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Messages - sharonw

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Where was Grove Rd, Islington
« on: Tuesday 22 July 08 09:07 BST (UK)  »
Seems Grove Road was renamed Tollington Way in 1940 - according to a 1980s local reference book "Streets with a Story - the book of Islington".  That's all it says about it.

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Fulham Electoral Rolls in the 1930s
« on: Tuesday 22 July 08 08:58 BST (UK)  »
The archives section of the present-day London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham lists electoral rolls among their holdings from 1885 to 1964.  Contact them at archives@lbhf.gov.uk or you can visit them at 191 Talgarth Road W6 6BJ, (open Mon, Tues, Thurs and 2nd and 4th Sats).

To visit their web page go to www.lbhf.gov.uk then select "Leisure and Culture", next "Local History and Heritage" and then the link for "archives and local history" pages.  Good luck

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: 1806 . Mrs Bayley's. Brook Green house
« on: Tuesday 03 June 08 10:36 BST (UK)  »
Brook Green is in the present day London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.  You could try their archives and local history service - email at archives@lbhf.gov.uk or find them via the website www.lbhf.gov.uk and then "Leisure and Culture" - "Libraries" - "Archives"

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Henry Chard and Emily Eaton
« on: Friday 18 April 08 10:13 BST (UK)  »
Wonder whether your Eaton family might connect to mine?  I have a 3x Grt Grandmother Frances Celia (or possibly Cecilia) Eaton who married in St Andrews, Holborn in 1817 (to an Isaac Cuthbertson).  Unfortunately I don't know anything about her parents but as Holborn is between the Pancras and Shoreditch districts, and it's not a very common surname, maybe there's a link?

Best wishes, Sharon

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The Common Room / Re: UK genealogy photo archive websites?
« on: Monday 31 March 08 10:50 BST (UK)  »
There's also The Genealogy Photograph Exchange, specifically for the UK: http://genealogyphotos0.tripod.com 

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: victoria high school
« on: Sunday 16 March 08 18:11 GMT (UK)  »
Gospel Oak is in the modern day borough of Camden, so try their local history staff - normally very helpful: www.camden.gov.uk - select "Leisure" then "Local history".

Sharon

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: COLLINS family Enfield/Southgate
« on: Sunday 16 March 08 11:41 GMT (UK)  »
Seeing as Jack Joshua was a butcher, with several sons, I wonder if your family might have been the Collins Bros who ran a butchers by that name on Chase Side, Southgate?  It was to the left of the Crown Hotel, near Chase Side's junction with Crown Lane.  It disappeared in 1963 when both premises were redeveloped into shops with offices above.

I never knew it personally but have the local history book "Southgate, A Glimpse into the Past" (1987) by Alan Dumayne and with so many Collins on your list, it seemed worth a check of its index!  The book has a photo of it too.

You might be able to get more info via the local history staff for the modern day borough of Enfield - www.enfield.gov.uk then select "Leisure and Culture" from the list on the left, then "Local history and heritage".  They might be able to check street or telephone directories, rate payers records or the electoral roll (the butchers had an upper floor so someone may have lived above the shop).  I know they have the same book there.

Good luck, Sharon

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Chester Mews 1865
« on: Sunday 16 March 08 11:11 GMT (UK)  »
Try the local archive staff for the modern day borough of Camden, they're normally very helpful: www.camden.gov.uk/local studies - a contact list at the bottom takes you to their email.  The eastern third of Regents Park comes under that borough now and the Pancras registration district generally ties up with Camden.  (The rest is in modern day Westminster).

But it may have gone - I have the local history society's book covering all the streets in that area and it gives a Chester Arms / Close / Cottage / Court / Gate / Place and Terrace - but no Mews!  Still, more reason to think this is the right area and you may at least be able to find out where it was.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Why research your family tree???
« on: Sunday 09 March 08 17:15 GMT (UK)  »
I started about a year after both my parents died, it suddenly interested me after going through the family papers and photos.  I remembered that the 1901 census website was reputedly working well by then and started there.  Of course it meant the frustration of beginning just after I'd lost two of my best sources of info.

I've always enjoyed history, especially social and local history, and researching my family covers both but makes it personal and so much more interesting for that.  Plus, I love the sense of reaching back into the past, identifying a completely ordinary, obscure individual and making them matter again.  There's the detective, puzzle-solving impulse and wondering what other info is out there somewhere.

Also, I like being part of a community where complete strangers go out of their way to be so helpful to each other - it seems to attract very nice people!


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