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England / Re: How to confirm church where marriage/funeral occurred
« on: Wednesday 05 June 13 11:39 BST (UK)  »
Benicio - in England the "Established Church" is the Church of England so nanny jan's response identifyies the individual place of worship. Marriage in the Church of England has full legal status. In the early period after 1837 most marriages would have been C of E if not civil (register office) for that reason; later authorisation was extended to some clergy from other groups or the registrar attended (latter the case for RC weddings particularly). IIRC Jewish & Quaker faiths also had authority early. Thus marriage in the C of E parish church didn't mean that the couple were practising Anglicans - just that they could meet the residence requirements to be married there.

GENUKI is a useful site for identifying which churches were open at any particular time - some areas are clearer on this than others - Keighley not being the clearest. A search on "GENUKI + placename" is a quick way in.



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Lancashire / Re: Obituary or Funeral notice for someone living in Cheetham in 1951
« on: Wednesday 05 June 13 11:15 BST (UK)  »
Dudley - I've visited & found the displays interesting - when I went they'd several banners on show & you could also see the area where others were being restored, as well as the regular collection. Given you have a personal interest I hope you spotted the section about their archives (appointments needed) - I've no personal experience there. It's been a while but the cafe was good!

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Lancashire / Re: Obituary or Funeral notice for someone living in Cheetham in 1951
« on: Tuesday 04 June 13 11:57 BST (UK)  »
I've tried the Guardian archive (then the Manchester Guardian) for September & October 1951, but didn't get any result - given the site uses OCR software & the potential for misspelling of the name it may be there, but not picked up.

The Manchester Evening News is the regional paper that's still going (it was owned by the Guardian at one time - don't know about 1951). There's a list of local papers held by Manchester Libraries:
http://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/448/archives_and_local_studies/4670/our_collections/3
I'm the other side of the area, so not familiar with what would be most likely.

The People's History Museum may have relevant material:
http://www.phm.org.uk/

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Technical Help / Re: Printer problems
« on: Saturday 01 June 13 14:57 BST (UK)  »
Kerry - thanks for the update - hope that the problem doesn't reappear!

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Technical Help / Re: Printer problems
« on: Friday 31 May 13 16:14 BST (UK)  »
Kerry - my knowledge is extremely limited in this area, but "Ne01" suggests a network location rather than the USB port on your computer to me. Do you have a network? Have you checked your settings under Control Panel (I don't use Windows 7 normally, but think it still has this)?

Hope someone has more useful knowledge than me!


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Cheshire / Re: Searching for a good copy of R Thornton’s 1824 map of Stockport
« on: Friday 31 May 13 15:53 BST (UK)  »
Ramsin - pleased the Cheshire maps site was of interest. I can browse in there for hours too!

The British History Online site has some 1840s maps (rather small images):
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/place.aspx?gid=64&region=6

That site also has various volumes of the Victoria County History series, some of which have sections of old maps. There is this (no maps):
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51305&strquery=stockport

Some parts (eg Heaton Norris) are in the Lancashire section.

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Cheshire / Re: Searching for a good copy of R Thornton’s 1824 map of Stockport
« on: Thursday 30 May 13 14:38 BST (UK)  »
One website is advertising it for sale at £120!

The Cheshire e-mapping site has tithe maps (c1840) and later maps. In case that's of interest:
http://maps.cheshire.gov.uk/tithemaps/

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The Common Room / Re: Question re lookups
« on: Tuesday 28 May 13 15:54 BST (UK)  »
If the family/person you're looking for weren't in the same country as your search engine's default base try changing to the relevant country. I'm in the UK so default is google.co.uk - but if I wanted to look for someone in, say. Canada I could try Google's Canadian site (google.ca) and then restrict the results to Canadian sites - click on "search tools" and then "the web" and you get the choice of the web or "pages from Canada" - selecting the individual country still produces some oddities but does narrow the choices.

Another trick that sometimes gets better results, particularly for newspaper type announcements is to reverse the names - "Smith John" rather than "John Smith".

Becoming familiar with the full range of search techniques in a search engine and using those that are relevant can reduce results from tens of thousands to a more manageable number in many cases, though nothing is going to make it easy with some names!

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Northumberland / Re: Wellesley School 1914-1918 WW1 memorial plaque - where is it now?
« on: Monday 27 May 13 14:03 BST (UK)  »
Gen - according to the National Inventory of War Memorials it's in the school chapel:
http://www.ukniwm.org.uk/server/show/conMemorial.33424/fromUkniwmSearch/1

If that's no longer the case you can inform the site so they can update their records.

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