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Leicestershire / looking for old photos

« on: Wednesday 28 September 16 15:14 BST (UK) »

Hello everyone. Please can anyone tell me where to find old photos of Great Holme St and Buckingham St. ? kind regards Sue

Leicestershire / salt manufacture

« on: Saturday 23 April 16 10:27 BST (UK) »

If I may ask for a little more help please, can anyone tell me if salt was manufactured in Leics ?

Leicestershire / taft maker

« on: Saturday 16 April 16 13:33 BST (UK) »

Does anyone know what a taft maker was please ?

Leicestershire / help needed please Sophia Marston baptised 11 oct 1795 at Birstall

« on: Monday 21 March 16 12:47 GMT (UK) »

Hello everyone,please can some kind soul find any information at all about Sophia Marston baptised 11 oct 1795 at Birstall, parents were William and Mary. All I have found is her baptism and an immigration record which wasn't her. Kind regards, Sue

Leicestershire / bonnet factory

« on: Sunday 14 February 16 18:23 GMT (UK) »

My Grandma worked in a bonnet factory in Leicester around 1915 and I wonder if anyone can help me with any information about it please ? Kind regards,Sue.

Immigrants & Emigrants - General / Help needed please

« on: Wednesday 27 January 16 14:31 GMT (UK) »

I'm hoping some kind soul can help me with finding Sophia Marston travelling to USA in 1829 she was born 1795 in Leics. I'm hoping she is my missing ancestor . Kind regards, Sue.

Leicestershire Lookup Requests / birstall census request

« on: Wednesday 23 December 15 17:09 GMT (UK) »

Can some kind person find the Marston family in the 1841 Birstall census please ?

Nottinghamshire / court and convict records

« on: Saturday 19 December 15 13:03 GMT (UK) »

Please can someone tell me where to apply for these records ? kind regards, Sue

The Lighter Side / ancestors, how did they really feel ?

« on: Wednesday 16 December 15 13:15 GMT (UK) »

Do you ever wonder how they felt or their opions of the times when they lived ? Society , wars, inventions etc. I would like to ask the ladies about marriage. Knowing that you could die during the first year due to childbirth , how did this effect them ? What questions would you ask ?