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The Common Room / Re: Help with a brick wall please 🙏 thank you
« on: Yesterday at 15:11 »
The marriage of William Joseph Chapman and Alice Thrussell, 1876, records his father as WILLIAM Joseph Chapman

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The Lighter Side / Re: Twitchels
« on: Friday 17 May 24 15:53 BST (UK)  »
Alley or cut where I grew up in County Durham.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Twitchels
« on: Friday 17 May 24 15:51 BST (UK)  »
Pretty sure that I heard 'jitty' when I lived in Leicestershire.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Twitchels
« on: Friday 17 May 24 15:48 BST (UK)  »
It's vennel in Edinburgh (and elsewhere in Scotland).

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Northumberland / Re: Arthur Chapell or Chappil Gibson
« on: Friday 17 May 24 11:47 BST (UK)  »
1921 census: the family is at 44 Audley Road in Gosforth. He is the youngest child, with one brother and four sisters

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Northumberland / Re: Arthur Chapell or Chappil Gibson
« on: Friday 17 May 24 11:37 BST (UK)  »
An article about his Military Medal – you probably have all this, but there is a photo.

 2 March 1943: Newcastle Evening Chronicle

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Monmouthshire / Re: Nantyderry House, Goytre in 1930s
« on: Friday 17 May 24 08:03 BST (UK)  »
Here are the opening paragraphs of a newspaper article from 1936. Later articles suggest that the house was on the market in 1938.

18 March 1936: Western Mail


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Place of marriage in Scotland?
« on: Friday 10 May 24 15:00 BST (UK)  »
Side-by-side map view showing where it was.

https://tinyurl.com/yeyxvw6s

added: Jock’s Lodge is there too (wrt your other thread).

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Armed Forces / Re: Gilliver - Napoleonic Wars
« on: Friday 10 May 24 14:01 BST (UK)  »
The record on FindMyPast is a single line entry in a log. Looks to me like all of the information is in the transcript.

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