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Armed Forces / Making Changes to Commonwealth War Graves Records
« on: Thursday 18 June 15 18:41 BST (UK)  »
Does anyone have any experience of getting changes made to Commonwealth War Graves records and memorials?

The CWGC website says they will consider amendments if documentary evidence is supplied, but what level of evidence is needed to prove an error?

I have found someone who I believe is recorded under the wrong surname (LUCK instead of TUCK). I have copies of articles and an obituary from a local church magazine, which show his army service number, regiment and date of death.  Do you think they would be considered official enough?

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Lancashire / Seeking Confirmation of a Drowning 1754
« on: Thursday 03 April 14 18:54 BST (UK)  »
My ancestor Noah Stringfellow of Wrightington appears in several online trees which state that he drowned in the River Douglas on 19 February 1754.

I'm sure I once found a reference to this either on a newspaper archive site or an old books site, which had an extract from the journal or account book of the person who examined the body at the inquest, but I've lost the reference and can't find it again.

Are there any detectives out there who can track it down or suggest where I could look?

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Ireland / Very basic question about Irish BMD certificates
« on: Friday 20 August 10 14:52 BST (UK)  »
Sorry if I'm being a bit thick here but this is my first venture into Irish genealogy.

I've discovered from the UK National Probate Calendar that an ancestor died in Dublin in 1905. I've looked him up on the familysearch pilot site which gives me a registration district of Dublin South and also a set of reference numbers.

But www.certificates.ie  only appears to deal with deaths from 1922 onwards.

Can I apply for a copy of a death certificate either online or by post (I'm in England) from 1905 and if so what is the best way to do it?

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Lancashire / Access Lancashire parish records in London
« on: Thursday 17 June 10 16:20 BST (UK)  »
For any Lancashire researchers living in or visiting London area, you can access many of the microfilmed parish registers at the Society of Genealogists.

See
www.sog.org.uk
and look at the on-line catalogue.

If you are not a member you can pay a fee to use the library. It's open Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday.

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England / Mary Vernon died 1855. Is she the one I'm looking for?
« on: Saturday 01 May 10 18:07 BST (UK)  »
I have a death certificate for a Mary Vernon who might be someone from my tree. Can anyone help me rule her in or out?

My g g g grandfather Robert Vernon was born in Chapel-en-le-Frith Derbyshire around 1800, but lived in Lancashire from around 1835. He appears on all censuses from 1841 to 1871, first living in Crumpsall Manchester then later in Bury area. His occupation is always shown as “Paper Maker”.

Robert married 4 times. Wife number 3 was Mary Proctor. They married at St Mary’s Prestwich in 1849, and on the 1851 census they are living in Tottington (HO107/2212/folio 186). Wife number 4 was widow Mary Ann Gregory (born Mary Ann Colley). They married at St Mary’s Oldham in 1857. So (unless Robert was a bigamist) Mary number 3 must have died between 1851 and 1857.

I can’t see any obvious candidates for a Mary Vernon death in the Manchester or Bury area at this time, but there is one in Wortley, West Riding of Yorkshire in 1855. This caught my eye because Robert’s son William lived in Thurlstone (Wortley registration district) from the mid 1850s, so I got the certificate.

It is for the death in Ecclesfield Yorkshire, of Mary Vernon, aged 44 (which fits Mary’s age from the 1851 census), wife of Robert Vernon. However, Robert’s occupation is shown as “Engineer”, so is this the same Robert and Mary? The informant was Hannah Hazelhurst – no idea who she was, so no clues there.

Did Hannah Hazelhurst think he was an Engineer because he worked in a Paper Mill?
Was there another Mary married to another Robert Vernon who really was an Engineer?

Anyone have any thoughts or ideas?

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The Common Room / Changing Cityscapes: BBC Website
« on: Monday 27 April 09 11:24 BST (UK)  »
The BBC website is running a series on changing cityscapes this week.

Today is Manchester. There are some interesting photos of Manchester through the ages.

Go to www.bbc.co.uk/news and follow the link to Changing Cityscapes (towards  the bottom)

Not sure how long this will be available, and may not be viewable outside UK

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Census and Resource Discussion / Ancestry births 1916-2000 missing entries
« on: Friday 13 February 09 17:50 GMT (UK)  »
As mentioned on another topic, I thought I'd search the index for my own birth and couldn't find myself. (Story of my life.)

I queried this with ancestry support. Here is an edited version of their reply

"I think I have found the problem you are having. If you scroll down to the very bottom of this page, you'll see that there is a name handwritten in. It is alphabetically out of order, but when this page was indexed into our system, xxxxxxxx was listed as the last name on this page. This caused our searching system to not recognize yyyyyyyy as belonging to this page because you fall alphabetically AFTER xxxxxxxx.

We realize this is a problem and are working on fixing it. It is a lengthy time consuming problem. Thank you for your patience."





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The Common Room / Are your ancestors on the Wesleyan Methodist Historic Roll?
« on: Wednesday 28 January 09 22:59 GMT (UK)  »
I’ve just learned about this piece of church history and possible source of information.

In 1897, to celebrate the centenary of John Wesley’s death, the Wesleyan Methodists decided to set up the “Million Guinea Fund” or “Twentieth Century Fund”. The aim was to get 1 million Methodists to contribute 1 guinea each, to create a centre for Wesleyan Methodism and expand the church’s work. (Quite a tall order as there were only about 420,000 Wesleyans around at the time.) By 1904, more than a million pounds had been raised, and much of the money was used to build Westminster Central Hall near Parliament Square in London.

Everyone who contributed signed their name on a list at their local church. These lists were eventually collected and bound together into 50 volumes. The volumes have been microfiched, and you can view them on request at Central Hall Visitor Centre, or you can order a copy of a local list. The lists consist of the actual signatures and usually addresses. Often there are groups of family members who signed together, and sometimes donations recorded as “in memory of” a relative.

See http://www.methodist-central-hall.org.uk/history/HistoricRoll.html
for details.

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London & Middlesex Resources / LINK: St James Hampton Hill - Churchyard records
« on: Saturday 03 January 09 16:58 GMT (UK)  »
www.stjames-hamptonhill.org.uk

Click on the "St James's History" tab on the left of the home page,
then
"Churchyard records"

for an on-line searchable database of graves in the churchyard, including a number of Canadian War Graves.

Lots of nice photos and other interesting stuff about the church as well.

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