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For Sale / Wanted / Events / Pen and Ink Drawing of Malmesbury Station 1905
« on: Sunday 07 August 11 08:36 BST (UK)  »
This beautiful drawing is dated and signed by Andrew White. He was born in Charfield in 1869 and worked as a platelayer on the railways.

It is a high quality drawing of a now defunct station and would be a welcome addition for anyone researching the family. The price is £30

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Essex / Re: Padnall Hall Chadwell Heath Essex
« on: Tuesday 19 July 11 09:45 BST (UK)  »
Padnall Hall was demolished due to it being derelict and unsafe just after World War 2 when the Padnall Housing estate was built. I lived as a young boy on the other side of the Eastern Avenue in Chadwell Heath. Where it used to be there is now an arcade of shops.


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Graveyards and Gravestones / Re: Hitchin Old Cemetery Inscription Errors
« on: Saturday 02 July 11 20:07 BST (UK)  »
Further more it is not possible to find out who paid for the Headstone as the Monumental Stonemasons are not at liberty to tell me so the error will be there until the stone disintegrates. As I said before do thorough research on things you see on new headstones.

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Hertfordshire / Re: William MAYLIN & Maylin Close in Hitchin
« on: Saturday 04 June 11 17:17 BST (UK)  »
Hi Kristen
Can you let me know when and where your grandfather was born and I will see if he ties in with my Maylin Tree.

Regards Len Maylin

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England / Re: Syphillis
« on: Saturday 28 May 11 23:42 BST (UK)  »
Statistics show that about one in every 12 women had syphillis in the 1940's. Childeren born to women with the disease rarely lived more than a few months.  Women who had no treatment could easily have two or three children who died early and the disease could clear itself and they would have healthy children after a few years.

With treatment most children would be born healthy and survive. An example is one of my grandmothers. She had 4 healthy children then 3 others when she had the disease. These 3 all died within 7 weeks of birth. After treatment she then had 5 other healthy children.

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For Sale / Wanted / Events / Genealogy Research in Wiltshire,Gloucester and Bath/North East Somerset Archive
« on: Wednesday 13 April 11 11:07 BST (UK)  »
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My research service is different from most. I do not charge hourly. You pay a fixed fee for a full days research in the Records Office with the only additional expense being an amount to cover my fuel costs.

For full details visit my website at www.findingyourgenealogy.co.uk

Please contact me if you need further details

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For Sale / Wanted / Events / Many Microfiche For Sale - No Longer Needed
« on: Wednesday 13 April 11 10:48 BST (UK)  »
I have a few microfiche used in my personal research that are no longer needed.

Cratfield  Christenings, Marriage and Burials -  8 Fiche
Ilketshall St Lawrence CMB - 7 Fiche
Gorley CMB - 5 Fiche
Beeston Regis - 9 Fiche
Pigot's Directory of Yorkshire 1822-1823 - 2 Fiches
1851 Census Walsall - 14 Fiches
Litchfield Cathedral Church of St Mary Christenings and Burials 1660-1744, Marriages 1655 - 1752 2 Fiche

Also available are the Musters of Militia 1781-1782 for the following Counties:

Shropshire, Oxfordshire, Nottinghamshire, Essex West, Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk West, Norfolk East, Durham, Devon South, Devon North, Devon East, Derbyshire, Cornwall, Cumberland, Cheshire, Cambridgeshire, Hants South and Isle of Wight, Bedfordshire, Yorkshire West 1, Yorkshire West 2, Yorkshire North 1, Yorkshire East, Dorset,Middlesex Westminster, Suffolk West, Sussex, Huntingdonshire, Kent East, Suffolk East, Westmoreland, Gloucestershire North, Northamptonshire and Rutland, Gloucestershire South, Berkshire, Hants North, Northumberland, Kent West, Middlesex East, Leicestershire, Somerset, Lancashire

If you do not have your own Fiche Reader most Central Libraries have on that can be used free.

Prices for items vary so you will need to ask.

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Graveyards and Gravestones / Hitchin Old Cemetery Inscription Errors
« on: Thursday 24 February 11 16:09 GMT (UK)  »
Inscriptions on Tombstones can be a great source of information, but care must be taken where ancestors have added a new commemorative stone.

One glaring example is the one for William Maylin.
It reads"This stone was laid by the descendants of Hitchin Centenarian William Maylin/born 3rd August 1803/baptised 29th November 1808/died 24th October 1905........

This shows little research was carried out before this was inscribed and placed on the spot. There is good documentary evidence to prove that William Maylin died before he was a hundred and that both the birth date and baptismal dates are wrong.

I strongly recommend that is you find new inscriptions in a church yard careful research must be carried out to prove the statements on them.

This particular one will probably give dozens of people false information over the years and there must be many like it in different areas.

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Hertfordshire / Re: William MAYLIN & Maylin Close in Hitchin
« on: Wednesday 23 February 11 16:36 GMT (UK)  »
Hi
I also have Maylin and Press in my family tree and I am a direct descendent of John Maylin 1779 through his son William Maylin 1808-1905.

Please contact me if you need help or want to share info. Len Maylin.

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