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The Common Room / Looking for a death record
« on: Thursday 23 June 22 09:47 BST (UK)  »
I would like to know why I have been unable to find any death record for Charles Percy Liversidge. last heard of in Liverpool in 1903/04, single and employed by the Lancs & Yorks Assurance Society, later part of Aviva.  Family folklore stated fairly categorically that he had committed suicide.

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The Common Room / Is Ance$try losing the plot (again) ?
« on: Thursday 24 February 22 09:40 GMT (UK)  »
Yesterday at about 6pm I got one plausible hit for a particular person while searching B, M, D and Parish.  Later that evening I continued searching for others in the same way, and got a series of no hits at all, which surprised me rather - so I looked again for the earlier (6pm) hit.  No luck - so what has happened to the data sets, or the search criteria ?

This morning I looked again for this same person, in a global search (all categories).  Still no sign, so where has everything gone ?  There's not much value in a useless sub, is there ?

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The Common Room / When was an Irish minor not a minor ?
« on: Friday 18 February 22 15:52 GMT (UK)  »
For many years one of the few fixed points in my grandfather's Irish origins was a February 1870 marriage in Cork city between J W Tarr and Margaret Jane Mulhall, who was stated to be a 'minor'.  Her parents married in Dungarvan in 1843 and died there in 1891 and 1908.  Margaret Jane also died there in 1916; her 1911 census form said that she was then 60 and born in Kilkenny - that age looked plausible if she had been nearly 21 when she married, but Kilkenny seemed less likely.

Her mother was about 33 when she married, so I was not surprised that Margaret seemed to have no siblings.  Today another jigsaw piece has surfaced on Roots Ireland, which confirms her Methodist baptism in Kilkenny in June 1845, with correct name and parentage, and plausibly closer to her parents' marriage.  However that would mean she was just short of her 25th birthday when she married in early 1870.  Was the Irish age of marital majority 25 in 1870 - or did it just mean she was marrying without parents' consent ?

But if she was, why did her father sign the register ?

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The Common Room / A question of timing
« on: Sunday 30 January 22 17:16 GMT (UK)  »
We are told that the forms for the 1921 census would record people's whereabouts on June 20th.  I have found a couple, one on Tyneside, the other in London, who managed to register their marriage in Lambeth in quarter 2 (April-June).  That must have been smart work, but I suppose it will have helped being registered in London.  I must get the cert to find out how soon after census day they married ....

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The Common Room / GRO births peculiarity
« on: Wednesday 26 January 22 10:41 GMT (UK)  »
I have tripped over a quirk which I assume may follow from their recent changes.  I can enter father's surname and MMN, and choose gender of child, leaving district blank.  Choosing 1923 ± 2 years I find nothing.  Asking for 1924 ± 2 years I get hundreds, probably thousands, of the correct gender and date range (1922-26).  Presumably there is no MMN data somewhere for extraction.

Any theories ?

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The Common Room / Was there a purge ?
« on: Monday 02 November 20 17:52 GMT (UK)  »
I am transcribing Catholic marriage records for what seems to have been an Irish ghetto in 1880s Liverpool.  Typically there are about 30 per year.  For May to September 1885 there were one or two per month.  Then in October we find no fewer than 18 (yes, eighteen) marriages with a few more in November, after which things return to normal.  Most of these couples give addresses in just two streets.  I wonder if the local priests (or bishop) decided that a den of iniquity was in progress and sent in a task force ?

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The Common Room / Possibly German marriage
« on: Saturday 02 May 20 09:50 BST (UK)  »
A peripheral member of my tree married a young German woman about 1875, possibly/probably in Hamburg.  Is there an online source where I might confirm this?

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Northumberland / A Northumberland puzzle
« on: Friday 10 April 20 17:44 BST (UK)  »
I can make no sense of the birthplace of Thomas Anderson, b.1818, on the 1861 census.  The previous census shows it as St. Johnley, meaning St.John Lee, a defunct parish just across the Tyne from Hexham.  Twenty years later it becomes Brunton, a hamlet a few miles north, across the river from Chollerford.  But in between it appears to be Sutold.  I have scoured the old 25-inch map for anything resembling this word - what can the enumerator have meant ? (the transcriber didn't attempt anything either)  >:(

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The Lighter Side / Early Scouse humour?
« on: Saturday 25 January 20 17:51 GMT (UK)  »
I have just transcribed a Liverpool baptism in early 1730:  A James West named his son North.  I wonder why?

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