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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Granny Smith Mystery wedding photo
« on: Friday 14 November 25 21:41 GMT (UK) »
I think it the same hat in both pictures. About 1940?
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The Common Room / Re: What value is the hyphen in a double barrelled surname?
« on: Tuesday 11 November 25 22:09 GMT (UK) »
Many years ago when I was a junior staff member, our librarian was sometimes visited by a scholarly clergyman (those were the days!) who had a double barrelled name. More recently I discovered that he and his wife, married in 1917, were both graduates and joined their surnames.
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The Common Room / Re: Tithe Dating Help
« on: Friday 31 October 25 21:42 GMT (UK) »
The tithe map for my village has the date on it under the village name - 1839. I think they are mostly within a few years of that. Maybe you are looking at something else?
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The Common Room / Re: Bristol lies partly in Gloucestershire and partly in Somerset
« on: Thursday 30 October 25 22:31 GMT (UK) »
At least they can't fiddle much with the outer boundaries of Kent, and there is not much point in altering the Kent/Sussex border, but there is talk of internal divisions. It is a pity Kent was not divided into East and West in 1974(?) when Sussex was. It would be a fairly natural division and we would have got a County Town nearer than Maidstone!
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The Common Room / Re: Bristol lies partly in Gloucestershire and partly in Somerset
« on: Wednesday 29 October 25 21:18 GMT (UK) »
I wish "they" would leave local government areas alone, instead of re-organizing every 30 years or so. Am I right in thinking that French L.G. areas haven't changed since Napoleon?
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The Common Room / Re: Job advertising
« on: Tuesday 14 October 25 22:14 BST (UK) »
They may not have had much time off, but train travel was well established by then. My great aunt, in service a bit later, around 1900, seems to have got around quite a lot, visiting friends. (I have her postcard collection!)
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The Lighter Side / Ancestry DNA update
« on: Tuesday 14 October 25 21:56 BST (UK) »
I know we have to take these results with a large pinch of salt, but I find my latest update rather odd.
I seem to have acquired North East England, but I guess that is my very Lowland Scots, though I also have "Scotland Central and N.I.", plus a tiny bit from the Highlands and Islands. I have also lost my 2 per cent Irish, from my one Irish ancestor.
South East England and N W Europe has gone from 52pc to 72pc! I always knew I was an Anglo Saxon.
I seem to have acquired North East England, but I guess that is my very Lowland Scots, though I also have "Scotland Central and N.I.", plus a tiny bit from the Highlands and Islands. I have also lost my 2 per cent Irish, from my one Irish ancestor.
South East England and N W Europe has gone from 52pc to 72pc! I always knew I was an Anglo Saxon.
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The Common Room / Re: Find a Grave soldier's memorial
« on: Friday 10 October 25 23:39 BST (UK) »
This is quite irrelevant to your original query, but I am fairly sure that Arthur's wife ran the village playgroup attended by my children and generations of others in the area!
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The Common Room / Re: Newspaper look up. Please
« on: Monday 06 October 25 18:50 BST (UK) »
Does it have to be the Western Mail? FindMyPast have 3 memorial notices from other papers.