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Messages - Ray T

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The Lighter Side / Re: Your 2025 FH journies.
« on: Wednesday 31 December 25 13:38 GMT (UK)  »
My most satisfying discovery actually came this morning. My late father always treasured a cup he won playing in a cricket competition when he was 14 - over 86 years ago. I still have it but the inscription tells me little about who he was playing for etc.

Why I haven’t researched it before, I’ve no idea but I found a report of the match in the FindMyPast newspapers earlier today. He was playing for his school and they lost - bit like the current England team - they were all out for the grand total of 18 runs, and my father even gets an honourable mention; he didn’t bowl but, as a batsman, he was “not-out for 0”. He was the last man standing!

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The Common Room / Re: Findmypast message
« on: Wednesday 31 December 25 08:50 GMT (UK)  »
I too received an email from FindMyPast containing a series of extraneous figures - a bit like the emails headed “New family discovery?” they send you with all the links you’ve already discounted every time you spend some time on the site.

They’re clearly bored over the festive period and can’t find the impetus to do something more useful, like sorting out mistakes or transcription errors, so, like the other emails, I simply deleted it.

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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry, a year in review.
« on: Thursday 18 December 25 08:30 GMT (UK)  »
All the best hints offered to me by Ancestry seem to come from one of my own trees.

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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry, a year in review.
« on: Wednesday 17 December 25 22:37 GMT (UK)  »
Spotted it the other day; yet another pointless thing I have to pay for that I don’t want.

Reminds me of my old university lecturer who, when giving revision advice, always said that “Procrastination is a theft of time.”. I wish that they’d get on and do well the simple things I want rather than invent yet more things that I don’t.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: James the Dryster - female name or error?
« on: Monday 15 December 25 09:44 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: RJ_Paton on Monday 15 December 25 08:46 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Ray T on Monday 15 December 25 08:06 GMT (UK)
Coal mining.

Early 1700s Seems a bit early for coal mining to be the main industry, the Industrial Revolution was still on the horizon.  A quick search shows that salt and various agricultural trades were still the predominant jobs around

Probably, but salt was mined (still is) much further to the west and copper was mined nearer by at Alderley Edge. I’d definitely go for an agricultural connection and the name “Worth” indicates to me that he was likely to have been local.

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: James the Dryster - female name or error?
« on: Monday 15 December 25 08:06 GMT (UK)  »
Coal mining.

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The Common Room / Re: I am Related to Someone Famous!
« on: Saturday 13 December 25 12:56 GMT (UK)  »
Go back far enough and you’re likely to be related to everybody.

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The Common Room / Re: Ministry of Defence Fiasco
« on: Saturday 13 December 25 08:45 GMT (UK)  »
Aren’t they in process of transferring all the records from the MOD to the NA?

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The Common Room / Re: World War One 'Death Penny'
« on: Monday 24 November 25 13:03 GMT (UK)  »
My understanding is that they were unpopular and many families simply threw them away.

Unlike WW1 medals, they simply had a name and nothing about the recipient’s rank/service number, so it may be possible to source one with the same name but awarded to somebody else.

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