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The Common Room / Henry, Lucy & Jane Wilkinson 1891 mystery
« on: Thursday 08 October 20 14:45 BST (UK)  »
Henry Wilkinson was born in Layham, Suffolk 1870.  He seems to have moved around the country quite a bit and married Lucy Ashmore in Rotherham, Yorks in 1891.  In the 1891 census he and Lucy are in Harrison Street, Kimberworth, Yorks together with a clutch of children:

William Howard Litemore 11
Arthur Litemore 9
Florence May Litemore 3
all born Staffs.

These are clearly not children of Henry and Lucy, although they are named as sons and daughters on the census return.  I can't find their births registered either, though there is a Lily Lucy Luxton born June Q 1895 in West Ham! (no William Howard of either surname)  Who are they, that they should be living with this newly wed couple?

Henry married for a second time, this time to Jane Guest in 1896 in Rotherham.  But when did first wife Lucy die?  If I search for deaths with that name between 1891 (H & L's marriage) and 1896 ( H & J's marriage I can only find a Lucy Wilkinson who died in 1895 in Rotherham aged 38.  Our Lucy would have been 25 in that year unless she was fibbing on the 1891 census.  Also I believe that Henry and Lucy had one or two children together.

By 1901 Henry and Jane had moved to West Drayton, Middx., where they spent the rest of their lives, along with their 14 children.  (The last ones were twins - poor mother!


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The Stay Safe Board / Achievements & failures in Covid-19 times
« on: Friday 14 August 20 11:40 BST (UK)  »
Looking back over the last few months I was trying to find something good to balance the bad times.  :-\

My greatest achievement was a much needed weight loss, brought about by diet and exercise changes.  At my last annual check-up my BMI was way too high and I was warned that I was in danger of becoming Type 2 diabetic, so decided to do something about it - BMI's down, blood pressure's down. hurray!  Just need some new clothes now, a size smaller!

Since my children have been doing my shopping I haven't been tempted by any special offers or impulse buys, so have stuck to a list and have saved quite a bit of money by not buying stuff I don't really need.

My greatest failure, however, was not to complete my ambition to bring up to date and file and record all my family history research.  It has seemed an unsurmountable task, but I'm plodding along a bit at a time, so maybe I'll get there some day.

What have been your greatest achievements and failures?

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The Lighter Side / Huntingdon to Kansas in the 1880s
« on: Thursday 30 July 20 12:03 BST (UK)  »
Trying to work out how long the journey from a Huntingdonshire village to Liberty County, Kansas, would have taken in the 1880s.  I guess the journey would firstly have taken the travellers to London and from there to Liverpool.  The crossing via Ireland to Ellis Island was the next stage, followed by a train journey from New York to Kansas.  I'm not including stopovers or time spent in between the various parts of the journey, but there must have been several.  I'm still amazed that my 71-year old relative would have undertaken such a journey in those days.  Any suggestions?

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Huntingdonshire Lookup Requests / Isaac and Mercy Fairey 1861 census
« on: Monday 20 July 20 15:22 BST (UK)  »
I can't find this couple on the 1861 with their daughter Kate Maud.  They are probably living in Easton, Hunts or one of the surrounding villages.  Can anyone help, please?   

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The Common Room / Insecure site login problems
« on: Monday 20 July 20 12:54 BST (UK)  »
Having all sorts of problems with the site today and yesterday.  I have Windows 10 and am using Microsoft Edge.  When I click on my favourites for RootsChat a screen comes up telling me that the site is insecure because it uses an old TLS when it should be using TLS1.2 or later.  I've tried coming in through Chrome, but the same thing happens and I have to keep going through a series of security screens each time before I finally reach a usable page.  I'm just hoping this message will get through and that someone can tell me how to solve this infuriating problem.

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The Stay Safe Board / Mask choices
« on: Friday 10 July 20 12:02 BST (UK)  »
I assume that Trump doesn't wear a mask because he's too vain (although he did say that he had worn one once and thought he looked like the Lone Ranger - funny, I thought, since the Lone Ranger's mask covered his eyes and not his lower face), but what's the reason for our politicians not wearing masks?  Boris certainly doesn't wear one in his ghastly photo opportunities, nor does Rishi Sunak, nor as far as I can see from the papers and TV coverage do most, if not all of our politicians.  How can they then expect the general public to wear masks, especially as medical advice seems to increasingly be in favour of  the benefits from them?

Yesterday I made my first excursion into town  to have my hair cut.  The hairdresser had taken extensive measures to rearrange her salon and wore a visor and so on.  I wore a mask, too, and then went on to a very large farm shop nearby.  I was the only person in the store wearing a mask and there were no signs organising a one-way system, also no social distancing. There were, however, a couple of hand sanitiser bottles around.  I made my purchases rapidly and fled.

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The Stay Safe Board / Covid resolutions
« on: Thursday 25 June 20 10:57 BST (UK)  »
Did you make any resolutions to tackle a particular job during lockdown?  I resolved to bring my family history paperwork into some kind of order. file it, write an index naming all the people in my tree with brief notes, so that any family member can make sense of my tree when I am gone.  Filing was roughly achieved, index still stuck around 1800.  It turned out to be more complicated than I had envisaged. ::) Still plodding on after 3 months......

.....but I'm not alone - yesterday I heard Judi Dench confessing that she had resolved to learn all 154 Shakespeare sonnets by heart.  So far, she confessed, she had learned just 9!


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Technical Help / Microsoft Password problems
« on: Thursday 14 May 20 17:17 BST (UK)  »
I should start this by saying that I am an absolute novice with computers. ::)
 
A little while ago my husband (with my permission) wanted to log onto my Microsoft account on the laptop which we both use, but he must have made an error with the opening password, not once, but several times.  He then used the PIN as an alternative login, which worked fine, but since then I have never been offered the option of logging in with my password and have always been asked for the PIN.  I use Windows 10, by the way, and although he is the administrator, I'm the one who uses the laptop most, because he has another large computer..

This may or may not be connected, but sometime later I received two messages on my mobile from Microsoft, the first one giving me a 7 figure number for an account password reset code, the second giving me a 4 figure number for account security.  I have no idea how or where to use these numbers, but I would really like to either return to my original password login or create a new one and would welcome advice, expressed in the simplest of terms, of how to do so.

Many thanks.

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The Stay Safe Board / Interesting video backgrounds
« on: Wednesday 13 May 20 17:00 BST (UK)  »
I confess I am a bit of a nosey parker and I have enjoyed watching videos posted by politicians, TV presenters and just ordinary people in these lockdown times.  I'm fascinated by their choice of backgrounds.  Many politicians choose bookshelves, either a roomful or in the case of IDS one single narrow bookcase in front of which he carefully places himself in the middle.  Some bookcases are tidily kept, others all higgledy-piggledy, with papers, photos and ornaments tucked in.  I wish I could see the photos more clearly...  Furnishings and pictures are interesting, too.  Matt Hancock appears to have a Damian Hirst circular picture of the Queen  (original or print??).  In former times interviewees would be placed near a lamp and a plant or vase of flowers, but that's old hat now.  Quite a few people, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, speak from their kitchen.  Interesting to see their choice of cupboards and kitchenalia. 
I know I am quite careful during Zoom chats to have a nice but neutral background.  What's yours?

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