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Denbighshire / Photo- A children's party in Wrexham
« on: Monday 24 August 09 20:14 BST (UK)  »
A record of a children's party in Wrexham, my Grandmother is one of the young ladies and looks about 16 or 17 so I would guess a date of 1932 or 33. It looks like a christmas party with the big cracker and paper hats but there are daffs on the tables!
This is probably taken in Garden Village.
Does you recognise anyone or know the occasion? I'd love to know more.

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Shropshire / "Mrs Brown's Ivy Lodge" Wenlock Road, Shrewsbury
« on: Friday 21 August 09 20:12 BST (UK)  »
Have just received a marriage certificate from Southport, the wedding took place at Holy Trinity Church, Shrewsbury in Sept 1898 and the bride, who is a servant, gives her address as "at Mrs Brown's Ivy Lodge" any of you chatters know anything about this establishment?
Many Thanks

I've now been on the Historical Directories site and found an entry in Kellys for the 1890s for a Thomas Brown at Ivy Lodge, Wenlock Road. This sounds like a private house but the marriage certificate made it sound like a teashop or worse still a knocking shop! Can anyone confirm that it is indeed a private house?

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The Common Room / Some Pubs and their landlords
« on: Monday 03 August 09 19:59 BST (UK)  »
I have a very battered old guide book, "Illustrated Local Cycling Runs with Useful Information", published by The Birmingham News (price 1D)
There are various adverts for local shops and hostelries which name their proprietors, I'm listing the pubs and their landlords here in case the information is of value to someone.

Solihull Restaurant, established 35 years Mrs Joiner, Proprietress.

Fox and Goose Hotel, Little Bromwich- Proprietor, Geo. Golland

Plough Hotel, Minworth. Proprietress; Mrs Kelley, late of The Cock Inn, Wishaw.

The Clock Hotel, Bickenhill, Arthur Reeve.

Crown Hotel, Monkspath, Dennis White- late of Red Lion, Shirley.

Bear Hotel, Henley in Arden, Fred Chinn (winner of four National Cycling Championships)

White Swan Hotel, Kingsbury. F. Whitehouse, Proprietor.

Cheers!
 (By the way, I've not included a date because there isn't one anywhere on the book.)

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Hampshire & IOW Lookup Requests / Criminal record- please look up
« on: Monday 03 August 09 16:58 BST (UK)  »
John Wallis was born 1841 in Frome Somerset and in 1861 was in Portsea prison, Hampshire.
Ancestry has launched it's criminal records and there are a couple of likely hits for 1860, resident Hampshire.  Could a subscriber look this up for me? (Please don't if it will cost you credit)
Thankyou

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World War Two / war office ancestors
« on: Friday 31 July 09 21:28 BST (UK)  »
I have at least 3 relatives working in the war office ww2. Could anyone recommend any books, fact or fiction or research tips, that might give me an idea what their working life was like?
Thanks awfully!
ttfn

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Calling all sleuths, a mystery photo to identify.
« on: Monday 22 June 09 17:13 BST (UK)  »
I know many of you like a little mystery so I thought I'd share a picture with you, see what you make of it!
I found this picture on a market stall so it's not a family picture, there's nothing written on the back and the print itself is small (maybe 10 by 15 cm) and printed on very thin paper. It's a testiment to lense makers of the day that you can see so much detail, even the pictures on the walls in the background show up enough to give some  clues to what the people living there were like.
The obvious questions are when and where? To me it looks colonial and about 1900-1910, but I'm convinced you can probably tell even more about the inhabitants of this house than that, so consider this a challenge.
By the way you may notice there are two people in this picture!
Bit spooky this but I put that last sentence there as an afterthought but when the picture came up on the screen I spotted a strange face I hadn't seen before, over the louvred door on the back wall, the extreme right of the picture, to the right of the crease there are two eyes and a nose- almost certainly an optical illusion but spooky none the less! So I guess there could be three people in the picture!!
Cad

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Census and Resource Discussion / Can't find Alice Pugh in 1911, any ideas?
« on: Monday 15 June 09 17:04 BST (UK)  »
I'm sure I'm not the only one in this boat, you wait all this time for the Welsh census returns for 1911 to go online expecting to find family there and then find nothing, despair!
 I've found Alice Pugh in the 1901 census for Shrewsbury,
Robert Watkins, H, age 29, Stone Sawyer Mason, born Ludlow
Annie Watkins, W, age 24, born Pontrobert Mont
Daisy A Watkins, Dau, 11 mths, born Shrewsbury
Alice Pugh, Visitor, age 4, born Pontrobert Mont

I'm 99.9% certain Annie is a relative of Alice as her maiden name was Pugh.
I've found the Watkins family in 1911 but Alice doesn't appear to be with them.
The next certainty I know is that Alice bore a child in 1916 whilst a "Help Domestic", the child was born in Rodington Heath, Shropshire. At some point she and her daughter moved to Mold where I believe they had family and then Denbighshire.
The only other significant location I can think of would be Staffordshire where I was told there was family.

I've tried all sorts of searches to find her in 1911 but nothing, has anyone got any idea where she could be? Mum always said I'd have trouble with this family, looks like she was right!

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Shropshire / Rodington Heath
« on: Friday 03 April 09 19:45 BST (UK)  »
On my Grandmother's birth certificate, her place of birth and the residence of her mother is given as "No 1 Rodington Heath R.D" this is 1916.
My Gran was illegitate and her mother was a domestic servant (I have not been able to find her in the 1911 census so I believe she was living in her native Wales)
My question is...
Is there anything significant about that address, was it a home for unmarried mothers, or was it part of some estate (where my ggrandmother may have been employed)?
Thanks chatters

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Please identify mysterious head of house 1911- COMPLETED
« on: Thursday 05 March 09 12:54 GMT (UK)  »
Looking up a member of my Binden family, Elsie Florence Binden in the 1911 census, I found her working as a scullery maid ( one of ten servants including a butler and two footmen) at 8 Hyde park Gardens in Paddington.
My request is to identify the Head of household, his name has been transcribed as "Duship of Bucking Codutch Egerton", he is a widow aged 63 and his birthplace is given as "Scotland resident".
I understand the Dukes of Buckingham had died out by this time, the only luck I've had has been with the Egerton name but so far no-one I can be sure is this guy. I haven't enough credit to look at the actual document so it may have been mistranscribed, anyone out there got any ideas before I get more credit?
Thanks for reading this.

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