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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: trying to work out hearth tax - shibden hall HALIFAX
« on: Tuesday 03 January 23 08:38 GMT (UK)  »
May I make a correction to Stu's earlier reply?  The

ROOTSWEB

link is to a very old and out-of-date version of my Calderdale Companion.  For a couple of years, the website has been at

calderdalecompanion.co.uk/

Malcolm Bull

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Huntingdonshire / Re: Can anyone indentify thie Huntingdonshire place? *completed*
« on: Saturday 31 December 22 15:27 GMT (UK)  »
Wow!  That was quick.  Thanks (and a Happy New Year) to all

MB

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Huntingdonshire / Can anyone indentify thie Huntingdonshire place?
« on: Saturday 31 December 22 15:17 GMT (UK)  »
My gt-gt-grandfather James Bull [b Huntingdon 1811] married a girl called Mary [b 1812] surname unknown.  In the 1871 census, Mary is shown as being born at the place shown below.  James and all their children are shown as born in Huntingdon, so presumable the wedding was nearby and Mary was born not too far away.  Any light that can be thrown on these details of the family will be much appreciated.

Malcolm Bull

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Albert Farrar [1882-1918] of Todmorden *COMPLETED*
« on: Wednesday 16 November 22 08:34 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks,  I shall go with the CWG details.

MB

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Albert Farrar [1882-1918] of Todmorden
« on: Saturday 12 November 22 11:42 GMT (UK)  »
On my Calderdale Companion website, I have an entry for Albert Farrar [1882-1918], a Todmorden man who died in the Great War.

http://calderdalecompanion.co.uk/mmf44.html#26

The CWG record shows Albert as a Gunner with the Royal Garrison Artillery, whereas an item in the local newspaper at the time, the Todmorden & District News, shows him as a Signaller with the RFA = Royal Field Artillery.

Should I just go with the CWG details, or is it possible that Gunner & Signaller are equivalent, and RGA and RFA are connected?

Any thoughts would be welcome

MB

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Calderdale Companion
« on: Tuesday 11 October 22 10:30 BST (UK)  »
Please note that my Calderdale Companion website is no longer supported on Ancestry's Rootsweb site:

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~calderdalecompanion/

That address is now obsolete and the information there is many years out of date.

Since the catastrophic loss of the data a couple of years back, the Calderdale Companion can now be reached via the address

calderdalecompanion.co.uk

Malcolm Bull

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Technical Help / Trouble with WORD & label templates *COMPLETED*
« on: Tuesday 29 March 22 15:58 BST (UK)  »
For many years, I have used Avery L7163 template to print my address labels (14 to a page).  When I opened my address document in Word just now, the font size and the size of the individual labels were greatly enlarged.  I tried reducing the font size but that achieved nothing.  I downloaded a fresh copy of the template, and immediately on opening this, it displays the same hugely distorted labels.  I am not aware that I have done anything to upset the software, and this label printing is about all that I do with Word.  Any ideas on how to get back to the former correct dimensions?

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Lancashire / Re: A place called Abram in Lancashire *COMPLETED*
« on: Wednesday 22 December 21 10:08 GMT (UK)  »
Excellent.  Thank you, ladies!

Best wishes

Malcolm Bull

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Lancashire / A place called Abram in Lancashire
« on: Wednesday 22 December 21 09:50 GMT (UK)  »
In the 1901 appearance of a Unitarian minister (James Taylor) in Elland, the Census shows that James was born in Abram, Lancashire.  I can't find a place with that name.  Does anyone know (1) is the spelling correct? (2) where is the place?

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks in advance

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