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Canada / Peach Farms in Canada
« on: Wednesday 27 May 09 12:08 BST (UK)  »
One of my relatives Ted (in his 80s) remembers traveling through Canada during WW2 and being on a train which stopped and young men came to the train from a peach farm to give them peaches. His memory is a bit 'fuzzy' but he thinks it was 'on the plains' somewhere past Toronto!  He then also remembered that an Uncle had emigrated to Canada from the UK when Ted was a child and that the uncle Henry William Smith from Oakington Cambs was supposed to have owned a peach farm.
I wonder how comman peach farms were in the inter war years in Canada and how difficult it would be to find out where Henry went? 
Any advice of information would be greatly received.
Thanx

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Cambridgeshire / REDMAN Family poss Stapleford
« on: Wednesday 27 May 09 11:55 BST (UK)  »
Hi there, just to see if anybody has any ideas of a family named Redman in the Stapleford area of Cambridgeshire abt 1796ish, as I am trying to trace the parents of a Helen Maria Woodard Redman born abt this time.  I believe her mothers name was Margaret and Margaret was born in Calcutta but Helen was born in Stapleford.  I have tried the parish records CD but although there are Redmans there none of the first names match.
Thanx

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Staffordshire / Help I'm Stuck!
« on: Wednesday 27 May 09 11:46 BST (UK)  »
Could anybody out there offer some assistance?  I've been trying to trace some ancestors from Stoke on Trent but have reached a gap between the 1841 census and the parish records CD which I ordered but it only goes up to 1812... don't really know what to do, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanx

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