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Occupation Interests / Re: Mersey Flatmen - How do I find out the names of their boats?
« on: Friday 28 February 14 07:33 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for the response! Yes, occasionally I get lucky and there's someone on a boat on the Census day but that's really rare. I don't think the enumerators were particularly careful to check all the moored vessels so the Flatmen seem to be usually either caught at home or are missing altogether from a Census.

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Suffolk Lookup Offers / Richard Cobbold's account of WORTHAM, 1860
« on: Friday 06 September 13 17:35 BST (UK)  »
The Reverend Richard Cobbold lived in Wortham and wrote a detailed account of his life there during 1860. This is an amazing book, he wrote numerous anecdotes about his parishioners, giving details of life and gossip in the village, he even painted portraits of many of them. He vividly brings to life the personalities and character of ordinary people in a way we don't often see.

If you are researching relatives in Wortham there's a reasonable chance that they're in this book somewhere. Let me have their names and I'll look them up.

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Cheshire / How to trace property ownership?
« on: Tuesday 27 August 13 08:06 BST (UK)  »
Can anyone advise me on how to trace historic property ownership in Cheshire? I've found lots of my ancestors on the Cheshire Tithe Maps but they obviously cover quite a narrow time period. Is there any way to trace property ownership either earlier or later? I had a quick look at the land registry website but couldn't find anything of use there.

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Norfolk / Gibbet Lane - off the A143 nr West Dereham
« on: Friday 09 August 13 19:26 BST (UK)  »
We drove past Gibbet Lane today going down the A143 from Kings Lynn towards Thetford. Being a curious sort I've had a Google but can't find anything about the story of how the gibbet came to be there. I've found it on Faden's 1797 map, it looks like it would have stood on Cavenham common at the junction of the A143 and Gibbet Lane (or whatever it was called at the time)

Can anyone shed any light on whose remains hung there and what crime they'd committed?


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Cheshire / Re: Anyone researching Samuel Bazley, Runcorn early 20th C?
« on: Monday 24 June 13 17:36 BST (UK)  »
I've replied - we're related!

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Cheshire / Re: Anyone researching Samuel Bazley, Runcorn early 20th C?
« on: Monday 24 June 13 17:09 BST (UK)  »
Ooh, do tell! My Bennetts are from Grappenhall! (and Daresbury, and Thelwall)

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Cheshire / Re: Anyone researching Samuel Bazley, Runcorn early 20th C?
« on: Monday 24 June 13 16:21 BST (UK)  »
No worries. Out of interest, who are you researching in Daresbury? Lots of my ancestors were from Daresbury.

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Cheshire / Re: Anyone researching Samuel Bazley, Runcorn early 20th C?
« on: Monday 24 June 13 15:05 BST (UK)  »
Mary wasn't on the 1901 Census but when I went back to 1891 they did have a daughter called Mary Jane, however, her birth date was 1879. There were a couple of other Mary Bazley's born in 1890 (A Mary Ann and a Mary Ellen) so maybe one of these is your Mary Bazley?

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Cheshire / Re: Anyone researching Samuel Bazley, Runcorn early 20th C?
« on: Monday 24 June 13 09:17 BST (UK)  »
Here it is: http://cheshirepast.blogspot.co.uk/

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