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Wiltshire / Re: trying to identify a house in Marlborough
« on: Sunday 22 February 26 07:25 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks, Alan.  I didn't realize one can zoom in to see that.

The Browns gave that name to the house because they'd been married on St Luke's day, 18 October.  I doubt the present occupants know that, and am a bit surprised the name has remained for all these years.

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Wiltshire / Re: trying to identify a house in Marlborough
« on: Saturday 21 February 26 18:13 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks, Kit.  I'm used to the 'street view' option with Google Earth, but didn't know Google Maps has it as well.  I think Lukes is the white house.

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Wiltshire / Re: trying to identify a house in Marlborough
« on: Saturday 21 February 26 12:01 GMT (UK)  »
Never mind whether it has a number, Alan: thanks to you and that map we now have the grid coordinates.

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Wiltshire / Re: trying to identify a house in Marlborough
« on: Saturday 21 February 26 11:35 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you, Alan.  Lukes was the name of the house.  From its position I think I can get a friend who lives in Marlborough to go there and tell us the present house number (Google Maps doesn't help there).

I wonder how I missed that map on the NLS web site.  Good that you were able to find it!

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Wiltshire / trying to identify a house in Marlborough
« on: Saturday 21 February 26 07:28 GMT (UK)  »
My relative Richard Cecil Brown, a retired army captain, was living in a house overlooking Marlborough common from at least late 1947.  There appear to be no houses on Free's Avenue or Pott Hill, so I think the most likely place to look is the short street named The Common.

Does anyone have access to a street directory and would be prepared to search for him?

By 1955, perhaps earlier, he was at 'Four Winds' on Granham Hill, which I'm almost certain was on the site of the present Merlin's View.  It's the earlier house I'm trying to find the address of.
Oh, and in the 1939 Register he's somewhere quite different, so that won't help.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: MyHeritage DNA Results - Subscription ??
« on: Tuesday 10 February 26 14:26 GMT (UK)  »
If I had Jewish ancestry it would have shown up in the Ancestry results.
Why does Ancestry show me as related to many known cousins, MyHeritage to none?

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: MyHeritage DNA Results - Subscription ??
« on: Monday 09 February 26 07:54 GMT (UK)  »
I did a test with Ancestry a couple of years ago and uploaded the results to MyHeritage.
The few matches that repeated Ancestry matches had considerably higher cM values.
Then there were hundreds of unknown people.  Many of the names looked Jewish. 
I know MyHeritage is an Israeli company, but I do not believe I have any Jewish ancestry.

Conclusion: forget MyHeritage!

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Worcestershire / Re: hoping to identify a house in Great Comberton
« on: Sunday 01 February 26 15:58 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you both.  I know it was thatched, so it's quite possibly the one.

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Worcestershire / hoping to identify a house in Great Comberton
« on: Sunday 01 February 26 11:51 GMT (UK)  »
When the 1921 census was taken, my grandfather (Richard) Cecil Brown was living at 'The Cottage', Great Comberton.  I'm sure there were many cottages in that village!  Does anyone have any idea how I might identify the right one, with its present-day address?

He had been invalided out of the Indian Civil Service after losing a leg in the Great War.
But I doubt anyone alive today will remember him or his family.

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