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Durham / Re: my grans birtley sweet shop
« on: Wednesday 08 December 10 10:11 GMT (UK)  »
Reply 2:

You mentioned the Bowbeers in Somerset including Mary Gamlin. This is a good example of the constant warnings around on family history sites generally, since I also had this info about the marriage.

However, I had the advantage (? - I've been to NZ and loved it, so perhaps not) of still living in the UK and so on a holiday in the southwest I went to Taunton archives to have a day of ancestor digging. I found the marriage certificate for the Bowbeer/'Gamlin' marriage and the name is definitely not Gamlin. It is more likely Gauler and I'm going to try to attach a photo of the original church record. Lets hope it works - then I'll try to reach you by private msg since my count is now up to 3 !


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Durham / Re: my grans birtley sweet shop
« on: Wednesday 08 December 10 10:00 GMT (UK)  »
I'm going to split my reply to get my msg count up :

So, Reply 1. You seem to be interested in finding out about the sweet shop in particular. Have you tried looking on google maps ? You can now zoom right down to street view level and I had a 'walk' along Birtley Lane yesterday, including around St. John's church. Unfortunately that was not really my part of Birtley - I lived in Queen St (next one to you) - and there has been some new development, so it might even be that the sweet shop has now gone. Whatever, I couldn't see a current sweet shop - but if you know exactly where it was, you can at least go straight to the spot and have a good look around.

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Durham / Re: my grans birtley sweet shop
« on: Saturday 04 December 10 18:54 GMT (UK)  »
Hi onebignefamily

I was born in Birtley and am interested in the Bowbeers.

At the time your are talking about (1895) there was probably only one Bowbeer family around Birtley - its a rare name throughout the UK. I don't have an exact dob for the George B. in my family, but your date is certainly in the right area, and I also know his wife was Margaret (no surname.

If you'd like to send me a private msg, I'd be happy to exchange emails and info about our family links - I have George's Bowbeer ancestors going back several generations, plus some of his offspring.

Cheers,
Cameldriver

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