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Northumberland Lookup Requests / Re: Cramlington - St Nicholas burial 1904 - Ralph Waugh
« on: Wednesday 18 May 22 17:45 BST (UK)  »
Thanks ColC, good old FREEREG  8) Still wondering may be just a little more detail from register (i.e. plot no. ??).  Yes, I've every last bit of info on the accident (newspaper reports, mine inspectors report and entries from the Coal Owners ledgers for funeral payment).  Unfortunately my late uncle always thought Ralph was buried at Earsdon so spent years on goose chase there, but more recently I found the death announcement in newspaper (hadn't found it before as image text is faint so it didn't get indexed properly for searching).

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Northumberland Lookup Requests / Cramlington - St Nicholas burial 1904 - Ralph Waugh
« on: Wednesday 18 May 22 17:04 BST (UK)  »
My great grandfather Ralph Waugh was killed in a coal fall at Seghill colliery 11th April 1904.  In death announcement in Newcastle Evening Chronicle of 13th April 1904 it says simply "Interment at Cramlington on Thursday" - so 14th April 1904 - Am I right in assuming this would have been at St Nicholas cemetery, as the Mayfield cemetery had not yet opened then ?  Would anyone be able do a look up at Woodhorn for the burial info as the records don't appear to online anywhere and are only accessible at the archive.  I doubt there is any kind of headstone as the Coal Owners Mutual Protection paid out just £6 for funeral costs 6 months later.

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World War Two / Royal Navy WW2 record "A1"
« on: Friday 30 April 21 19:45 BST (UK)  »
Does anyone know what "A1" would mean under "Ship/Shore Establishment" on Royal Navy service record obtained from MOD. 

I'm guessing its some sort of absence/leave as its about 7 weeks in mid 1943.  Its immediately after landing craft training and before deployment to landing craft flotilla.

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London and Middlesex / Re: Frederick Gorringe Limited - Buckingham Palace Road
« on: Wednesday 28 October 20 13:26 GMT (UK)  »
"Yes she is on the third page - she is listed as Carrie Norris."

Thank you montereyjack, that's great  8)  I've never seen my 2x great grand aunt recorded as Carrie before so its a lost snippet of her life as now I know what name she actually used.  Caroline started at Gorringes in 1875 and didn't retire until mid 1930s when she was in her 70s.  For most of that time she lived in staff accommodation at the top of building which was otherwise occupied by young single staff so I assume she acted as some sort of "house mother" to the youngsters.  She was one of three spinster sisters or "the maiden aunts" as my father called them, he told me once they'd turn up to any family event... no invite required  ;D

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London and Middlesex / Re: Frederick Gorringe Limited - Buckingham Palace Road
« on: Saturday 03 October 20 17:14 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: montereyjack on Thursday 06 August 20 16:26 BST (UK)
happy to check if a relative's name is in this book.

I just spotted this.  Can you check if my 3x great aunt Caroline Norris is in the book, she was definitely working there at that time.

thanks in advance

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Berkshire Lookup Requests / Re: William Norris - died 1857 Newbury - on Berks will index ? and/or 1815 "census"
« on: Monday 17 June 19 13:37 BST (UK)  »
jimmartewn I've actually got a copy of the 1815 Toomer census now so I've had a look for any Fry.

There is no "Fry family" as such, just two single Fry women listed at different locations (no other spellings of "Fry" surname found either):

Martha Fry, aged 25
Area: West side of market place
Sub Area: Mansion House

No occupation given and impossible to tell if she is associated with people listed before and after her (quite a random list of people & trades).  Mansion House is the short street that runs from Bridge Street to the north west corner of market place.

Ruth Fry, aged 56, a widow
Area: East Side of Bartholomew Street
Sub Area: Gibbs Yard

Again no occupation given but looks to be part of household of Samuel Tanner a Millwright.  There are two Gibbs yards marked on the map that accompanied the 1815 census.  This Gibbs yard was the one located opposite the still existing Craven Street that runs west from Bartholomew Street.

Hopefully one or both of these ladies are yours  :)


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Northumberland / Re: Wark "something" - farm near Simonburn
« on: Saturday 06 April 19 18:47 BST (UK)  »
Yes. This one was solved 3 years ago and help was much appreciated  8)  I'd still love to have a full copy of John Fryer & Sons' Map of the County of Northumberland (1820) though as still not got one  ::) 

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Pembrokeshire / Re: Trinity Wharf at Burton Ferry and the Smalls Lighthouse
« on: Monday 14 May 18 23:05 BST (UK)  »
Thanks milford_lass although I think that's the same listing as I included in my original question.  Its on my "stuff to visit" list as I'm working my way round all his lighthouses, there are quite a few !

Thanks hanes teulu, yup I'd found a report of that particular... ahem... "spot of bother"  ::)  I guess he was sick of people pilfering from his site.  I do love the term "warm conversation" they used in the report  ;D  He made the papers quite a few times, first time was when he was repairing the Eddystone lighthouse in 1841 and usually its just about a new lighthouse he's working on but he was also in a train crash fatality enquiry report and another time once again up before the local magistrates in a dispute over payment for a sign for a lighthouse.

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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Re: Lydia Southgate - born Holloway/Islington 1875
« on: Saturday 28 April 18 14:43 BST (UK)  »
Hi frenchman, your William Theophilus Roger Flood came up earlier in this conversation as user Ladyhawk found various details with him being born about 1830 (scroll back to page 3 this conversation for all the details). Neither he nor his son William Coller Flood fit (William born 1857 was a Pawn Broker on 1881 census, there are lots of records for him, died 1927 and is buried in a family plot in Tower Hamlets cemetery). 

Since this conversation I managed to find my William Flood actually disappeared because he'd stolen £300 in gold from his employer and legged it with his boss's maid.  I've found no trace of him after 1879 and I think he must have left the country as he seems never to have been caught.  The Police Gazette "wanted" listing for him in Nov 1879 puts his birth date about 1852 (age given as 27).  In addition I have an Ancestry DNA match with someone whose Flood family were based in Islington but I've just not been able to definitively tie down the right William Flood birth as there are a several but they all seem excluded by later records  ::)  Lydia was left destitute and in desperation left her two daughters (including my great great grandmother) on Primrose Hill in hope someone would find them and take them in, she was prosecuted and jailed for abandoning them thus later her ending up in the workhouse.

Obviously I've still to track down the origins of William "the cheesemongering thieving wife deserter" Flood as the black sheep of my family tree  :-[  so welcome any extra possible leads to follow !

William Flood in Police Gazette
https://drive.google.com/open?id=12ViPbhyHc9mPh2KLNI86YUbzrw0X_KuP


Lydia Flood/Southgate charged with abandoning her children
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tPbCaKMHd02G4W6X34fn0AFm8dOHVnSK


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