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Sussex Lookup Requests / Re: 1861 Census - Charles Bodle, Alfriston
« on: Monday 22 August 22 20:55 BST (UK)  »
17 years on from the original post, I fear the last two posts have failed to notice that this thread was about Alfriston in East Sussex, England.

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The Common Room / Re: Heirlooms rant
« on: Friday 18 February 22 22:27 GMT (UK)  »
Not heirlooms as such, but I find it really sad when I find the house an ancestor lived in has been demolished. I have no real heirlooms but visiting the house where they lived or seeing the font they were baptised in pleases me. Demolition of the Victorian school where an ancestor went is the same to me as getting rid of an heirloom.

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Kent Lookup Requests / Re: Gillham Family in Otford
« on: Sunday 03 October 21 13:30 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: willis on Saturday 01 January 11 18:05 GMT (UK)
Hi All

        Can anyone help me find the parents and siblings of my 4x Great Grandfather. He was Thomas Gillham and was born in Otford in 1787.

Thomas Gillham is also my 4 x Great Grandfather. 

Looking at my records, his parents were George Gillham and Sarah Green.

I'm a descendant of his first son Frederic who married Dinah Lawrence who was born in Quebec but baptised in Dartford, Kent

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Wedding certificate- struggling to interpret most of this..
« on: Monday 09 August 21 21:55 BST (UK)  »
Although it is written as Red Hill, Reigate, presumably it is Redhill. I wouldn't go looking for a road called Red Hill.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: John Davis Inn Keeper
« on: Thursday 20 May 21 20:18 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: artifis on Thursday 20 May 21 17:22 BST (UK)
On page 1 of the census a Squirrel Inn is mentioned

Squirrel Inn is still a popular pub about 2 miles from the centre of Battle along North Trade Road just after the turning to Netherfield.
There's no Star Inn in Battle, certainly now.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: 1851 surname and status - Portsmouth
« on: Wednesday 30 December 20 10:21 GMT (UK)  »
Many thanks everyone.  Alfred Thomas (or more correctly Thomas Alfred) is my great, great, grandad and I shall carry on trying to find out exactly how the household fits together. 

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: 1851 surname and status - Portsmouth
« on: Tuesday 29 December 20 23:01 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: MonicaL on Tuesday 29 December 20 22:36 GMT (UK)
Family Search are also indexing the entry for Sarah Snr as Bessent www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGBM-Q9V

Monica

They are but then they also have her birthplace as Riddletown whereas I believe it to be Puddletown.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: 1851 surname and status - Portsmouth
« on: Tuesday 29 December 20 22:57 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: CaroleW on Tuesday 29 December 20 22:18 GMT (UK)
Status of 66yr old Sarah is widow

Surname is Bessent according to the addition on Sarah jnr entry

Sorry,  I don't understand.  What "addition" and which Sarah jnr as there are two.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / 1851 surname and status - Portsmouth
« on: Tuesday 29 December 20 22:13 GMT (UK)  »
Evening.  Struggling to read a surname and also the status of someone in the 1851 Portsmouth census.  Not convinced that Ancestry is correct. 
Looking for the Head of the household Sarah ------.   Be---nt or Be--out?
And also want to check the status of both Sarahs.  I have Sarah (Head) as widow and Sarah Moody as Married.  Do you concur?

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