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Thanks Seoras...

Have been looking at another couple of sites and a Port Talbot chat room, and some old threads suggest that the hospital may have been used for 'forces' casualties during the war, and dad could have been sent there because he was disabled, and mum followed and as you suggest may well have been billetted with various families...dad's address when I was born was given as 19 Abbey Road, and six weeks later mum was at St Paul's rd, Aberavon......perhaps abbey road could not cope with a howling baby like me!!!!!
Bill

Hi Melanie Roux...

I am a Rampling, the last of another Rampling line...

As yet I have been unable to link my London Ramplings to any of the other Rampling trees.....London, Lancashire, East Anglia, Devon/Hants or Aussie and NZ.

I have been trying for many years now and would love to find a link.

I havn't yet been on Geni.com but I will register and may I look at your tree....you never know!

Thanks Jan for letting me put this on your post, we are the only two who are listed on the surname interest table for rampling!.

Bill

Hi Kate

there are churches in both Stoke and Penkhull,
There has been a church on the stoke site since about 600, however the present church, St Peter ad Vincular, is now Stoke Minster and was built around 1827.
Penkhull Church was formed out of stoke parish and built in 1842.
The baptisms you mention would then have been at Stoke Church.
They are only a mile apart, and Commercial Rd Penkhull is now Penkhull New Road which ties in with Zen's Ellen Greatbatch.
This is the road which runs from Stoke to Penkhull.
Daniel (age 60) is listed in 1841 as an engraver and in 1851 as an earthenware engraver...the link to the potteries which were being built locally at that time.
I think Daniel , the upholsterer may be the Daniel age 31 who in 1841 is at High Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme another mile further up the road and the Daniel born 1810 on your list.

Penkhull New Road was called Commercial Road and Commercial Street  here is a link which gives a picture of it and the Commercial Inn at the bottom...

http://www.thepotteries.org/streets/stoke/club_st/index.htm

and another link with a brief history of the development of penkhull by Josiah Spode  of the famous Spode Pottery...perhaps Daniel snr was Spode's engraver?

http://www.thepotteries.org/walks/penkhull/j.htm

If I get chance over the next few days I will run (not literally.. it is very steep!) up Penkhull New Rd and see what houses are left

Bill

Hi ramsdenhouse

Welcome to Roots Chat

.....  it did take me a few minutes to access the site just now.... this announdement was made on the 14th June under 'site error messages'..
 
'We are really sorry for the ongoing problems you are having accessing and using the site. The problem is that behind the scenes we have various programs that check for a response from the website. The check does some minor tasks, but if it doesn't get a response in a reasonable time (10 seconds or so), it assumes the site is unavailable and forces the site to show the "site down" page that some of you have been seeing. The aim is to stop the website freezing when you are using it, and to protect the servers from overloading with waiting requests. At the current time, because the servers are not responding to requests as we expect, it is displaying this more frequently. We have increased the time delay above 10 seconds, so that it is not displayed so easily. This best course of action is to hit your back button and try again after a short delay. This is a temporary suggestion whilst we are working on fixing the issue.'

no doubt as you have been unable to gain access you will not have seen it..

Bill

Hi WWL again...

William W Lancaster born Sept qtr 1914
Mother's Maiden name... Kitching
Wolstanton (which included parts of Stoke-on-Trent) vol 6B page 146

also

William Lancaster married Mary Kitching
Wolstanton
Dec qtr 1913 Vol 6B page 249

this could be your grandparents - Polly is nickname for Mary.

Bill