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Yorkshire (West Riding) / John George Scarborough (1870-) and Ruth Rebecca Scarborough (1868-)
« on: Sunday 24 January 21 14:21 GMT (UK)  »
Both born in Teversal Notts but moved to the Sheffield area. John married Mary Ann Oldfield in 1898 and had at least four children in the Oughtibridge area. Ruth married Charles Uttley and also had at least four children. They are not directly related to me but I have a photo of them and their mother Hannah (nee Taylor) taken in Lap Water, Birley Carr in about 1884.
If anyone is researching these or connected families I would be happy to share a copy of the (fairly early) family group (plus pony).

Andrew

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Worcestershire / Re: William Edge, miner, d 1853 in accident
« on: Monday 04 November 19 13:01 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Philip

Thank you for the reply. William was killed by the collapse of a heap of coal, so could be any of the pit/mine/colliery descriptions. I and my two Australian relations have done a lot of research from a distance (although they have both visited the area) and we rely on stalwarts like you to fill in the gaps!

We will continue to look into what happened and, should we find anything else, will update the thread

Andrew

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Worcestershire / Re: William Edge, miner, d 1853 in accident
« on: Saturday 02 November 19 08:34 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you all - I have the paper clipping. This says "a pit at Hart's Hill colliery, the property of Lord Ward". I don't know how to reconcile the "Wallace pit" note on the death cert, however!

Andrew

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Worcestershire / Re: William Edge, miner, d 1853 in accident
« on: Friday 01 November 19 18:19 GMT (UK)  »
I will also say there is a link to the Skidmore family from Susannah Edge marrying into the Skidmores (furnacemen of Brierley Hill fame) and she was a sister of my gggrandfather Joseph Edge (miner) who was father of William from his first marriage to Phoebe Whitaker.

William died 8 December 1853

Andrew

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Worcestershire / Re: William Edge, miner, d 1853 in accident
« on: Friday 01 November 19 17:05 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you both. I will look into your info, but it looks very useful

Andrew

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Worcestershire / Re: William Edge, miner, d 1853 in accident
« on: Friday 01 November 19 16:30 GMT (UK)  »
Senior. Moment. Yes, he was 23.

I will install new fingers!

Andrew

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Worcestershire / William Edge, miner, d 1853 in accident
« on: Friday 01 November 19 15:50 GMT (UK)  »
William born Kingswinford 1840 is my half ggt-uncle. His death cert shows he died as a result of an accident at what looks like "Wallace Pit" in the Dudley district. I have had a look for records of the death (newspapers) and coroner's report (without success) and cannot find any reference to a pit or pit owner of that name (elsewhere, yes, but not Dudley).

Any assistance on any of the questions will be gratefully received and shared with relations in Australia.

Andrew

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Channel Islands Lookup Requests / Re: Jersey Lookup request
« on: Friday 05 July 19 12:36 BST (UK)  »
Have you tried Jerripedia - it has church BMD records for all of Jersey (apart from a few missing ones) from the late 1500s.

Andrew

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Technical Help / Re: FTM Mackiev
« on: Saturday 15 December 18 12:28 GMT (UK)  »
In a word  - yes. I have had the same offer but I will stick to FTM2014 on both computers. Like you, I have no interest in synching to Ancestry, nor do I wish to upload my trees. You have control either way.

Andrew

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