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The Lighter Side / Re: Transcribing some interesting records, just wanted to share it
« on: Monday 08 October 18 12:38 BST (UK)  »
Present day. No records in sight. I am en route to the Bodyworld exhib at Piccadilly. Bodies are people who have lived and departed. Still here showing results of their lives lived.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Transcribing some interesting records, just wanted to share it
« on: Sunday 07 October 18 10:47 BST (UK)  »
Amazing follow up information.  What an outcome from what sounds like an innocent work prank. Tying a human up in a bag may have been a harmless prank to a degree. Terrible consequences for all of them, families included.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Transcribing some interesting records, just wanted to share it
« on: Friday 05 October 18 15:06 BST (UK)  »
So, if the 'husband' survived he'd come homeward bound to meet his half brother.  :o

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The Lighter Side / Re: Transcribing some interesting records, just wanted to share it
« on: Tuesday 02 October 18 18:06 BST (UK)  »
I wonder what's the most unusual entry you've identified.

Just visited my grandparents grave to find maintenance agency have hoovered up the flowers I arranged and dumped their grass cuttings in front of their tiny headstone.

Noticed as I left how many females were widowed for more than 40 years. A lifetime.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Anyone decipher this occupation please
« on: Monday 01 October 18 00:11 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Mike Morrell (NL) on Sunday 25 March 18 16:37 BST (UK)
Nothing to add except (as someone interested in language and word origins), I enjoyed this thread and learned a lot.

For anyone interested I came across this blog
 https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2010/11/monger.html that explains how public connotations with the the word 'monger' have changed over the centuries.

Mike

Interesting. My partner is a wordmonger and a wordsmith.  ;D

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA results & Olive skin
« on: Monday 01 October 18 00:00 BST (UK)  »
Intrigue. Wonder at 'changes' in % shares. Due to using different company testing kits? If so, how valid and contradictory are they?

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The Lighter Side / Re: Transcribing some interesting records, just wanted to share it
« on: Sunday 30 September 18 23:33 BST (UK)  »
So many women died in childbirth at young ages leaving large numbers of children. Their widowers marrying younger women and starting new families. I discovered in my family a woman widowed with 6 children, remarried widower with 8 children, had three more children. She died when her youngest was 14 months old leaving the 17 children motherless. The baby was brought up by his aunt, the remaining children were taken into care and sent away to Canada and Australia. Harsh times. Families searching back must be very grateful if they discover any extra information.

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Lancashire / Re: Site of an old catholic convent in Aigburth Liverpool
« on: Sunday 30 September 18 11:51 BST (UK)  »
Lordship: Your answer is contained in this link https://www.stcharles.org.uk/church/nojshistory.php
LSOTP Aigburth owned their land from 1885. They sold part of it enabling the building of St Charles Church next door. I also visited the home to see a relative living there in the care of LSOTP. It was an immaculate, caring haven.

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