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Occupation Interests / Team Man?
« on: Monday 08 April 19 20:52 BST (UK)  »
Please can some kind soul decipher and explain this occupation on the 1911 census?

It looks like Teamman .......but that doesn't make sense to me. He obviously works for a farmer and so it is an occupation in the agricultural category but I wonder what a team man does?

Many thanks  :)

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Kent / Re: Ashurst/Speldhurst burial records
« on: Friday 01 March 19 14:02 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks bearkat.

FS seems to be another problem to me at the moment. I have family in Northumberland and Durham and in the past was able to view the images but everything seems to have changed in that site now.

I guess the images are only available at a centre now. Perhaps I will pay my local one a visit.

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Kent / Re: Ashurst/Speldhurst burial records
« on: Friday 01 March 19 10:33 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks bearkat. Doesn't look like I'm going to make easy progress on this one.

It seems as though there are 2 different Ashurst as the one in Sussex is in the Horsham area and the Kent one is near Tunbridge.

It is the Kent one that this family lived in, as Thomas and Mary were born and married in Speldhurst, whilst their children were born in Ashurst. The last child was born in 1832 in Ashurst and by 1841 all the children were scattered and Thomas and Mary appear to be missing from the census.

Thanks for your reply  :)


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Kent / Ashurst/Speldhurst burial records
« on: Friday 01 March 19 09:46 GMT (UK)  »
Please does anyone have access to the death records for the Ashhurst/ Speldhurst area of Kent?

I would like to know the dates of death for Thomas and Mary Carpenter. They probably died in Ashurst between the years 1832-1841.

I believe Thomas was born in 1794 and Mary in 1799, to give some ideas of their ages.

Many thanks  :)

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Sussex / Re: Heathfield baptism
« on: Monday 25 February 19 11:00 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks ColC but no that is another Thomas Reed.

My Thomas Reed is consistent in the censuses, saying he was born in Heathfield and is living there with his wife Harriet, who was born in Battle.

I suspect he was baptised in the non denominational Heathfield Church as that was where I found some of his children's baptisms on FS. However I cannot trace his, although many online trees indicate he was born 1803, son of Samuel and Elizabeth.

I'm not sure if the Heathfield non denominational records are available online for 1803-1806. I guess that is my main query here  :)

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Sussex / Heathfield baptism
« on: Sunday 24 February 19 21:47 GMT (UK)  »
According to the 1841-1871 censuses Thomas Reed was born about 1806 in Heathfield. He married there in 1826 and died there in 1878

I can find no baptism for him around 1806 though, having used the SFHG records and several online websites.

According to a number of online tress......and we all know how accurate they can be!.......he was born in Heathfield in 1803, the son of Samuel Reed and Elizabeth Easton. His first son was christened Samuel but that is not proof he was the son of Samuel and Elizabeth.

I thought I would run this past you all as I cannot find his baptism but that's not to say it's not available. I have just run out of ideas.

Grateful for any help  :)

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The Common Room / Re: Opinions would be appreciated
« on: Wednesday 13 February 19 07:34 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you for all your replies everyone. This lady was tricky to fathom out and without all your input I would never have resolved it and maybe I haven't even now but the pieces certainly fit together so I can only assume I have everything correct now.

My only doubt centres on the fact that she is ambiguous about her age on each census.
   
As for her first husbands death record I still cannot trace it but his name has many variations on the spelling which is complicating things. Maybe he did die at sea but the parish is not by the coast, although it is not an impossible thought.

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Sussex / Re: Lewes Baptism
« on: Wednesday 06 February 19 22:39 GMT (UK)  »
Oh that's brilliant Human51  ;) thank you so so much.

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The Common Room / Re: Opinions would be appreciated
« on: Monday 04 February 19 15:46 GMT (UK)  »
Hehehe....I'll go with bigamy then. ;D

Only joking!  I know I'm lucky to get that far back with accuracy and so am still accepting I may be wrong with what I've untangled but feel I'm in  better place with the details of her life than I was last week.

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