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Technical Help / Re: CD Drive on new Desktop PC - HELP!!
« on: Tuesday 17 March 20 20:31 GMT (UK) »
Generally with these newer drives, there isn't a tray that you put the CD into, but you have to push the hole in the middle of the CD onto the flat, circular spindle in the drive. This is because increasingly these drives are designed to be used vertically rather than horizontally.
Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9JaIyakZ-A
Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9JaIyakZ-A
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Graveyards and Gravestones / Re: Zion Burial
« on: Friday 06 March 20 09:14 GMT (UK) »I also saw something on a site where someone has taken photos. Cannot remember where though.
Possibly the ones I linked to, much earlier in this thread:
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2482074
This place looks fascinating and I wonder how it has survived, who owns it, etc.
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London and Middlesex / Re: Cremation in Maida Vale
« on: Saturday 29 February 20 20:14 GMT (UK) »
WARD, Alfred Samuel, 20, Clifton Villas, London,W.9. COMPANY DIRECTOR. Court—HIGHCOURT OF JUSTICE. No. of Matter—578 of1950. Amount per £—Is. 4£d. First or Final,or otherwise—First and Final. When Payable—April 4, 1952. Where Payable—BankruptcyBuildings, Carey Street, London, W.C.2.
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/39500/supplement/1718
I don't understand this process well enough to comment further, but it looks like it had been underway since 1947:
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/notice?results-page-size=10&categorycode-all=all&numberOfLocationSearches=1&start-publish-date=1940-01-01&location-distance-1=1&service=all-notices&text=20+clifton+villas&end-publish-date=1952-12-31
[retrospectively removed possibly inappropriate 1939 register info showing his occupation]
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/39500/supplement/1718
I don't understand this process well enough to comment further, but it looks like it had been underway since 1947:
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/all-notices/notice?results-page-size=10&categorycode-all=all&numberOfLocationSearches=1&start-publish-date=1940-01-01&location-distance-1=1&service=all-notices&text=20+clifton+villas&end-publish-date=1952-12-31
[retrospectively removed possibly inappropriate 1939 register info showing his occupation]
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London and Middlesex / Re: Cremation in Maida Vale
« on: Friday 28 February 20 18:55 GMT (UK) »
I'm sure there is more to be found. Obviously I'm not as well acquainted with this as you are after so many years, but having spent a couple of hours looking at this and that, my thoughts are:
1 - she seems fairly well-off. She lived in a nice area, her adoptive father was a dental surgeon, she had a job, her husband was a retired navy commander... so where is the will? And where is the husband's will?
2 - it seems the husband was married previously, and his wife died in 1951. (She is buried in Gorleston, burial records describe her as "wife of Samuel".) He married again very soon after his wife's death, and then he died so soon after this second marriage. What can we infer from this?
3 - gut feeling is that she was cremated at either Golders Green or Marylebone. Based on geography, and Golders Green having its fair share of 'creatives' burials (actors etc), and she worked in the creative sector. I doubt she was cremated at Islington Crematorium, as their records are on Deceased Online and I can't find her (unless she is significantly mis-transcribed). Both Golders Green and Marylebone are operated by the same company; I don't know what the situation is regarding access to records, but must be worth a phone call?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golders_Green_Crematorium#Notable_cremations
https://www.thelondoncremation.co.uk/company-information/
4 - her death in 1978 makes all of this seem recent-ish, but she was 60-ish in 1952 when she married and this would have been the standard state retirement age at the time. Is this significant, or just coincidence?
5 - the death registration by Deborah East is definitely very significant and is worth pursuing. As far as I can see, Deborah had a daughter (possibly still living, so no details - but I found her via GRO), who might well remember 'Aunt Adrienne' or similar. I haven't double-checked whether or not she is still living, though she has/had two sons. This is a possible source of a wedding photograph that might show Adrienne. Also, Deborah's daughter might have some insight into Adrienne's death & cremation. (This makes me realise that I have no idea who my own parents' god-parents might be.)
Excuse my rambling, possibly much of this duplicates what you have already been through but I am hoping that maybe something might spark inspiration. In your shoes, I would be phoning The London Cremation Company and working out whether Deborah East's daughter is contactable.
1 - she seems fairly well-off. She lived in a nice area, her adoptive father was a dental surgeon, she had a job, her husband was a retired navy commander... so where is the will? And where is the husband's will?
2 - it seems the husband was married previously, and his wife died in 1951. (She is buried in Gorleston, burial records describe her as "wife of Samuel".) He married again very soon after his wife's death, and then he died so soon after this second marriage. What can we infer from this?
3 - gut feeling is that she was cremated at either Golders Green or Marylebone. Based on geography, and Golders Green having its fair share of 'creatives' burials (actors etc), and she worked in the creative sector. I doubt she was cremated at Islington Crematorium, as their records are on Deceased Online and I can't find her (unless she is significantly mis-transcribed). Both Golders Green and Marylebone are operated by the same company; I don't know what the situation is regarding access to records, but must be worth a phone call?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golders_Green_Crematorium#Notable_cremations
https://www.thelondoncremation.co.uk/company-information/
4 - her death in 1978 makes all of this seem recent-ish, but she was 60-ish in 1952 when she married and this would have been the standard state retirement age at the time. Is this significant, or just coincidence?
5 - the death registration by Deborah East is definitely very significant and is worth pursuing. As far as I can see, Deborah had a daughter (possibly still living, so no details - but I found her via GRO), who might well remember 'Aunt Adrienne' or similar. I haven't double-checked whether or not she is still living, though she has/had two sons. This is a possible source of a wedding photograph that might show Adrienne. Also, Deborah's daughter might have some insight into Adrienne's death & cremation. (This makes me realise that I have no idea who my own parents' god-parents might be.)
Excuse my rambling, possibly much of this duplicates what you have already been through but I am hoping that maybe something might spark inspiration. In your shoes, I would be phoning The London Cremation Company and working out whether Deborah East's daughter is contactable.
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London and Middlesex / Re: Cremation in Maida Vale
« on: Friday 28 February 20 10:21 GMT (UK) »Her death was registered by Deborah Adrienne East (who died in 1989). Although I suspect there is a family connection (Adrienne being quite an unusual name) I have not been able to find out who this was.
... or maybe a not-quite-family connection. Deborah East could have been her god-daughter, or at least Deborah's parents were very good friends of Adrienne. I agree that the duplication of the name is very unlikely to be a coincidence.
I have been intrigued by this request, and found the useful background info in this earlier thread, linked here for convenience:
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=669311.0
Interesting to spot the actress Irene Handl two doors down from Adrienne Canton in the 1939 register.
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The Common Room / Secret passageway... how could I resist?
« on: Wednesday 26 February 20 08:49 GMT (UK) »
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/26/westminster-secret-passageway-discovery-reveals-169-year-old-graffiti
"A secret passageway discovered in the Palace of Westminster has revealed 169-year-old graffiti from early Chartist stone masons and bricklayers claiming to be fond of “ould ale”."
An interesting story, but with a specific family history angle too:
“We would love to hear from any descendants of Tom Porter or his colleagues and invite them to see where their relatives once worked.”
A BBC article (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51630630) names the colleagues:
"The men can be traced in the 1851 census returns as Richard Condon, James Williams, Henry Terry, Thomas Parker and Peter Dewal."
Fascinating stuff.
"A secret passageway discovered in the Palace of Westminster has revealed 169-year-old graffiti from early Chartist stone masons and bricklayers claiming to be fond of “ould ale”."
An interesting story, but with a specific family history angle too:
“We would love to hear from any descendants of Tom Porter or his colleagues and invite them to see where their relatives once worked.”
A BBC article (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51630630) names the colleagues:
"The men can be traced in the 1851 census returns as Richard Condon, James Williams, Henry Terry, Thomas Parker and Peter Dewal."
Fascinating stuff.
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The Common Room / Re: Too many fields to fill in on familysearch.org!
« on: Tuesday 18 February 20 17:55 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for this. I had no particular need for it, but downloaded it and hacked the code around just for fun. And ended up stumbling across something in the 1911 census that I hadn't spotted before. Serendipity 
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Nottinghamshire / Re: are all burials recorded
« on: Thursday 23 January 20 14:33 GMT (UK) »
Previous discussion, for reference:
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=635849.0
The link that I posted further back in this thread indicates that Greet House became known as Firbeck Infirmary, which existed until 1989. The National Trust then took it on in 1997.
As suggested in that previous discussion, I would try Notts Archives first.
Also see this:
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/the-workhouse-southwell/features/re-imagining-the-workhouse-southwell
"A library space within Firbeck Infirmary, with a searchable database, will be available to explore Workhouse records including census returns, statistics and inspector’s reports along with workhouse reference books and genealogy books available to browse."
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=635849.0
The link that I posted further back in this thread indicates that Greet House became known as Firbeck Infirmary, which existed until 1989. The National Trust then took it on in 1997.
As suggested in that previous discussion, I would try Notts Archives first.
Also see this:
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/the-workhouse-southwell/features/re-imagining-the-workhouse-southwell
"A library space within Firbeck Infirmary, with a searchable database, will be available to explore Workhouse records including census returns, statistics and inspector’s reports along with workhouse reference books and genealogy books available to browse."