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The Common Room / Re: Advice requested - Julian Calendar.
« on: Sunday 26 October 25 00:47 BST (UK)  »
For advice, I tend to use calculators created for astronomy, specifically a good Julian Date calculator, for example:
https://apps.aavso.org/v2/tools/julian-date-converter/

These convert to an odd number of days (specifically, the number since 1 Jan 4713 BC, don't ask).

For your example, the difference is 62 days, as expected.

However, for the period when much of Europe had a different calendar to England, you still might need to be careful.

And this ignores all the other perfectly valid calendars used around the world and through time.

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The Common Room / Re: Advice requested - Julian Calendar.
« on: Sunday 26 October 25 00:33 BST (UK)  »
Not a muppet, at least, you're not the muppet.

I suspect that nobody told the programmer for the calculator that the change of year hasn't always been 31 Dec-1 Jan. Or, possibly, they weren't told exactly when that wasn't the case.

The value you got, 427, is exactly 365 more than you expected. That is, the new year didn't occur, for the calculator, until after Dec 1629.

Find a new calculator, is my advice. (Or remember this and subtract, or add, 365 when needed. But that's a pain.)

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Glamorganshire Lookup Requests / Re: Streets of St Fagans - Harding
« on: Sunday 19 October 25 22:26 BST (UK)  »
From this discussion, it is reasonably clear that the Rose Cottage of relevance to me is the one on the map above, on the road parallel to the river heading up the hill to the castle and church, the road now called Castle Hill.

However, I did a google search for 'Rose Cottage St Fagans' and discovered that there is a grade II listed building in St Fagans called "Rose Cottage"! That one is north of the castle and church, on Crofft-y-Genau Road! Sadly, nobody seems to have written a history of that listed cottage.

So, for later searchers looking for Rose Cottage in St Fagans, be careful about which Rose Cottage you are after.

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Glamorganshire Lookup Requests / Re: Streets of St Fagans - Harding
« on: Monday 13 October 25 20:35 BST (UK)  »
Clearly a family that should be avoided.  ;D

Had a quick search for the other side of the family and found that Herbert Mordecai was charged with 'depasturing scabby sheep' in St Mary Hill. Sounds nasty, whatever it is.

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Glamorganshire Lookup Requests / Re: Streets of St Fagans - Harding
« on: Monday 13 October 25 19:32 BST (UK)  »
Someone in the family had found the article about the drowning tragedy, but nobody else knew where it came from.
The pig story is a lighter one to balance things slightly.

And I never realised we had such a heinous criminal in the family.  :D But I suppose, in another situation, an unattended cart and horses could have ended much more awfully.

Thanks for the colour we can add to the tree.

Bill

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Gloucestershire Lookup Requests / Re: Bitton Parish Records - Esther/Hester Parker 1770s
« on: Monday 13 October 25 19:22 BST (UK)  »
And likewise, a too common occurrence at the time. (Hope it wasn't one of those gloomy ones with the child baptised over their mother's coffin. Seen a couple of those in the records.) I think we have the solution. With no more births, it must have been the mother who died.

On to the next generation now.

Thank you all so much for your help!

Cheers

Bill


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Gloucestershire Lookup Requests / Re: Bitton Parish Records - Esther/Hester Parker 1770s
« on: Monday 13 October 25 10:03 BST (UK)  »
That's what I feared, and yes, I really believe that was the same poor child in 1777.

I suppose they must have baptised my Hester somewhere else, but returned to Bitton so she treated it as her home Parish??

Many thanks.

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Glamorganshire Lookup Requests / Re: Streets of St Fagans - Harding
« on: Monday 13 October 25 09:48 BST (UK)  »
And if my gardening skills are up to it (probably aren't) it looks like Laundry Cottage still has Roses. I think we have (Castle) Hill Street and the locations of house #3 next to Rose (Laundry) Cottage.

Quick and efficient work. Again many thanks.

What is spooky is that the other side of mum's family were Brooms, her grandfather was John Broom and his sister Annie Broom! But I suppose those names were very common then, but still...
(And our Brooms came from Suffolk and ended up in Kotupna in Victoria, Australia.)

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Glamorganshire Lookup Requests / Re: Streets of St Fagans - Harding
« on: Monday 13 October 25 09:28 BST (UK)  »
That is really helpful. Looks like Rose Cottage and Hill St #1-3 are the four shown on that street.
This also confirms the Mill House and Mill Cottage.
We also don't have any buildings on the tithe plot 164, so maybe that isn't Church St, or possibly those are actually in the portion called Greenwood on this map?? Will keep looking.

Many thanks for taking the time to find this map.

Cheers

Bill

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