tell you where he was in 1914-19,he was away fighting.
lawrence,h benson
gunner
195328
royal garrison artillery
hes a territorial artilleryman
mack
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Hi mack,
Thats fantastic, I hadn't thought of Lawrence being involved in WW1 as I have a photograph of him taken during the 1920's and a trade directory entry of him for 1927, so he must have been one of the lucky ones!
I will check to see if the National Archives have a medal card for him.
With thanks,
Eastman
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Hi Mack,
I've just discovered that you can search some Manchester cemetery records at:
http://www.burialrecords.manchester.gov.uk/
try entering Boucher only?
Eastman