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How to Use RootsChat (Please don't post requests here) / Re: warning
« on: Wednesday 05 April 17 21:26 BST (UK)  »
Mike
Thank you very much for the explanation - I love Rootschat and found it difficult to believe there were problems with it. 
Again thankyou
Derby Girl

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US Lookup Requests / Great great uncle Edwin Lewin
« on: Wednesday 05 April 17 20:55 BST (UK)  »
Edwin Lewin, born 1837 emigrated to the USA in 1883 and founded Lewin's Bank in a town called Miles, in Runnels County, Texas, according to family tradition.  His children do seem to be involved in some kind of bank in one or two censuses I have found.  Does anyone have any info about it, please?
Many thanks
DerbyGirl

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How to Use RootsChat (Please don't post requests here) / warning
« on: Wednesday 05 April 17 20:42 BST (UK)  »
When I logged onto Rootschat I got the message "this connection is not secure.  Logins entered here could be  compromised.  Learn More
A bit worrying - though McAfee can be a bit over the top - it objected to me using my email account recently.  Are there problems or is it McAfee, please?
Derby Girl

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Dorset / Re: Holy Trinity Dorchester
« on: Tuesday 31 January 17 23:23 GMT (UK)  »
My o/h remembers him as a short man with white hair - knew his stuff, and nice chap. 
Derby Girl

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Staffordshire Lookup Requests / Re: Tutbury burials lookup request
« on: Friday 26 August 16 23:57 BST (UK)  »
How about a death for Thomas Wetton in Burton on Trent - no age given - 3rd Qtr, 1858 - 6b, 165.  If correct he would most likely be buried in the churchyard of St Modwen's.
Hope it's of some use
Derby Girl

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Derbyshire / Re: Frances (Fletcher) Swinson
« on: Saturday 20 August 16 18:26 BST (UK)  »
Am sure you already have this but just in case - I was in St Werburgh's in Derby this morning looking at the old chancel and there is a 1914/18 Memorial to the 2/1 North Midland Field Ambulance - R Swinson is listed.  Apologies if it is of no interest (I was looking for Winsons at the time and thought of you)
Derby Girl

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Rutland / Re: John and Mary Ann Freeman
« on: Friday 15 July 16 18:45 BST (UK)  »
I wonder if Jadzia is still a Rootschatter.  If so, I have found John and Mary Ann Sewell's marriage in 1833 in Langham.  Or what I should be saying is - thank you for your amazing help at the time.  At that point my Pa became seriously ill, and I didn't get back to the Freeman family, until I went recently to the National Archives - so I have the wedding, if anyone wants details and also Mary Ann Sewell's baptism in 1811.  Thank you belatedly everyone.
Best wishes
Derby Girl

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The Common Room / Re: Why they died.
« on: Sunday 05 June 16 18:48 BST (UK)  »
But houses were often so difficult to heat properly then - even in the 1940s - and a cold snap could be just the thing to finish someone off who as already weak, perhaps with pneumonia, especially as antibiotics were only just starting to be available.(I think)  Earlier, at the beginning of the century a cold snap could put quite a lot of people out of work with no help other than going to the parish for out relief, but that tended to follow the problem, so you got people starving of both cold and lack of food, before help with fuel and soup kitchens were set up.  That's quite apart from infectious diseases.
Derby Girl

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The Lighter Side / Re: Brick wall to beat them all.............
« on: Tuesday 03 May 16 21:22 BST (UK)  »
Lincoln Castle is the nastiest - as the prison was designed to keep all the prisoners in permanent solitary confinement - even the prison chapel where there were little stalls, not pews, so the prisoners couldn't see one another - I don't know what evil person thought this a good idea - but the results were shocking.
Derby Girl

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