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London and Middlesex / Re: A Sugar Refiner in Tower Hamlets originating from Hanover, Germany
« on: Thursday 04 April 24 10:58 BST (UK)  »
hi...another sugar bakers descendant here....I don't if it was the lutheran tradition or a geographical custom, but all the sons and brothers...and of course the father....in my family begin their name with the. same first name...in this case, christian.-.followed by another name...which is presumably the one they were known by in the family.....this doesn't  happen with the. girls.

a tip for anyone whose sugar. bakers seem to suddenly disappear....try Liverpool
there was a big Tate and. lyles sugar factory, which employed almost exclusively german labour....and, of course, a cake culture grew up around it....theres the famous German church, of course....my lot. started off near the Tower of London. and then moved on to. Liverpool

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London and Middlesex / Re: people working on the tube. enquiry
« on: Tuesday 02 April 24 16:38 BST (UK)  »
thank you both....its nothing scandalous, but it does throw a light on working conditions and attitudes...its just general stuff...no specific individuals involved

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London and Middlesex / people working on the tube. enquiry
« on: Saturday 30 March 24 11:15 GMT (UK)  »
is there any site, please, for people who work or worked on the tube....I had a relative who worked there and he told me some anecdotes and I want to see if. I can find out if they were true....I don't need names, I'm just interested to know if certain things are true..nothing mind blowing but. just interesting or amusing....not. going back very far.....the early. 1980s.

thanks

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Australia / Samuel. Asher-...also of nottingham
« on: Tuesday 02 January 24 16:32 GMT (UK)  »
sorry to plug another site,, but I've had a message. with questions. about sam on family tree forum from someone in Australia.

im having terrible problems logging in there, so if you are, or know, this person, please post here or. send a private message.

thanks

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Northamptonshire Resources & Offers / Re: medieval Northampton
« on: Friday 21 July 23 19:40 BST (UK)  »
sorry...its called gone medieval

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Northamptonshire Resources & Offers / medieval Northampton
« on: Friday 21 July 23 16:22 BST (UK)  »
for. anyone who's interested, there's a podcast. which argues. that Northampton was just about the most important place in england in medieval times.....havent listened to it but I'm going to.

its in a free podcast series called go medieval...ive listened to one or two and they're quite good

the are several sites...youll. have to find one where you can scroll back to the early episodes :)

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Technical Help / what is going on here
« on: Tuesday 18 July 23 19:55 BST (UK)  »
we share the. same email address and. have a. computer each and one smartphone between ....this morning my husband checked the emails and found that all the texts had been removed...the headings were still there.

on my. computer and on.the smartphone there were no problems...the emails were all there in full

5 or 6
 hours later the. emails on my husbands computer were ok again....was. this just a glitch or should we do something


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The Common Room / Re: EMMA - What names could Emma be a nickname for?
« on: Monday 10 July 23 11:57 BST (UK)  »
just on the off chance....she may have come from Germany and. have. been a Marie or Maria and tried to spell her name ....the. first two. letters would have sounded like m..aah...and that could have been enough.

ive got a case like this, where the real name was Edith and in German this sounds like ay d...and this. was registered as ada in the first couple of English records.

if she was connected to. German immigrants at this time, they dominated English sugar bakery...ie cake and. biscuit bakers

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The Common Room / Re: did someone invent this name
« on: Saturday 08 July 23 11:00 BST (UK)  »
thank you all....just shows how blinkered I've been
ive sorted it out ....to put. us all out of our misery, I didn't think that a 1977 entry would contain an incorrect anglicisation...but it does...the name. is really pitylak, as. was the person I.was looking for...they were born and died. in nottm...I don't know if they are related to any. modern pitylaks in nottm but there are. quite. a few
according to the internet, the name is Ukrainian in origin, so I. guess it could be jewish,  too, and maybe the Canadian lake was named after someone named pitylak....who knows.

now, back to my own family....

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