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The Common Room / Re: Finding female relatives
« on: Friday 03 May 24 22:18 BST (UK)  »
  Welcome to RootsChat.
  I have tried the 1939 register, using the exact birth date and just the year, with no luck at all. Perhaps the marriage failed and she did take another name? Someone else may have more thoughts about your problem.
   

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The Lighter Side / Re: PoW camps
« on: Thursday 02 May 24 13:09 BST (UK)  »
  When I started reading this thread, I didn't remember hearing about P.O.W. camps. Then it dawned on me that they were probably sited well away from the Kent coast! Most of the ones mentioned do seem to be in the North?

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The Common Room / Re: census inNottinghamshire
« on: Wednesday 01 May 24 13:08 BST (UK)  »
  Would you be willing to give more information, so we can try looking them up? Name and age, and which census you have tried?

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The Lighter Side / Re: Mass Observation Day 2024
« on: Friday 26 April 24 13:05 BST (UK)  »
  It appears to be some sort of badge of honour, not to have been in a church for 50 years?

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The Lighter Side / Re: Myths debunked when doing family histroy.
« on: Monday 22 April 24 13:38 BST (UK)  »
  I have to agree with coombs about tracking houses in censuses in rural areas. I can know a village like the back of my hand, but right up to 1921 many people just used the village name as their address, or maybe "The Street". (Which in this village is not what is now "The Street!)

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The Lighter Side / Re: Myths debunked when doing family histroy.
« on: Sunday 21 April 24 20:22 BST (UK)  »
  I had to follow up Diana's tale about Brydges, as it is a fairly well known name round here. The man who was Lieutenant of the Tower was later Baron Chandos, and when the title became extinct in the late 18th century, a rather eccentric man called Egerton Brydges tried to claim the title. After much litigation the claim was rejected as groundless, although he never seems to have accepted the result.
  The Brydges were a large and rather complicated part of the local gentry of East Kent.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Mass Observation Day 2024
« on: Saturday 20 April 24 19:41 BST (UK)  »
  I may well be in Church, but it won't be Mass!

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The Common Room / Re: Tithe maps
« on: Friday 19 April 24 10:08 BST (UK)  »
  Thank you.
  I believe that there were 3 copies made of the maps, but the one I am dealing with was subject to a dispute. This was dealt with about 2 years later. Would new copies have been made, and if so how many? The one in the National Archive has a note on it saying it was deposited in the parish and produced at the appeal meeting.

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The Common Room / Tithe maps
« on: Thursday 18 April 24 20:43 BST (UK)  »
   Is there an expert on tithe maps on here please? I have some queries about the one I am studying.

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