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Bedfordshire Lookup Requests / Re: SIMMONS - Bedford Lunatic Asylum
« on: Sunday 18 January 09 18:44 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Martin and all who have responded.

I am fine with all the census returns,  I have all John's papers from the N.A. regarding his service in the Battle of Waterloo, he was actually an out patient of Chelsea Hospital and was shot in the leg. He was a shoemaker by trade. he received 1/- per week pension. on the 1st  December 1843 he was alledgedly murdered and set on fire in a barn up the Kimbolton Road. two tramps were accused and let off. it was in the Bedford Mercury and Huntingdon Express on most of the front page on Saturday 9th December 1843

I found John had two stays in Bedford Lunatic Asylum 28th July1832 and 2nd October 1834. I just wondered if he had stayed more. As far as I can be sure he was never in Goal  or the Workhouse.
His wife Ellen (Eleanor) was in the Workhouse many times and died there in 1855.

Any help would be wonderful

regards

Caz

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Staffordshire / CANNOCK - WEETMANS
« on: Tuesday 19 August 08 18:01 BST (UK)  »
Hi all,

I am off to Stafford Archive and Cannock and Hednesfsord Thur and Fri (Iam from Yorkshire)
searching for anything and everything. and graves.
Does anyone know if 'Bentons Building' is still in Cannock.  I have an ancestor who was killed in a mining incident (1898)
Leacroft Colliery and lived in Bentons Buildings.
My Mum left Hednesford aged 8yr in 1928 and moved to Bidford upon Avon, does anyone know if there was a school in Hednesford and if it is still there.  anyother tips would be appreciated.

Caz

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Bedfordshire / Burial in St Cuthberts
« on: Monday 04 August 08 18:31 BST (UK)  »
Hi,

I live in Yorkshire and my ancestors previous to 1840 came from Bedford, I have found on the memorial inscriptions site,  two ancesters who are buried in St. Cuthberts, I believe they are correct as dates etc, all fit with other info I have, I have been down to Bedford 3 times and I understand that a roundabout has taken some of the graves in St. Cuthberts, can anyone tell me how I can find out if these two graves are still there.

thanks

Caz

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The Lighter Side / Re: Why can't I sprinkle ashes
« on: Tuesday 15 July 08 16:35 BST (UK)  »
Hi everyone,

thanks for all your messages and amusing stories.

THE DEED IS DONE....

We went to the cemetery on Sunday afternoon, thankfully no one about, my husband dug the hole, I was the lookout, the soil was wonderful, he manged to dig a deep hole, trying to avoid the millions of ants. tipped his Mum's ashes into the hole, covered them over with soil and then put the grass sod back on. it only had a concrete flower type pot, so we put that back and it looked very good. took a few pics for the family history book, so future generations will know where it is, if they are even interested that is. I hope she could see us, I am so sure she would have said 'dont bother just chuck them on the garden' but when you are told 'you cannot do that..................

Caz

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Elsecar Birth Registration please
« on: Tuesday 08 July 08 12:49 BST (UK)  »

Me  again,
pressed the button before I finished,  of all the research I have done for Elsecar, it has always come under Barnsley.
the sub district has changed sometimes, I have never found Elsecar  under Rotherham.

Caz

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Elsecar Birth Registration please
« on: Tuesday 08 July 08 12:42 BST (UK)  »
Hi

Just to add to the confusion, I was born in Elsecar in 1949 (bit later I know) and the registration district was STAINCROSS.

cAZ

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The Lighter Side / Re: Why can't I sprinkle ashes
« on: Sunday 22 June 08 09:45 BST (UK)  »
Hi everyone,

thank you so much for all your replies, and some amusing stories, My Mother in law was a bit of a card, and liked a laugh and like most of you she would be encouraging us to do what most of you have done, my husband takes after her, and you can imagine his comments **** ****
We have yet to find his Grandfather's grave, I have the plot number and I have a plan of the cemetery, but have not found it yet, that was the reason I rang them just to find the plot. I suspect we will look like two grave robbers roaming around the cemetery, but if the ones up there can see us it could be fun

Caz

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The Lighter Side / Why can't I sprinkle ashes
« on: Friday 20 June 08 16:19 BST (UK)  »
Hi

Can anyone tell me why it is illegal to scatter ashes on someones grave.
I rang the local cemetery to find the number of a grave, 91 yr old Mother in law has just passed and wanted to be scattered
on her Father's grave in the local cemetery,  I was told very bluntly it is illegal and they would do it for £150. I shall be sneaking down with ashes in a bag and doing it when no one is around.

Caz

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Yorkshire (North Riding) / Re: Bradley, Carter, Pickering and Pearson families
« on: Tuesday 17 June 08 14:16 BST (UK)  »
Hi there,

My reply is a bit small but I have researched my husband's tree of Bradleys back to Catterick with William Bradley born c 1798, I have his second marriage cert. there is no Father on this cert. just wondered if you had come across a Bradley female who had a son out of wedlock.

Caz

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