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Census and Resource Discussion / Re: Find My Past access to parish records
« on: Monday 22 June 15 16:08 BST (UK) »
Thanks for your help everybody - I knew I could rely on you. Chrisann 
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Census and Resource Discussion / Find My Past access to parish records
« on: Monday 22 June 15 14:53 BST (UK) »
In the past (a couple of years ago) I used to browse scans of parish record pages on FindMyPast to search for bmds but now I can't find how to get into those records. Can anybody tell me where they have gone and how to access them? It was so useful to sidestep mistranscriptions. Thanks, Chrisann
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The Lighter Side / Re: Research before records were available online
« on: Thursday 26 September 13 17:33 BST (UK) »
When I began researching my family history in the 1990s it was a long-drawn out and expensive hobby. I used to go to both St Catherine's House to search the BMD indices and to Portugal Street to look at the census films. What with the ordering and waiting around it took an absolute age to get anywhere. The things that I can achieve online in a day now would have taken weeks, or more probably months, then. That said, it is still quite an expensive hobby but the less said about that the better 
Chrisann
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Hampshire & IOW Lookup Requests / Re: Mother and Baby Home run by nuns in Churt, Hampshire in the 1960's
« on: Thursday 15 August 13 18:57 BST (UK) »
By and large, I have, Carrie. There have been ups and downs, but no matter what their circumstances most people experience those. I hope that your adoptive home was a kind and happy one and that you had a happy reunion with your birth mother. I eventually decided to seek out my natural father, but he had died just three months before my 'real' Dad, so I never found out why he had been willing to marry my Mum if she gave me up. I do know that he never married. Chrisann
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Hampshire & IOW Lookup Requests / Re: Mother and Baby Home run by nuns in Churt, Hampshire in the 1960's
« on: Thursday 15 August 13 17:42 BST (UK) »
By the way, it is definitely in Surrey but close to the Haampshire border. My birth (1949) was registered in Alton, Hampshire. Chrisann
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Hampshire & IOW Lookup Requests / Re: Mother and Baby Home run by nuns in Churt, Hampshire in the 1960's
« on: Thursday 15 August 13 15:08 BST (UK) »
I'm afraid not Carrie. She didn't talk about it a great deal but I have the impression that it was an unpleasant experience. Good luck with the book - keep us posted re its progress. Chrisann
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Hampshire & IOW Lookup Requests / Re: Mother and Baby Home run by nuns in Churt, Hampshire in the 1960's
« on: Thursday 15 August 13 14:42 BST (UK) »
I was born at this mother and baby home in 1949. I was lucky, my mother kept me, although my father didn't want to know. My mother was working in (I believe she said) a laundry and was not allowed to be present at my baptism because she was (in their words) 'a bad girl'. I don't believe that she was even allowed to choose my godmother. Chrisann
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Kent / Patrick Welsh, stroller
« on: Tuesday 28 May 13 16:01 BST (UK) »
Have you misplaced a stroller (presumably an actor) named Patrick Welsh? I have found an entry for a burial on the Parish Register for Barham (between Canterbury and Dover) in Kent. It reads: Patrick Welsh a Stroller April 30 1778 found dead in the Parish and buried by warrant of the Coroner. No idea given of his age I am afraid. Poor chap, it would be nice to find him a family. Chrisann
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Please Restore/Date 2xGreat Granny Florence Catt
« on: Friday 22 March 13 15:24 GMT (UK) »
There was a photographer at the Dreamland amusement park in Margate in the 50s who had a similar monkey. I had a photo taken with him in about 1956, so I guess that it was a fairly common practice then. Chrisann