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Clifford House/Robert Hornsby/M Forster?
« on: Monday 11 January 16 11:11 GMT (UK) »
Hi. My mum's cousin has asked me to find out about this photograph and the note in her mother's pile of letters. She is in her 80s and doesn't use a computer so I said I would try and help. The photograph of the house looks like a formal post card and is dated 1903. On the back it says 'To Mr  Robert Hornsby with best wishes Clifford House, Namsterts? and then M Forster. At first I thought it might be something to do with the children's foster home run by Cliffords House but i have been in touch with them and it isn't one of theirs. I do have Forsters in my tree but after several years am no closer to solving this one. The whole family came from County Durham and continued to live there so I am making an educated guess that this hour is in this county. Please does anyone recognise anything about this? Thanks
Alison

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Re: Clifford House/Robert Hornsby/M Forster?
« Reply #1 on: Monday 11 January 16 11:29 GMT (UK) »
Can you post an image of the side where the message is written? 
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: Clifford House/Robert Hornsby/M Forster?
« Reply #2 on: Monday 11 January 16 11:30 GMT (UK) »
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Re: Clifford House/Robert Hornsby/M Forster?
« Reply #3 on: Monday 11 January 16 11:33 GMT (UK) »
This house looks smaller than the one in the photo.
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Re: Clifford House/Robert Hornsby/M Forster?
« Reply #4 on: Monday 11 January 16 11:34 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: AsH62 on Monday 11 January 16 11:11 GMT (UK)
Clifford House, Namsterts?

Likely to be Hamsteels.
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: Clifford House/Robert Hornsby/M Forster?
« Reply #5 on: Monday 11 January 16 11:44 GMT (UK) »
It is called Clifford House Farm, near Esh in the Durham County Advertiser, there is no other Clifford House mentioned, in the papers.

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Re: Clifford House/Robert Hornsby/M Forster?
« Reply #6 on: Monday 11 January 16 11:48 GMT (UK) »
William Ridley was at Clifford House, Hamsteels, Quebec in 1906:

www.mocavo.com/Transactions-Volume-68-69/466790/265 (entry 151)

...and he (or someone by that name) was still listed there in Kelly's directories in the 1930s.
Ayr: Barnes, Wylie
Caithness: MacGregor
Essex: Eldred (Pebmarsh)
Gloucs: Timbrell (Winchcomb)
Hants: Stares (Wickham)
Lincs: Maw, Jackson (Epworth, Belton)
London: Pierce
Suffolk: Markham (Framlingham)
Surrey: Gosling (Richmond)
Wilts: Matthews, Tarrant (Calne, Preshute)
Worcs: Milward (Redditch)
Yorks: Beaumont, Crook, Moore, Styring (Huddersfield); Middleton (Church Fenton); Exley, Gelder (High Hoyland); Barnes, Birchinall (Sheffield); Kenyon, Wood (Cumberworth/Denby Dale)

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Re: Clifford House/Robert Hornsby/M Forster?
« Reply #7 on: Monday 11 January 16 11:50 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: avm228 on Monday 11 January 16 11:34 GMT (UK)
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Clifford House, Namsterts?

Likely to be Hamsteels.

Hamsteels is not far from Quebec

Stan
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Re: Clifford House/Robert Hornsby/M Forster?
« Reply #8 on: Monday 11 January 16 11:57 GMT (UK) »
Thank you! I have now got more information in a few minutes than I have got over the last two years! I wish I had put a post up here earlier. Unfortunately I don't have the card itself, just a photocopy of the photograph and mum's cousin's transcription of the back.
I will look into the Quebec link now.
Thanks again
Alison
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