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by Jimbo50
12 Mar 2024, 00:23
Forum: Genealogy chat
Topic: Family Historian Question
Replies: 6
Views: 522

Re: Family Historian Question

Hello. Who's there ?
I thought I was alone in this building.
by Jimbo50
09 Nov 2023, 15:33
Forum: Genealogy chat
Topic: Saint George's Workhouse (Mint Street)
Replies: 4
Views: 1041

Re: Saint George's Workhouse (Mint Street)

Mick. Do you know if anybody has indexed his notebooks ? I remember reading them years ago from a pdf download.
Not only the workhouses and parish assistance case descriptions, but the businesses as well..employees..where what they did.
It's a goldmine I'd forgotten.
by Jimbo50
31 Aug 2023, 19:31
Forum: Genealogy chat
Topic: Useless FMP Transcriptions
Replies: 7
Views: 1446

Re: Useless FMP Transcriptions

Wow. Is the original available to view ?
by Jimbo50
15 Aug 2023, 23:32
Forum: Genealogy chat
Topic: Long Lost Family tv programme on lost identities 14.8.2023
Replies: 1
Views: 819

Re: Long Lost Family tv programme on lost identities 14.8.2023

Do we know if the same was for the homes in England and Wales. I recall a Guardian Article from 6 years ago which reported; The head of the Catholic church in England and Wales has apologised for its part in the” hurt” caused to young unmarried women who say they were felt pressured into handing ove...
by Jimbo50
05 Aug 2023, 19:27
Forum: General research queries
Topic: Parents of Thomas Davison
Replies: 12
Views: 1993

Re: Parents of Thomas Davison

Thomas is a ship's carpenter by trade and his first wife, Rose, was born in Rye, Surrey (just for some background info) I only need to find his baptism/parents, nothing else The Rye in Surrey is a tiny stream near Leatherhead. Might it be Rye Sussex, mouth of the River Rother. ? The ships from Rye ...
by Jimbo50
29 Jul 2023, 12:51
Forum: Genealogy chat
Topic: Family trees on ancestry
Replies: 3
Views: 792

Re: Family trees on ancestry

N'aimes-tu pas juste ça
by Jimbo50
11 May 2023, 03:15
Forum: General research queries
Topic: WDYTYA Anna Maxwell Martin
Replies: 2
Views: 861

Re: WDYTYA Anna Maxwell Martin

Hiya. Yes it was. it's still on our BBC iPlayer. Link below.
Good Luck. Jim

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m ... ell-martin
by Jimbo50
02 May 2023, 17:02
Forum: General research queries
Topic: Catholic baptism
Replies: 50
Views: 4508

Re: Catholic baptism

Sorry to raise this again. The church doesn't appear to have been renumbered, but just behind it in the same grounds is another building by the same builder, Robert Paterson and Son, 1877-8. This now has the address 2 Cranston Street which was a hostel. H.E.S. has the building's C listing records , ...
by Jimbo50
01 May 2023, 02:50
Forum: General research queries
Topic: Help with a brick wall
Replies: 14
Views: 2181

Re: Help with a brick wall

1935, Seward Geoffrey Solman is at Flat 3 26 Campden Hill Gardens, so is Jane.
1933 - 1937 Jane is not with her parents.
Are you able to put a rough date as to when Jane's son visited your great uncle ?
by Jimbo50
18 Apr 2023, 02:38
Forum: General research queries
Topic: Help with a brick wall
Replies: 14
Views: 2181

Re: Help with a brick wall

Re; ''1935 electoral roll for Kensington does seem to show William and Ellen living there''.
Anyone else in the household ? Was Jane there and what was the address ?