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Travelling People / Re: Circus Family. 'Winships'.
« on: Monday 01 January 18 21:18 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Tanya,
I was just a skinny kid from Liverpool on the run from just about everything. I wasn't much heavier than a paper bag so found the work really hard. I was only with Winships from Wednesbury down through Wales. at the tail end crowds were fairly thin and they started doing a 'Circus' in the afternoon and then wrestlers on in the evening, Barry wrestled as well. Ever since ( I am 74 now) :) I have wished I had been born 3 or 4 years earlier, thus older and stronger. The family were certainly good mentors of work ethic.
Billy

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Norfolk / Re: Denton,Norfolk
« on: Tuesday 25 November 14 21:39 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Meles,
I am Sandie, Billy's wife, Brocks Barn was originally a house then became a barn then got converted back to a house again and has an old timber frame, I think it was renamed Brock's Barn after the owner at the time. We have had Brocks and Youngs living in our house as I found them on earlier Census records.There is other stuff but I would have to check it out first as it is a few years since I checked them out.
Here a a few pages attached from the Millennium Magazine, if you can't open them satisfactorily let me know and I will get them to you somehow.
Billy

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Norfolk / Re: Denton,Norfolk
« on: Monday 24 November 14 17:12 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: meles on Wednesday 25 January 06 15:02 GMT (UK)
Hi Shannie

I left a message at the Denton website, but they never answered, alas.

I plan to visit Denton next March to look at the graves/ parish records/whatever, as my ancesters seem to hail from there. Is there anything I can do for you while I am there?

meles      Hi I live in Alburgh and Brocks used to live in this house (amongst many others) and at Denton too. If you need anything covered here( on the ground so to speak), please ask.
Billy

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Norfolk / Re: Disney, Norfolk or Essex
« on: Saturday 22 November 14 19:31 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: wee Hugh on Thursday 17 November 11 18:01 GMT (UK)
Does anyone know anything about the Disney family of East Anglia?

I'm looking for Anne, b. ca 1815, who in or about 1837 m. Alexander Davison of Knockboy, Broughshane near Ballymena.

There is a Disney buried in Denton (St Marys) South Norfok.ip200ad

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The Lighter Side / Re: Why a Burial in Unconcecrated Ground?
« on: Thursday 20 November 14 10:57 GMT (UK)  »
Well yes I believe people who were executed in prisons in this country were buried in prison grounds ( I assume unconsecrated ) and have read where families have tried to claim the body but have been denied the right.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Why a Burial in Unconcecrated Ground?
« on: Thursday 20 November 14 09:24 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for that, from Norfolk in England.
Billy

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The Lighter Side / Re: Why a Burial in Unconcecrated Ground?
« on: Thursday 20 November 14 08:40 GMT (UK)  »
Thank's for the replies. Roots group are certainly a 'Mine' of information, there must be lots of people like myself who have reached a fair age and did not realise such things.
Muckandtwigs

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The Lighter Side / Re: Why a Burial in Unconcecrated Ground?
« on: Wednesday 19 November 14 17:06 GMT (UK)  »
It was a Municipal cemetery and they were around the late 1800s, I had never realised before that some burials were in unconsecrated ground.Thankyou for the information.

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The Lighter Side / Why a Burial in Unconcecrated Ground?
« on: Wednesday 19 November 14 16:30 GMT (UK)  »
Looking-up some deaths in the 1800s I note some were marked as buried in consecrated ground and some in Unconsecrated ground. Were the unconsecrated Pauper burials?

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