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Armed Forces / Casualties of Napoleonic wars -- named anywhere?
« on: Wednesday 31 May 23 05:46 BST (UK)  »
I know there were many, many deaths during the Napoleonic wars. Does anyone know if there are lists naming British army casualties for that period? I'm looking for a particular man who joined up in 1799, aged about 21, who is identified as being a soldier on family wills dated in the early 1800s. I haven't found a death for him in parish records, so wondered if he died on a battlefield somewhere.
Any suggestions?
Thanks

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Radnorshire / Powys Archives Catalogue offline?
« on: Wednesday 03 May 23 06:07 BST (UK)  »
I used to be able to search the Powys archives database online. Recently, they changed their website, which is now called StoriPowys. I have tried clicking on the links to the archives in the new website but haven't been able to get through.
Has anyone else had this problem?


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Technical Help / Best platform for sharing photos?
« on: Sunday 09 October 22 02:21 BST (UK)  »
I have 19th century family photos I'd like to share privately with selected interested relatives overseas. I don't use any of the photo sharing apps, so don't know what they are like. Can anyone suggest one that would allow me to make photos available by invitation, but not to the whole world? It would be good to be able to add information about the photos, and perhaps scan or otherwise display several together for comparison.
Thanks for any suggestions.


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Down / Electoral registers County Down after 1940
« on: Monday 26 September 22 00:42 BST (UK)  »
I have found a home address for William Price, a draper, at Seacliffe Road in Bangor, County Down. The address is  mentioned in the newspaper when his mother-in-law died in 1940. So far, this is the only record I have found for him or members of his immediate family after about 1920, when his eldest child was born. I have gathered quite a bit of information on his earlier life, and am not looking for more about that, but I want to know what became of him after 1940, when he was already about 56 years old.
My questions:
1. Are there electoral registers available for Bangor, County Down, from 1940 on?
2. If so, are they available online? Where?
It's possible that this family emigrated, but looking at electoral registers might help to establish how long they lived on Seacliffe road.
Thanks for any suggestions of sources.
Liza115


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Kent / Is this 'my' Emma Stanley PRICE?
« on: Sunday 26 June 22 01:28 BST (UK)  »
I think I have tracked an elusive relation to Blean, Canterbury in Kent, but I am looking for confirmation. Emma Stanley Price was born in Coleraine, Londonderry, Ireland in 1882. She is listed living with her mother and sister in the Ireland censuses for 1901 and 1911. She was a VAD nurse during WW1, stationed at Napsbury Miltary Hospital and later at a military hospital in Egypt. In the 1921 census, she appears to be at Blean in Canterbury, in the household of Dr Archdale Lloyd Sharpin, although I haven't been able to see the census image yet. It looks like she and the doctor married in the September quarter of 1929, after his wife died. That Emma died of cancer two years later, aged 48, at Blean and is buried beside Archdale Sharpin at Herne Bay cemetery.
To confirm that this is indeed the Emma Stanley Price I am looking for, I want to check details about the marriage, specifically her father's name and occupation, which I know from other sources, and also the names of the witnesses, in case they are family members. Her signature, which I've seen on a family letter, is distinctive. I would like to order the marriage certificate, but with the current delays of snail mail between England and New Zealand, it could take a long time to get here. Are there any records that contain the father's and witnesses names and are available online? If Ancestry.com contains this level of detail, I can look it up at the local library, if I know it's there.

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Radnorshire / Choice of burial place
« on: Sunday 13 February 22 22:07 GMT (UK)  »
I'm wondering why a family living in one parish would bury two generations in the churchyard of the neighbouring parish instead of in their own. The Palfreys lived at Trelowgoed, near Crossgates, in Cefnllys from about 1800 until at least 1855. A father and son, both called Richard, were buried at Llanbadarn Fawr in 1807 and 1853. Their wives, who died in 1817 and 1874, were buried there too, along with descendants who lived in the parish of Llanbadarn Fawr. I can see on the map that St Padarn's churchyard (Llanbadarn Fawr) south of Crossgates is much closer to Trelowgoed than St Michael's (Cefnllys), so it would have been more convenient.
However, Richard the younger is listed as a vestryman or churchwarden at St Michael's in 1815, so he must have had some connection with the more distant church. His children were baptised at St Michael's between 1809 and 1815, and one was married there in 1835. It was still accepting burials during that period.
Could people choose where to bury their dead? I understood that single pregnant women were sent back to their parish of origin, as the parish where a baby was born had an obligation to support it in times of need, so the parish of birth was important. Were there any rules about people needing to be buried in the parish where they lived (who died at home) or was it just a matter of whichever was closest?
Just wondering.
Liz


 

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England / Where to find historic issues of "The Lady" magazine?
« on: Thursday 16 December 21 00:23 GMT (UK)  »
An ancestor of mine sailed from England to Chile to take up a job as a companion in 1907. It's not clear whether the job was for the sea journey or started when she arrived in South America.
I am wondering if she might have found it through an advertisement in 'The Lady' magazine, which seemed to be the go-to place for hiring servants. It's not among the titles available through the British Newspaper Archives. Anybody know any other historic newspaper collections that give access to 'The Lady'? I'd like to browse through the ads to see if I can spot one that might have taken her to Chile.
Thanks
Liz

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Yorkshire (West Riding) Resources & Offers / How to find a butler in Harrogate
« on: Wednesday 10 March 21 04:29 GMT (UK)  »
I'm trying to find out about Evan Thomas Davies, a distant cousin, who in the 1911 census was a butler at Eden Hall, Kelso, on the Scotland-England border. From about 1935, he lived in Harrogate, and was described as a butler. He lived at the same address on St Hilda's road from the 1930s until his death in 1970.
I'm wondering where he might have worked as a butler during that time, and how I could find out?
Any thoughts?

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The Common Room / Meaning of leasehold property
« on: Monday 08 February 21 01:17 GMT (UK)  »
One line of my ancestors were tenant farmers in Wales. In their wills, they bequeath a particular 'leasehold' cottage from father to son for three or four generations. The first will that mentions it went to probate in 1807. My grandfather wrote that this cottage was finally 'sold' by his own father (probably in the late 1800s).
Can someone explain to me how this type of land holding actually worked? On the 1834 tithe map neither the owner or occupier of the cottage appear to be my family members, although on a later census a family member is living there.
Am I right in thinking the family probably had a 99 year lease (or some other length of time) that they could pass on to heirs or sell?
Thanks for your thoughts on this.
   

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