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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Facts that don't stack up & reading between lines - help me solve a mystery!
« on: Monday 29 April 19 09:41 BST (UK) »
Ignore that last post. Anc isn't showing it, but FindMyPast is....
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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Facts that don't stack up & reading between lines - help me solve a mystery!
« on: Monday 29 April 19 09:38 BST (UK) »
How did you find her? I'm using Ancestry and if I search for 'Florence Staniforth' and her birth year I get nothing! (I find the Ancestry search system pretty unreliable, to be honest).
Try just putting Florence L Staniforth and once you get results, have it only show Censuses from 1930's.
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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Facts that don't stack up & reading between lines - help me solve a mystery!
« on: Monday 29 April 19 09:07 BST (UK) »
She is in the 1939. Birth date is one week earlier than the baptism stated, so someone goofed up on the baptism or whoever supplied her birth date for the '39.
Her daughter (?) is listed as the 9th, maybe they mixed them up and she should be the 2nd.
Her daughter (?) is listed as the 9th, maybe they mixed them up and she should be the 2nd.
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Canada / Re: Edgar Leggett ...no record of him in Canada anywhere
« on: Friday 26 April 19 08:34 BST (UK) »
I've sent a pm.
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Canada / Re: Edgar Leggett ...no record of him in Canada anywhere
« on: Friday 26 April 19 08:16 BST (UK) »
Was there a return address on that postcard (was thinking we might find the address in a directory, as he probably changed his name)?
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Canada / Re: Edgar Leggett ...no record of him in Canada anywhere
« on: Friday 26 April 19 07:49 BST (UK) »
Ugh. If you have access to the series England & Wales, Crime, Prisons & Punishment, 1770-1935 look him up.
I highly doubt this is something his grandson wants to know.
I highly doubt this is something his grandson wants to know.
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Canada / Re: Edgar Leggett ...no record of him in Canada anywhere
« on: Friday 26 April 19 07:37 BST (UK) »Not any direct help in your search but on 7 November 1908 and on 14 December 1912, "The Chemist and Druggist" reported that Edgar S Leggett had been fined for falsely describing his professional status as a "horse doctor".
Perhaps he " reinvented" himself in Canada?
I just found the article of the court case to which Brentnor was referring to, and it was held in October 1908, so I am assuming that is what the "PUBLIC NOTICE" article was about in my previous post, from East Anglian Daily Times 30 October 1908.
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Canada / Re: Edgar Leggett ...no record of him in Canada anywhere
« on: Friday 26 April 19 06:48 BST (UK) »
There are a decent number of old articles on Leggetts in that area. As you may have already found them in your research, I've just put a few notes referencing what the article is about, as it might help explain Edgar's various occupations:
Evening Star 28 November 1899
Inquest into death of Nathan Leggett death, which was from an accident in which he was thrown from his horse drawn "trap", and the coroner states that two out of three "accidents" requiring an inquest at that same location had fatalities to veterinary doctors. Edgar is mentioned as identifying the body, and his occupation is given as "dealer"
Middlesex County Times 07 February 1903
Death of a highly respected James Leggett, 3rd son of Cornelius, born 1815, both veterinary doctors, university trained, lived Hanwell Suffolk. Well known farriers and vets etc. (Could this be Nathan's father?)
Evening Star 19 June 1908
Edgar Samuel Leggett, horse-breaker, Ipswich, charged with cruelty to a horse at Trimley. The owners of the horse thought that he was "a real horse doctor" and called him to tend to their animal. Edgar said he had succeeded his father in his business nine years earlier. and had never had a problem. However he made a very serious error, and the RSPCA and a "real veterinarian" was called in, and the horse had to be put down.
This article also discusses how anyone can practice animal medicine, as long as they don't refer to themselves as veterinary surgeons. The common term used for the untrained ones was "horse doctors".
East Anglian Daily Times 30 October 1908
PUBLIC NOTICE
EDGAR SAMUEL LEGGETT, S. JOHN'S
IPSWICH
Beg to inform his Clients that he still car-
ries his Practice on as usual, thanking
them for past favours, hoping to continue the
same.
Framlingham Weekly News 30 August 1913
Edgar Samuel Leggett of Saxmundham, pig dealer, getting fined (again) for no licence on his sulky. He also breaks colts and tends sick cows.
Edited to add missing words and the PUBLIC NOTICE article.
Evening Star 28 November 1899
Inquest into death of Nathan Leggett death, which was from an accident in which he was thrown from his horse drawn "trap", and the coroner states that two out of three "accidents" requiring an inquest at that same location had fatalities to veterinary doctors. Edgar is mentioned as identifying the body, and his occupation is given as "dealer"
Middlesex County Times 07 February 1903
Death of a highly respected James Leggett, 3rd son of Cornelius, born 1815, both veterinary doctors, university trained, lived Hanwell Suffolk. Well known farriers and vets etc. (Could this be Nathan's father?)
Evening Star 19 June 1908
Edgar Samuel Leggett, horse-breaker, Ipswich, charged with cruelty to a horse at Trimley. The owners of the horse thought that he was "a real horse doctor" and called him to tend to their animal. Edgar said he had succeeded his father in his business nine years earlier. and had never had a problem. However he made a very serious error, and the RSPCA and a "real veterinarian" was called in, and the horse had to be put down.
This article also discusses how anyone can practice animal medicine, as long as they don't refer to themselves as veterinary surgeons. The common term used for the untrained ones was "horse doctors".
East Anglian Daily Times 30 October 1908
PUBLIC NOTICE
EDGAR SAMUEL LEGGETT, S. JOHN'S
IPSWICH
Beg to inform his Clients that he still car-
ries his Practice on as usual, thanking
them for past favours, hoping to continue the
same.
Framlingham Weekly News 30 August 1913
Edgar Samuel Leggett of Saxmundham, pig dealer, getting fined (again) for no licence on his sulky. He also breaks colts and tends sick cows.
Edited to add missing words and the PUBLIC NOTICE article.
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Canada / Re: Finding James McGuire late 1800s
« on: Wednesday 24 April 19 06:28 BST (UK) »A couple of trees have him born in Goderich, On but I reached out and they don’t know where they got that info.
There is a death registration for Margaret Jane Glahn, born 1866, daughter of James McGuire and Willa Lena McGregor which gives the birth place of James as Goderich.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9Q97-Y3S5-Z15?i=106&cc=1307826