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Durham Completed Look up Requests / Re: M inscriptions for Crook
« on: Saturday 12 June 10 14:03 BST (UK)  »
Hi Adam,

Would be grateful if you can let me know what there is for the Eddy family at Crook.

Some of my Eddy's spent a fair bit of time between Guisborough area and Gatehead. I know Whikham was one stop off point, and Crook may have been another.

Thanks in advance  :)


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Barnsley Road Name - Deciphering help request
« on: Friday 27 March 09 16:51 GMT (UK)  »
That was my first thought, but the last letter doesn't look right.
I'm posting another example of the same address from the previous census page incase it's easie to spot.




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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Barnsley Road Name - Deciphering help request
« on: Friday 27 March 09 16:30 GMT (UK)  »
I would be grateful if anyone can identify the last part of the road name in the following picture, and if anyone has any local knowledge of barnsley, or access to a map from around 1890, let me know where it is today, if it's still in existance.



Taken from the 1891 Census, Barnsley, Municipal Ward - West Ward, Ecclesiastical Parish - St. Mary

Thanks in advance.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) Lookup Requests / Doncaster Birth Lookup request
« on: Sunday 01 April 07 15:54 BST (UK)  »
I would be grateful for information relating to the birth of:

William Edward Kenworthy. DOB 27th Jan 1918

Particuly the reference numbers so i can order his birth certificate.

I've checked the GRO indexes and he doesn't show up there and at present i'm not in a position to get to doncaster to check the archives in person.

Thanks in advance.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Hexthorpe
« on: Sunday 01 April 07 11:33 BST (UK)  »
Also forgot to add the church which has been mentioned previously in the replies 'St. John the Evangelist'
is located on the corner of Balby Road and Greenfield Lane.


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England / Re: Marriage Index Query
« on: Saturday 31 March 07 16:49 BST (UK)  »
Hi Carol.

I have found an entry for the beford name in the 1st quarter of 1916, but it's in a different registration district.
2 bedfords married family members, both in the doncaster district, so although i've got this birth entry as a possibility, i'm not going to commit to it until i get further information.

Thanks again for your help.

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England / Re: GRO Birth Indexes during WWI
« on: Saturday 31 March 07 16:33 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Newfy on Saturday 31 March 07 15:52 BST (UK)


Try searching the Quarter AFTER you think - he may have been a late registration, or born right at the end of the Quarter ... also check for mis-spellings ... the Mothers Maiden name will also be shown ...



HtH - Newfster



I've already tried that   :(

Along with checking the 3 years either side just to make sure. Even though i know his dob is 27th jan 1918

I might have to try posting a specific look up request in the yorkshire section to see if any one can check the local registers.

Thanks guys.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Hexthorpe
« on: Saturday 31 March 07 16:17 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: wrjones on Friday 09 February 07 23:18 GMT (UK)
Hexthorpe is a place listed among the larger list of placenames on the Yorkshire Genuki page,and it is listed as being in the West Riding.However when I search among the Parishes for the West Riding,there is no such place.Could someone tell me whereabouts it is please?

Regards
William Russell Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.


Hi,

Hexthorpe is right next door to Doncaster town centre, just to the west i guess, over the railway line.
In the photograph below i've circled what is hexthorpe rather crudely in brown. The area marked by the red splodge is 'the plant' as it is know which is what remains of the railway works, wagon building etc buildings. I'm not sure how much of it is still used to be honest but at one point coal and the railways were the major employers of doncaster.
The black dotted line that runs parallel with balby road and urban road is the railway line and is what splits hexthorpe from balby.
Hexthorpe is primarily made up of rows of terraced housing, which i believe were for the railway workers, but don't quote me on that!
It has a church in the centre of the village but i can't for the life of me remember what it's called.
At the west end of the village where greenfield lane meets urban road there is a large park. I've marked that as a green splodge!, and just over the road on the corner is the villages primary school.



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England / Re: Marriage Index Query
« on: Saturday 31 March 07 15:49 BST (UK)  »
It gets more bizarre.
Now i've checked the birth entries for Ivy under both the Eddy and Bedford surnames and have drawn blanks on both for the 1915 birth date.

I think i might have to leave this one on one side for a bit and concentrate on other people who i can find information for relatively easily.

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