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Wexford / Re: robert and richard shaw of wexford, Ireland
« on: Sunday 17 June 18 09:15 BST (UK)  »
I would appreciate, if anybody has them, details of the origins of Richard Shaw 1817? ( husband of Elizabeth Rebeca Banks) of Wexford. If I can find his parents it will allow me to complete the list of all  ggggparents

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Moray (Elginshire) / Re: Moray:CV NUMBERS AND UK MILITARY DATE AND FACTORY CODES
« on: Wednesday 28 February 18 10:56 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Graham, I've passed that on and hopefully will help to clarify things

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Moray (Elginshire) / Moray:CV NUMBERS AND UK MILITARY DATE AND FACTORY CODES
« on: Wednesday 28 February 18 08:56 GMT (UK)  »
This is a very niche area and perhaps related to local history rather than family history.

My cousin, who is the curator of one of the Royal Navy museums, is trying to find details of a facility in Moray which may have produced radio valves during WW2. These were produced under military CV codings rather than the civilian valve type numbers.

I have attached the link below for anyone who wants to see the full context but does anyone know of such a factory/production facility in the area at that time.
It's a real shot in the dark that someone might know something but let's see what's out there.

I noticed this
 
X  MOV, Springvale, pre Oct 1951
Y  MOV, Moray, pre April 1945
YA Leigh Electronics, Havant
 
 
Seems to suggest there was a Marconi Osram Valves plant in Moray, never heard on one.
 
https://mullard.org/blogs/news/83886851-cv-numbers-and-uk-military-date-and-factory-codes
 

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Northumberland / Re: Swans of Northumberland
« on: Thursday 08 February 18 15:25 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Marion

Thanks for that. I was  aware of the Swan/Downey/Darling connection. I first noticed it because Jane & William Brooks had a son called William Swan Darling and that straightaway suggests a maiden surname being used as a christian name. It's tantalising but I haven't been able to solidify the relationship. However, I'm busy doing a lot of research into the Bedlington Swans where, typically, there are whole generations of Roberts and Isabellas so there may be something there. As I said in an earlier post the Swans had a tradition of using Isabel and derivatives as a forename and most of the men seem to be called Robert. When you also consider that several generations lived together under the same roof and there were family branches in adjacent farms it makes the genealogy really tangled.

How did your own research go? Were you able to make the link?

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Northumberland / Re: Swans of Northumberland
« on: Wednesday 07 February 18 15:01 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Trish

I agree with your info from censuses etc. It's really frustrating because one can sense that the link is there but it's finding the info to back up the hunch.

My family has always been told that there was a  connection with the Darlings and Grace Darling in particular. My Great-great-grandmother, Euphemia Young (1824), was described as Grace's cousin and that is supported by the fact that she was given some artefacts from the Forfarshire by Grace herself. Those are still in the family. I think the term "cousin" may apply in a very loose sense. From what I can see the farming families in north Northumberland were few in number and considerably intermarried over several generations so, in effect, everyone was everybody else's cousin to a greater or lesser extent. That said, the relationship between Euphemia and Grace seems to have been quite close.

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Northumberland / Re: Swans of Northumberland
« on: Tuesday 06 February 18 12:51 GMT (UK)  »
I think that Robert Swan was actually born in 1767 which still satisfies the condition in the marriage licence application that he was 30 yrs and upwards.

I think I'm fairly comfortable with the general Swan situation now but can anybody tell me anything about Thomas Swan's (1811) wife Isabella? They were married at Tynemouth in Q2 1850 and her ms was Paul. Can't find any more than that. Her birthplace appears variously as Plessey or Stannington.

Under her married name of Isabella Swan she appears with Thomas in various censuses. Frequently they appear with members of the Darling family and the relationship given is "cousin".

I think the Darling connection is through Thomas and Isabella but I'm unclear on whether it is his side or hers. Could her mother's ms have been Darling?

The Swan/Darling connection grows very stronger, not least because a William Darling appears on the poll register as the tenant of the Red House Farm in Cowpen at the same time as the Swans were living en masse at Cowpen High House

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Isaac Cliff(e), Bradley, born 1807
« on: Tuesday 24 October 17 18:21 BST (UK)  »
Can just picture that, up the The Chevin, past Old Pool Bank and the Dyneley Arms and on through Bramhope, Adel etc. Lovely view across Wharfedale up to Almscliffe Crag.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Isaac Cliff(e), Bradley, born 1807
« on: Tuesday 24 October 17 14:19 BST (UK)  »
Ah, local knowledge, always best. Don't live in Yorkshire now but used to live in Bramhope,nr Otley, in my teens so I'm broadly familiar with the S. Yorks area.

Thanks for your comments.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Isaac Cliff(e), Bradley, born 1807
« on: Tuesday 24 October 17 11:46 BST (UK)  »
Thanks, that does give clarity and thank you for taking the trouble to research that.

The major point which has come out of these exchanges is that the the Bradley I was considering previously(near Skipton/Keighley) was the wrong one. I now know that there is a Bradley associated with Huddersfield. That fact, along with your comments about parish boundaries, makes a lot more records relevant.

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