RootsChat.Com

Sudeley Castle is upgrading a farmhouse on the estate, and in doing so, some delightful artefacts have come to light.

What appears to be a love letter and "match paper" were sent by Phebe MUNDY from The Angel, Oxford to a Mr TROTMAN in Winchcombe.

The letter was written in 1801, meaning that forty years elapse before meaningful records in the form of a census can be used to identify either the sender or the recipient.

It seems likely that the letter was received by Mr TROTMAN, because the seal on the letter was broken.

The Archivist at Sudeley would very much like to find out who the characters in this romantic story are - can you help? Who was Phebe - did she marry her beau? Who was he? There are several candidates in Winchcombe in 1841 ...

The letter can be seen here Phebe MUNDY's letter

The full story has been picked up by local and national press, for example here Gloucestershire Echo

Please reply here or on the Facebook pages if you know anything! Mention Rootschat when you do!

Kind regards, Arranroots 

Me again!  Could I ask for another tidy up for little Goosegog please?  This is where she gets her name - she was caught "scrumping" gooseberries from next-door's bushes!!

Butter wouldn't melt ...

 

I have just been checking the Surname Interest Table or SIT, to see whether there are new entries for the surnames that interest me.

And there are!!  Hurrah!!

Well, sort of.  Sadly, one or two are complete newcomers to Rootschat, who seem to have added their names to the SIT and then left again.  Which means we have no way of contacting them!

This is frustrating, so if you are thinking of using the SIT, please stick around and post a few times too, so that you can send and receive Personal Messages.  You never know, you might enjoy it!

 

Kind regards, your potential relative, Arranroots 

Daughter is a student, with exams tomorrow.

She failed to install an anti-virus (I know, I know - she thought she had something but didn't)

She has been getting fake Windows virus warnings and other pop-ups which have now resulted in Internet Explorer and Google Chrome not working at all.

What can she do?  She can't download anything cos she can't get online.  Can she use a memory stick to load something from a fellow student's computer that might solve the problem?

Grateful for any help - and please don't give lectures - I've done that already ...

 

A project co-ordinated by the National Archives put lots of workhouse records online recently - 21 unions in total - but of interest particularly those of Cardiff.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/19aug2010.pdf

Name of union/  Years catalogued and digitised
Axminster  1834-1848
Basford 1834-1845
Berwick 1834-1852
Bishops Stortford 1834-1852
Blything1834-1840
Bromsgrove 1834-1842
Cardiff 1834-1853
Clutton 1834-1853
Kidderminster 1834-1849
Liverpool Select Vestry 1834-1856
Llanfyllin 1834-1856
Mansfield 1834-1849
Mitford and Launditch 1834-1849
Newcastle under Lyme 1834-1856
Newport Pagnell 1834-1855
Reeth 1834-1871
Rye 1834-1843
Southampton Incorporation1834-1858
Truro 1834-1849
Tynemouth 1834-1855
Wolstanton and Burslem 1834-1851

I left the best bit to the end - the records can be downloaded free!  Enjoy.