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Yorkshire (North Riding) / Yorkshire Parish Records on Ancestry.com

« on: Sunday 05 August 07 15:38 BST (UK) »

Hi All

Quite by accident yesterday I found hundreds of Yorkshire Parish Records on Ancestry.com. I am not sure if these records are free, because I have a subscription to Ancestry.co.uk, but this is the link
http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=List&dbid=8020&offerid=0%3a7858%3a0

If it doesn't work you can go into Ancestry.com and search the card catalogue for Yorkshire Parish Records. It's not easy to find but you will get there in the end.

I already had my husband's family back to 1819 and with the help of the birth, marriage and death records for Eston Parish I have managed to get the family back to 1591.

Hope this information is helpful.

Good luck.

Ruby

Just checked and the link works!

Durham / Parish Records Long Newton and Witton Gilbert

« on: Friday 03 August 07 18:29 BST (UK) »

Hi All

Can somebody please tell me where I can get the Parish Records for Witton Gilbert and Long Newton. I am trying to track my husband's ancestors, Newby and Whitehead. I have looked on GENUKI, IGI and BIVRI and can only find incomplete births and marriages on all of them. I have searched the internet and can't find any sites which have these records. Do I have to go to Durham to do a search?

Also, to make matters worse, the Whiteheads lived in Eston in Yorkshire before they went to Long Newton and I am having the same problems finding the records for Eston.

I have got incomplete records for them from about 1719 but would like to be absolutely certain I have the right parents before I add to the family tree.

Help and advice would be much appreciated. Must be my age but I'm really confused by the parishes and districts in Yorkshire and Durham!

Regards

Ruby

Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Unusual photo of father in law

« on: Saturday 28 July 07 00:43 BST (UK) »

Hi All

Have just been given this photo of my father in law and am quite intrigued as to how it was done. Has anyone else seen a photo like this before and do you know how it was done?

Cheers

Ruby

Yorkshire (North Riding) / Aireyholme and West Auckland

« on: Sunday 22 July 07 11:41 BST (UK) »

Hi All

My husband's family were boilermakers and moved from Cheshire to Teeside in the 1870s to Thornaby on Tees to work in the shipyards.

I am trying to track the family of my husband's grandmother (Whitehead) but am having great difficulty identifying the villages they came from. I have found the Whiteheads initially in Eston in Yorkshire in the 1700s and through marriage into the Newby family they moved to Long Newton in Durham and then to Middlesbrough where my husband's grandfather met and married Edith Whitehead in 1915.

The different parts of the family come from a range of villages in Durham and North Riding - Witton Gilbert, Eston, West Auckland and Aireyholme - all converging in Long Newton. I have managed to find information about three of the villages, can't find West Auckland at all and am unsure about Aireyholme as it appears to be the farm which is famous for being where Captain Cook's family lived in the 1700s.

Could some kind person please tell me where West Auckland is and also if there is a place called Aireyholme or if it is solely a farm.

Any information would be gratefully received.

Regards

Ruby

The Common Room / Suez Canal 1967-1975

« on: Tuesday 10 July 07 15:38 BST (UK) »

Hi All

When I was watching the Dan and Peter Snow programme about the Six Day War on television last night my husband said that the merchant ship he was on only made it through the Suez Canal with hours to spare before the war started.

I would be really interested to find out if anyone has any relatives who were trapped in the canal on merchant vessels, what it was like, how long they were stuck there, any photos etc. My husband said that the shipping companies kept a crew on their ships in the canal through to 1975 and that some of the ships just rusted away.

It would be great if Roots Chatters could share any knowledge they have on this subject.

Regards

Ruby

The Common Room / Ingenious website with images and documents

« on: Friday 06 July 07 22:20 BST (UK) »

Hi All

I have just found this amazing website, sorry if this has been posted before, www.ingenious.org.uk

It is a project of the Science Museum, National Railway Museum and the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television. It has 30,000 great images plus really informative captions for all the images. It also has a 'read' section covering things like railways, immigration, technology. engineering, exploring and travel.

Hope you enjoy this website as much as I did.

Regards

Ruby

Armed Forces / Please tell me about this uniform

« on: Saturday 16 June 07 19:39 BST (UK) »

Hi All

This is my grandad. I have been told he was in the territorials before WW1. During WW1 he was in the Royal Engineers and served in Gallipoli before being sent to France.

Can someone please tell me if this is a RE uniform and what the band on his arm means and also what the little pouches were used for.

Many thanks.

Ruby

The Common Room / Online resources for Indian Railways and Passenger Lists

« on: Thursday 14 June 07 21:53 BST (UK) »

hi all

Does anyone know if there are any websites about Indian Railways in the 19th century and also if there are any websites giving lists of passengers to India also in the 19th century.

Any information much appreciated.

Many thanks.

Ruby

Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Can someone please date this photo?

« on: Friday 08 June 07 18:39 BST (UK) »

Hi All

Can someone please date this photograph. We were told it is my husband's Uncle Albert who died in France in July 1944 aged 28 but I have just scanned the photo and discovered it is on metal which made me think that perhaps it is not Uncle Albert, but what do I know about photos!

I have scanned the photo on its own and in its frame. The frame is 2.5 inches by 3 inches.

Help from the experts would be greatly appreciated.

Regards

Ruby