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England / Re: Kate Bowe Married Ralph Noel Rankine 43 year age gap?
« on: Friday 10 April 20 05:00 BST (UK)  »
    This is getting really interesting.   One Ancestry Tree traces the Rankine line back to Old Cumnock, Ayrshire, but Andrew M Rankine was born 1819 at Rutherglen, Lanarkshire.  That is no great distance from Paisley where Richard Rankine Stewart was born in 1932.

     Dick Stewart was the first husband of my late wife Edith, and he died in 1984.

     If there is a connection it must go back a long time because Dick's grandfather was Richard Rankin Alexander born 1873 died 1907 in India.

      Anyway Ralph Noel Rankine was born in Australia in 1903 which confirms that there was a great age gap.

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Armed Forces / Re: RAF National Service 1947 to 1949
« on: Friday 13 March 20 20:23 GMT (UK)  »
    I was at RAF Credenhill for 3 months Trade Training as Clerk/Typist from about October 1951 to February 1952.    I only have a group photo of our course and there may be more of us still living as well as myself, so cannot post it here.

    It was a happy time and made more memorable by a great Instructor, Flight Sergeant Brown, who may have been at Credenhill a early as the late 1940's.

     I think our billet may have been in Trenchard Lines.   One memory goes back to a certain Pay Parade which was held in a large Hangar.    Another Flt.Sgt. had already begun calling out names to hand over pay packets when a late comer came running into the Hangar.

      "What's your Initial?" called out the Flight Sgt.    "L" was the reply.

       "I'll give ya 'L' " shouted back Flt. Sgt.

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Northumberland / Re: New Hartley Poltergeist
« on: Thursday 20 February 20 00:38 GMT (UK)  »
Brilliant.

There probably are a lot more things around, just we do not know about them and/or they are not on-line.

    Also there are some we tend to forget about over time, like the 1642 Protestation Returns.  I have the Nottinghamshire returns in book form which also have 3 of the only surviving Derbyshire Hundreds.

     Court Cases are well known, though we often tend to forget to look for them.   I got lucky with one case in 1685 on a land litigation case.  This actually named a good number of relatives to the complainants.

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Northumberland / Re: New Hartley Poltergeist
« on: Wednesday 19 February 20 18:24 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you Chempat for posting the Rothbury 1816 Bible Census links.    If only there were others like this for we get such an insight into life at that time.   Even if one doesn't have any Rothbury ancestors it is worth reading all the way through.     My Proudlock's are on page 11 in Swindon.  Doesn't tell me much more about them, except it looks like two families were living together, and I was able then to find a website that has a picture of the cottages and the surroundings.

Malcolm

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The Common Room / Re: Found Anyone Famous
« on: Monday 30 December 19 18:44 GMT (UK)  »
My great grandmother was Elizabeth Berry who married gt.grandad Thomas Hutton.
Elizabeth's brother James Berry and wife Charlotte and their large family migrated to Lawrence Massachusetts.
One of their many grand children Harold Berry was first of all married clandestinely to Tedi (Henrietta) Strashun, the daughter of Leon Strashun who studied Music with Tchaikovsky, and was at one time the Conductor of the New York Metropolitian.
However that marriage broke up after some 9 or 10 years, and Harold then married Jullian Crawford the abandoned mother of Terence STEVE MCQUEEN, who went on to become a big Movie Star.
Steve did tell the World that his Stepfather, Harold Berry had been abusive and was an alcoholic.
Having learned more from a grand-daughter of Tedi's by her second marriage, it appears to be unfortunately true.

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Northumberland / Re: Blyth History.
« on: Friday 20 December 19 18:21 GMT (UK)  »
Malcolm33, and Pete E, Thank you for your input.  As regards your's Malcolm, I was always glad that I never had to visit the slaughterhouse on any further occasions.
Bring back the OLD Days ?  I doubt it, the old days started to disappear in the late '70s.

   You were lucky not to visit any others.   Around 1947 we were encouraged to get a French pen friend by French School teacher and so I came across and met Jacques.    We stayed in touch until he passed about 4 years ago.   However I visited him and his family after I finished High School in August 1949, at Roanne which is central France.   Jacques insisted on taking me to their local slaughter house where he knew someone who worked there.    It was awful, much worse and put me off meat for a very long time.

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Northumberland / Re: Blyth History.
« on: Friday 20 December 19 17:26 GMT (UK)  »
  I do not know why the slaughterhouse/abattoir came to mind after so many years.

    It's something one can never forget.    During the War when I was living with Aunts in Newmarket Street, Consett, I used to go to school by the back lane which has all gone now.    Almost opposite on the other side of the lane was the Pig Slaughter House, and the Squeals and Screams can never be forgotten.    Once past the back of the Co-op delivery buildings I had to pass the Cattle slaughter house.    It was all open to the lane and you could see the poor creatures hanging from hooks still kicking.   Then once or twice I passed a man carrying a bucket of blood.   Another time our back yard door wasn't shut properly and some animals being herded for slaughter tried to escape into our yard.    No it is something you never forget.

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Census and Resource Discussion / Re: 1939 Register
« on: Tuesday 10 December 19 21:18 GMT (UK)  »
Nobody in residence that week?
  Thought of that so looked for family elsewhere - no luck.

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Census and Resource Discussion / Re: 1939 Register
« on: Tuesday 10 December 19 18:40 GMT (UK)  »
  Why would they have not named a single resident at an address in the 1939 register?

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