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Essex / Re: Reynolds, Great Leighs/Chelmsford/Bath/Bristol, Digby and a mystery!
« on: Wednesday 05 July 23 02:13 BST (UK)  »
It seems I may have had Reynolds relatives living at 1690 Metropolitan Ave in the Parkchester "towers in the park" apartments area of the Bronx at the 1950 census.  See https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6XTB-Y54T

The people were:
William Reynolds (age 46)
Ethel Reynolds (wife, age 39)
Edith Reynolds (daughter, age 17)
William Reynolds (son, age 12)
Harry Reynolds (son, age 5)

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The Common Room / Re: Old 3 digit UK Telephone numbers.
« on: Monday 16 April 18 21:59 BST (UK)  »
Except it shouldn't be written as "0208" because the two groups of 4 digits after the dialling code 020 can be dialled successfully within London as an 8 digit number - the same is true of 021 to 028 numbers in their respective urban areas and - in the case of 028 - province.  The correct format is 020 8xxx xxxx.  Strangely, the lady on 1471 doesn't know that though - or didn't when I last noticed a few years ago.

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The Common Room / Re: Old 3 digit UK Telephone numbers.
« on: Monday 16 April 18 21:02 BST (UK)  »
I don't recall whether the last three digit numbers were abolished on PhONEday (16 April 1995, the day we got an extra 1 in our dialling codes) but if not the change from 3 digit numbers to 6 digit happened within the previous few months in the Scottish village in which I lived.  Our numbers went from 0xxxx2 xxx to 01xxx 722xxx.  Previously we only dialled 3 digits in the village, subsequently 6.  There were other villages on the exchange which had a different digit between 3 and 6 instead of the 2.  Before the change to 6 digit numbers there was some kind of local dialling code, maybe an 8 followed by the "village digit", to reach these.

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Essex / Re: Reynolds, Great Leighs/Chelmsford/Bath/Bristol, Digby and a mystery!
« on: Monday 11 January 16 10:08 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks, I knew that - there's a picture of the grave on "Find a Grave".  What puzzled me was why the ages at marriage didn't tally despite it being clearly the same marriage as the parents of Mary were the same.

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Essex / Re: Reynolds, Great Leighs/Chelmsford/Bath/Bristol, Digby and a mystery!
« on: Monday 11 January 16 09:54 GMT (UK)  »
You're wonderful, amondg!  I hope to check these leads out soon.

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Essex / Reynolds, Great Leighs/Chelmsford/Bath/Bristol, Digby and a mystery!
« on: Saturday 09 January 16 23:10 GMT (UK)  »
I am rooting around in my Reynolds ancestry and recording it at Wikitree.com .  So far I've discovered that I and my children are descended from Thomas Reynolds born about 1807-1811 in Woodham Ferrers, Essex, and married to Susannah from Great Leighs.  Some of the family moved to Bristol and Bath.  I have seven children of Thomas and Susannah, namely James, Susannah, Thomas, Charlotte, Eliza, Walter Harry Reynolds and Frederick William Digby Reynolds.

Now here's a mystery: A Walter Harry Reynolds is recorded twice in USA (at marriage and death) as from England and son of Thomas Reynolds and Hannah Digby. At marriage his age appears to be 25 years out, but a gravestone with a birth date of 1850 confirms the age stated on the death record, which is the same as "our" Walter's. Also his wife Mary Ann Coleman's age at marriage appears to be 14 years different from what is stated in her death record and gravestone where buried along with Walter Harry.

Given the "Digby" in "our" Walter's younger brother's name one wonders whether this Walter Harry is the same person or not.

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Lancashire / Re: meaning of 'scholar at home' 1851 Great Crosby
« on: Saturday 09 January 16 00:22 GMT (UK)  »
"CHILDREN.—If children are regularly pursuing or assisting in any occupation it should be stated. If daily attending a National, Denominational, or private school, or receiving tuition under a master or governess at home, it should be specified by writing against the names "attending National school," "attending Denominational school," " attending private scliool," " scholar at home," as the case may be. When only in the relation of Son, Daughter, or other relative, write •* Domestic Duties," as in the case of women."

Taken from the act for census in Victoria, Australia, 1857:
www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/hist_act/aaftaaotp387.pdf

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