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Northumberland / Cemetery - Blyth or Cowpen?
« on: Sunday 31 March 24 13:59 BST (UK)  »
Hoping someone familiar with Blyth might have an answer to this.

I have a couple of family members in my tree, who died in the 1940s and 1950s.

According to funeral announcements in the Blyth News and Shields Daily News, the burials were to be at 'Blyth Cemetery.'

Would this be Blyth Links Cemetery in Links Road?

I initially wondered whether 'Blyth Cemetery' might actually be Cowpen Cemetery, but after searching in the British Newspaper Archive for 'Blyth Cemetery' and for 'Cowpen Cemetery' it does seem as if these specific terms were used for two different places.

Do you think I am correct in that assumption... or was Cowpen Cemetery ever generally referred to as Blyth Cemetery?

Thank you!

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Family History Beginners Board / Servant at Home? Meaning?
« on: Sunday 11 February 24 09:40 GMT (UK)  »
Quite a few of my female ancestors worked as domestic servants before they married.

Sometimes the Censuses show them as living in another person's household.

However, on a few occasions, they are living with their own family and they have used the term 'servant at home' to describe their occupation.

I'm wondering what this means...?

Does it mean, perhaps, that they live with their own family, but go out each day to do domestic work in other people's homes?

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How to Use RootsChat (Please don't post requests here) / Contacting support/moderators - am I missing something?
« on: Monday 18 September 23 15:58 BST (UK)  »
I have been trying for quite a few days now, to get some help from a Moderator.

The guidance states that, on the home page, there is a list of users online, including Moderators who have been active in the last 30 minutes.

I can't see such a list! Am I looking in the wrong place?

I've also sent two messages to the 'Support Team Help' button on the bottom right of the site. I got auto replies saying I would be contacted soon, but I have had no response and that was quite some time ago.

Is there a way of getting someone's attention? I must be doing something wrong!  ???

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Norfolk / Great Yarmouth baptisms around 1803 - why are they all private?
« on: Thursday 31 August 23 22:14 BST (UK)  »
I think my ancestor was baptised in Great Yarmouth in 1803 and on Ancestry I can see her name on the actual image of a Parish record of baptisms, marriages and deaths in Great Yarmouth between 1801 and 1806.

The document's right-hand column is headed 'Public or private' for the type of baptism.

I'm puzzled, because virtually every single baptism is marked as 'private'... there's page after page of them, with just the occasional 'public' one.

I would have thought it would be the other way round, with most baptisms being public.

Is there some obvious reason why there would be so many private baptisms in Great Yarmouth at that time?

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Durham Lookup Requests / Burial of Esther Ann Gardiner - died Jarrow 1879?
« on: Monday 28 August 23 10:18 BST (UK)  »
My great-great-grandmother was Esther Ann Gardiner (born Eaves).

I would love to know where Esther was buried so that I could visit the graveyard.

She died of sepsis, aged 39, on 11 November 1879 at 23 Henry Street, Jarrow, four days after giving birth to her daughter Harriet.

Her husband was Henry Gardiner, who remarried and emigrated to Canada. (I have no baptism record for Harriet yet, or burial record although I think she died in 1880. I am not aware of any family affiliation to a particular church. I can't find anything on Durham Records Online. Most of Esther's other children were born in Suffolk, before she and Henry moved North.)

If anyone has access to possible Cemetery records - and if it is not too much trouble - I would be very grateful for any information received.

Alternatively if anyone knows where someone who died in Henry Street, Jarrow in 1879 MIGHT be buried, that clue would give me a start.

Very many thanks.  :)




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Canada Lookup Request / Newspaper lookup request - death of Henry Gardiner 1896
« on: Wednesday 16 August 23 08:34 BST (UK)  »
My ancestor, Henry Gardiner, died on 15 February 1896 of gunshot wounds in Sprucedale, Parry Sound, Ontario.

This was reported, as a suicide, in a small paragraph in the Toronto Star on 19 February 1896. This cutting has been widely circulated on Ancestry and is the only press cutting I have ever seen relating to this incident.

I just wondered if there might be any other cuttings/reports of this violent death.

I am in England, and not familiar with the regions of Canada or the newspapers published at that time, so I'm not sure whether this sort of story would have been covered somewhere else, in more detail. There must have been an inquest.

(In modern times the local papers here would be all over such a story!)

If anyone is able to look up this incident to see if it was covered in the press, other than the paragraph in the Toronto Star, I would be very grateful. Thank you.  :)



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Anglesey / Holyhead baptism 1857 - Church query
« on: Thursday 27 July 23 18:25 BST (UK)  »
I've started work on my husband's family tree and there is a Holyhead connection.

His ancestor was baptised in Holyhead in 1857.

The register of burials I've seen online is for Anglican baptisms etc in Holyhead, Anglesey, but the name of the Church is not given. The place of abode was 'Holland Bank' and in 1861 the family were in Newry Street.

Were all Anglican baptisms at that time, in one particular church, or could it have been at one of several?

I've found the name of a church - Church of St Seiriol, Holyhead, Anglesey - opened around 1853 and wondered if it would have taken place there.

Any local knowledge appreciated - i don't know Holyhead at all!


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Family History Beginners Board / Ancestry incorrect images - do they get corrected?
« on: Wednesday 26 July 23 09:09 BST (UK)  »
Apologies if this has been asked before.  :)

I recently submitted 2 queries/reports to Ancestry, as when I clicked to view the Census returns in question, the images presented to me were completely wrong.

I just wondered, as a general point, are Ancestry good at correcting these reported errors?

Will they just correct them, and not tell me that has been done?

Will they correct them promptly... or take ages?

Or will my reports just go into a black hole somewhere?

I guess I want to manage my expectations!




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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Handwriting help appreciated - cause of death?
« on: Thursday 06 July 23 17:26 BST (UK)  »
If anyone can read the cause of death for my 2nd-great-grandfather, John Hedley, I'd be very grateful.  :)

I can see the second/third lines say '7 weeks certified' but I can't read the word above it

I can't provide a wider handwriting sample, as I have just bought this digital image from GRO and this is all that I get!


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