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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Was it typical to take a famous relative’s surname as a middle name?
« on: Friday 28 February 20 14:14 GMT (UK)  »
I've found the same thing in my tree with non blood relations too. Distant in-laws that they must have been proud of. Sometimes I believe the middle name referred to the godparents.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Getting the most out of a month's subscription (Ancestry)
« on: Friday 28 February 20 14:11 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks both of you.

Yes, that's exactly what I'm doing this time.

Last time I only saved to the tree without downloading/uploading and the scanned records were no longer possible to view in full after the month expired.

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Family History Beginners Board / Getting the most out of a month's subscription (Ancestry)
« on: Friday 28 February 20 03:24 GMT (UK)  »
My family history activity tends to happen in short bursts whenever I have some sort of holiday. Last year I managed to clean up a lot of my older work and produce some detailed accounts of all my lines, mainly using what is available for free online (and some help from Rootschatters!).

Now, with roughly a month to spare, I decided to take out a month's subscription to access more supporting documents. My plan is to collect as much as I can for a month and then review them at my leisure afterwards. I had done this once before and was disappointed that I was no longer able to see the records I had added after the subscription ended. So this time I'm trying to be clever - I'm downloading all the records on to my computer for future reference and uploading them again as images, being careful to give at least every direct ancestor a record as a profile image because I think this is the trick to accessing other gallery images after the subscription ends. The main reason for re-uploading is because I want my family members to be able to see the images without having to subscribe. Please let me know if my plan is flawed!

I can't quite remember what happens to the story hints we add - will they still be visible after the subscription or should I also download them?

Any other tips for getting the most out of a month?

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: The Britannia, Gilesgate, Durham
« on: Wednesday 19 February 20 08:18 GMT (UK)  »
Lovely picture. It's just a few doors down from my student lodgings where I first joined Ancestry and discovered, all too late, that my great-grandfather had lived in Durham!

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Europe / Re: A British woman marries a French captain. What happened next? [EDITED]
« on: Tuesday 21 January 20 02:22 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: davidqueneherve on Monday 20 January 20 22:32 GMT (UK)
Hello,

Her birth record in Calais

http://archivesenligne.pasdecalais.fr/ark:/64297/e627555974699908b2759bda8ab9e16b

Françoise Louisa PETCH, daughter of Eliza PHILIPPS, 30 years old, widow of William Heath PETCH.

Thanks David, you really know where to look!

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Europe / Re: A British woman marries a French captain. What happened next? [EDITED]
« on: Tuesday 21 January 20 02:20 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: jayaygee on Monday 20 January 20 18:31 GMT (UK)
Sorry to be a bit of a wet blanket, but I don't think you necessarily had to do anything particularly outstanding to be awarded the Légion d'Honneur at least in those days.  I say that based on the fact that three of my husband's ancestors also got it: two after retiring from the army and the navy, before WW1, and the other, later, for gallantry during WW1.  And another in a side line was a teacher.

The Archives de Paris hold civil registration records from 1860 - those of earlier years were destroyed by fire and have been partially reconstituted. See:
http://archives.paris.fr/r/124/etat-civil-de-paris/
Batignolles was outside Paris until 1860 when it became part of the new 17th arrondissement.

Civil registration for Lyon is held at the Archives de Lyon:
http://www.fondsenligne.archives-lyon.fr/ac69v2/genealogie.php?mode=1

Judith

Good point - thanks. It's at least interesting to see where his regiment had been posted for the majority of his service.

Thanks for the links too. I really doubt I'm going to find any children but it's worth a try, if only to gain some experience in navigating French archive sites.

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Europe / Re: A British woman marries a French captain. What happened next? [EDITED]
« on: Monday 20 January 20 11:50 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks - I've figured it out now. It was a case of having the right names and the wrong censuses attached on FamilySearch. With both Williams having been born in Lincolnshire and Frances' last known date in England corresponding to Francoise's marriage I had failed to see the discrepancy at first.

William Heath Petch remains the first cousin of my direct ancestors so my interest in the story of Francoise still stands.

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Europe / Re: A British house-servant marries a French captain. What happened next?
« on: Monday 20 January 20 11:18 GMT (UK)  »
Goodness me - thank you all so much for the correction. A huge error on my part!!

I'll make the necessary changes and sort out the mess. William Heath Petch of Fleet Street is actually likely an ancestral cousin of my London Heaths and Petches anyway so I'll have to figure both families out.

Terribly sorry to have wasted your time...

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Europe / Re: A British house-servant marries a French captain. What happened next?
« on: Monday 20 January 20 07:16 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: jayaygee on Sunday 19 January 20 21:57 GMT (UK)
He was born on 20 June 1812 in St Laurent-en-Gradvaux, Jura.

He was awarded the Légion d'Honneur on 11  March 1857: see
www2.culture.gouv.fr/LH/LH017/PG/FRDAFAN83_OL0225040v001.htm

Judith

The large age-gap between the couple is notable - 1812/1831

Looking at the wiki for the 23rd line regiment, it looks like they took part in the conquest of Algeria from 1830-1857 - he could actually have been in Algeria from the moment of his entering service. The conquest culminated in the capture of resistance leader Lalla Fatma N'Soumer in 1857. She seems to have been a Boudicea-like character. She was captured in July, which means this can't be reason for the award, but perhaps Theophile had previously conducted himself well in other Algerian campaigns.

Whatever the truth is, it does feel like the plot of a dramatic novel is starting to take shape! I really do hope they have descendants.

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