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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Lookups from the LMA available... COMPLETED
« on: Monday 05 December 05 17:07 GMT (UK) »
See this thread, crossposting since I haven't got many requests so far!
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The Common Room / I'm going to the LMA...
« on: Friday 25 November 05 15:23 GMT (UK) »
December 10th, they have a Saturday opening, so I'm going down to London. I'm happy to do some lookups for people. 
You can search their catalogue to see what they have here:
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/corporation/family-research/registerSearchForm.asp
For extra bonus points, include the microfilm number of the records you want searching. I'll edit this post when I stop taking requests (time being limited, and all).
Priority will be given to those looking for things like workhouse records, orphans, illegitimate children, etc, as some of those records are difficult to get hold of outside of London. Please give as much info as possible.
I will not do the parish record lookups unless you have both the exact parish and the exact date of the event. Exception: people with illegitimates if they can give me a birth-date and work out which parish they were living in from the address on the birth certificate, I'll give it a go if I have time.
I'll be chasing Stantons and Bonners for myself; wish me luck!
You can search their catalogue to see what they have here:
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/corporation/family-research/registerSearchForm.asp
For extra bonus points, include the microfilm number of the records you want searching. I'll edit this post when I stop taking requests (time being limited, and all).
Priority will be given to those looking for things like workhouse records, orphans, illegitimate children, etc, as some of those records are difficult to get hold of outside of London. Please give as much info as possible.
I will not do the parish record lookups unless you have both the exact parish and the exact date of the event. Exception: people with illegitimates if they can give me a birth-date and work out which parish they were living in from the address on the birth certificate, I'll give it a go if I have time.
I'll be chasing Stantons and Bonners for myself; wish me luck!
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The Lighter Side / Enquire Within Upon Everything
« on: Tuesday 25 October 05 19:34 BST (UK) »
I have this and several other books dating variously from Victorian (mostly late Victorian, sadly)/Edwardian eras, which are great for adding colour to life of the time.
There are several medical books (if you have a mysterious disease I'll see if I can't find the meaning plus some suitably gruesome cure for it - one of these books contains a recipe for cough syrup which contains heroin and sulphuric acid!), plus books covering other topics.
EWUE covers testing food for adulteration (Lard was apparently often mixed with potato flour, water, salts, carbonate of soda, and caustic lime!), bee-keeping, meat-carving, baking, appropriate dress and correct speaking manner as well as other etiquette, child-rearing, indoor and outdoor games, medical and legal advice, 'Ladies' Employments', carpentry, and an entire section named 'Enquire Within Upon Fancy Needlework'. And a few other things along the way.
Also this recipe for an 'Economical Family Pudding':
Bruise with a wooden spoon, through a cullender, six large and twelve middle-sized boiled potatoes; beat four eggs, mix with a pint of good milk, stir in the potatoes; sugar and seasing to taste; butter the dish; bake half an hour. This receipt is simple and economical, as it is made of what is wasted in most famlies, viz., cold potatoes, which may be kept two or three days, till a sufficient quantity is collected. It is a weekly dish at our table. A teaspoonful of Scotch chip marmalade makes a delicious seasoning.
There are several medical books (if you have a mysterious disease I'll see if I can't find the meaning plus some suitably gruesome cure for it - one of these books contains a recipe for cough syrup which contains heroin and sulphuric acid!), plus books covering other topics.
EWUE covers testing food for adulteration (Lard was apparently often mixed with potato flour, water, salts, carbonate of soda, and caustic lime!), bee-keeping, meat-carving, baking, appropriate dress and correct speaking manner as well as other etiquette, child-rearing, indoor and outdoor games, medical and legal advice, 'Ladies' Employments', carpentry, and an entire section named 'Enquire Within Upon Fancy Needlework'. And a few other things along the way.
Also this recipe for an 'Economical Family Pudding':
Bruise with a wooden spoon, through a cullender, six large and twelve middle-sized boiled potatoes; beat four eggs, mix with a pint of good milk, stir in the potatoes; sugar and seasing to taste; butter the dish; bake half an hour. This receipt is simple and economical, as it is made of what is wasted in most famlies, viz., cold potatoes, which may be kept two or three days, till a sufficient quantity is collected. It is a weekly dish at our table. A teaspoonful of Scotch chip marmalade makes a delicious seasoning.
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The Common Room / The tragic story of James Learwood - debtor of London.
« on: Monday 19 September 05 15:08 BST (UK) »
Not mine, but I ran across them in The Times.
The Times, Monday, Dec 08, 1817; pg. 2; Issue 10322; col F
A poor lad, named LEARWOOD, about 13 or 14 years of age, employed in the gardens at Claremont, attracted, by his industry and activity, the particular attention of her Royal Highness and the Prince Leopold. (It goes on to say that he had trained a couple of donkeys to run about the groups, and often conversed with the Princess; at her death he was so distraught he fled, preferring the adobe a debtors prison where his parent was, and did not return until her body was laid to rest, at which time he purchased a mourning suit with his own earnings and was rehired at Claremont immediately.)
The Times, Tuesday, Oct 13, 1818; pg. 3; Issue 10486; col E
Learwood, a 'quiet man', a tailor by trade but unable to read, was attacked by another prisoner, Daly, and later died of his wounds. His wife having died a month ago, he left seven orphans behind.
The Times, Thursday, Oct 15, 1818; pg. 3; Issue 10488; col A
Another note about this - the man was James Learwood, John Daly was his attacker.
The Times, Saturday, Oct 31, 1818; pg. 3; Issue 10502; col C
Learwood was a tailor in the Fleet prison, about 50 years of age. John Daly convincted of manslaughter, not murder.
The Times, Wednesday, Nov 11, 1818; pg. 3; Issue 10511; col E
John Daly sentenced to 1 year imprisonment.
What happened to the children of James Learwood?
The Times, Monday, Dec 08, 1817; pg. 2; Issue 10322; col F
A poor lad, named LEARWOOD, about 13 or 14 years of age, employed in the gardens at Claremont, attracted, by his industry and activity, the particular attention of her Royal Highness and the Prince Leopold. (It goes on to say that he had trained a couple of donkeys to run about the groups, and often conversed with the Princess; at her death he was so distraught he fled, preferring the adobe a debtors prison where his parent was, and did not return until her body was laid to rest, at which time he purchased a mourning suit with his own earnings and was rehired at Claremont immediately.)
The Times, Tuesday, Oct 13, 1818; pg. 3; Issue 10486; col E
Learwood, a 'quiet man', a tailor by trade but unable to read, was attacked by another prisoner, Daly, and later died of his wounds. His wife having died a month ago, he left seven orphans behind.
The Times, Thursday, Oct 15, 1818; pg. 3; Issue 10488; col A
Another note about this - the man was James Learwood, John Daly was his attacker.
The Times, Saturday, Oct 31, 1818; pg. 3; Issue 10502; col C
Learwood was a tailor in the Fleet prison, about 50 years of age. John Daly convincted of manslaughter, not murder.
The Times, Wednesday, Nov 11, 1818; pg. 3; Issue 10511; col E
John Daly sentenced to 1 year imprisonment.
What happened to the children of James Learwood?