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Wales / Re: Why was I born in Wales?
« on: Wednesday 29 June 11 01:05 BST (UK)  »
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

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Wales / Re: Why was I born in Wales?
« on: Tuesday 28 June 11 23:44 BST (UK)  »
Hi Neil
Thanks for your reply and welcome to RootsChat

Are you, by any chance, the Neil who comes up a lot on my Hot Matches on Genes Reunited?

It would certainly be good to see what you have done.   I don't know what relation we actually are!  but I can certainly see your grandmother on my tree, and it would be great to keep in contact.

I think you have to make three posts before we can PM, so if you reply to this, I may then be able to PM you and send you my email..(email addresses are protected on this site and do not appear in posts).

I do know quite a lot of what mum told me, but since she died, most contact has been lost.  It must have been about 1983 when I last visited Folkestone.

Please forgive me if I do not answer straight away, but I am a carer for my wife, and sometimes it is a bit difficult...but I certainly look forward to hearing from you.

Bill

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Lancashire / Re: The Rampling Families in Lancashire - Please Help!!!
« on: Monday 27 June 11 00:28 BST (UK)  »
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


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Staffordshire / Re: The GREATBATCH'S of Stoke and Penkhull Staffordshire
« on: Thursday 23 June 11 05:07 BST (UK)  »
Hi Kate..

further to my Spode reference I have just seen this...

http://www.projectsmartart.org/encyclopedia-of-ceramics/pages/cq3xrkngi7/greatbach-daniel-pattern.html

may be a connection although there seems to be another daniel , an engraver who went to America....

do a search for 'Daniel Greatbatch  Earthenware Engraver' and quite a lot comes up!

Bill

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Staffordshire / Re: The GREATBATCH'S of Stoke and Penkhull Staffordshire
« on: Thursday 23 June 11 04:48 BST (UK)  »
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

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The Common Room / Re: Packed Off To Wales
« on: Wednesday 22 June 11 02:28 BST (UK)  »
Hi Tearose...

If your mum does not have an address, is there any chance your mum has still got her wartime 'National Identity Card'...

If so, the addresses where she lived would be on it.... I have mine and my mothers and they give the addresses  in Wales where we lived and moved to.

Also, if her brother, whom I presume has since died, was born before 1939, he would probably be on the  '1939 Register for England and Wales' which was a sort of mini census taken on the 29th September 1939....the data in this register formed the basis for the NHS central register when the NHS was founded.

The NHS hold this Register and will do a search....but only for individuals who are now deceased....and wait for it....a charge of £42...!

http://www.ic.nhs.uk/services/1939-register-service

http://www.1911census.org.uk/1939.htm

Bill

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Technical Help / Re: Genes Reunited
« on: Wednesday 22 June 11 01:45 BST (UK)  »
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


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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Lancasters. Stoke on Trent.
« on: Monday 06 June 11 02:57 BST (UK)  »
Hi WWL

yes keyboard86..just beat you to it...great minds think alike!!!....it was, like yourself, the middle 'W'  that gave me the links.

the William referred to as being born in Biddulph, Staffs Moorlands appears to be from a mining and not a potters family. - the lancasters of Biddulph were well known.

The william who married Mary Kitching is possibly William b 1891 son of yet another William and Louisa, and living at 16 New Street, Wolstanton in 1901
RG13/2585/66/13 a pottery family....having 8 siblings then at that address.
So another lancaster and Kitching was a possibility.

Mary Kitching may be Mary Inskip Kitching.....born jan qtr 1893 Cheadle Vol 6B page 368 and living in 1901 at 35 Silverdale Rd, Wolstanton RG13/2585/118/7
listed as born in longton which was cheadle district.

(the name Inskip rings bells...the name of a former boss many years ago)

Again the Kitchings were a large family......both these addresses are close to each other  and in the Parish of St Margarets,Wolstanton

Bill


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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Lancasters. Stoke on Trent.
« on: Monday 06 June 11 01:59 BST (UK)  »
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
 

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