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Essex / Re: Colchester. Fishmongers Halls & Bare/Bear
« on: Thursday 15 February 18 14:06 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Nicholas
I'm afraid I deleted the tree 3 years ago after passing over my finds & needed to make space.  I would have loved to have helped you, and your info does seem to be right for the Halls I was researching, but i don't even seem to have kept a ged or paf file to restore from. Sorry!
In case you haven't found this yet...
It may help your searches to use https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/indexes_search.asp (free, just need to reg) because it now shows the mother's name on births 1837-1917, & ages at death 1837-1957. It also shows full middle names. Great in places like Colchester & London where its a problem to sort out who a kid belongs to (mostly). Just remember...Mother's baby, father's maybe :-)

Thank you for replying though. Happy hunting
Doreen

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Essex / Re: ERO going Pay-to-Browse for online PRs etc
« on: Friday 26 August 11 21:22 BST (UK)  »
Further to Geno500 & others about downloading images, I almost never do that because I then forget to label them consistently so that I can find them again.
I keep Excel s/s in family folders & do screen dumps onto appropriate pages (Alt+PrintScreen, then, Ctrl+V to paste) The advantage is that I can type comments alongside, edit the images to trim off the irrelevant stuff & all of the toner-hogging black surrounds. Images can also be moved around the page, stretched, shrunk & overlapped if necessary.

When working on census entries, I like to paste the transcription alongside the actual sheet image, then use FreeBMD to get a listing of the people shown (use Download results, open the .TXT, highlight what you want, Ctrl+C, then CTRL+V onto the s/s) Once I'm offline I have all I need to update my tree without juggling too many screens.

If you just do PrintScreen on its own, you capture everything you see. If you do Alt+PrintScreen, you just get the active window within the screen.  Just make sure you have the s/s or Word doc open in the background before you take the copy.

D.

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Hertfordshire Lookup Requests / Re: Ware PRs for HUXLEY
« on: Thursday 25 August 11 23:15 BST (UK)  »
Ah... I've made a point of avoiding that one since I had a short subscription & they automatically renewed it without so much as a by-your-leave.

I've had a quick look this evening & their search seems to be as fuzzy as ever, offering male & female regardless of the initial name being searched for.

Perhaps I should spend some time down at the library again... they have access on their computers.

Thanks anyway.
D

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Hertfordshire Lookup Requests / Re: Ware PRs for HUXLEY
« on: Thursday 25 August 11 18:38 BST (UK)  »
Thankyou ... good old St John Hackney...I was baptised there (and not been back since)

Is The London, England, Marriages And Banns 1754-1921 available online? I couldn't find anything on Findmypast (and have you seen the make-over today by Frankenstein, who probably has a 90" screen & never has to scroll for anything?)

regards
D

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Hertfordshire / Re: The Red Cow PH, Frogmore/Park Street
« on: Wednesday 24 August 11 23:37 BST (UK)  »
Oh dear! Sorry!  :-[  I got side-tracked onto other areas of life & forgot all about this posting.
 I've sent this thread to Mel in case she did find anything (but didn't tell me) & perhaps she can quiz some of her older customers (owners, not their cats  ;D ) about Arthur Merton.

Will try to get back very soon
Doreen

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Hertfordshire Lookup Requests / Ware PRs for HUXLEY
« on: Wednesday 24 August 11 23:17 BST (UK)  »
I am looking for the birth/baptism and parents of Elizabeth Rachel HUXLEY in Ware in 1813/1814.

I have her tracked through 1841-1881 in Shoreditch & Bethnal Green, married to Thomas William ORCHARD...they would have married abt 1835, probably in Shoreditch, but there is nothing in IGI or Findmypast.
There is only 1 Huxley family in Herts (Bishops Hatfield) in the 1841c, and the parents are too young to possibly be hers. Dead end :'(

I'd be grateful for any help, please
D.

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: 1871 Key (have ref) please
« on: Wednesday 06 May 09 00:51 BST (UK)  »
Gosh! I don't have dates for Eleanor & John, but either they were extrordinarily old photos, or they must have lived to a goodly age! I would like those photos please, and I have a couple of Charles Edward Key & family and Rachel Emma Key, but I can't see how to attach files in this mode ?  I also have traced this family though quite a few censuses etc

regards
Doreen

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: 1871 Key (have ref) please
« on: Monday 04 May 09 22:50 BST (UK)  »
Hi Liz
I seem to have missed one of your 8.. I have:-
Charles William S(tewart?) b1856
Mary Ann Charlotte b1859 m1877 Joseph Birkett
Edward Key b1863 m? Minnie
Alfred Thomas b1865
Rebecca Ann b1867 m1892 Edwin Alfred Munt
Harry b1870 m? Charlotte Sprigs
Albert Ernest b1875

Do you have any photos of Charles Key and/or Harriet Burley?
Dad remembers some of the Keys moved out to Laindon in the early years of the war, in fact there were two almost next door to each other (known as front-door-key & back-door-key). Must ask him if he remembers any of the Tulls.

regards
Doreen

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: 1871 Key (have ref) please
« on: Wednesday 29 April 09 22:32 BST (UK)  »
Hi Liz
I'd forgotten about this posting! Strictly speaking, I'm not related to any of them... Rachael Emma Key b 1868 was George Walter Baylis's (my great-grandfather) second wife, and the one that my father remembers as his grandmother. Her parents were Charles Key (1830-1906) and Harriet Burley (1836-1893), and I believe they had 8 children, 3 of whom died young.
I have pieced enough of them together to follow the Key/Ratnett/Tull family links.  Where do you fit into the tree?

regards
Doreen

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