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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Burial Record, odd Phrase.
« on: Friday 23 October 09 01:06 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Prue,
Wow, that certainly does sound quite graphic. It seems they were a lot less restrained in the details reported in newspapers back then!

I think curiosity is going to lead me to getting the child's death certificate in this case. His birth and death are in the same quarter, so i think it's likely he was born and died in a Workhouse.


Gemma

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Burial Record, odd Phrase.
« on: Thursday 22 October 09 23:10 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Pinot and Dawn.

It seems that it wasn't a phrase that was that widely used. All my  internet searches were bringing up Horror films!

Gemma

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Burial Record, odd Phrase. COMPLETED
« on: Wednesday 21 October 09 14:04 BST (UK)  »
Hello,
I have been looking at the LMA Burial Index and have come across the following phrase:

"Buried from the dead house"

under the Abode column in the entry of a child buried at 2 months old.
Does anyone know what this could mean?

I thought it could mean Mortuary, but I'm not sure.

Thanks,
Gemma

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Cambridgeshire Lookup Requests / Re: 1851 Wisbech Census
« on: Sunday 11 October 09 17:16 BST (UK)  »
Selina,
Thanks for the info, yes i suspect that could be our Pilot. He is certianly turning out to be an interesting character!

Gemma

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Cambridgeshire Lookup Requests / Re: 1851 Wisbech Census
« on: Saturday 10 October 09 15:53 BST (UK)  »
Barbara,
Yes, i have visited Kew for the 1911 as well....In fact i have a copy of Walter and Ellen Cooper census, and was wondering if the Seaman visitors were relatives!
I am the Great X3 Granddaughter of Charlotte Ann Teed (Bateman), Ellen Bateman (Cooper) was my great great grandmothers (Isabella Jane Bateman) sister.
Yes, you would imagine that a Pilot wouldnt be that hard to trace!

Gemma

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Cambridgeshire Lookup Requests / Re: 1851 Wisbech Census
« on: Friday 09 October 09 16:12 BST (UK)  »
Barbara,
Thank you for your reply.
Lovely to hear from someone who is reseaching the same family!
Pilate/Pilot Teed and Ann Seaman are my Great X4 Grandparents.

I dont mind "long winded" at all, since you seem to have discovered a lot of information that i havent!
I had found Ann Teed and George on the 1841 in Cambridge, but hadnt located William, Her husband. The reason for her being in Cambridge is perhaps more obvious knowing that her husband was a patient in a hospital there.

I haven't been able to locate Pilate/Pilot on the 1851 or 1861 census, but i am interested in your theory that he was at sea as Samuel Tidd. It certainly seems like a possibility.

I haven't gone down the route of looking for Pilate/Pilots naval records either, so would be very interested t hear if you find anything.

I have looked, but so far have found no definite connection between William Henry Teed and Pilate/Pilot Teed.

My assumption is that yes William Henry Teed was the father of William Henry Seamn... it would seem a huge co-inceidence that Ann married someone of the same name as her child so soon after his birth!

Gemma



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The Common Room / Re: Marriage certificate for a widow who remarries
« on: Friday 02 October 09 18:34 BST (UK)  »
Hi,
In all the cases I've found, the remarriage is indexed under her first married surname.

Where children have been born to a second marriage after 1911 though, the mothers maiden name is recorded on the index as her birth surname (not surname from her first marriage.)

Gem

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The Lighter Side / Re: Three wishes time travel
« on: Sunday 16 August 09 20:39 BST (UK)  »
1) I would ask my 3x Great Grandfather, George Thomas Myatt, who exactly he was. I can find no trace of him at all before his wedding day.

2) I would ask my 3x Great Grandfather, Adam Grosert, what happened to him after he divorced his wife. He disappears after that date.

3) I would ask the son of the above, Thomas Grosert, what happened to his first wife, Christina Heggie. He took her and his son to America and by the time of the next US census he was living with someone else.

I'm sure i could think of a 101 more questions to ask, but those are the puzzles that frustrate me the most!

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Europe / Dyke from Switzerland
« on: Sunday 16 August 09 17:47 BST (UK)  »
My Great Grandfather gives his place of birth consistently on census returns as Switzerland.

His name was Joseph George Dyke and my first record of him is his marriage in Cardiff in December 1899. He is 30 years old at the time and a shop assistant.
He gives his father as Henry Dyke (Deceased) Master Mariner.

My great aunt seems to recall Bern mentioned as a place of birth, but she isn't sure about this.
The witnesses on the marriage certificate are both cardiff men, and i cant seem to find any other Dyke's from Switzerland on any census returns.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how i can move backwards from here?

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