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Technical Help / Bona fida email address?
« on: Monday 31 May 10 17:43 BST (UK)  »
Hello - I'm seeking some advice about an email address.

Someone has contacted me about a family in my tree.  They found an old query of mine on Ancestry, and then made contact through the contact box on my website.  I'm not 100% sure about validity of the email address.  For the sake of the explanation, I'll use my handle:

boosh@inode.at

That's it!  ???  It looks a bit odd to me. I'd like to make contact, but I'd hate to open up a can of worms, or am I being too cautious?   Any wise words gratefully received. 

Thanks

Pip

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Armed Forces / Regiment query
« on: Sunday 10 January 10 11:42 GMT (UK)  »
I have come across two army photocards both of which display 'H.A.S.D'. 

The first photo has H.A.S.D written on the reverse, along with 'Oct 1917 Boys of A32 Hut ' Then it has W???all Down Camp Winchester.

The second card is of a 5-row deep group of soldiers.  The sign at the front of the officers reads 'Staff of H.A.S.D.'.  In between the A and S is an artillery gun. 

Can anyone identify the HASD bit for me?

With thanks

Pip

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Photo dating Mr Whiteman
« on: Friday 18 December 09 15:56 GMT (UK)  »
Yuletide felicitations to you  :)

Any suggestions when this photo might have been taken?  There are several Williams with the same surname in my tree and I am trying to identify which one it could be, I'd say he was in 30s/early 40s.  What do you think?

Many thanks

Pip

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The Common Room / Shropshire to Montreal
« on: Friday 10 July 09 14:22 BST (UK)  »
Hi, I'm hoping someone may be able to enlighten me and perhaps give me a history lesson!

One of my 4x great grandfathers Edward Haynes and his young family made their way from Diddlebury (Shropshire) to Montreal between 1796 and 1797.  Edward died in Montreal in 1797.  His widow and children made their way back to Shropshire. 

Edward left £200 with his father in law Richard Beddoes; this fact was raised in the latter’s will and the money was for Edward’s two daughters.  Was he about to embark on something perilous? 

I’m not looking for information about the family specifically, but I am wondering as to the possible reasons why they (or anyone else from the UK for that matter) went to Montreal at that time.  (By the by, Edward’s forebears were farmers.)

Any ideas?

Thanks, Pip

(My apologies if I have posted this in the wrong section.)

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Antrim Completed Look up Requests / York Street - Belfast
« on: Sunday 14 June 09 08:24 BST (UK)  »
Hello

I having been looking in to a family called Gordon who were living in Belfast from the 1850s.   I have established that they were originally from Dumfries.  Father James and son Charles Duncan Gordon were Professors of music and dance.  I have looked at the street directories and they ran their businesses from York Street. 

So here’s my question.  Can anyone tell me what the area in and around York Street would have been like in Victorian times? 

By the by, I’m not sure if the title ‘professor’ was genuine or one that they bestowed upon themselves as a marketing ploy to get a ‘better class’ of client.  In 1837, James was in Dumfries and he was a ‘teacher of dancing’.   Am I being too cynical?  ;)

With thanks

Pip

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Completed Census Requests / Tree sharing on Ancestry - Completed
« on: Saturday 07 February 09 10:39 GMT (UK)  »
Morning!

This is probably going to sound lke a bit of a daft query to some of you...

There's the facility on Ancestry to share your tree with others.  I'm not sure too if this means I can share it with persons who do not subscribe to Ancestry or are not in my tree (living ofcourse ;D).  Thought I'd check within the 'safety' of RC before attempting it. 

Thanks

Pip

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Lincolnshire / Lincoln - Silver Street
« on: Sunday 14 December 08 13:25 GMT (UK)  »
Hi

I know that a church was situated at St Peter at Arches (Silver Street) which was built in the 1700s and subsequently removed in the 1930s. 

But does anyone know what was there before it? 

Thanks

Boosh

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Shropshire / Parents of Elizabeth Beddoes
« on: Sunday 21 September 08 17:15 BST (UK)  »
Hi

I’m looking for the parents of Elizabeth BEDDOES.  She married Thomas WHITEMAN on 25 February 1813 in Culmington (found on IGI).  She died in 1856 aged 63 so that makes her birth year about 1794.  The 1851 census gives her place of birth as Shropshire (helpful!).  She and Thomas had the following children:

Mary
Anne
Thomas
Richard
Francis Edward
John
Henry

Any suggestions gratefully received.

Thanks

Pip

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Somerset / Knowledge of Curry Rivel needed
« on: Friday 08 August 08 11:01 BST (UK)  »
I have a little mystery in my tree – who hasn’t!

In the 1881 census for Curry Rivel, Wiltown, (RG11/2382) there is an Emily K Whiteman (born about 1867 in Ipswich, Suffolk) listed as a boarder/scholar.   Was the place she was staying at a school? 

I can’t see an immediate family connection to the area.  Why would a young lady be sent there when her mother was living in Carshalton in Surrey with her second husband Alfred, also Suffolk born?   

Can anyone provide any information on the establishment?  It was run by a mother and daughter Mary A Glyde (56), school mistress, and Mary Glyde, governess (21).  I've looked in trade directories but have drawn a blank. 

Thanks

Pip

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