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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry Subscription Discount
« on: Monday 31 October 22 19:06 GMT (UK)  »
In case it should help anyone..
I tried all sorts of combinations, different browsers, different devices etc. to try and get the Worldwide subscription for 12 months at £89.99.
Nothing worked until I right clicked and saved the link to my "Downloads" folder instead of the Desktop folder.
Not sure why that made a difference but very glad it did.
Thanks to everyone for the initial right- click tip!

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Northumberland / Re: Can anyone read this place?
« on: Friday 30 July 21 10:58 BST (UK)  »
Hi, I would give my vote for a mishearing of the name "Wallsend".
As a Geordie, I would think if you were to say it in a very broad Geordie accent it would sound something like, "Wahl-zen".
The "d" might not have been sounded at all.
...... we're not big on consonants  :)

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Durham / Re: Unable To Find Streets In South Shields
« on: Tuesday 06 July 21 23:06 BST (UK)  »
River Tyne Lass - My grandmother and her brother and sister also went to Baring Street school, I had no idea the school was still there.
Coincidently, I recently found some fab hardbacked photos of Baring Street infant and junior class groups from 1920. So if your grandmother was there at that time she might be on one of the photos.  :)

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Durham / Re: Unable To Find Streets In South Shields
« on: Tuesday 06 July 21 18:33 BST (UK)  »
Hi, I live in South Shields and Barker Terrace is part of what is now Westoe Road. It is the block which runs from the corner of Erskine Road up to the Town Hall and the street name is still visible. You can see it on Google Maps, it's on the wall - (just above the opticians).

There's a nice photo of Barker Terrace here -
https://southtynesidehistory.co.uk/archive/photographs/architecture/shops/619146-westoe-road?q=barker%20terrace#prettyPhoto

I've seen an earlier photo from the turn of the century with all shops below and flats/houses above. Did your family own a shop on Barker Terrace? There was also a very large and well known Co op store, on the end closest to the Town Hall.

Bath Street ran directly between Mile End Road and Baring Street. Sadly, none of it has survived as far as I know. It is where Coston Drive is now and runs behind what is now the Morrisons supermarket car park. I think most of it was knocked down in the 60s and whatever was left probably went when the supermarket was built in the 1980s.
It would have been quite a busy, bustling street though with the old railway station and lots of shops, pubs and a theatre nearby.

There is a photo from the 80s which shows the corner of Baring Street and Coston Drive.
It's quite hard to make out but you can just see the street name for Coston Drive above the shop, with the older one for Bath Street above .
https://southtynesidehistory.co.uk/archive/photographs/streets/south-shields/619541-baring-street-bath-street-and-coston-drive?q=baring%20street

Hope that helps a bit!


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The Common Room / Re: Can't find birth record in GRO index.
« on: Monday 21 June 21 17:12 BST (UK)  »
Thanks garstonite, I had no idea about Millicent or that she had remarried so that will be very interesting to look in to. Could be more distant cousins to find!

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The Common Room / Re: Can't find birth record in GRO index.
« on: Monday 21 June 21 17:03 BST (UK)  »
Well, I tried every different name combination I could think of when searching the records... other than "Dordon".
Thank you jonw65!

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The Common Room / Re: Can't find birth record in GRO index.
« on: Monday 21 June 21 16:58 BST (UK)  »
Thank you so much for all your sterling work! I've been pondering over this for weeks.

John Corden named his daughter Millicent, (my great grandmother). I always wondered where that name came from!

I noticed the Baker family on a census record but I really wasn't sure if there was a connection or not but i think you have all confirmed that there is.

He died very young, aged 32 so there aren't that many records to search, although I know he was married in Essex,(he was in the Royal Artillary), so I could send for the marriage certificate, but I have learnt more about him today than in months of searching.
Thank you everyone!
And thank you Phillip, I will try what you suggested.

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The Common Room / Can't find birth record in GRO index.
« on: Monday 21 June 21 16:13 BST (UK)  »
I know very little about my 2x great grandfather John Thomas Cordon so I was hoping to order a PDF of what I believe is his birth certificate but the reference I found on FreeBMD is not coming up on the GRO index.

I think he was born in the first quarter of 1847 at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
Vol. 15 Page 525.

I've looked at the original index on Ancestry and FreeBMD and the numbers look right but could they have been transcribed wrongly from the original birth certificate? Or could it be the that the certificate doesn't exist for some reason?
 
Should I just try and order with the reference number I have, (there's a small charge if they can't find it), or should I message them first perhaps?
I'm really hoping I can find his birth certificate because I have no idea who his parents were and I'm completely stumped at the moment!

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Clara b 1870's
« on: Friday 28 August 20 16:19 BST (UK)  »
Hope you don't mind me having a go!

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