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Kent Lookup Requests / Re: Thelvey or Shelvey - Sandwich
« on: Saturday 29 October 11 09:27 BST (UK) »
Thank you Panda,
That will save me some time.
That will save me some time.
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Census and Resource Discussion / Re: BMDRegisters Website - Is There a Problem?
« on: Saturday 29 October 11 09:26 BST (UK) »
Whatever was wrong seems to have been fixed now.
Thanks for the link again.
xx
Thanks for the link again.
xx
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Census and Resource Discussion / Re: BMDRegisters Website - Is There a Problem?
« on: Friday 28 October 11 23:30 BST (UK) »
Again thanks for the link.
I clicked on your link and got through no problem using Internet Explorer however, when I tried to look something up it just froze.
Brrrrrrr!
I clicked on your link and got through no problem using Internet Explorer however, when I tried to look something up it just froze.
Brrrrrrr!
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Kent Lookup Requests / Re: Thelvey or Shelvey - Sandwich
« on: Friday 28 October 11 22:09 BST (UK) »
Hi everybody,
I guess I'll have to get in the car and have a day out. What a shame!
(By the way I'm aware that Canterbury Cathedral Archives AND the Beaney Museum are both shut for upgrading)
Thank you both for your help.
I guess I'll have to get in the car and have a day out. What a shame!
(By the way I'm aware that Canterbury Cathedral Archives AND the Beaney Museum are both shut for upgrading)
Thank you both for your help.
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The Common Room / National Archives PDF files
« on: Friday 28 October 11 22:02 BST (UK) »
Hi everybody,
I would like to share this discovery with all of you who don't already know.
There appears to be a gradual change taking place at the National Archives whereby documents that were formerly on microfilm or fiche are slowly being digitised and placed on the National Archives website as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) files. Normally, from home it costs money to download these files, and normally at Kew you have to pay per item to print documents out.
What I have discovered is that if you have your own wi-fi enabled laptop with you when you go to Kew, you can download as many of these files that you would normally have to pay for FREE. When you log on to the public access wi-fi at Kew and log on to National Archives it defaults to the same user area as that of the fixed in-house machines giving you full free access to the online documents service. Its all perfectly legal by the way!
Useful?
I would like to share this discovery with all of you who don't already know.
There appears to be a gradual change taking place at the National Archives whereby documents that were formerly on microfilm or fiche are slowly being digitised and placed on the National Archives website as PDF (Adobe Acrobat) files. Normally, from home it costs money to download these files, and normally at Kew you have to pay per item to print documents out.
What I have discovered is that if you have your own wi-fi enabled laptop with you when you go to Kew, you can download as many of these files that you would normally have to pay for FREE. When you log on to the public access wi-fi at Kew and log on to National Archives it defaults to the same user area as that of the fixed in-house machines giving you full free access to the online documents service. Its all perfectly legal by the way!
Useful?
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Kent Lookup Requests / Re: Thelvey or Shelvey - Sandwich
« on: Friday 28 October 11 21:45 BST (UK) »
Hi bearkat,
Thanks for your help, but I don't think that the baptism records for St Peters or St Celements are online yet. I was wondering whether somebody had a CD or fiche of the records that they could look her up on?
If not, I'm hoping they have one at Maidstone, unless there's anywhere you can suggest?
Thanks for your help, but I don't think that the baptism records for St Peters or St Celements are online yet. I was wondering whether somebody had a CD or fiche of the records that they could look her up on?
If not, I'm hoping they have one at Maidstone, unless there's anywhere you can suggest?
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Kent Lookup Requests / Thelvey or Shelvey - Sandwich
« on: Wednesday 26 October 11 22:05 BST (UK) »
Please, has anybody got access to or can direct towards the parish records for Sandwich pre-1820. I am interested in finding the birth details and parentage of my 4g grandmother Mary Thelvey (or more likely Shelvey) who was apparently born in Sandwich c.1798. She married John Gurr at St Lawrence in 1820.
Help!
Help!
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Roxburghshire / Re: Gibson/Hay marriage c.1804
« on: Tuesday 25 October 11 13:08 BST (UK) »
Thanks very much for the link. It provided some interesting reading. There were 2 reports on Kelso: one up to 1799 and the other from the 1830s. Unfortunately there wasn't one covering the period 1800-1810, however much could be gleaned from the available reports. In particular the fact that shoemakers were by far the most numerous of the trades in the late 18th century but, at the same time, appeared to be in a reasonably good position financially with their goods sold mainly locally and in bordering areas.
There was a comment in the second volume that mentioned that the growth in Kelso's population, though mainly down to the movement of people from surrounding agricultural areas into the town, consisted to a great extent of older people and that many young men were leaving the town to find work elsewhere.
Other than that I couldn't really identify anything that would specifically account for my forebear's relocation to London. I'll keep searching though.
Many thanks for your help...
There was a comment in the second volume that mentioned that the growth in Kelso's population, though mainly down to the movement of people from surrounding agricultural areas into the town, consisted to a great extent of older people and that many young men were leaving the town to find work elsewhere.
Other than that I couldn't really identify anything that would specifically account for my forebear's relocation to London. I'll keep searching though.
Many thanks for your help...
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Roxburghshire / Re: Gibson/Hay marriage c.1804
« on: Monday 24 October 11 23:47 BST (UK) »
Sorry Gnu,
Forgot to ask. Can you think of anything that was going on in Kelso c.1805-6 that might have caused a young couple with a newborn baby (who was deaf & dumb) to move all the way down to Deptford in London? William described himself as a merchant at the birth of his 1st child but later, in Deptford, became a labourer and later a shoemaker. He was living close to the Bermondsey Leather Market.
It is also likely that Janet's brother George, a shoemaker, moved to London, albeit north of the Thames, shortly before William & Janet.
Any ideas?
Forgot to ask. Can you think of anything that was going on in Kelso c.1805-6 that might have caused a young couple with a newborn baby (who was deaf & dumb) to move all the way down to Deptford in London? William described himself as a merchant at the birth of his 1st child but later, in Deptford, became a labourer and later a shoemaker. He was living close to the Bermondsey Leather Market.
It is also likely that Janet's brother George, a shoemaker, moved to London, albeit north of the Thames, shortly before William & Janet.
Any ideas?