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My free Lancashire library card allows me to have online free access to the British Newspaper Archive from my own home computer.
I've found all sorts of information such as a 1790s entry concerning my OHs Aberdeenshire ancestor, in a London newspaper about what was known as an "Intelligence Report". The report was about a burglary. Two female ancestors had their names inserted in one 19th century Scottish newspaper for passing their teacher college examinations - the advert even gave the name of the school that would be employing each of them. I was surprised to find a 20th century advert inserted by my father offering to sell the family car for £10. then about a decade later he inserted another advert selling my mother's bicycle for £10. !! Not too sure why the advert was in my father's name as I'm pretty sure my mother would have organised the adverts.
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie: Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke
