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Hi Folks,

For all ye fellow doonhammers out there, this link may be of interest to you:

http://www.archive.org/stream/memorialsstmich00mdogoog#page/n10/mode/1up

I used to visit this particular churchyard during the course of my early days of research.  I have only recently found this online digitised book containing amazing data that should be useful to people researching their dumfriesshire ancestors. 

The opening few pages captures the imagination and keeps you gripped !

Can you find any of your ancestors?

Kojak

Hi Folks,

Can anyone read the address recorded on this 1911 census ?

It looks to me as 306 Slade Road, Gravelly Hill, etdington ?

Cant seem to find such a location anywhere !!

The Cother's prior to 1911 census were from Bristol.

Thanks in advance,

Kojak and Redspookhunter

Hi folks,

I appreciate that several years have passed since some kind souls offered to check up the burial index for Trealow cemetery, but I Will ask anyway (here's hoping).

We have just discovered after several years of research that some of our ancestors, on the Stafford, Timmons and Long lineages were born, married and died in Glamorgan.  Some we knew were married there (Tonypandy,Pontypridd), but it has only came to light that Peter Stafford, Catherine Ellen Stafford (husband and wife and their child, Margaret Bridget Stafford aged 5 were buried at Trealow).

As we don't live in the area, we would be grateful if anyone could check the index for burial plot No's etc for the Staffords named above (and if its possible, check the index for any other Stafford's - probably relatives).

Any help on tracing the Timmons' and Long's in same cemetery would be greatly appreciated.

Much obliged for any assistance offered.

Best wishes to all,

Jane and Kenny

Redspookhunter and Kojak

If anyone has UK based ancestors who were master mariners or mariners mates, you may find a trip to the national maritime museum of interest.  A good first step would be checking out their website at http://www.nmm.ac.uk/researchers/family-history-research/

If you don't want or cant get to London, you can always email the museum through the above site and within a few days (providing you identify what your interest is) you will get a full and helpful written reply.  If you know named personnel who were master mariners, the museum's archive Library should hold a treasure trove of information, especially if your ancestor sailed the seas after 1840.  Everything relative to one individual is collated together into certificate numbers.  If a London visit isn't convenient and you can provide the relative information to enable an archivist to track down a certificate number, you can order digital scanned copies of everything for the sum of £25, plus £2 postage.  It doesn't sound cheap, but it saves on a trip / travel expense and searching the library for something that can be done for you.

One thing to remember if you do go to the museum - they prohibit you from taking photocopies as the material they have is not for messing about with.  They do allow you to take non flash photography at times (but only under strict supervision).

On the whole, for maritime records, if they are of interest to you, ordering them online / following email contact is by far the best method of obtaining a very interesting insight into the past...

Have a look at the NMM website and happy researching.

One last piece of potentially useful guidance - google Lloyd's Shipping Registers and the name of your ancestors, to see if there are any online editions of the old registers (some do exist in full like the 1830 and 1839 editions).  These were published yearly and contain a wealth of information such as names of ships, their tonnage, who the master was, when and where the ship was built, who owned it, where it sailed to and from... etc.

Anyway, have a look and see what you might find.

Regards

Jane and Kenny