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Offline matt94

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A Gem Came in the post yesterday...
« on: Wednesday 11 November 09 07:53 GMT (UK) »
Hello All,

I got an absolutely great artefact through the post yesterday - a Wesleyan Methodist Quarterly Membership Ticket, signed by my relative Caroline Catton in March 1898!

I am dead happy

Anyone else have any great finds recently?
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Re: A Gem Came in the post yesterday...
« Reply #1 on: Friday 13 November 09 09:53 GMT (UK) »
That's great Matt, you must be made up ;D. I haven't found anything like that but I have finally managed to track down my 2 & 3 times great grandfathers in the 1841 census, they were mistranscribed on both FindMyPast and Ancestry.
Watson, Snowball, Pyburn, Heppell, Ferry, Holmes, Clennett, Kidd, Pescod, Bage Co.Duham & Northumberland
Stockton, Watson, Bage, Nellist N. Yorks
Challnor/Challoner Cheshire/Shropshire. Moore, Mansell: Wellington, Shropshire
Davies/ David, Coity, Glamorgan
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Re: A Gem Came in the post yesterday...
« Reply #2 on: Friday 13 November 09 10:10 GMT (UK) »
Hi Matt

Great find ..way to go .

As for me not found anything for a while . My last GREAT find was my Grandfathers old war sketch book which I treasure.
Gaskell, Ormskirk, Upholland, Pemberton, Lancashire
Screeton/Screaton, Nottingham
Lomax Suffolk, Lancashire
Ghilks, Mansfield
Jones, Wales
Banham, Norwich
Rothwell, Lancashire
Tinks, Suffolk
Shepherd, Lancashire

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Re: A Gem Came in the post yesterday...
« Reply #3 on: Friday 13 November 09 21:53 GMT (UK) »
Matt ... you could say that the text on the ticket was appropriate for you too !
Dorset/Wilts/Hants: Trowbridge Williams Sturney/Sturmey Prince Foyle/Foil Hoare Vincent Fripp/Frypp Triggle/Trygel Adams Hibige/Hibditch Riggs White Angel Cake 
C'wall/Devon/France/CANADA (Barkerville, B.C.): Pomeroy/Pomerai/Pomroy
Som'set: Clark(e) Fry
Durham: Law(e)
London: Hanham Poplett
Lancs/Cheshire/CANADA (Kelowna, B.C. & Sask): Stubbs Walmesley

WRITE LETTERS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS TO TREASURE ... EMAILS DISAPPEAR !

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Re: A Gem Came in the post yesterday...
« Reply #4 on: Friday 13 November 09 22:06 GMT (UK) »
Lol Lydart I suppose you could

Great angel that you found them, well done  ;)

And Judi... wow. I assume all of those sketches were drawn when the Treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919. We just did that in History at school lol

Matt
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Re: A Gem Came in the post yesterday...
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 14 November 09 09:44 GMT (UK) »
Wow, Judi!

What a good sketcher your grandfather was!  I can well see why you treasure that sketchbook.

And Matt - great find!  A lot of people would say "What's so special about that old thing?" but we here understand perfectly!  Your reference to school just made me check your profile.  You're another of those very switched-on young people who start their family history while there are plenty of oldies around to ask things of!!  ;D  (Some of us wish - how we wish! - that we had started sooner so that we could do the same thing!  :'( :'( )

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Re: A Gem Came in the post yesterday...
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 14 November 09 10:12 GMT (UK) »
i received an email yesterday with the details of my gt grandads burial site! That had been a brickwall for years, the burial record office didnt have details the first time I tried but in frustration sent another email off this week and this time it turned up!!!

Funny thing is, when i told my mum she remebers going to this particular graveyard as a small girl, in the same area of it but always thought it was for someone else!
Simon (Lincolnshire,Yorkshire)Boyd, Walters, Percy, Richardson (Lincolnshire) Mckay, Bateman (Hull)Ellis (Lincolnshire,Hull)

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Re: A Gem Came in the post yesterday...
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 02 January 10 16:44 GMT (UK) »
Great Mrs Tease, at least you know now  :)

I got another great little find in the post yesterday... a letter written from my g-g-grandfather in Manchester in 1920 to his home village in Buckinghamshire.

Matt
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