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Kent / Re: MAJOR - Annie & Harry - Deptford
« on: Sunday 20 November 11 16:04 GMT (UK)  »
Any thoughts?

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Kent / Re: MAJOR - Annie & Harry - Deptford
« on: Friday 26 August 11 11:05 BST (UK)  »
Any info to add to the Major story from your friend?

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Kent / Re: MAJOR - Annie & Harry - Deptford
« on: Friday 15 July 11 11:48 BST (UK)  »
Yes thats him & his brother as witness.  Many thanks for this.

Did find him in 1891 as asst pawnbroker living "over the shop" as it were in Bethnal Green Road & remarkably, according to StreetView, the address is still a pawnbrokers. 
Tony

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Kent / Re: MAJOR - Annie & Harry - Deptford
« on: Friday 15 July 11 08:51 BST (UK)  »
Well done for finding this old post!
I know little of Annie as such but have birth & marriage certs & census entries.  1881 she was living with her gmother at Clee, 1891 she was in service (housemaid) with her mother, 1901 she was living on her own means in Battersea.
I have found & corresponded with the descendants of her brother Henry (Harry) Percy Major.
Any information on another brother Wm Major b 1872 would be useful.
Tony

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Aberdeenshire / Re: Robb Family in Aberdeenshire
« on: Thursday 10 February 11 21:38 GMT (UK)  »
I suspect that it is a different lot of Robbs but have a look at

http://www.kildrummyfamilies.org/

Tony

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West Lothian (Linlithgowshire) / Re: TURNER/McGOWN Craigiehall, Parish of Dalmeny
« on: Monday 01 February 10 09:02 GMT (UK)  »
Bit late for this but I would guess that Dalmeny would be the best choice.  Otherwise Cramond, Kirkliston & possibly Queensferry.  Was he born locally as that might have a bearing as well? 
Tony

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Occupation Interests / Re: Master Hairdressers
« on: Tuesday 24 March 09 09:59 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks also.  My gg gfather is described in 1851 as Apprentice (relationship to Head) & Hairdresser (occup), in 1861 his relationship is Journeyman & occup Hairdresser and in 1871 when he is the Head he is a Hairdresser.  He was in Grantham in 1851 & Chipping Barnet in 1861 staying with his employers.  In 1871 he was living in Deptford Kent with wife & family.
I dont have any evidence of his supposed travelling "widely in Europe tending to the hair of the nobility" (as I mentioned previously) although this *may* have been fitted between 1861 & 1863 (when he married in London) & possibly before my ggmother was born in 1868. 
Another of these mysteries ....
Tony

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Lincolnshire / Re: Bead House, Bourne
« on: Friday 02 May 08 08:22 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for the links - I hadnt thought of Bede as an alternative spelling
Tony

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Lincolnshire / Bead House, Bourne
« on: Thursday 01 May 08 17:00 BST (UK)  »
I have found a distant relative (Mary Ann Major) living at Bead House, South St Bourne in the 1871 census.  I am assuming that this was lodgings of some sort as there are 5 elderly ladies, all widows, listed as Head at this address although they all have an occupation of "Bead House recipient" which may mean a poorhouse possibly.
Can anyone enlighten me on this?
thanks
Tony

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