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The Common Room / Re: RootsChat problems
« on: Saturday 20 December 25 02:41 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Cas (stallc) on Wednesday 17 December 25 11:15 GMT (UK)
Keep getting this message, finding it difficult to use forum today. Anybody know if there is maintenance going on?  :(

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Due to high stress on the server the forum is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.

Yes, we all get 'high stress' at this time of year! 
I posted as soon as the site started to recover but it has gotten lost in the works.  Now the SEARCH feature has eventually also recovered, my post is nowhere to be found! Any thoughts welcome.

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Essex / Re: Silvertown Explosion - civilian casualties
« on: Saturday 20 December 25 02:25 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Arranroots on Thursday 09 March 06 17:45 GMT (UK)
Hello All

A friend would like to know more about the Silvertown Explosion in which several of her relatives were injured and one killed.

The incident, on 19th Jan 1917 killed 73 people in total and devastated a large area near Crescents Wharf where the factory of Brunner Mond was located.

She has had some success looking on the internet, but would like to know whether more information is available about civilian casualties?

Apparently there is a book called The Silvertown Explosion and the Stratford Express is believed to have reported some names.

Would anyone have access to the book or any articles about the explosion that might name the civilians, please?  The family name we are after is GARDENER. 

Many thanks for any help

kind regards, Arranroots  ;)

I see that some kind person has left a note [a postem] for many of the children killed by the explosion at FREEBMD, 1917 March quarter at WEST HAM district.
Gardner    Norman W [aged 5] W.Ham 4a   222    
Gardner    Sidney A    56    W.Ham    4a   432
"Victim of the TNT explosion at the Brunner Mond works, in Crescent Wharf, Silvertown at 6.52pm on January 19, 1917."

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Essex / Re: Silvertown Explosion - civilian casualties
« on: Saturday 20 December 25 00:31 GMT (UK)  »
Tonight I posted another angle [with further interesting links] to the vast explosion and the loss of 73 lives.  Most of the links here fail me as they are 20 years old.
Sadly the RC machinery is too stressed out and I can't even search for my post again!  Yes I know it is that time of year when everything just gets TOO MUCH.
Will try again tomorrow.

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Other Countries / Indian marriages for Sophia Maria MAXWELL 1811-1835 • Calcutta, Bengal?
« on: Monday 15 December 25 17:41 GMT (UK)  »
One or two Indian marriages please?
Did Sophia remarry to a husband's brother or is this just a mistake?
There may be some muddle as some of the husband's family seem to have introduced a hyphen to become HUME-SPRY.
I have yet to sort out the whole family but I find that some of the HUME-SPEY family have local  connections.
I have spotted some related TRANT family.
Many thanks for your help.

Sophia Maria Maxwell
Birth 1811 • Calcutta, Bengal, India.
Death 1 FEB 1835 • Barrackpore, Bengal, India
====
MARRIED to:
James Hume Spry
B:27 May 1805 Charterhouse Sq, London, England
D:12 Aug 1839 Brighton, England.
OR
Edmund Trant Hume Spry
Birth 11 SEP 1806 • Charterhouse Sq, London, England
Death 7 AUG 1838 • Midnapore, India

I have yet to sort out the whole family but I find that some of the HUME-SPEY family have local  connections.
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/genealogy/IGILondon/H/Hume.htm

https://www.thornburyroots.co.uk/families/hume-spry/

https://www.soldiersofthequeen.com/sotq-homeservice-williamedmundhumespry

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/26078/page/4378/data.pdf

https://www.townsley.info/Strangeway/GedSite/g2/p1711.htm#i85524

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Galway / Re: Link - The Old Tuam Society
« on: Friday 05 December 25 20:15 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: villandra on Tuesday 20 September 11 14:50 BST (UK)
How do I contact the Old Tuam Society?   Their website that I find links to all over does not work.   Do they have phone contact information?   

Dora
Their website look a little neglected but some of their interesting lectures are accessible.
You may have more luck at their Facebook page seems to be more upto date.
https://www.facebook.com/oldtuamsociety/followers

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y4jypkemmo




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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Ancestry DNA
« on: Friday 28 November 25 11:47 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: jo1962 on Friday 28 November 25 11:35 GMT (UK)
Good morning,
I have decided to buy a DNA kit from ancestry.  There are two options: Ancestry DNA and Ancestry DNA + traits. Can anyone please tell me what these 'traits' identify? Is the extra £10 worth it?
Many thanks
I wish that these 'traits' had identified chronic hoarding on both sides of the family!

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The Common Room / Re: The Shadows of our Fathers....
« on: Sunday 16 November 25 12:26 GMT (UK)  »
The Nature of Freedom?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ub_Nb772VA

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002m0ny
Lea Ypi

Lea Ypi, a professor of political theory at the London School of Economics, grew up in Albania under communism, when it was the last Stalinist outpost in Europe.

She was 10 years old when the Berlin Wall fell, and a year later she saw the collapse of communism in Albania. Statues of Stalin and Enver Hoxha, the country’s leader for 40 years, were toppled. Democratic elections followed - but so did civil unrest.

Lea wrote about these turbulent years in her book Free, which won prizes and widespread acclaim: 'essential - just as much for Britons as Albanians' according to one critic.

She has delved further into her family history, looking into the past of her grandmother, in her book Indignity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea_Ypi

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The Common Room / Re: The Shadows of our Fathers....
« on: Sunday 16 November 25 12:10 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Biggles50 on Sunday 16 November 25 10:40 GMT (UK)
What is sad is that the leaders of so many of the Countries on this planet have not learned from the past.

Or if they have learned they have decided that the oppression and persecution of its citizens and of its neighbours is the way it is to be.
BIGGLES,
Indeed!
Useful background to the few defendants on trial:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judges%27_Trial

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The Common Room / Re: The Shadows of our Fathers....
« on: Sunday 16 November 25 00:11 GMT (UK)  »
VIKTORIA,
Thankyou for your response.
My friend's father was a translator at this notable trial, but whilst I have researched his interesting life as missionary with a German organisation in India, I have not been able to get her interested in his family history!

I shall now try to find ' film”Judgement at Nuremberg'.

I have just missed this on Channel4+1 but will try to catch it on catch-up.
Hitler’s DNA: Blueprint of a Dictator - Series 1: Episode 1 | Channel 4

Hitler’s DNA: Blueprint of a Dictator
Episode 1
What does Hitler’s DNA reveal about the 80-year-old rumours of a Jewish relative? The experts also explore the likelihood in Hitler's formative years of both ADHD and autism.
Watch new episode from Sat 22 Nov

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