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Update from http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,51053.0.html

Access the on-line data for Saffron Walden cemetery now via this link:

http://www.uttlesford.gov.uk/main.cfm?Type=AZ

JULIAN

This is more in hope than in certainty, but I wondered if anyone using this board has access to Trade Directories or similar for Liverpool for any time in the period 1864 to 1875?

I am looking for evidence of a Henry Lee, in the maritime trade, over that period.  Full background on Henry and his relations are over here http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,194825.0.html, but suffice to say that Henry, a shipowner, was declared bankrupt in South Shields, county Durham, in 1864, and then again in Liverpool, as a Sail Maker and Ship Chandler, in 1867.  He is on the 1871 census as a Ship Broker; 136 Crown Street, Liverpool.  His 4 daughters all married in the Liverpool area between 1867 and 1873, and I think his wife died in Liverpool in 1874. He himself died, I think, back in South Shields in 1875.

So any info from trade directories or similar would be most welcome to tie him down a bit more in Liverpool.

Thanks (in hope more than in anticipation)

JULIAN

Given the lack of movement on a new server for the rootschat webspace, I have to assume that it is now unlikely, after 10 months, to be resuscitated.

There is a very helpful list of rootschat webspace sites here http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,23896.0.html.  Given the status of the rootschat webspace, that thread is now of only academic interest 

I would like to start a thread listing rootschatters family history websites.  It was great to look at all the other sites people had put together on the rootschat space - I certainly found it inspirational in setting me on the path of building my own site.  I think we need a similar list to sustain that inspiration. 

Like the earlier thread run by Biker/Berlin-Bob, if you want your site listed, you just PM me and I will add it to the list.

I'd welcome support from a moderator to get it stickied so it remains visible. 

I won't start this until I get a few replies agreeing it's a good idea (or not, of course).

What do you think?

JULIAN

(continued from http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,232013.0.html)

Here is the provisional programme for the Glasgow meet. 

Because I don't know the final numbers coming, the programme has been built on the basis that anywhere we go to needs quite a bit of elbow room. 

I have also worked on the basis that rootschatters want to chat in real (rather than virtual) space with their colleagues, and the programme should provide a background social historical context for that to happen. 

You will want to eat and drink, so access to cafes etc has been important; however if you want to bring a thermos and packed lunch, be my guest.

And finally, I was conscious that we needed something that would not (a) leave us too exposed to the weather should it rain, and (b) get us tied up with the flow of people going to watch Scotland v Ukraine soccer at hampden Park at 3pm the same day.  All blame about the programme should be directed at me!

Saturday 13 October

1030 - 1300  - The People's Palace and Winter Gardens, Glasgow Green

The People's Palace is a fantastic "museum" displaying the social history of Glasgow from the 1750 to the present day. It is aptly named.  Behind it is the Winter Gardens where there is a nice cafe as well as the sorts of exotic greenery you get in winter gardens.  It is set in Historic Glasgow Green which is worth exploring too if you have time/the inclination.

There is no exact starting time - I just ask you to find me or another willing volunteer in the Winter gardens cafe - I'll be wearing my Rootschat badge, which I suggest you do too - http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,104049.msg411757.html#msg411757.

You will however be expected to have fed and watered yourself before we leave at 1300 hrs.

NB I will post more information on how to get to Glasgow Green separately.

1300 -1330 Walk to Provands Lordship, Castle Street

The oldest house in Glasgow, built in 1472, and restored to give a flavour of medieval life in Glasgow. 

(There is an alternative attraction over the road - St Mungo museum of religious life and art; the cafe is based there)

1415-1430 Walk to Buchanan Street subway station

1430-1445 Subway to Hillhead

1445-1500 Walk to Glasgow University for the Hunterian Museum, University Avenue

The Hunterian provides a range of the things you expect in museums, including the Kelvin and Hunter displays.  Close by is also the Mackintosh House (£3, £2 concessions)  and the Hunterian Art Gallery (free).  There's a cafe in the Art Gallery and also at the nearby University Visitor Centre

1700 End of the "official" programme for the day

Especially those staying over will want to reconvene - more to follow on this.

Sunday 14 October

1030-1230 Glasgow Necropolis, Castle Street

This is an optional extra for those staying over, and will be subject to the weather.

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Links for the places we are going to:

Peoples Palace and Winter Gardens:
http://www.glasgowmuseums.com/venue/index.cfm?venueid=9
Provands Lordship:
http://www.glasgowmuseums.com/venue/index.cfm?venueid=11
Hunterian: http://www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/index.html
Glasgow Necropolis:
http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/Residents/Parks_Outdoors/HeritageTrails/GlasgowNecropolis/
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I will be sending a PM to all those who expressed an interest in attending, so that you can confirm whether you are coming or not - by Friday 5th October, please.  I need to know who to look out for!

If you've just chanced by this thread, and fancy coming, please do not just turn up, send me a PM to let me know you plan to come.

The advice about staying over and orienting yourself to Glasgow - travel, vernacular (!) etc is here: http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,232013.msg1238707.html#msg1238707 and still stands good.

I hope this is helpful.  I'm looking forward to it, and I hope you are too.

JULIAN

I am looking for some help from anyone with local knowledge of the Lingfield Parish and its history.

The background is this.  My great great grandfather, James Gibbs, and most of his siblings were holed up on East Grinstead Common, in the parish of Lingfield, at the time of the 1841 census.  They ranged in age from 15 to 3 - no parents.  Indeed, no adults at all (There is a short line under the entry for the youngest child which I take to mean the "end" of the household).

As some of these Gibbs' children had been baptised in East Grinstead, and some in Lingfield, I'm trying to understand the geography of where they were - not least it would be helpful to know if this might have been the family home, and not some place they just ended-up in.

The entry is quite clearly in the Lingfield (Surrey) census return, as opposed to East Grinstead (Sussex); for example it is not recorded on the Weald site under East Grinstead Common, East Grinstead.  The enumerator's schedule states that the district covered "to the south of the road leading from Milderwick to Plaistow St, bounded by the road leading from Plaistow St to East Grinstead and adjoining East Grinstead.

So my question is:  Which side (east or west) of the East Grinstead Road are we looking at here?  I can find no trace of Milderwick (if I've read it right).  Plaistow St I know is in the centre of Lingfield.

Secondly, How big was East Grinstead Common in the mid-1850s and how much of this is now built over (especially the bits that would have been in the Lingfield Parish)?

Finally, if anyone can tell me what the first line of  the "Place" description from the 1841 census (below) actually says, I would be eternally grateful!

JULIAN