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Bedfordshire Resources & Offers / Ancestry - Bedfordshire Electoral Registers
« on: Thursday 13 April 17 15:06 BST (UK)  »
Ancestry has published Bedfordshire Electoral Registers 1832-1986
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=61264

Subscribers only, unfortunately.

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Bedfordshire Resources & Offers / Bedford Registration District Marriage Index (July 1837 - March 1901)
« on: Wednesday 19 June 13 16:17 BST (UK)  »
I've added a complete index to my marriages page, so it should now be much
easier to locate specific marriages.

Unfortunately, I've run out of space on my old website, so I've set up a new
one.
This can now be found at
http://www.stevengibbs.me.uk/ParishRegistersPage.htm

I will try to ensure that the old page still works, but if you had
bookmarked it, please alter that bookmark.  I'll only be adding new content
to the new site (but I'll try to remember to add links to the old site.)

(I wanted to add this to the previous thread
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,640373.0.html
but that thread is locked  ??? )

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Bedfordshire / Mary JEFFS/GENTLE & Ann BURLEY in Stotfold
« on: Thursday 17 January 08 17:27 GMT (UK)  »
I was wondering in someone could cast a fresh pair of eyes over this.  (Perhaps this might be better on the Huntingdonshire board, as it straddles the two counties.)

I have this 1851 census entry

1851 Census:  Stotfold, Bedfordshire
Piece: HO107/1753  Folio: 333  Page: 24
Dwelling:
James GENTLE M 59  M Stotfold, Bedfordshire
Rel: Head
Occ: Ag lab
Mary GENTLE M 57  F Eaton, Huntingdonshire
Rel: Wife
Ruth GENTLE U 22  F Stotfold, Huntingdonshire
Rel: Daughter
Ann BURLEY W 63  F Bushmead, Huntingdonshire
Rel: Sister in law
Elizabeth JEFFS U 3  F Stotfold, Bedfordshire
Rel: Granddaughter

Mary Gentle was originally Mary JEFFS from Abbotsley, Huntingdonshire, and was the second wife of James Gentle.  I am completely flummoxed by the Abbotsley Jeffs family, as I cannot find their origins at all.  I've been hoping that Ann Burley might be her sister, but I cannot find any reference to her anywhere else.

The Abbotsley registers give a 1781 marriage of John Jeffs of Eynesbury to Mary Beale, but no children of this marriage.  Mary was buried 1799, and John 1827.  There are no records of this pair having any children.  Also in Abbotsley was Joseph Jeffs, born c1797, died 1837.  I had assumed that Joseph and the younger Mary were siblings, children of these two, but the 1841 census suggests differently.

1841 Census:  Stotfold, Bedfordshire
Piece: HO107/3/16  Folio: 8  Page: 11
Dwelling:
James GENTLE  45  M Bedfordshire
Occ: Ag lab
Mary GENTLE  45  F Bedfordshire
Sarah GENTLE  15  F Bedfordshire
Ruth GENTLE  13  F Bedfordshire
Elizabeth JEFFS  85  F Outside Bedfordshire
John JEFFS  15  M Bedfordshire

I have no record of any Jeffs at all around Eaton Socon or Bushmead in the late 18th century.  Nor do I have an Elizabeth Jeffs in Huntingdonshire of anything like the correct age.  Does anyone have any ideas?



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How to Use RootsChat (Please don't post requests here) / RootsChat notifications = Spam ??
« on: Thursday 24 August 06 14:52 BST (UK)  »
I'm getting a lot of RootsChat notifications that ARE spam.

My last three notifications are:-

A new topic, 'leading representative organisation for people', has been made on a board you are watching.

A new topic, 'Girl of your dream looking for love', has been made on a board you are watching.

A new topic, 'I'm really in sync', has been made on a board you are watching.

All of these arrived today.

How is it that the spammers are able to set up RootsChat accounts?

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