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Kent / Re: Kent theatres
« on: Friday 11 March 22 09:13 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks, Alan.  I had accessed Bernard online...The piece you sent is valuable in filling in numerous gaps and in adding detail.

I'll keep your final reference in mind.

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Mate was an odd cove in some ways...I still don't know when he went to sea (he did!) and when he gave up that aspect of his life and took to the theatre; nor when he actually started printing...I've got a plausible couple of dates for the latter - between 1808 and 1811.

Onwards and sideways, it seems.

roly

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Kent / Re: Kent theatres
« on: Friday 11 March 22 05:12 GMT (UK)  »
Usual gremlins...Sorry.

Thanks anyway, Maddy.  I've come across  Bernard's remarks here and there though I've no access to the book itself.  I do have the story of 'the stone'.

But I lack any references to the theatres themselves.  Mate had a peripatetic early marriage and I want to see if he had concourse at any those theatres I mentioned.

I've tried Dover Historian - with no success; and have spent much time trawling through newspapers on line - same outcome. Just need a few clues!

roly

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Kent / Re: Kent theatres
« on: Friday 11 March 22 04:56 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks, M

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Kent / Kent theatres
« on: Thursday 10 March 22 13:41 GMT (UK)  »
To an extent this request re-visits others placed in the past...that concentrated on the printer, Charles Mate (senior), of Dover; and Dover theatres.  Mate himself opened a theatre and I have details...But his initial ingress remains a mystery.

My first clue is to correspondence that appeared in 1773, thus suggesting a previous acquaintance.  Mate had been a sailor but it has not, so far, been possible to say when this portion of his life changed to that where the theatre was prominent.

To this end, perhaps contributors can help me with the histories of four theatres in particular - Deal, Dover, Margate and Canterbury.  Mate was very much involved with the Dover theatre but this was at a later date than 1773.

I am aware that each - or even all - of these theatres featured in eighteenth century circuits but I cannot set a time-line.

Any morsels and references would be welcome.

roly

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Armed Forces / Re: Control Commission Germany 1945
« on: Sunday 23 January 22 14:58 GMT (UK)  »
Sorry Colin/Max!

roly

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Armed Forces / Re: Control Commission Germany 1945
« on: Sunday 23 January 22 14:25 GMT (UK)  »
Uncanny!  I've just started a search for a particular individual who worked for the Control Commission in Dusseldorf at some stage between 1946 and, possibly, 1950. This individual married a Frenchman who was working for the French equivalent organisation in Dusseldorf in 1949.

Let me know how you get on, Max.

Meanwhile - I'll follow some of the leads suggested by the Moderator.

roly

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Cornwall / Re: hands and welch
« on: Wednesday 24 November 21 10:35 GMT (UK)  »
Usual thanks...
I have to say that I did find George Hands lodging as a Minister in 1851...but left this reference alone until I could get some corroboration.

Your additions have been particularly useful - and surprising: always bringing a little joy..  It looks as if The Bookseller could yield more information in my line - which is in studying the lives and workings of nineteenth century broadside ballad printers: an ongoing series printed online that has reached Number 45 (Keys).

roly

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Cornwall / Re: hands and welch
« on: Wednesday 24 November 21 09:50 GMT (UK)  »
Strewth!  What else can I say...except - many thanks, Shaun.

roly

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Cornwall / hands and welch
« on: Wednesday 24 November 21 09:03 GMT (UK)  »
Hands and Welch are the names of two booksellers, stationers, bookbinders...in partnership in 1861, with premises in Fore Street, Camelford.  George T Hands is aged 44 and Henry Welch 26.

I've traced Welch back to 1844 when a Pigot directory lists him as a tailor; followed by Slater in 1852-3 (tailor) and a Post Office directory for 1856 (tailor).

There are other, later, references to Welch in census returns and a plausible family history and a business career can be assembled.

But I've had no success at all in tracing the presence of George Hands (he does not appear in the 1871 census, for instance, nor afterwards, as far as I can gather).  I haven't, either, found any death notice.

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One other query.  I managed to get onto the Cornwall Online Census Project registers for Camelford - a 'typescript' version; but can't get back to this to see if Hands is living in Camelford.

Can anyone help me find the register again?  And can anyone add details to the Hands and Welch history...?  I'd be very grateful.

roly

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