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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: Samuel Round organist St Thomas's
« on: Saturday 25 June 11 09:16 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for dong that Tom, I managed to gain entry to the newspaper archives with my own library ticket but after many attempts realised that I am totally inept at doing the search properly. I am indebted to you to showing me exactly how to do it, I seem to have a mental block. This information is really interesting to us. Did that last sentence in the report from feb 3rd 1894 read to you as if the contribution made  by the Minnesingers  was a disaster? I wonder what happened?
 Many many thanks
Patti

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: Samuel Round organist St Thomas's
« on: Tuesday 21 June 11 11:27 BST (UK)  »
Ah, that explains it, thanks Nell. I have now been able to send my messages and already received one very useful reply. I am going to love it here. ;D

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: Samuel Round organist St Thomas's
« on: Monday 20 June 11 22:09 BST (UK)  »
This is my 6th post in all

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: Samuel Round organist St Thomas's
« on: Monday 20 June 11 22:07 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Judy, i thought I'd made several posts already...

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The Lighter Side / Re: How did you find Rootschat?
« on: Monday 20 June 11 18:37 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Jan I expect you will be seeing a lot of me, I am totally absorbed in it, I love history I collect old things and love reading old books,  I read the Flora Thompson books and then watched Lark Rise on Tv and couldn't resist drawing up the Timms family tree. How sad is that?
I guess I'm in some sort of time slip...

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The Lighter Side / Re: How do you do yours?
« on: Monday 20 June 11 18:27 BST (UK)  »
I started with my mother ( she didn't have a father) then her mother and then followed the female line as far back as I could, finding out a little about their families as I went along. Much harder than "family name" research, I did that on my fathers side, it was very interesting but I ended up with  about 15 Charles Hydes .
It's scarey how big it all gets, I have invited relatives to view the main tree but I'm pretty sure that they can't find their way around. I had ideas about pruning it and just "floating" bits of it but can't quite get up the courage to take out the secateurs. ;D
Does anyone know how many trees we can have on Ancestry?

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The Lighter Side / Re: How did you find Rootschat?
« on: Monday 20 June 11 18:15 BST (UK)  »
I can't believe that it's taken me so long to find this gem of a place. In desperation after a solid brick wall I typed in my ancestors name and hey presto up popped the forum. I have spent many months with my head down completing several trees so now feel entitled to a bit of relaxation and perhaps some help with those trickier searches. I don't find that I'm too good with the Irish side... ::)

Anyway it's nice to be here :D Patti

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Samuel Round organist St Thomas's
« on: Monday 20 June 11 17:43 BST (UK)  »
I found some old threads about our great grandfather but I can't pm so I have no way of getting in touch with TomPiper or Cherry Lane who had some relevant information about him.
I have researched his earlier life, found him as assistant master of music at Peterborough and at Ninians in Perth and then to Portsea where he died .  I know the circumstances of his death but I would guess that there may be other things about him.I believe someone has some of his music and perhaps some other information about him, anything would be really appreciated. Thanks for reading.

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