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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Looking for a date of death.
« on: Sunday 29 May 22 16:30 BST (UK)  »
Many thanls all for the information. I think I know how to get there now.
Regards,
Brian

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Looking for a date of death.
« on: Friday 27 May 22 23:46 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks for your advice. I will have a look at a more civilised time in the morning. Brian

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Family History Beginners Board / Looking for a date of death.
« on: Friday 27 May 22 17:52 BST (UK)  »
I met someone at the organisation I worked at who I found attended the same college as I did although twenty years earlier. I did not learn of his death until a Christmas card I had sent him was returned and I could obtain no further information. I recently read that after a will goes to Probate it becomes public property but have no idea how to use such information. I know his DOB. I know where he was born and I have the last address he lived at.
Could anyone advise me if there is any way I could use that information to get a date of death.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Nellie Bonner I know her DOB but not the date of her death?
« on: Sunday 10 January 21 14:04 GMT (UK)  »
Many thanks for the help which I will use today. Brian

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Family History Beginners Board / Nellie Bonner I know her DOB but not the date of her death?
« on: Sunday 20 December 20 00:02 GMT (UK)  »
I think that Nellie Bonner lived in the London area and was born 7.4.1893 but am not sure when she died although it might be2.6.1974so could anyone let me know what I need to do to find that information.

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The Common Room / Re: Was the wealth of Selworthy based on slaving?
« on: Monday 23 July 18 17:34 BST (UK)  »
Looking for an argument. No need for that with the Brexit spree going on to keep us all amused.

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The Common Room / Re: Was the wealth of Selworthy based on slaving?
« on: Monday 23 July 18 17:14 BST (UK)  »
The replies appear a trifle defensive to me.  The facts are that many families, indeed many ports made their fortunes from slavery which was only ended after a very long fight to defend it.

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The Common Room / Was the wealth of Selworthy based on slaving?
« on: Monday 23 July 18 14:22 BST (UK)  »
I live in Oxfordshire but have been visiting Somerset for over fifty years and would have moved to Somerset if only I could persuade my wife to but the lure of our children, grandchildren and now a great grandchild locks her into Oxfordshire.

One of the places that we always drop into when we visit Somerset is Selworthy and when I was discussing the source of its wealth with my eldest son I suggested that it was sheep but on returning from taking his daughters there he mentioned the William Blackford crest at Selworthy church with a family crest which has the head of a Negro with an iron collar around its neck on it.

My son suggested that was indicative of a relationship with the slaving trade and I wonder if you could comment on that.  If not could you please point me to where I may find some information on that subject.

Regards,

Brian M. Leahy

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Oxfordshire / Who built the Randolph? When were shops allowed window lighting after the War?
« on: Tuesday 22 January 13 11:35 GMT (UK)  »
I’m in the process of writing a few words, well, it started out that way, about my boyhood in Oxford of the 1940s and as I discuss places that I knew I feel obliged to write a few words about them. At the moment I’m writing a few words about the Randolph Hotel and although its easy enough to discover who the architect was there is no mention of who the firm was that built it details such as how many bricks it took because its a monolithic building. I have also been looking for the date when shops in Oxford were allowed to switch their display lighting on when the Second World War ended.  Is it possible that you could point me in a direction where I may be able to access such detail.
 

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