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I want to join FindMyPast short term to get some parish register information. I don't want to pay by card as I know what they're like similar to Ancestry for repeat billing / recurring payments.

So I was going to pay for a month using Paypal but when I clicked to buy it I did not like the language used (pasted)

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Does this mean that they're saying that I am giving them permission to take repeated payments through Paypal?

Hoe some can answer.

Hi There

I wonder if you can help as I am trying to solve a riddle regarding my Great Grandfather's brother, a man by the name of Joshua Pollard.

He was a bad apple in & out prison many times. In the census of 1911 (after he has already been declared dead by two his Children on their marriage certs) he turns up in Edmondthorpe, Leicestershire living with a son James William Pollard.

Also in the house were a Smith family, they were James's in laws, one member of the household was a Child called Beatrice Smith. I cannot say for sure when she was born but I have estimated 1894 ish!

I have found a marriage in 1907 as follows

June Qtr 1907

Beatrice Smith & Samule Christian Short

Melton M 7a 690

I am guessing that this is your Samuel even if they have his name spelt differently.

For it to be right Beartrice, she had sisters Laura, Alice, brother John, William & peter that died in 1947 I think.

Now I have been told a story that Joshua Pollard got in with a man called Christian & they robbed a family of jewels & hid them in a magpie's nest near Cribb's cottage.

They were whipped with a cat o' nine tails & sent to prison. So far I have been looking for this story thinking that the Christian is a surname, but maybe it's a first name.

Sorry to potentially diss your ancestor, but I have to ask. Does anything I say make any sense?

Eddie