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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Re: North Riding Mental Hospital, York
« on: Saturday 17 February 24 21:35 GMT (UK)  »
The Hospital Records (HOSPREC) Database at the National Archives may provide some clues.

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/notifications/hospital-records-hosprec-database/

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The Common Room / Re: GRO website - problems?
« on: Sunday 07 February 21 21:27 GMT (UK)  »
Working fine for me now (using Safari on iPad), have just ordered a batch of birth certificates.

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The Common Room / Re: GRO website - problems?
« on: Wednesday 03 February 21 01:54 GMT (UK)  »
Hasn't worked for me since Tuesday evening, ‘twas OK on Monday. Gave some ‘feedback' and I'm sure others have. I see a message above from the login page (thanks to Millmoor) that it's being worked on.

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Re: Malton Rd, Primitive methodist college, Heworth, York 1871
« on: Saturday 18 April 20 22:29 BST (UK)  »
Yes, I live not far from there and the building is long gone. Most of it pulled down in the 1930s when the college closed.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Looking for help on William Garft
« on: Saturday 09 September 17 19:27 BST (UK)  »
Everything I've seen points towards William being a quintessential English countryman! I've seen nothing to suggest that he may have been born abroad. All I can see about his place of birth is that it was not in Cheshire. There is conflicting information about his birth date but about 1777-1781 seems most believable to me.

I've not delved into the grandchildren. "Austrian Jew" does generally mean what it says, i.e. a Jew born in Austria, and that surprises me given William, Fanny and the children seem so linked with Cheshire, and I've seen nothing to suggest any Jewish heritage. Do you have some context for this?

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Looking for help on William Garft
« on: Saturday 02 September 17 22:25 BST (UK)  »
William appears to have been the licensee at the Sportsman Inn, Town Bridge, Northwich, between 1820 and 1822. He is recorded in Pigot's Commercial Directory of 1922 (page 22).

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Looking for help on William Garft
« on: Saturday 02 September 17 21:10 BST (UK)  »
The Cheshire Archives hold tithe maps (these were created after 1836) and these are available online. They have a record of a William Garft occupying three plots at Weaverham, which is not far from Sandiway (about 2.5 miles), owned by one James Hugh Smith Barry. Here's a link.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Looking for help on William Garft
« on: Saturday 02 September 17 20:51 BST (UK)  »
You might try the British Newspaper Archive. There's a couple of mentions there worth looking into.

Edit: I see willsy has beaten me to it!

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Will Translation
« on: Tuesday 22 August 17 19:25 BST (UK)  »
The interesting question (to me) is what does 'leaseholds' mean when written on an 1890 grant of probate with the 'net value' struck out. I've seen grants of that era with 'no leaseholds' written on them and had not concerned myself too much with something that the testator did not have! I had also assumed that 'leaseholds' was an abbreviated form of 'leasehold properties', i.e. the testator owned (or did not own) a leasehold property. A clue might lie in the nature of death duties at the time (I have an idea that leasehold properties were taxed separately). Are there no clues in the Will itself?

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