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Banffshire / Re: Andrew Fraser b 1786 Banff
« on: Thursday 14 August 14 16:06 BST (UK) »
Oops - meant to say birthplace is given as Keith in Banffshire
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Banffshire / Andrew Fraser b 1786 Banff
« on: Thursday 14 August 14 15:54 BST (UK) »
I have an Andrew Fraser born in Banff in 1786 according to his military record
There are so many Fraser families that I am bewildered
Can anyone help track down his birth / parents?
Many thanks
Lesley
There are so many Fraser families that I am bewildered
Can anyone help track down his birth / parents?
Many thanks
Lesley
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Hampshire & IOW Lookup Requests / Re: District Schools, Crondall.
« on: Wednesday 30 July 14 10:06 BST (UK) »
Not sure if wimble hill is the same as hartley Witney poor school?
My gran and her siblings grew up in this poor school at crondall in late 1800s after her mum fell on hard times
There are pics here http://www.workhouses.org.uk/FarnhamSD/
I went to Winchester records office and they have all sorts of registers with names of all the child inmates, visitors books and timetables of how children spent their days - starting about six am with boot cleaning and potato peeling etc - and with different chores every hour all through the day - and they were given a score for their abilities on various housework tasks etc from about age 5..... All rather heartbreaking - but actually they all managed to stay in touch with their mum (who was a music hall artiste and did not have a very reliable income) and they all went on to get 'good' jobs in service, to marry and have families- and moved on to have pretty good lives on the whole. Better than the generation before them in any case.
Lx
My gran and her siblings grew up in this poor school at crondall in late 1800s after her mum fell on hard times
There are pics here http://www.workhouses.org.uk/FarnhamSD/
I went to Winchester records office and they have all sorts of registers with names of all the child inmates, visitors books and timetables of how children spent their days - starting about six am with boot cleaning and potato peeling etc - and with different chores every hour all through the day - and they were given a score for their abilities on various housework tasks etc from about age 5..... All rather heartbreaking - but actually they all managed to stay in touch with their mum (who was a music hall artiste and did not have a very reliable income) and they all went on to get 'good' jobs in service, to marry and have families- and moved on to have pretty good lives on the whole. Better than the generation before them in any case.
Lx
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Somerset Lookup Requests / Re: Anne merrick William Brett marriage 1818
« on: Sunday 24 February 13 11:36 GMT (UK) »
Thank you so much for explaining that.
I will contact Bath RO and see if I can get them to send me a photo of the entry... It is a long shot but names of witnesses might help....
I am trying to find where my ancestor William Brett came from - married to an Ann (maiden name and origins unknown).
My problem is that we have got back to a William Brett who appears with his wife Ann and starts his family in Windsor area in 1821 - we have lots of info on him from his first appearance there at that time and he variously works as a schoolmaster, secretary to a bank, a public writer and is on every local committee and later retires as a 'gentleman'. He has close and long lasting associations with the Keene family and with a man called John Nash - becoming guardian to his son at one point. William's son (who dies soon after his father) leaves an estate of some acres with tenants which is sold and his sisters become annuitants. Ages at death means William must have been born in about 1777 and Ann in 1796. I figure from their ages that they must have likely married between between about 1812 and 1821 when their first child is born. More likely nearer the 1821 end. And I figure William probably came from at least a middle class family or was a younger son of a more wealthy family?? They might well have been the sort of family who holidayed in Bath....
In all the documentation we have amassed there is no clue to Ann's maiden name or to where William or Ann were born or their parentage.
I know a lot of men left the forces in late 1810s and started new lives.... So now I'm trying to look at all the William and Ann's who married in that period and at all William Bretts in the forces up to 1820ish to see if anything at all matches up.
This marriage seems a possible candidate.... A young man from London and a romance and marriage in Bath might fit.... But I need to find out some more....
I will ask Bath RO for a photo of the entry and try to decipher any witnesses in hopes they are family or known associates and I will try and trace back this William in London and this Ann Merrick and see if any of the details fit together....
It is just fantastic that so much info - and help - is available online - and that there is even more to come.
Many thanks
Lesley
I will contact Bath RO and see if I can get them to send me a photo of the entry... It is a long shot but names of witnesses might help....
I am trying to find where my ancestor William Brett came from - married to an Ann (maiden name and origins unknown).
My problem is that we have got back to a William Brett who appears with his wife Ann and starts his family in Windsor area in 1821 - we have lots of info on him from his first appearance there at that time and he variously works as a schoolmaster, secretary to a bank, a public writer and is on every local committee and later retires as a 'gentleman'. He has close and long lasting associations with the Keene family and with a man called John Nash - becoming guardian to his son at one point. William's son (who dies soon after his father) leaves an estate of some acres with tenants which is sold and his sisters become annuitants. Ages at death means William must have been born in about 1777 and Ann in 1796. I figure from their ages that they must have likely married between between about 1812 and 1821 when their first child is born. More likely nearer the 1821 end. And I figure William probably came from at least a middle class family or was a younger son of a more wealthy family?? They might well have been the sort of family who holidayed in Bath....
In all the documentation we have amassed there is no clue to Ann's maiden name or to where William or Ann were born or their parentage.
I know a lot of men left the forces in late 1810s and started new lives.... So now I'm trying to look at all the William and Ann's who married in that period and at all William Bretts in the forces up to 1820ish to see if anything at all matches up.
This marriage seems a possible candidate.... A young man from London and a romance and marriage in Bath might fit.... But I need to find out some more....
I will ask Bath RO for a photo of the entry and try to decipher any witnesses in hopes they are family or known associates and I will try and trace back this William in London and this Ann Merrick and see if any of the details fit together....
It is just fantastic that so much info - and help - is available online - and that there is even more to come.
Many thanks
Lesley
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Somerset Lookup Requests / Re: Anne merrick William Brett marriage 1818
« on: Thursday 21 February 13 17:29 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Rosie
do you know if there any way to see if parents or witnesses or addresses are recorded?
- or anything else at all?
Lesley
do you know if there any way to see if parents or witnesses or addresses are recorded?
- or anything else at all?
Lesley
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Somerset Lookup Requests / Anne MERRICK William BRETT marriage 1818
« on: Thursday 21 February 13 15:43 GMT (UK) »
Does anyone have access to the full details of this marriage at walcot St Mary Chapel 28 march 1818?
Many thanks
Lesley
Many thanks
Lesley
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The Common Room / Re: Looking for info on a merchant ship - Miltiades July 1899
« on: Friday 05 August 11 17:10 BST (UK) »
Hi I am just wondering if this could be 'my' John Ilett - he was married to Mary Ann Noakes and had a number of children with her in East end of London but he disappeared from his family life at some point...... My grandfather and great aunts had fond memories of Mary Ann but she made them think badly of him. I had the impression he ran off - but maybe this was him and he died.....
I got intrigued by your post and googled around about the ship. I found several images if you would like links to them -but nothing about any deaths off the coast of chile... I wonder what exactly happened? And wherever /however did you manage to find the info?
All the best
Lesley
Lesley
I got intrigued by your post and googled around about the ship. I found several images if you would like links to them -but nothing about any deaths off the coast of chile... I wonder what exactly happened? And wherever /however did you manage to find the info?
All the best
Lesley
Lesley
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