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The Common Room / Re: death records help please!
« on: Wednesday 08 December 10 15:17 GMT (UK)  »
She may have adopted the man's surname, either informally (you can call yourself by whatever name you wish, as long as there's no intent to deceive) or by deed poll.

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The Common Room / Re: Workhouse Census records,how do I locate?
« on: Wednesday 08 December 10 15:11 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks, Stan.

I see this kind of thing a lot on here; people (very helpfully, I must add) provide information, but if a similar question arises later, there's no way of extrapolating to the new case, so we novices have to ask again next time.

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The Common Room / Re: Workhouse Census records,how do I locate?
« on: Wednesday 08 December 10 14:27 GMT (UK)  »
Tati, I wonder if you'd mind explaining how you arrived at that.

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For Sale / Wanted / Events / Re: Rufford Colleriery
« on: Wednesday 08 December 10 14:20 GMT (UK)  »
I wonder whether he was related to this person: http://www.healeyhero.co.uk/People/help_p1.htm#wjb

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The Common Room / Re: Jane who??
« on: Wednesday 08 December 10 14:14 GMT (UK)  »
Jeuel, that would explain some of the confusion I'm experiencing at the moment.

I think a lot of us novices tend to assume that census records and BMD registers are gospel.

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The Lighter Side / Re: your worst/funniest mis-transcriptions
« on: Wednesday 08 December 10 14:00 GMT (UK)  »
I spent ages searching for a Louisa until someone else found her listed as Lawrence.

Another ancestor apparently lived in Gumblesby, Lincolnshire. Grimsby, actually!

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Heraldry Crests and Coats of Arms / Re: I am new at this...
« on: Wednesday 08 December 10 12:16 GMT (UK)  »
There's an explanation of heraldic terminology at http://apl385.com/gilling/herldref.htm

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Canada / Re: Born on a train?
« on: Saturday 20 November 10 10:14 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks to both.

Susan, I also wondered why, given that the incoming list marks them for deportation, they were allowed to remain for over a year. It says "To be deported", so I suspect that it was, indeed, made at the time. The notation also says "File 894396", but apparently the Canadian authorities have not retained records of deportations, so this is no help. "Public charge" was the most common reason for deportation. Arthur had been a saddle-maker in his army days, and he intended to pursue that career in Canada, unaware that Canadians used the American style saddle with which he would not have been familiar.

JDC, thanks for that link; I was hoping someone may be able to provide something of that sort.

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Canada / Born on a train?
« on: Friday 19 November 10 14:29 GMT (UK)  »
My (would have been) great uncle, Charles Plampin, was born in Canada in January 1914, and the family story is that the birth occurred on a train crossing Kicking Horse Pass, between Alberta and British Columbia.

It seems that Canadian birth records are not available, so I wonder whether there is any other way I can obtain more information.

If it helps, his parents were Arthur and Louisa Plampin. They had arrived in Canada the previous year, and left (by virtue of being deported) later in 1914.

Charles died in UK in 1935, and I have ordered his death certificate, but I thought that, until it arrives with possible further details, fellow Chatters may enjoy the challenge!

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