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Northumberland Completed Look up Requests / Re: Andrew Dunn Baptism 1761 Northumberland Non-Conformist Record
« on: Sunday 27 March 22 10:23 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for your help Jon. I will now plan a visit to my local Family history centre.

Michael

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Northumberland Completed Look up Requests / Re: Andrew Dunn Baptism 1761 Northumberland Non-Conformist Record
« on: Friday 25 March 22 19:37 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you Jon. I see what you mean that should help me in the future, I'll keep your instructions so I don't forget!

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Northumberland Completed Look up Requests / Re: Andrew Dunn Baptism 1761 Northumberland Non-Conformist Recor
« on: Friday 25 March 22 11:06 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you jonw65. Looks like I will need to go back to my local society and logon to Family Search site and check this particular film. Can you help me understand how I would know that it is image 654 from the basic information that I had which came from the first link you attached below. Just for future cases. Thank you

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Northumberland Completed Look up Requests / Andrew Dunn Baptism 1761 Northumberland Non-Conformist Record
« on: Friday 25 March 22 02:10 GMT (UK)  »
Hello,
I hoping that someone can assist me in finding an image of a baptism record for Andrew Dunn born or baptised on 23 March 1761, his father was recorded as being Thomas.
I found a record on Family Search that states that this record in available in their dataset 'Northumberland Non-Conformist Church records 1613-1920'. Apparently the image should be available at a family history centre, partner site or the legal custodian.  I have checked at a local Family Search Partner site with out any luck and was told there that sometimes not all records are available at a Partner site. I imagine that the 'legal custodian' is the Northumberland Archives but I live in Australia and cannot visit myself.
I would like to find the actual parish that recorded this baptism and, if possible, any other details recorded about Andrew's father or where the family were living at that time.
Thank you for your assistance.
Michael

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Cambridgeshire / Re: Muck Boats
« on: Monday 01 November 21 21:42 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you for this information.

My choices now are sewage, manure or mud/weeds from the canals.

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Cambridgeshire / Re: Muck Boats
« on: Sunday 31 October 21 21:22 GMT (UK)  »
Hello,

Thank you for the responses.

The term 'muck boat' was not used in the Census but is in some personal correspondence. In the 1851 census he was described as a fisherman. I did wonder if 'muck boat' was a common term for a fishing boat but it didn't seem quite right.

The explanations above seem more in keeping with my notion of 'muck' but I don't know what terms were in use locally for the different types of boat.
Thanks again
Michael

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Cambridgeshire / Muck Boats
« on: Sunday 31 October 21 08:06 GMT (UK)  »
Hello,

I have an ancestor who said he had worked on the 'Muck Boats' in the Ely general area in 1840s & 1850s. I am wondering if anyone can help me find out about Muck boats? Would they have been transporting manure or fertilizer?

Thank you,

Michael

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Armed Forces / Re: Coldstream Guards Records from 1860 to 1880
« on: Monday 07 June 21 23:30 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Shaun that is great information. Unfortunately I live in Australia and can't visit the Archives. I see that the Archives are very busy dealing with copy requests and limiting the number of applications. I will a while and then see if I can place a specific request for just that item rather than the whole series of records that they seem to hold. The link you gratefully provided appears to cover 'pay lists & extra accounts' for the period 1860 to 1862. In the meantime I will keep on trying to find him, somewhere, in Census records...he is proving very elusive. Thank you.

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Armed Forces / Re: Coldstream Guards Records from 1860 to 1880
« on: Sunday 06 June 21 21:10 BST (UK)  »
Hello ShaunJ, sorry it was written in an affidavit to a probate case which is not digitised. The British National Archives were able to send me a copy recently and my ancestor was listed as one the beneficiaries of the Will. The exact wording is "Adam Dunn, Clerk to the Coldstream Guards Orderly Room Horse Guards, London". The affidavit was sworn on 13 January 1862 by one of his first cousins. My assumption from reading about the British Military is that Orderly Room clerks were enlisted soldiers and not civilian employees. I have not been able to locate him in the 1861 census even though I have been able to identify soldiers on the 2nd Battalion of the Coldstream Guards in Barracks in London at that time, which I believe was April 1861. Maybe he was part of another Battalion who were posted elsewhere at that time. I hope this helps. Thank you, Michael.

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