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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5osu4GIdFoc

 St John's churchyard  was needed to make way for a new ring-road around Bradford city in the 1970's
- there has been questions from none local or distant ancestry researches as to where the grave body remains were re interred and headstones put

All answered in video on you tube in link (bottom right box in video click skip after 5 seconds of the advert to see the video of St John's church)

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I came across this website browsing for other ancestry info.

Holy Trinity's Church burial ground, Holmfirth, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England

There are about say 50 to 70 grave Headstone on Flat-stones propped up against a wall and a few in the paths in the old burial ground now a memorial park.

https://www.gravestonephotos.com/public/cemetery.php?cemetery=1812


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Has anybody else en-counted this in other register offices

There is a post on a thread about a birth not in the GRO indexes though there was baptism at the Cathedral Sheffield with date of birth given on the baptism,
I've had the problem before in my own town with a BMD event not in the GRO indexes nationally but our own local town register office had their own indexes with their event number and found my missing burial. They gave me the index number so I could order an event certificate.

It was a nice morning today in Huddersfield, with my packed sandwiches, free bus pass, a pre study of bus times

I set off to town, then Holmfirth for the none stop bus to Barnsley, then X17 the limited stop bus that goes on the motorway to Sheffield that stops near the Sheffield register office. I explained about the missing birth off the GRO indexes, the baptism details with the D O B on it and about the family history researcher living in Spain, hence me enquiring in person.  I asked for their index numbers of the event for the chap in Spain. I can't give any details till you fill out a form to order a certificate- Was the chap in Spain born in Sheffield- don't know I said- he'll need proof he was born in Sheffield.

I just walked away in disgust saying to other people waiting. I never heard so much bureaucratic waffling in my 73 years





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So ! as subject matter.

So! of those 19th values carried on well into the mid 20th century right into the 1960s when I was a teenager.

Sat thinking back as ones does  ;D ;D ;D

In short!  the saying "Something you would not put your foot in" was how that lot of the better off's treat poor people, with the generations of the descendants  trying to keep their forebears way of life style going.  Things had improved after WW1 where servants would not go back to that way of life with new better jobs and living their own valued stands of beneficial living - a way form living on the job to serve other people with money ?  which made them a better person because of their wealth not their achievement or other values.

After WW2 nearly everyone was skint  ::) except the few with passed down the generations inherited money, even in that day & age in the 1940's right into the 1960's these descendant of the bigone Victorian/Edwardian upper-class age and values were trying to rekindle it.

 My father was by trade an Blacksmith taught by his father (Father to son as Blacksmiths in the same village of Almondbury near Huddersfield back to the mid 1500's in parish records, the parish church grave headstone epitaph MI's and Archive doc's) but went into the armyi nstead for 30 years in the Royal engineers, After demobilization in 1946/7 because he had bad chest was advised to do an outside job by his doctor and got a job as a car driver (The Victorian/Edwardian decendant's had a name for the job -a Chauffeur with a uniform) come  gardener - but the pay way poor £7 a week and dad had to find a job in a factory as an engineer turner getting £ 25 a week also overtime pay up to £40 a week in all. (£40 estimated about £1,000  a week today). The  chauffer gardening job boss said to dad he would lose out on money in his will which was still written in the will after the bosses death some years later which dad was left and still got a £100

In 1960's dad did a bit of gardening for ex army officer he knew well that( a kind up to-date man) he was under in the army, but the officers mother who was in her late 90's that was brought up in the Edwardian age and the officer sister - both use to treat dad - like that stuff you would not tread in and called by his surname like they did  servants in bi-gone days - anyway I was 17 at the time dong an apprenticeship at dads engineering factory also had an old banger car that I tinkered with,  this officer sister got to known  about me and ask dad if i could hammer out a dent under the chrome bumper of her car and repaint the dent with underseal paint which i had a can of, the sister had been given an estimated repair bill of £1O to repair the big dent & repaint it at a local garage. (No Thanking me for doing the joby) She never commented what she thought of my repair or work- but instead treated me like a child talking to dad in his surname - maybe be your son would like an icecream and gave me a three- penny bit while patting me on the head like a dog. :-[

Any other stories similar out there.  ???



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 Remembering National Service by the British Legion Tuesday 16th May 2023 at the National Memorial Arboretum UK

This maybe of interest to families with senior members aged in their 80's and 90's or may have stories from their late family members that did national service between 1945 to 1963 aged 17 to 21 years old at the time.

https://www.britishlegion.org.uk/get-involved/remembrance/remembrance-events/remembering-national-service

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My mother married dad in 1939 just before WW2, she had given up her job of 14 years as an only live in maid servant of a lower middleclass household who could only afford one servant, mum had to do everything from cleaning, cook, washing, nanny, to dish washer-upper and answer the door or phone.
 
The lady of mums old household had found another maid but she  had to go in the land army and the lady was left like many with no servant. Mum had her rent paid by dads old employer, as dad was a gardener servant before the war, provided dad went back to work for his old employer after his time in the army in WW2.

 After mum had  - had my elder brother as  baby in 1940, a posh woman knocked at the door, being mums ex employer with a scheme to put to mum, that she should come back to work for her as a live in maid/nanny to her children when home for boarding school plus mums baby/general house work - Also  give the posh lady her ration cards saying it was mums duty to the war effort and could be in trouble if she refused.

I dare not  ;D put to paper mums answer.

Any similar tales  ???

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Edward Beaumont death June 1693 Almondbury - 8th July 1693 Administration

Spelling as written on Admin document

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The Lighter Side / Mean bosses
« on: Thursday 16 June 22 14:28 BST (UK)  »
I'm trying to bed in my new partial false teeth in at the moment but it got me thinking about my mother who was a cook, cleaner and nanny as their only maid to a small mill owner's wife in Huddersfield Yorkshire about 1930 ish. What I remember her telling me about when she had toothache bad once but the rest of her teeth were fairly OK. The mill owner boss said if she did not have her teeth removed and have false ones fitted which they paid for but took a small amount out of he pay each week till they were paid for (No NHS them days) or she would get the sack and she had worked for them on her own for 14 years. One year mum had saved her days off so she could have few days at her parents house in Derbyshire (or home) one weekend but the millowners wife sent her a telegram to come back as they needed her to fetch the shopping as the wife was a lazy sod to do it herself. In someways I think these superrich people want them days back.

Comments/family tales or story's on them times welcome

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Technical Help / Negative back to positive
« on: Wednesday 22 December 21 11:31 GMT (UK)  »
I've got a copy of parish church register marriage from our local library off a micro fiche but its in negative black background and  its been that long since I did a reverse to positive white background I've forgot how to reverse the image.

any advice welcome.

Thanks.

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