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The Common Room / Re: Hughes Family burial plot - missing members
« on: Tuesday 04 November 25 20:28 GMT (UK)  »
Regarding the question of if or when William & Esther's divorce was finalised, there's a court file listed at the National Archives and Ancestry. You'd need a sub to find out what's available from Ancestry

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C8009767

www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/2465/records/160216

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The Common Room / Re: Hughes Family burial plot - missing members
« on: Tuesday 04 November 25 19:36 GMT (UK)  »
You've probably seen records of gravestones at St Luke’s at
www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2356273/memorial-search?lastname=Hughes

One is also shown at
https://billiongraves.com/grave/John-Kennedy-Hughes/45325346

Lancashire Archives in Preston say they have transcripts of the monumental inscriptions,
https://archivecat.lancashire.gov.uk/calmview/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=Parish%2f231

It may be worth checking the burial register, if this can even be done. It could give more information than what has been found recorded on the gravestones.

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Scotland / Re: Search Problems on 1881 LDS Census on Scotlands People
« on: Monday 03 November 25 17:25 GMT (UK)  »
Searching *Pherson on the 1881 LDS census will show all results, with and without the space.

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The Common Room / Re: Hughes Family burial plot - missing members
« on: Monday 03 November 25 15:37 GMT (UK)  »
For completeness, it looks like William's first marriage was to Esther Mary Stevenson, registered 1907, district of Chester. From newspaper archives it appears they separated in 1912 and divorced in 1915.

From earlier replies, the following records presumably show William's second wife:

Birth of Ann Haynes Caddick, mother's maiden surname Bussell, registered Q4 of 1876, district of King's Norton

Marriage of Ann Haynes Caddick & Arthur Kendrick, registered Q4 of 1898, district of King's Norton

Death of Ann Haynes Hughes, age 68, registered Q4 of 1944, district of Birmingham

Hughes Ann Haynes of Elmstead Buckingham-avenue Shoreham-by-sea Sussex widow died 12 December 1944 at 92 Edgbaston-road Cannon Hill Birmingham Probate Birmingham 7 May to Reginald Arthur Evans solicitors clerk. (Probate index, 1945)

Arthur Kendrick and wife Anne Haynes (Lily) buried Weeford, Lichfield, Staffordshire
www.findagrave.com/memorial/186410391/anne-kendrick

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The Common Room / Re: Hughes Family burial plot - missing members
« on: Thursday 23 October 25 22:24 BST (UK)  »
Birth of William John Seddon Hughes, mother's name Smith, registered Q3 1875, district of West Derby and Toxteth Park

Death of William John Seddon Hughes, age 62, registered Q4 1937, district of Worthing

HUGHES—November 6, suddenly, at his residence, Elmstead, Buckingham-avenue, Shoreham-by-Sea, WILLIAM JOHN SEDDON, beloved husband of Lily Hughes, and eldest son of the late William G. and the late Mrs. E. S. Hughes, of Whaley Grange, Formby.
(Liverpool Echo, Mon 8 Nov 1937 & Liverpool Daily Post, Tues 9 Nov, see FindMyPast/BNA or Newspapers.com)

HUGHES William John Seddon of Elmstead Buckingham-avenue Shoreham-by-Sea Sussex died 6 November 1937 Probate Liverpool 22 January to Reginald Hamilton Hughes cotton salesman and Cyril Vaughan Hughes poultry farmer.
(Probate index, 1938)

With more info about his widow Lily you could find her death and then look for an obituary, burial or probate.

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Canada / Re: Harding obits - Winnipeg
« on: Sunday 18 May 25 01:37 BST (UK)  »
hanes teulu,

personally I prefer to remove the ref= or ? and everything after it as otherwise a URL can be excessively long and there's no telling what tracking info it contains. You can always check the revised link works.

The only useful part of what it chopped off here is probably the highlighting of keywords. After a bit of trial and error, your first link can be reduced to

https://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm%3A2049309?solr%5Bquery%5D=harding&solr%5Bparams%5D%5BdefType%5D=edismax

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Canada / Re: Harding obits - Winnipeg
« on: Saturday 17 May 25 14:12 BST (UK)  »
When copying or saving a link you can usually remove the ? and everything after it as that's just tracking info and search criteria. For the above links you only need

https://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm%3A2049309

https://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm%3A2120849

https://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm%3A2120849

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: The "deaf, dumb, imbecile" part of the 1911 census
« on: Wednesday 19 March 25 23:43 GMT (UK)  »
lyssy, I'd guess it's continued from the previous column. It looks like 'Glam' so perhaps she was born in Wales, in the county of Glamorgan.

P.S. I see you replied to a 16 year old discussion.

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Scotland / Re: Death record?
« on: Sunday 16 March 25 11:23 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: carolineasb on Saturday 15 March 25 08:01 GMT (UK)
You can find the Glasgow Herald and Evening Times newspapers on Google Newspaper Archive FoC. Unfortunately though, there is no great search function and you have to search by going to the specific date of paper you are looking for and then "reading" the paper.
The Google News Archive has the Glasgow Herald from 1806–1990. Like you say, it's not searchable by keyword, you can only go to a date and page then read through it.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC

Newspapers[dot]com has it 1820–1985 and you can use your Ancestry log-in. The snippet you see from a free search may be enough to spot something you're looking for. You can then use the Google archive to view the whole article for free.

Find My Past / British Newspaper Archive have the Glasgow Herald 1820–1900 and are also searchable. With the subscription sites you can also widen your search to include other Glasgow papers.

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