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Messages - Andrew Tarr

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The Common Room / Re: Double christening?
« on: Tuesday 06 June 23 09:35 BST (UK)  »
My first thoughts were whether there were specific circumstances around this particular double baptism where the couple might have persuaded the minister in Beighton, the neighbouring parish to where they lived, to carry out a second baptism for some reason.
Another harmless possibility might be that the intended vicar was absent for some reason, and the family went next door, as it were, as soon as they could - then repeated the ceremony when their local vicar returned ?

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The Common Room / Re: Double christening?
« on: Wednesday 31 May 23 17:16 BST (UK)  »
As we are discussing surprising baptism records, I might add those of my father's family.  He had two younger sisters born in 1906 and 1912 near Swansea.  He and the older sister were baptised locally a few weeks after birth.  The younger sister was baptised aged a few months, in Dungarvan (Co.Waterford) where their father was from.  It was July, so I suppose they could have gone on a summer trip and suddenly remembered they had forgotten something ....  :o

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The Common Room / Re: Double christening?
« on: Tuesday 30 May 23 23:27 BST (UK)  »
An ancestor of my wife's was baptised (also in the 1830s) in a rural part of Northumberland by a peripatetic presbyterian minister based in Newcastle, and again 10 months later in her own parish church which was newly built and had just opened.

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The Common Room / Re: What is your Most Common Names in your Family Tree?
« on: Wednesday 24 May 23 11:01 BST (UK)  »
A common tradition was to give firstborn sons the name of the father's father, which clearly affects the apparent frequency of given names.  My grandmother came from a Suffolk family with parallel branches, many of which named the sons Edmund or Brice alternately, causing much genealogical confusion.  I visited the ancestral graveyard, where Edmunds could be seen everywhere, but none of them a direct ancestor of mine as far as I could tell from the dates.

Other connected Suffolk families (Robinson) seemed to name every eldest son John, come what may.  It is an important biblical name, and the Bible was a standard source of inspiration for naming for centuries.  At least the clerics would have known how to spell those names, even if the accompanying surnames were only approximate.

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The Common Room / Re: Address
« on: Thursday 18 May 23 23:12 BST (UK)  »
It was perfectly normal - and probably still is - for marriages to take place in the bride's parish, which could be a long way from the groom's.  In 1881 a member of my family tree went from Devon to marry in Dungarvan in southern Ireland - the bride was originally from the same town in Devon, but her whole family had 'emigrated' in the 1850s.  At about the same time a brother of the bride travelled in the opposite direction to marry one of the assistants in the groom's grocery shop.

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The Common Room / Re: Abbreviation for 'Condition' in a Workhouse Infirmary
« on: Wednesday 10 May 23 09:51 BST (UK)  »
I thought that 100 years ago 'Condition' often meant single, married, widowed, etc ?  Which clearly is not the case here.   Incidentally, the top line in the image reads 'Louis.' - what might that be ?  And two lines read 'Isol.' whose meaning is clear.

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The Common Room / Re: ag labs
« on: Monday 08 May 23 23:15 BST (UK)  »
By the 1840s trains were becoming more popular so some ag labs probably travelled on trains to help out at other farms a distance away. Not sure how expensive they were though back then.
Many ag-labs were hired every autumn and didn't move far, but those that had to travel most likely went on the tramp.  The railway network was still fairly sparse in 1841, and I would guess that any ag-lab with a family would prefer to avoid buying several tickets when looking for employment.

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In the calico printing trade I think alum might precede mordant in the sequence of processing?
Surely alum is the mordant (a chemical to help bind the dye to the material) ?

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The Common Room / Re: What a mess, Family Search family tree.
« on: Tuesday 28 March 23 10:00 BST (UK)  »
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"It doesn't matter"

Dear me!  Doesn't say much for the supervisor does it!   ::)  What a lackadaisical way to approach family history.
A bit off-topic, but reminds me of a piece in the paper some years ago from their regular restaurant critic.  He ordered a fish dish from the menu.

Critic - Is this salmon wild or farmed ?
Waiter - Don't know, I'll ask the chef ....
   (exit to kitchen, leaves door ajar - offstage )
Waiter - customer wants to know if salmon is wild or farmed ?
Chef - I dunno, doesn't make a difference, does it ?

Restaurant scored a full set of 'nul points' in the write-up.

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