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The Common Room / Re: Problem ordering Wills from Gov.UK ?
« on: Wednesday 21 June 23 09:10 BST (UK)  »
And it's no good sending e-mail to the address Gov.UK give, where they ask for feed back on their 'new service', because from my experience, you get no useful or helpful information and I am sure it is produced by AI !    I will order the Wills I want to get next using my tablet and see how I get on.

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The Common Room / Re: Problem ordering Wills from Gov.UK ?
« on: Tuesday 20 June 23 15:42 BST (UK)  »
Well yes toby_ax in future I will do as I have always done in the past when ordering Wills, order them online and print them off.    As long as I do that now on my tablet and not on my laptop computer.  As you will see from my posts.

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The Common Room / Re: Problem ordering Wills from Gov.UK ?
« on: Tuesday 20 June 23 14:59 BST (UK)  »
Two Wills received today in post.  So not 12 weeks as indicated by Gov.UK.   Don't know why I had to send on to Leeds Probate Service but they delivered.    I haven't tried to order any more online yet but I think for sure PrawnCocktail gave me the answer and it was my laptop virus protection preventing me paying online, trying on tablet I could see it gave me the proper screen to continue with payment.
As usual, the wonderful people on this website, continue, in every respect, to provide the answers to anything and everything related to FH !  You helped me find the 'son by the milkman' according to my father born to his Aunt Lottie  and subsequently I made contact with his descendants.  Then you helped me identify his possible father, which was correct, and I have met up with his grandson and am meeting him again at his house soon to have a copy of a photograph of the said Francis Henry Baylis.     Neither two families knew any of this and are thrilled to have the story.   Thrilled as only FH researchers can be at such details !

You also amazingly helped me find Charlotte, mother of said son  'by the milkman' and the 'old man with the fruit shop'.

Perhaps I might even see if you can find my mother's father, who she never knew !  Only joking.  Three Layton sisters though, all got pregnant around the same time, went on to have their child, subsequently years later all 3 married, but none of the 3 had any more children.    No answers likely to be found there.

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The Common Room / Re: Problem ordering Wills from Gov.UK ?
« on: Saturday 17 June 23 19:42 BST (UK)  »
PrawnCocktail - your comment about ordering on laptop or tablet, made me think to try ordering on tablet as don't have the same virus protection on there.   And it worked, or would have done, if I had then put card details in, but was just testing at that point.  It brought up a different looking screen, giving me the choice to choose which bank card it was, something not shown previously when ordering on laptop.

I have other Wills I want to order and I thought 'why bother' if it was going to be such a problem. Waiting 12 weeks  to receive copies is not what you want, but OK, if that's what it is.  However, what  I don't want is there being a problem, which Gov.UK are not prepared to address or help with and it just seems a mess.

I don't use my tablet to buy things, having to put in card details, but will try ordering these other Wills that way now.

So thanks for your help - inadvertently !

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The Common Room / Re: Problem ordering Wills from Gov.UK ?
« on: Saturday 17 June 23 16:45 BST (UK)  »
PrawnCocktail  -   were you able to enter your card details OK to pay ?   If so, it might be my virus protection that is stopping payment made by me.  This is the screen (attached) that appears.
They  (the AI!) eventually sent me an e-mail address LeedsDPRenquiries  which I had to contact, so I enclosed copies of the two completed application forms.  Reply from them said it would be 10 weeks at least before I heard back  -  been already 3 weeks since I posted to Gov.UK !   So think 3 months Top-of-the-Hill !
What else can one do - giving feed back about the site, as they ask, achieves nothing, it seems a shambles.

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The Common Room / Problem ordering Wills from Gov.UK ?
« on: Saturday 17 June 23 10:25 BST (UK)  »
Anyone else had a problem recently when trying to pay for Wills ordered on Gov.UK website ?  I have ordered many Wills from their website in past years without any problem.  However the 'new' service they seem to have brings up an Error message when attempting to pay and place order.   I have sent number of e-mails to the e-mail address they ask to be used for feed back, but I get a different person responding each time (it's probably run by AI anyway !) with misleading and contradictory messages, no help at all.  I completed the application forms for 2 Wills and sent in post and tried finding out if they had been received but again, no helpful / useful response.  Want to know if just me having problem and it might be virus protection software causing a problem when trying to pay.

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Thank you so much for further replies - I have only just seen them.  I will explore more tomorrow.

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Thanks for your reply.  Yes, I have seen that website.   I think I will need to find a map showing where the Pig Market was in Bordesley Street, around 1890's to see what houses there were.   Maybe a visit to the main library in Birmingham.  I just wonder why the address was not just a number in Bordesley Street though.
Thank you for the details on how to Complete a posting.

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I have a birth certificate for William Henry Fisher (yes that family again !) son of James Arthur Fisher and Charlotte.  In 1891 James Arthur was shown as Master Butcher, and they were living High Street, Kings Heath, but just 2 years later by 1893, when this son was born, father is shown as Night Watchman at the Pig Market, Bordesley Street, but the address for the birth and the residence for Charlotte is shown as the Pig Market, Bordesley Street.   I have researched  the Pig Market, Birmingham but couldn't find anything to say people actually lived there.   I am presuming as it was alcohol that eventually killed him in 1911, maybe it was already affecting him so that he could no longer continue as a butcher.    Doesn't sound the sort of place to bring up a young family !
(Can someone remind me please how to Complete a posting)

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