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Lancashire / Lancashire Libraries online newspaper access - is it poorly?
« on: Friday 16 March 12 17:34 GMT (UK)  »
Is anyone else having trouble getting onto the Gale/Cengage newspaper archives with a Lancashire Library card?

I can get into the Times archive, but not the British Library 18th or 19th century collection  :'(  Just get a blank page.

I'm hoping this means that they are about to subscribe to the newer version! Can't see any news on their Twitter feed though

 :) Barbara

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Lancashire / Manchester Cathedral records on old and new Familysearch sites
« on: Monday 12 March 12 11:30 GMT (UK)  »
There is a marriage on the old version of Family Search betwee William Consterdyne and Agnes Huddart, 16 Sep 1733, Manchester Cathedral, Batch no M073541

But it doesn't appear on the new version under batch number or either surname  ???
Many spellings of Consterdine and Huddart have been tried! I've also tried leaving Manchester out of the search. Their children were baptised at Middleton St Leonards.

Is the new Family Search site still unfinished? I'm fairly confident that this marriage existed as its on the Boyd marriage index (but with just 'Manchester' and '1733', no further details).

 :) Barbara

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Lancashire / Manchester Archives photos, images, maps - Sheer Heaven!
« on: Wednesday 08 February 12 19:24 GMT (UK)  »
Got an hour or two to spare?

http://rvision.daydreamlabs.com/user/55918222@N02/sets

Photostream from Manchester Archives - a huge selection of images organised by theme    :D :D :D :D

 :) Barbara

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Lancashire / BBC News story, 17th century cottage found near Barley
« on: Thursday 08 December 11 17:28 GMT (UK)  »
This is a story currently headlining on the BBC's Lancashire News website, about a 17th century cottage that has been uncovered near Lower Black Moss reservoir.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-16066680

Does anyone know exactly where the site of cottage is? It looks very interesting, but the story/film don't give a precise location. 

I don't want to go and tramp all over it, but I wouldn't mind looking its Victorian inhabitants up on the census!

 :) Barbara

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Help with name of marriage witness please - Chesshyre
« on: Tuesday 29 November 11 12:17 GMT (UK)  »
Can anyone make out the name here please?
Witness to marriage of James Adshead and Mary Owen, Manchester Cathedral 1834. I think the surname is Chesshyre but can't decide on first name and can't see anything likely on the 1841 census  ???


Thanks,
 :) Barbara

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Help with Marriage witness signature please
« on: Thursday 29 September 11 09:54 BST (UK)  »
Can anyone work this name out please?

Witness to a marriage in 1834 - James Chadwick, watchmaker of St Helens, to Susanna Woods, at Manchester Cathedral

Thanks

 :) Barbara

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Can't tell Pudsey from Calverley...
« on: Thursday 25 August 11 01:18 BST (UK)  »
Ancestry's West Yorkshire Baptisms, Marriages and Burials (1512 - 1812) collection has an entry, with image, for Calverley St Wilfrid's:
1789 baptisms -  Sept 27th, Mary dr. of Saml. Mirfield

The Vital records database via the SBLHA website has a transcription of the same baptism, same date, but with more detail (abode, mother's name, even grandfather's name) and gives the church as Pudsey All Saints Chapel
http://vitaldb.moorlandit.com/display_record.php?rid=B27417&sid=7

How are these churches linked? Was Pudsey All Saints a chapel of ease for St Wilfrid's? Just wondering which church to put in OH's tree as Mary's place of baptism   ???

 :) Barbara


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The Common Room / 'vid.' on a baptism record?
« on: Friday 05 August 11 11:06 BST (UK)  »
Hi  :)

Does anyone know if there is another meaning for 'vid' apart from 'widowed'? 

I've found it on a baptism record as follows;

Thomas son of James Grundy vid. Oct 17 1790

so I'm not sure if Oct 17 1790 is the date James was widowed, or the date the child was born - or could it mean something else?

 :) Barbara


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Yorkshire (West Riding) Completed Requests / COMPLETED thanks Shilo - Whitkirk marriage lookup please for TAYLOR
« on: Friday 29 July 11 11:57 BST (UK)  »
Hi  :)

My OH's gt-gt grandfather was Benjamin Taylor, baptised 1769 at Hutton Rudby, father also Benjamin Taylor.
There are several public trees on Ancestry that list Benjamin's parents as Benjamin Taylor and Mary Connell, who are supposed to have married at Whitkirk on 2nd January 1758. I have contacted one or two of the tree owners but no-one seems to know where the marriage details originate (an individual submission to the LDS I suspect).

The IGI has Whitkirk marriages for that period, but I cannot see a Taylor/Connell match at all. Could anyone check the Whitkirk registers for that date to see if it really exists please?

Many thanks
 :) Barbara

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