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Other Countries / Re: Lucilla Herbert Mullins (Millins)
« on: Saturday 25 July 15 17:53 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for all that hard work ShaunJ,
I wouldn't have known where to start. I had some vague idea of checking if there were census' on Barbados, and if so when & who could I find, but you've covered most of the unanswered questions, and I never thought that the family may end up in India, so once again thanks.
Bob

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Other Countries / Re: Lucilla Herbert Mullins (Millins)
« on: Friday 24 July 15 15:53 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Shaun very interesting.

Bob

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Other Countries / Re: Lucilla Herbert Mullins (Millins)
« on: Friday 24 July 15 13:31 BST (UK)  »
Hi Liffyb,
My partner is a direct descendant of William Nelson, and I found Lucilla working in a pub in the 1881 census where she was listed as Servant, or could this be 'barmaid' age 19, and a birthplace as NK (meaning Not Known), India.
This was the 'Cow & Hare' in Heigham St, Norwich. My guess was she met William as a customer in the pub. They married in 1884 and gave her occupation as a Silk Winder, and her father as Charles Mullins (deceased). My next guess is she was illiterate (as most were at that time), and couldn't read what was being entered in any case, even if she knew the difference between the West Indies & India.
She and William had 5 children, one of which was my partners grandfather. Other branches of the family still live in the Norwich area. Also of interest is that his father was lilled in an explosion in a Norwich street in 1876, and a distant member of the family sent me a copy of the newspaper report.
Bob

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Nottinghamshire Lookup Requests / Prison Records for Nottingham
« on: Friday 20 June 14 11:09 BST (UK)  »
Hi,
My gt grandfather William Gabb (b.1851 in Gloucs.) seems to have been sent to prison several times starting in 1887, again in 1890, and 1899. He is missing from the 1901, and also the 1911. Where is the best place to find these records.

Bob

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Nottingham Completed Lookup Requests / William Gabb in prison in 1891 why?
« on: Wednesday 18 June 14 11:40 BST (UK)  »
Hi,
Many years ago a Rootschatter established that my Gt Grandfather William Gabb b.1851 in Berkeley, Gloucestershire in 1851 was in prison in 1891. He was a policeman in Mansfield in 1881, but his family (wife Elizabet, children William Arthur & Edith Mary) were living in Beeston in 1891. I've just discovered that he was charged with 3 counts of receiving money under false pretences in December 1887, and was sentenced to 9months in prison on one count. No further trace in the courts can be found. So why was he still in St Mary's Nottm Prison in 1891?
Can anyone unravel this mystery?
Bob

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Durham Lookup Requests / Edward Davison 1850-1914 Where was he born
« on: Wednesday 11 June 14 18:35 BST (UK)  »
Hi Rootschatters,

My newly found 3rd cousin who lives in the Hartlepool area, and who was able to get lots of family history from her local family, has had trouble in finding a birth for her Gt Grandfather Edward Davison, the brother of my Gt Grandfather John Thomas Davison.

Edward was allegedly born in 1850 had a sister Anne born in Feb 9th 1851 at Shincliffe, (we have the birth cert) to William Davison and Elizabeth Davison formerly Scott. The were both christened (according to the LDS) on April 20th 1851. However we have not been able to find a convincing birth for Edward. On the 1881 census (miss read as Davinson) he gives Ledgate as his birthplace, and in 1901 he gives Consett. In 1911, by now in the workhouse he gives Ledgate again.

I got it totally wrong, but my cousin having family evidence has purchased birth certs for Edward born 28/10/1850 in West Auckland, and Edward born 15/5/1850 in Mordon (my choice), but both of these have the wrong parents.

Would anyone have a clue as to what has happened here, because I'm stumped, and can think of no legal means by which my gt gt grandparent acquired 2 children apparently born less than 9 months apart.

Bob

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Sussex / Re: Is There a Helpful person in Eastbourne
« on: Tuesday 29 May 12 11:16 BST (UK)  »
Thanks to all the above,

I obtained a cemetery map and location of my Gt Grandmothers grave back in 2004, and Magrat very kindly went along and photographed the headstone at her own expense (refusing all offers of recompense).

I eventually discovered that my Gt Grandmother died in Croydon where she was visiting her husbands sister, (who I had also lost after she disappeared from the Northeast). Croydon library very kindly looked in their records and confirmed that a Jane Davison died there in 1927 at the address my Grandfather moved to from Scotland in 1914. The death certificate confirmed that it was indeed my Gt Grandmother, and the reason for her visits to Croydon as her death was reported by her niece.

My father knew nothing of this, although he was 9 at the time.

Anyway, thanks all.

Bob

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Other Countries / Re: Tracing a Birth in Barbados
« on: Tuesday 29 May 12 10:45 BST (UK)  »
Yes thanks hoolianama0508,

The system (if you can remember what the strange messages mean) works well as is evidenced by this reply to my first posting in 2004, and I can only thank you once again for your diligence and having the courtesy to try and let me know.

I will now be able to possibly advance what I know of Lucilla, which wasn't much.

Bob

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Other Countries / Re: Birth in Tundla Parish, Luchnow India in 1895
« on: Friday 07 October 11 11:00 BST (UK)  »
Hi Claire,

That more than helps, thanks.

Bob

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