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Australia / Re: South Australian death record
« on: Friday 30 May 25 05:40 BST (UK) »
Thanks so much, cup of life, I can definitely rule this one out.
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Australia / South Australian death record
« on: Friday 30 May 25 04:39 BST (UK) »
I found the following record on Ancestry and would love to know more information about Marjorie Brooks, whom I suspect was my aunt.
Name Marjorie Brooks
Record Type Cremation
Late Residence Not Listed
Death Date 10 Apr. 2001
Burial Date 13 Aug. 2001
Cemetery Centennial Park
Cemetery Location Pasadena, South Australia, Australia
Burial Location General/Path 19/1268
My aunt, Marjorie Brooks, nee Taylor, was born 1908 in Boulder WA. Parents Thomas Charles Taylor, Philomenta Vosti, married Alastair Frederick Gerald Brooks in 1959 in Perth. Alastair died in 1985 and is buried in Katoomba Cemetery NSW.
I can't order a death certificate because of the date. There is also a 4 month gap between the death and cremation dates, which seems unusual. I have sent a request to Centennial Park Cemetery.
Are there any other ways I can find out more information?
Name Marjorie Brooks
Record Type Cremation
Late Residence Not Listed
Death Date 10 Apr. 2001
Burial Date 13 Aug. 2001
Cemetery Centennial Park
Cemetery Location Pasadena, South Australia, Australia
Burial Location General/Path 19/1268
My aunt, Marjorie Brooks, nee Taylor, was born 1908 in Boulder WA. Parents Thomas Charles Taylor, Philomenta Vosti, married Alastair Frederick Gerald Brooks in 1959 in Perth. Alastair died in 1985 and is buried in Katoomba Cemetery NSW.
I can't order a death certificate because of the date. There is also a 4 month gap between the death and cremation dates, which seems unusual. I have sent a request to Centennial Park Cemetery.
Are there any other ways I can find out more information?
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The Common Room / Re: New Scottish records at Ancestry.
« on: Tuesday 25 March 25 00:50 GMT (UK) »
I have the same problem. When I click on View Record, I'm offered an upgrade to a Monthly subscription to Key Australia and Scottish records for a monthly membership of $A21.99:
"You will be billed in one payment of $21.99 for a 1-month subscription to Key Australia and UK Records, and you will be issued a prorated refund for the time remaining on your current subscription. Your subscription will automatically renew at list price after the introductory one-month offer unless you are notified otherwise."
As I have a yearly sub to Australian and UK records, just renewed last month, this makes little sense.
"You will be billed in one payment of $21.99 for a 1-month subscription to Key Australia and UK Records, and you will be issued a prorated refund for the time remaining on your current subscription. Your subscription will automatically renew at list price after the introductory one-month offer unless you are notified otherwise."
As I have a yearly sub to Australian and UK records, just renewed last month, this makes little sense.
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The Lighter Side / Re: How did you find Rootschat?
« on: Sunday 03 March 24 19:53 GMT (UK) »
I can't remember either, I joined in April 2005 - and am so glad I did :-)
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Norfolk / Re: Norfolk Consistory Court Administration for Thomas Taylor 1678
« on: Saturday 03 February 24 09:49 GMT (UK) »
Wow, thank you so much! I never would have found it. My father, grandfather and great grandfather were all Thomas Taylors, my great grandfather born in Burnham Thorpe in 1835, the son of Francis Taylor and Rebecca Oughton. Lots to follow up here!
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Norfolk / Norfolk Consistory Court Administration for Thomas Taylor 1678
« on: Saturday 03 February 24 07:00 GMT (UK) »Hi all,
I've just discovered these records and found the following record for Thomas Taylor of Burnham Thorpe 1678 at:
https://nrocatalogue.norfolk.gov.uk/index.php/taylor-thomas-of-burnham-thorpe
but I can't find a corresponding record on Family Search. Can anyone help please?
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Scotland / Re: What is a "Guard of the Union Coach"?
« on: Wednesday 26 October 22 01:28 BST (UK) »
Thanks ShaunJ, it sounds like it could be quite a dangerous occupation :-)
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Scotland / What is a "Guard of the Union Coach"?
« on: Tuesday 25 October 22 05:38 BST (UK) »
The baptism of George Hannon on 19 Sept 1816 St Cuthberts Edinburgh describes the occupation of his father, also George Hannon, as "Guard of the Union Coach". What does this mean? A Google search wasn't very informative.
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Family History Beginners Board / Re: brick walls
« on: Saturday 15 October 22 06:17 BST (UK) »
Just came across your post - John William(son) and Caroline Mitchell are my ancestors too, through their daughter Mary who married William Oughton in 1802 in Burnham Thorpe. I haven't been able to get back any further either :-)
You might not have seen these mentions:
When Lord Nelson dug a pond, it was in the shape of HMS Victory, the ship on which he was to die in 1805 at the Battle of Trafalgar. Along with a gardener called Williamson, Nelson designed and constructed the ship-shape pond in the gardens of the Norfolk rectory where he was born in 1758.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2003/jun/29/observercashsection.theobserver7
A memo in the Church register, written in 1907 by the Rev. Hon. J. Horatio Nelson, who at eighty-two years of age came to preach in the Church, tells how, when he was Rector of Belaugh from 1857 to 1872 he was repeatedly told, by an aged parishioner named Williamson, this story:
That he, Williamson, when a boy, used to clean the knives and boots at Burnham Thorpe Rectory, and that he also "helped dam the rivulet ... sufficiently to fill up a small portion of ground which Lord Nelson had made into the size and shape of a man of war so as its possible to float a model ship in it".
http://www.nelson-society.com/html/Five_Years_On_The_Beach.html
You might not have seen these mentions:
When Lord Nelson dug a pond, it was in the shape of HMS Victory, the ship on which he was to die in 1805 at the Battle of Trafalgar. Along with a gardener called Williamson, Nelson designed and constructed the ship-shape pond in the gardens of the Norfolk rectory where he was born in 1758.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2003/jun/29/observercashsection.theobserver7
A memo in the Church register, written in 1907 by the Rev. Hon. J. Horatio Nelson, who at eighty-two years of age came to preach in the Church, tells how, when he was Rector of Belaugh from 1857 to 1872 he was repeatedly told, by an aged parishioner named Williamson, this story:
That he, Williamson, when a boy, used to clean the knives and boots at Burnham Thorpe Rectory, and that he also "helped dam the rivulet ... sufficiently to fill up a small portion of ground which Lord Nelson had made into the size and shape of a man of war so as its possible to float a model ship in it".
http://www.nelson-society.com/html/Five_Years_On_The_Beach.html