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The Common Room / Re: RootsChat "Quick 'n Easy" (getting started)
« on: Wednesday 11 May 16 13:44 BST (UK)  »
Hi Matt.  Welcome to Rootschat

Glad you found us. The site is full of helpful people and all sorts of interesting conversations. Just ask away if you have a question, or if not, then you can always browse the topics for a bit of light reading.

Milly


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The Common Room / Re: Free Online Genealogy Course with FutureLearn (Week 6)
« on: Wednesday 11 May 16 13:39 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: groom on Tuesday 10 May 16 14:36 BST (UK)
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I just did a job application and put some online courses on it - but without a certificate it doesn't look as good.

I don't really agree with that, as certificates aren't necessarily asked for on an application form. When I was on the interviewing panel for prospective staff we might have asked them about some of the courses they had done, but unless it was really relevant for the job didn't ask to see proof. We were more interested in the fact that they were still keen on widening their knowledge. Apart from when I went to Uni, I don't think I've ever been asked for proof that I had the number of GCSEs and A levels that I said I had!

Well I am hoping they will feel the same and be inspired by my obvious enthusiasm for continued learning ;D  I am applying to work at my old Uni. If they want to see my GCSE and A Levels (no idea where those certificates are) I wonder if I can just say you had all that 35 years ago!!

Milly



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The Common Room / Re: Free Online Genealogy Course with FutureLearn (Week 6)
« on: Tuesday 10 May 16 13:37 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: groom on Monday 09 May 16 18:45 BST (UK)
This is interesting re the certificates. It looks as if a lot of people didn't think they actually showed much.

https://about.futurelearn.com/blog/introducing-certificates-of-achievement/

Definitely an improvement on the participation one.  I would consider buying a certificate if it actually meant something.  I just did a job application and put some online courses on it - but without a certificate it doesn't look as good. I won't get one for this course though...as I am still stuck on week three!

Milyl

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World War One / Re: MOD can reissue returned WW1 medals
« on: Wednesday 04 May 16 23:15 BST (UK)  »
Good Luck.  Let us know how it goes  :)

Milly

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Agnes MARKESKY born Bilston Wolverhampton 1889 family with Arthur MOTTRAM
« on: Sunday 01 May 16 15:23 BST (UK)  »
There is also this alternative one to follow up
Mar 1888 Wolverhampton    6b   619
Mary Harriet   CLEE        
 


Milly

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Agnes MARKESKY born Bilston Wolverhampton 1889 family with Arthur MOTTRAM
« on: Sunday 01 May 16 14:39 BST (UK)  »
But definitely discount your Markesky theory.
 
Milly

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Agnes MARKESKY born Bilston Wolverhampton 1889 family with Arthur MOTTRAM
« on: Sunday 01 May 16 13:28 BST (UK)  »
That is what I thought you meant but best to check :)

So,  the problem is that you can't find anything for Agnes Clee and you thought maybe she changed her name.

And one potential person is Agnes Morkewsky as she is born right place right year. There is also the plumbing occupation link.

Further complication is lack of Agnes and Arthur marriage. If you could find that it would help a lot.

I wonder what Arthur put on his later marriage cert.. single,widower,divorced?

Milly

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Agnes MARKESKY born Bilston Wolverhampton 1889 family with Arthur MOTTRAM
« on: Sunday 01 May 16 12:35 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Chatwood2016 on Saturday 30 April 16 11:06 BST (UK)

She is living as wife (though I believe not married) with ARTHUR LEONARD MOTTRAM in Blackpool and environs on the 1911 Census.  She had three children with Arthur that I know of, NORA EILEEN born 1906, IVY born 1908, HAROLD born 1910. 


Hi Chatwood2016

Just to clarify...are these the three children you believe she used Clee as surname for birth registration?

Do you mean that the children were called Clee? Or just that she used Clee herself (as her own name or a maiden name) but the children were Mottram? Or something else?

Do you have the birth certificates? Is Arthur Mottram listed as the father for all three? If not then who is?
We're the births registered near Blackpool?

I was just wondering if there is a previous relationship with Mr Clee and she got together with Arthur later.

Also, how a sure are you that Agnes Markesky is the mother of these children. Or is it a theory you are trying to prove?

Milly

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Agnes MARKESKY born Bilston Wolverhampton 1889 family with Arthur MOTTRAM
« on: Sunday 01 May 16 12:11 BST (UK)  »
Hi Chatwood 2016

Welcome to Rootschat. Glad to see you have found some help and how interesting it is from a former neighbour.

I would second the theory that the family were quite likely to be Eastern European Jews. At the beginning of the 20th Century there was much anti eastern European and Jewish immigrant sentiment in UK.
In  1905 The Alien Act was passed partly as a result if this.

There is lots written about it but here is a starting point
www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/aliens-acts-1905-and-1919

There was also the beginnings of anti Bolshevik sentiment due to unrest in Russia and then the Revolution in 1917


You can see why people may have felt changing their names was a good idea. I do think it interesting that they didn't make an obvious name change similar to their own though so perhaps their was some other reason behind the choice.


Milly

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