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Lincolnshire Lookup Requests / St Michael Stamford burials 1803
« on: Tuesday 08 April 08 04:22 BST (UK)  »
I have the burial dates for a young couple who died within a couple of weeks of each other and I wondered if anyone had a copy of the parish records and could check if there was anything noted about the causes of their deaths.  They were

Henry Tatam died 11 April 1803 age 30
Mary Tatam died 29 April 1803 age 33

They left 4 young children in the care of their grandfather, and I really wonder what they could have died of.

Thanks
Chrissie

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Lincolnshire Lookup Requests / Deaths in Stamford Lincs
« on: Friday 20 July 07 10:39 BST (UK)  »
Does anyone have the parish registers for St Michael Stamford.  I have the deaths of Henry Tatam, burial 11 April 1803 age 30 and his wife Mary Tatam buried 29 April 1803 age 33, both appear to buried St Michael, Stamford.  I am wondering if there is anything more in the register about the causes of death for this young couple, or an upsurge in the number of burials at this time indicating some sort of epidemic.  They were survived by their 4 children aged 3-7 years, so what ever they died of, it did not affect the kids.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / LINK - Anglican Clergy Database
« on: Sunday 19 November 06 00:42 GMT (UK)  »
There is a data base of early Anglican Clergy in New Zealand which includes from colonial times to an ordination date of about 1930.
The address is

http://anglicanhistory.org/nz/blain_directory/directory.pdf

Good luck

Christine

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Clackmannanshire / Re: William Grant from Alloa
« on: Friday 17 March 06 05:30 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Mairi,
Thanks for that offer.  I have found out some more about the family and have been given the address of some descendants of James.  I sent a letter yesterday with a copy of the photo and am now waiting (impatiently) for a reply.

Cheers

Christine in NZ

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The Common Room / Re: GenesReunited
« on: Monday 06 March 06 20:04 GMT (UK)  »
I have had some very useful contacts through genes and some people have really gone out of their way to find information for me.  It is not always easy to research your family from the other side of the world.  Hot matches are usually a fizzer and it would be nice to get past the letter H :P
 
However I do get annoyed by the constant harping about people saying thank-you for information provided, or being slow to respond.  OK, I can imagine that it is annoying to do lookups for no thanks or acknowledgement that the info has been received, but posters seem to ignore the fact that the site is operating in all time zones and that we don't all spend all day or night on line.  By the time many of my questions would be being answered I have either gone to bed or to work.

My grumble over, I would not be without it or Rootschat ;D

Cheers
Christine in NZ

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Clackmannanshire / William Grant from Alloa
« on: Monday 06 March 06 19:47 GMT (UK)  »
I have recently acquired my g-grandfathers WW1 pocket bible and tucked inside is a newspaper cutting, a photo of "the late Lieut William Grant, killed in action"  I wondered who this man was and what his significance to my g-grandfather was.

My g-grandfather, although a New Zealander actually served in the Australian army.  From the bit of information I could glean from the story on the back of the cutting William Grant also appears to have served in the Australian army.

I searched the Commonwealth War Graves site and there was only one Lieut W Grant and his next of kin was given as James Grant, Viewforth, Alloa Scotland.

I have searched the Australian Archives site and ordered this mans records, the little bit of info on line states that he was born in Alloa, but I have no idea when.  It is difficult to judge his age from the photo, they all looked older than they were in those days!

Does anyone have any idea where else I can look to find information?  Are there Scottish census returns that might give me more information?  Is there anyone on this site from Alloa that could see if he appears on a local war memorial?

I imagine that I will never discover just why his photo was so important that it was possibly carried around from Williams date of death in 1916 until my g-grandfather came home in 1918 but I would like to know more about this man.

Thanks
Christine in NZ

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The Common Room / Re: Have I come to the end of the line?
« on: Thursday 22 December 05 19:01 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Carol :)

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The Common Room / Re: Have I come to the end of the line?
« on: Thursday 22 December 05 18:50 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Carol,
I have the 1881 marriage certificate and they were the wrong ages and the fathers names were different from on both Jeremiah and Mary's death certificates.  I got the certificate because Staines includes one of the areas they were living on one of the census and I wondered if they returned to marry.  Still might be them as they lied about so much else!  The couple in Staines do not appear on the 1881 census, together or separately which makes you wonder where THEY were at that time.

Mary's death cert which was before Jeremiah died, says they were married in England when she was 21, but given her stated age at death that was after the birth of the first 3 children, so may or may not be correct.  I guess they may have returned to Ireland married and had baby Jeremiah, but being Irish I would have imagined Jeremiah would have said Ireland when filling out the death info for Mary......

Jeremiah's death certificate does not give much information at all so maybe the children did not know.

I guess it is quite possible that they were not married, which meant that if I never find a marriage certificate I will never be able to trace where they actually came from :(  and it is the end of that line!

Thanks everyone for all the suggestions on this thread, I won't give up yet and will investigate the suggestions further.

Cheers
Christine in NZ

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The Common Room / Re: Have I come to the end of the line?
« on: Tuesday 20 December 05 22:08 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Paul, that is certainly worth a look.

Yes they were catholic, do you have any idea how I could access church records from here in NZ?

I think that this lot managed to avoid doing anything officially, if Dan Corkery did exist then he avoided all electoral rolls here in NZ.  I cannot even find a death!  I am beginning to suspect that maybe Edward was known as Dan as Edward does appear to be in several of the right places at about the right time.

Cheers
Christine in NZ

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