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Suffolk / Re: Devereux family
« on: Wednesday 28 January 15 18:21 GMT (UK)  »
There was a Devereux family in Icklingham, Suffolk, in 1861-91 and perhaps longer. The head of houshold was a brickmaker, William Devereux, and the house they lived in for quite some time was known as "Brick Kiln" in the censuses. My own ancestors lived in the same house in 1851.

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Suffolk / Re: Thomas Death b.c. 1751 Baylham, Sfk.
« on: Monday 03 February 14 10:58 GMT (UK)  »
As I'm sure you know, Death was a common surname in Suffolk, so your Thomas could have baptised in many places, even if he lived in Baylham at the time of his marriage. I checked on familysearch.org and found quite a few Thomas Death baptisms, but the most likely to be relevant was this one at Claydon, which is not far from Baylham:

Thomas Death, son of John and Susan, was baptised at Claydon 25 July 1749.

Worth pursuing at least a little further, I would think.

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Suffolk / Re: Cornish/Craske,Stanningfield and Shimpling
« on: Friday 31 January 14 09:30 GMT (UK)  »
Keziah is doing such a good job that I hesitate to join in, but:
I have found that John Cornish married Harriet Wilding on 16 Oct 1833 at Shimpling, which probably means she lived there. They would be the couple whose son William has already been found, born in 1835. It looks as if it was this John Cornish who was buried at Stanningfield on 29 April 1897, said to be 83. Harriet was probably the one who was buried there on 27 Feb 1875, said to be 63.

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Suffolk / Re: Cornish/Craske,Stanningfield and Shimpling
« on: Tuesday 28 January 14 09:40 GMT (UK)  »
Just as an indication of scale, from information in my possession:-

13 Cornishes were buried in Stanningfield between 1834 and 1901.
3 Craskes were buried in Shimpling between 1878 and 1896; and 3 in Stanningfield between 1873 and 1879.

I see no marriages for either family in Stanningfield up to 1812. There were three Cornish males married in Stanningfield in the 1830s, but no female Cornishes. No Craske marriages at all in 1813-37.

No Cornish or Craske marriages in Shimpling up to 1812.

Baptisms in Shimpling up to 1812: 1 Crask.
Baptisms in Shimpling 1813-1900: 14 Crasks and 1 Craske.

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The Lighter Side / Re: pls recommend book on Austro-Hungary
« on: Sunday 26 January 14 08:52 GMT (UK)  »
You're welcome ;D

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The Lighter Side / Re: pls recommend book on Austro-Hungary
« on: Saturday 25 January 14 10:34 GMT (UK)  »
E Crankshaw "The Fall of the House of Habsburg"
A J P Taylor "The Habsburg Monarchy"
A Sked "The Decline and Fall of the Habsburg Empire 1815-1918"

These are all on my shelves, and probably still in print, but I haven't even dipped into them since I retired from teaching history ;D

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The Common Room / Re: Moving to a new area in the 1880's
« on: Sunday 12 January 14 18:16 GMT (UK)  »
I don't know what the actual pay-rates were, but a locomotive driver was probably at the peak of his profession, at any rate with the larger companies. In the case of a distant relation of mine, some twenty years after your man, it took about twenty years to work up from a mere stoker/fireman to being a loco driver. If the company your man worked for valued him and wanted him to work from a different base, they could easily arrange transport!

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Merionethshire / Re: PEDIGREES...shud we follow them?
« on: Sunday 12 January 14 09:16 GMT (UK)  »
I don't know which particular online pedigrees you are referring to, but I would suggest that you need not trust any of them unless they are properly sourced. If they are, you can check the sources and see if you think the pedigrees are right. The printed word is not infallible just because it is printed, whether in a book or on a web-site - if "printing" is an allowable word in that context! I have seen a number of trees on a well-known subscription site which are demonstrably wrong in some details.

As for the difficulties of your area, it is just as bad in Glamorgan, as I well know, my mother being from the Rhondda! You sre not alone.

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Suffolk / Re: Ann Sparrow 1796...
« on: Saturday 14 December 13 09:33 GMT (UK)  »
A little odd, as you were the first in this thread to suggest Nathaniel Taylor married Ann Sparrow :)

If you look back at the information in replies 10 and 11, there is no doubt that Nathaniel Taylor of Cornard married Ann Sparrow of Cornard in 1818, but only you can be sure, from your own researches, whether this Nathaniel was your Nathaniel.

FreeREG has a marriage of a Nathaniel Taylor to Ann Wooden at Great Yarmouth on 2 Oct 1811, but there is no reason to think this was the same Nathaniel Taylor - though of course Ann Wooden Taylor could have died before 1818. By the travel standards of those days (for most people), Great Yarmouth was a long way from Little Cornard. Taylor was a common name, and Nathaniel was much more common that it is today.

Just for the record, the Nathaniel Taylor who married Ann Sparrow died in 1838 and was buried at Little Cornard. His widow was there with their children in the 1841 census. She died in 1844, as mentioned in the newspaper in reply 11.

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