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The Common Room / Re: Wills
« on: Monday 04 August 25 17:43 BST (UK) »
Thank you I will pass those on
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The Common Room / Wills
« on: Monday 04 August 25 15:47 BST (UK) »
Hello
I've had an e mail from a friend in Australia asking about finding wills 1600-1700 at Bourne in Lincolnshire. I haven't had any dealings with Lincolnshire, can anyone advise what to tell her
Thank you
I've had an e mail from a friend in Australia asking about finding wills 1600-1700 at Bourne in Lincolnshire. I haven't had any dealings with Lincolnshire, can anyone advise what to tell her
Thank you
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The Common Room / Re: Bigamy
« on: Friday 04 July 25 06:45 BST (UK) »
Thank you, that is interesting, it seems she was a hypocrite and a liar, I know she didn't mind lying to the registrar but not the clergy as the children's baptisms reveal the truth. I know that a neighbour accused her in the street of not being married and a solicitors letter was sent and no rent paid that week, why didn't she just produce the marriage certificate? Must have been a secret wedding.
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The Common Room / Re: Bigamy
« on: Thursday 03 July 25 20:56 BST (UK) »
She said she was a widow but her first husband was alive to 1919
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The Common Room / Bigamy
« on: Thursday 03 July 25 18:32 BST (UK) »
Hi, my great grannie married her first husband in 1884 and then deserted him in 1885 and he remarried in 1891, grannie found out and dobbed him in and he got 12 months for bigamy in 1898 Then in 1901 she did the same and remarried! Would she think that the first marriage was annulled because of what he did? I don't think there would have been a divorce as that cost money. Thanks
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Lancashire / Oldham Chronicle
« on: Thursday 01 May 25 18:30 BST (UK) »
Findmypast have added Oldham Chronicle to their newspaper collection, only 1873 & 1897 for now hopefully more will follow
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Armed Forces / Re: Grandads Service Record
« on: Tuesday 25 February 25 10:01 GMT (UK) »
I remember speaking to the lady on the phone and asking her a question and she said There's nothing on here, which made me think she had the record in front of her, maybe on a screen or a film?
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Armed Forces / Re: Grandads Service Record
« on: Tuesday 25 February 25 08:44 GMT (UK) »
I gave up hope of finding grandad's service records, Kew gave me details of his movements in 1984 and his brothers and both are now lost so how many more have been lost?
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The Common Room / Re: This is outrageous, positively medieval
« on: Sunday 09 February 25 14:07 GMT (UK) »
This was common practice, most cemeteries had a public grave for stillbirths and infants. My Gran had a stillborn boy in 1950( no 14 of 15) she dressed him and laid him on her dressing table for the siblings to see him before the council collected him. He was buried in the public grave which was open for 18 years between 1937--1955 it held all the stillbirths and 21 infants. Previously Gran lost 2 boys aged 5 & 7 hours in 1934 & 1936, they were buried in a mass grave in a corner of the churchyard for free by the parish but the churchyard was closed when the council cemetery opened and they charged £2 in 1950. Grans sister had a stillborn girl in 1941 and she was also in the same grave. Different times.