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The Common Room / Re: Durdans Malvern
« on: Wednesday 31 May 23 04:21 BST (UK)  »
Thanks everyone for your help. It appears James Kelley died at his place of work. If he was a gardener there, I can think of far worse places to pass away than in the garden.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Always expect the unexpected!
« on: Wednesday 31 May 23 04:17 BST (UK)  »
Miscarriages are sometimes the reason for gaps in births of children.
On a similar note, it only occurred to me the other day possible reasons why certain individuals in our trees didn't marry and/or have children. I'm sure we've all got these ancestors. In the past, I had mostly assumed I just hadn't found a marriage yet. But reading a newspaper article from 1824 where ot mentioned that two of a particular couple's children were "idiots", and one of those was also "crippled", it made me think. How many of those ancestors in our trees who only have a baptism and a burial were physically or mentally handicapped in some way? Or even perhaps attracted to the same sex?

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The Common Room / Re: Durdans Malvern
« on: Friday 26 May 23 09:42 BST (UK)  »
Perhaps the owners were away.
James died in 1909.

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The Common Room / Re: Durdans Malvern
« on: Friday 26 May 23 08:54 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Allan,
That makes sense. In the 1901 census, James was listed as a porter.

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The Common Room / Durdans Malvern
« on: Friday 26 May 23 03:42 BST (UK)  »
Hello fellow Rootschatters,
In a probate entry from 1909, James Kelley died at "the Durdans Malvern". He lived in Malvern Links.
Can anyone tell me what this was? A Hospital, hospice, home of some kind? Google is of no help. I only get a hospital in Sri Lanka.
Thanks in advance.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Always expect the unexpected!
« on: Thursday 25 May 23 23:56 BST (UK)  »
It always saddens me to see the number of children who died young. Apart from sicknesses running through towns and villages, the child mortality rate definitely went up with the migration to the big cities.

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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry Library Version
« on: Wednesday 24 May 23 16:40 BST (UK)  »
It's the same on the paid version, Mo.
There are two entries, one under Extracted UK Probate Records 1269-1975, and one undr Lancashire England Index of Wills and Probates proved ar Richmond and Chester 1600-1858.
The latter one does have a link to purchase a copy, if that helps.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Always expect the unexpected!
« on: Wednesday 24 May 23 09:33 BST (UK)  »
Did the husband work away perhaps, or was he a guest of Her Majesty?

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The Lighter Side / Re: Always expect the unexpected!
« on: Wednesday 24 May 23 08:41 BST (UK)  »
Oh yes, most family stories have a kernel of truth.
I was told years ago that someone on my paternal side helped invent a very common medicine today. It turns out a first cousin of my great grandfather's worked for the Burroughs Pharmaceutical Company (later Burroughs Wellcome); as far as I know they invented Sudafed.

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