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The Lighter Side / Re: Who Do You Think You Are (UK) - series 22 announced
« on: Tuesday 17 June 25 12:39 BST (UK)  »
  Despite him not really being around, I never had much doubt about my father, and DNA proved it. I don't think that is why I took the test - not sure now why I did take it? ???

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The Lighter Side / Re: Who Do You Think You Are (UK) - series 22 announced
« on: Saturday 14 June 25 18:43 BST (UK)  »
   "nowt from down south, really, and all very "pleb." TY"
 Nothing from up North in my ancestry, but it doesn't make us posh. ::) No farmers, just ag labs.

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Kent / Re: Devereux/Deverside Hyat
« on: Thursday 12 June 25 20:00 BST (UK)  »
  I haven't found a baptism for him. (I imagine there are endless variations on his name!) It looks as if he married twice, in 1719 to Margaret Kemp, and in 1727 to Mary Christian. I think Mary was Deborah's mother, and Devereux had died just before she was born.
  This is all open to correction.

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The Common Room / Re: Immigrant from Austria
« on: Tuesday 10 June 25 18:07 BST (UK)  »
  She gave her birthplace as Austria, Vienna in censuses, but that could be for simplicity! I have found nothing to make me think she was Jewish and she married in the Anglican church, but again it could be the easiest thing, if she was alone here.
 

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The Common Room / Immigrant from Austria
« on: Tuesday 10 June 25 15:19 BST (UK)  »
  I came across this woman in a small village in Kent, in the 1921 census. I now know that she married a local man in Cranbrook in 1906, aged 22, giving no occupation, but in 1911 she was monthly nurse and later a district nurse and midwife.
  Would there have been any particular reason for her to have left Vienna in approx 1904? To train as a nurse? In which case, what was she doing in Cranbrook. They had a daughter in 1907 and by 1921 had moved to Goodnestone, where she was the district nurse. I think they probably moved back to Mid Kent about 1924.
   Any thoughts please?

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The Common Room / Re: Reason to move to west Wales in 1900?
« on: Monday 09 June 25 17:17 BST (UK)  »
  Like Gadget, I have an opposite example. My great aunt, who was locally in service in Kent around 1900, had a great friend there from Wales and they kept in touch for some time after the friend went home. (To Dolwyddelan, one of the few Welsh words I can pronounce.)

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The Common Room / Re: Liverpool: Beatles connections?
« on: Monday 09 June 25 17:09 BST (UK)  »
  I saw the Beatles in Margate, (I am not going to say I heard them!) Just checked - it was July 1963, so we were celebrating the end of O-levels.

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The Common Room / Re: Fire Brigades 1890
« on: Thursday 05 June 25 13:12 BST (UK)  »
  Maroons would be another idea. Electricity only arrived in the depths of East Kent in the late 30s, at least to homes and churches.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Who Do You Think You Are (UK) - series 22 announced
« on: Thursday 05 June 25 11:25 BST (UK)  »
  But did you get back to a king? ;D

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