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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Poor Henry Riley
« on: Sunday 29 January 06 10:11 GMT (UK)  »
A reader of my Calderdale Companion website has sent me this epitaph which they found at Ebenezer Chapel at Hebden Bridge:
 
Henry Riley: whose short existence was marked
with continued Misfortune, and because he became
poor, was cruelly murdered on the 2nd of Ocr. 1818
in the 37th Year of his Age. He has left a Widow &
      eleven Children to lament his loss

I wondered if he belonged to anyone on ROOTSCHAT and whether they can answer any of the questions which it raises.

Regards

Malcolm Bull

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Technical Help / Re: Windows XP icons
« on: Friday 27 January 06 16:05 GMT (UK)  »
Excellent! Just what I wanted. Thanks

Malcolm

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Technical Help / Windows XP icons
« on: Friday 27 January 06 15:14 GMT (UK)  »
I'm sorry but I don't know the technical name for the little bar of icons at the bottom of the screen in Windows [XP Home] which normally has a left-pointing arrow and allows you to expand the row of small icons held there, but my question is ...

How to do you add and delete icons from this expanding/contracting bar?

... if you understand what I mean.

Thanks

Malcolm

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Old Actors Home
« on: Monday 23 January 06 11:16 GMT (UK)  »
Perhaps that should be Brinsworth House at

http://www.eabf.org.uk/brinhse.htm

Regards

Malcolm Bull

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Yorkshire (West Riding) Resources & Offers / Link: Bygone times of Todmorden & Walsden
« on: Sunday 22 January 06 17:47 GMT (UK)  »
The Todmorden & Walsden website will be invaluable to anyone researching local history or their family history in the Todmorden and Upper Calder Valley district of West Yorkshire

http://www.todmordenandwalsden.co.uk

Regards

Malcolm Bull

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Occupation Interests / Re: Grinding
« on: Friday 20 January 06 13:26 GMT (UK)  »
Oh, could be!  It was the combination of leather and grinding that puzzled me.

I suppose that leather [for making strops to sharpen razors etc] and grinding shears etc are not too far apart.

Thanks

Malcolm Bull

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Occupation Interests / Grinding
« on: Friday 20 January 06 11:53 GMT (UK)  »
An ancestor ran a leather and grindery business.

Any suggestions as to what he would have been grinding?

Regards

Malcolm Bull

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The Common Room / Salvation Army - Jeremy Paxman
« on: Saturday 14 January 06 09:41 GMT (UK)  »
The Who Do You Think You Are programme with Jeremy Paxman revived a query which has been at the back of my mind since I first read about local hostility to the Salvation Army here in West Yorkshire when they were regularly pelted with stones: why was there popular antipathy towards the Army?

Was it because of their teetotalism ... or what?

Malcolm Bull

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The Lighter Side / Re: Is your name Fuller / Walker? Worst job
« on: Wednesday 11 January 06 15:46 GMT (UK)  »
I know that they used to do, but do they still use stale urine in Scotland to cleanse the cloth when making tweed?  The process is known as walking or waulking and may be the origin of the surname Walker.

Regards

Malcolm Bull

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