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Leicestershire Lookup Requests / Re: Help with 1984 Market Harborough burial if possible please.

« on: Monday 29 July 24 19:14 BST (UK) »

Many sincere thanks Comberton for your reply and the link you supply.

Pending any replies, my next question was going to be, What newspapers serve Market Harborough? but I don`t need to ask now.

Your help and assistance is very much appreciated

Steve
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For information purposes, Leicester mercury was the daily paper, but the edition market harborough had was different to the Leicester edition, and the harborough mail was the weekly paper. The Kettering evening telegraph was also sold in market harborough, but was more for the villages south of ther.

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Northamptonshire / Re: Aldwincle parish registers for George (Eden) Jeffs

« on: Tuesday 22 August 23 13:40 BST (UK) »

Quote from: bikermickau on Tuesday 22 August 23 12:19 BST (UK)

I don't know where "Eden" came from.
George Eden Jeff's born in 1839 is his nephew.

Did the nephew marry Elizabeth Pheasant?

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The Common Room / Re: Newspaper announcement found, but no death in FreeBMD or Gov.UK

« on: Friday 07 July 23 17:12 BST (UK) »

You don't think it could be Misindexed? There is a John Weston indexed in Kingston 2a 156. Looking at the john croft mentioned as registered ticehurst, their death certificates start 2b

Edit it's not that one as he was 36

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The Common Room / Re: Looking for a birth possibly 1905

« on: Wednesday 21 June 23 08:57 BST (UK) »

There is a Cyril rowland Lewis born Lambeth march qtr 1905 on GRO index. Mothers maiden name white

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Vehicle registration plate

« on: Sunday 11 June 23 17:25 BST (UK) »

I suspect it is the rear number plate off of a motorcycle

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The Lighter Side / Re: Always expect the unexpected!

« on: Wednesday 31 May 23 17:31 BST (UK) »

Quote from: susieroe on Monday 22 May 23 10:59 BST (UK)

Quote from: brigidmac on Wednesday 05 April 23 01:06 BST (UK)
Susieroe I'd just learnt that many true Romany families have Indian or Pakistani origins .

Helping a friend whose matches had caravan dwelling ancestors but they turned out not to be descended from the Romany line that some had on their trees . Ethnicity helped confirm that they were from a Welsh line with same surname !

brigidmac, I've only today received an email with your post, it seems I didn't keep up with the thread.
May I ask a long shot: is your friend from Leicester? My Mum remembered Grandma taking her to visit a relative in a caravan in Leicester circa 1920s. She told me definitely not gypsy but that there were beautiful things there like china and glass that I know Romanies collect. Did you ever hear of a caravan community in Leicester?

Susieroe
There were some in belgrave, Leicester at one time. From memory, some were fairground families.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Chilling Murder Repeats Itself 157 Years Apart - tale of strange coincidence

« on: Wednesday 12 April 23 17:11 BST (UK) »

A partial family tree coincidence. I was chatting to someone in the chat room, looking up bits as we went. It turns out that her grandad had lived with my 2 gt grandmas stepdad and her grandads aunts had my 3 gt grandmas niece stop with them on one census. It also turned out that one of the aunts married into a family that a distant relative of mine also married into. We haven't found anything that directly connects us yet tho

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The Lighter Side / Re: Unfortunatel names

« on: Saturday 08 April 23 10:12 BST (UK) »

Think I've mentioned before that I have a Heath Rowe and a felix toe on my tree

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Occupation Interests / Re: Does anyone know what a woollen Winder was back in 1870’s please ?

« on: Tuesday 04 April 23 21:34 BST (UK) »

http://doot.spub.co.uk/code.php?value=367

If you go down to where it says winder, it gives you the description.
It’s basically an industrial version of the home winder you found.

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