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Northumberland / Re: Hepburn Farm
« on: Monday 30 May 16 22:32 BST (UK)  »
Hi Jacdee.  I wonder if you are still around?  Browsing through the archives and came across your post from 2006 asking about Hepburn Farm, near Chillingham.  I am a Hepburn and the Hepburn township is the 'seat' of the worldwide Hepburn family.  I visited the area in 2014 and have a photograph of the farm, but sadly only from the rear - still a working farm.  It was certainly a very large house and grander than one would expect to find in rural farmhouse, but it was not the Hepburn's house.  That ruin is still standing, nearby, as a Grade 2 * Listed building.  I also have a photo of the adjacent Hepburn Farm cottages if you would like copies?

Barry

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London and Middlesex / Re: Hepburns in London
« on: Monday 30 May 16 22:09 BST (UK)  »
Sorry Ruediger, I cannot help you

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Suffolk / Re: Redles Suffolk
« on: Thursday 29 March 12 17:08 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Sue but the 1851 census is quite clear - there is no 'n' and the 'Lam' is a separate word.  Of course that does not mean it was recorded correctly? 

Thanks Heywood for the smart detective work - yes you do have the right person.  Where the Cove came from is difficult to guess but 1871 Redisham seems more probable.  Nothing in IGI so I will have to try to trace the marriage in the likely parish registers - but that's a long job for the future.

Thanks for your help & efforts

Barry

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Suffolk / Redles Suffolk
« on: Thursday 29 March 12 15:10 BST (UK)  »
I have someone who in 1851 gave their birth place as Redles Ham, Suffolk in 1812/13.  I have found Redles in the Hundred of Cosford in the Domesday Book but it seems to have disappeared since 1813?  I would be grateful if anyone could shed any light on where it may have been - assuming I have the correct Redles!

Barry

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London and Middlesex / Re: Hepburns in London
« on: Tuesday 15 June 10 16:13 BST (UK)  »
Hi Phil,

I am researching the Hepburn's of London and have amassed a substantial database of people, mostly centered on Clerkenwell and Islington but with Limehouse & Guildford connections.  This includes your John Frankland and his children/grandchildren many of whom include Frankland in their names.  It is in Excel format but I am happy to share it with you off list.

It is surprising how large the Hepburn clan is in London and because of the recurring themes and a regular naming pattern, of John, William and Henry, I am convinced that they have some common ancestry but I haven't established any obvious links to your John William.   There is also another person actively searching; we discovered each other through a common gg grandfather John Hepburn, who had sons William, Charles  and Henry.

You don't say where your John William was born but there are Hepburn's in a place called Frankland, Co Durham (William Hepburn,1871 census, b1820/21 in Frankland Colliery Houses Frankland Framwellgate).  Your branch may have a connection, bearing in mind the constant use of the name Frankland through the generations.

Barry 1936

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Denbighshire / Re: Rhos Farm Llanferres
« on: Sunday 13 December 09 13:00 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Izzybella.  About two years ago I researched Rhos farm & cottage for patvp1 (who responded to your request) and sent her details of my find on a personal message, as follows:

"I called at Rhos Cottage which is being farmed by the Cordiner family from Cheshire who bought the premises in the 1880's.   Before then it was the stables for the mines but, with the decline in mining and farming at that time, was available at a give away price!  The Cordiner's told me that Rhos Farm was on the opposite side of the road, now called Rhos Isa but still a farm.  So I called there but all the owners could tell me was that the present building dated back to the 1930's and replaced an earlier building.

I am fairly sure that today's Rhos Isa is your Rhos Farm and this is supported, albeit not proved, by the census reports.  1871 shows "Rhos Farm(cottage)" presumably Rhos Cottage, occupied by a clerk in the lead mine (which fits with the lead mine stables story), and "Rhos(farm house)" presumably Rhos Farm occupied by a farmer.  1881 shows Rhos Farm occupied by your McKay family and Rhos Cottage occupied by a police constable.  1891 shows Rhos Cottage occupied by today's Cordiner family as farmers and Upper Rhos (English for Rhos Isa) occupied by a farmer Parry.  1901 shows Upper Rhos occupied by the same Parry farming family and Rhos Isa which is clearly an error for Rhos Cottage because it is still occupied by the farming Cordiner family. 

It seems probable that Rhos farm became Rhos Isa or Upper Rhos in the 1880's about the same time that the Cordiner family bought Ross Cottage cheaply.  Perhaps both events were linked to the economic decline in the area."

This puts some meat on the bones that Martin Briscoe provided from the OS map.  I have some photos but you are close enough to go and look!  You are so lucky living in the area, it is a 4 hour drive for me.

I see no one has answered you general question of helping a new starter.  If you want some guidance just send me a personal message and I will gladly point you in the right directions

Barry

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Essex / Re: Colchester
« on: Saturday 22 August 09 18:46 BST (UK)  »
You did not say which census but a street search (free on Find My Past) 1891 & 1901 showed nil return.  However, Julian Grove exists today and has Victorian Houses so it has probably been renamed at some time.   It backs on to St Botolph's Priory and as there is a Priory Grove listed in the census, but no longer exists, then that may have been its former name.

Barry

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Essex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Rainham Ferry photo request
« on: Monday 15 June 09 11:23 BST (UK)  »
This has some photos of the today's river at Rainham Ferry  http://www.bertuchi.co.uk/loop15.html  It will have been little different in 1915 - isolated, muddy and desolate  The local Council is now Havering and they may have some photos in their local history library, or could put you in touch with a local history society for Rainham.  http://www.havering.gov.uk

Barry

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