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The Common Room / Re: Findmypast - no more 1 month subs?
« on: Wednesday 01 August 18 19:26 BST (UK) »
You'll have to wait for a free weekend, buy some matches to keep your eyes open and hammer it to death methodically 
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The Lighter Side / Re: Unpleasant Deaths
« on: Sunday 29 July 18 19:33 BST (UK) »
I would love to know who the poor man was to marry
It was a lady called Mrs Denne, who lived at Bournemouth.
He was due to take up a new job at the station there once he'd married.
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Clackmannanshire / Re: How can I trace a suspicious death in 1830s?
« on: Sunday 29 July 18 18:09 BST (UK) »Thank you for your replies.Two events were covered. Reports of the body found, then a week later reports of his injuries. Newspapers include:
Thank you StanleysChesterton.
Spot on, you have the correct person. Thank you.
May I ask what newspapers you found please?
Edinburgh Evening Courant. 26 May
Morning Post, London. 29 May
Fife Herald. 31 May
Cheltenham Chronicle. 31 May
Warwick and Warwickshire Advertiser. 2 June
Newcastle Chronicle. 2 June
Bell's Weekly Messenger. 3 June & 4 June
Hampshire Telegraph. 4 June
Gore's Liverpool General Advertiser. 7 June
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Clackmannanshire / Re: How can I trace a suspicious death in 1830s?
« on: Sunday 29 July 18 17:20 BST (UK) »
Was it George in 1832?
If so, there's a description of injuries in papers in June 1832. Watch and money gone. Body returned to home village for burial.
If so, there's a description of injuries in papers in June 1832. Watch and money gone. Body returned to home village for burial.
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Cambridgeshire / Re: Cambridge Electoral Roll ~1960
« on: Sunday 29 July 18 13:35 BST (UK) »HiI'd say that's a bullseye. Exact/correct year, exact/correct address in full, exact/correct last name. I got the impression that the landlady was a sole resident, so not one of a family or sisters...
Possible..
1960
Cambridge - No 1 division, polling dist p. part of East Chesterton ward.
Ethel Edwards, 3 St Andrew's Road.
There are 3 others at that address, none have the same surname.
Geoff
I have the phone book, but it just says "E Edwards" - and just an E is no good to man nor beast
Brilliant!
My money's on Ethel being a bullseye.
Cheers for that!
Re the 3 others, does one have the initials CFH?
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EDIT: I've done a bit of "research" assuming that's correct - and a lot more of what I can throw together without documentation adds up. So I am 99.99% sure that once I've done a bit more checking and cross checking, Edith will turn out to be correct (and I think it's Edith Doris Edwards and I think she died in 1963 at the current time of "just dabbling around taking a quick look with a heap of assumption). Other stuff I've discovered made it hang together more coherently too.
So thanks for the name!
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Wiltshire / Re: Will for Phineas Phillimore 1672
« on: Sunday 29 July 18 13:25 BST (UK) »
Wilts Archives appear to have it.
Administration and Will, 1672.
Section: P12 - Probate records of the Prebend of Netheravon
Reference No: P12/104
https://calmview.wiltshire.gov.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=P12%2f104
Administration and Will, 1672.
Section: P12 - Probate records of the Prebend of Netheravon
Reference No: P12/104
https://calmview.wiltshire.gov.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=P12%2f104
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The Lighter Side / Re: Heir Hunters new series
« on: Saturday 28 July 18 17:42 BST (UK) ».... Michael Buerk said "Surely that is good enough?". You have a lot to learn Mike lol. ...He should know better, being the illegitimate son of a bigamist!
It's all so fake sounding the way he says it ... and the excitement he has about money that smacks too much of gluttony and greed.
What really gets my goat is when he announces the two "it could be you" names - and does a really irritating thing by pointing with his boney hand and thumb obscured.... *shivers*.
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The Lighter Side / Re: WDYTYA Boy George
« on: Thursday 26 July 18 20:47 BST (UK) »
I have a large, colour, photo (or hand-coloured, not sure) of my dad c.1935 - he looks like a perfect Shirley Temple, with golden curly hair going down to his shoulders. Looks like a beautiful girl, not boyish looking at all.
Mum/dad always said "mother wanted another girl", but maybe that's just how they turned them out back then. You couldn't always "trust" what mum/dad said as some of it may've been said in jest and went right over my head.
Re Boy George episode:
I think too many people put "today's luxury values" on things that went on in the past. I think the grandmother was probably "saved" - allbeit to a rotten institute. She was probably "better off" there than being left at home where all sorts might've happened to her. Being with family isn't always best for everybody... but we'll never know. The show 'experts' though were trying to tactfully tell him that it was probably for the best... allbeit a rotten place.
Mum/dad always said "mother wanted another girl", but maybe that's just how they turned them out back then. You couldn't always "trust" what mum/dad said as some of it may've been said in jest and went right over my head.
Re Boy George episode:
I think too many people put "today's luxury values" on things that went on in the past. I think the grandmother was probably "saved" - allbeit to a rotten institute. She was probably "better off" there than being left at home where all sorts might've happened to her. Being with family isn't always best for everybody... but we'll never know. The show 'experts' though were trying to tactfully tell him that it was probably for the best... allbeit a rotten place.
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Bedfordshire / Re: Louise Hilliard Turner (Rankin) O.B.E. Who was she?
« on: Wednesday 25 July 18 18:44 BST (UK) »ThanksDunno. Just found it.
Was Louise the "Wife of Baronet?"
Who was the Baronet?
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Sight of the whole page might show the title is not related to what follows...
I looked further, the title is not the person later listed.... the title of the article refers to Lady Seton. I hate it when they do that
I've amended my first post to just the relevant bit.