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The Common Room / Re: Tracing a photographer called Little Tich
« on: Thursday 03 July 25 18:50 BST (UK)  »
Hi
Re the "street photographer" bit:
I have quite a few family photos taken pre WW1 and late 1920s. (London) These are photos of the families  mostly outside their front door , rarely in their yard or garden (in fact, only one. That's dated 1920)
I presume the photographer went from door to door, took his pics , developed them at home and then delivered to the customer.
Also, photographs of streets were often taken to be used as postcard images, often with the willing local children in the foreground and somebody's delivery cart for an extra bit of "animation".
But I suspect your Little Tich was of the first kind
Rebel

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The Lighter Side / Re: Here's a word we should all start using
« on: Wednesday 02 July 25 23:19 BST (UK)  »
PS
My sister failed in "Domestic Science"
Her souffle didn*t rise !

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The Lighter Side / Re: Here's a word we should all start using
« on: Wednesday 02 July 25 23:18 BST (UK)  »
But the six that you passed must have been harder than those you failed!
(talking from experience of course)
Well done, anyway
Rebel

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Starting out
« on: Thursday 19 June 25 19:05 BST (UK)  »
Hi
If you know that the pub is no longer standing, do you perhaps know the name of the pub and/or its address or whatever district it was in Leeds ?
Rebel

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: drownings in the thames
« on: Monday 16 June 25 23:41 BST (UK)  »
I have followed this thread with interest.
It must be the busiest of "completed topics" ever!
Rebel

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The Common Room / Re: SHELERT surname - a mishearing?
« on: Sunday 15 June 25 17:45 BST (UK)  »
Hi
There are a lot of family tree entries for Oliver Lee at Ancestry.
His wife Elizabeth and her linked family have an array of surname variations:
Sherlot
Charlot/te
Sharlott
Shelert
and the list goes on.
Hard work ahead!
Rebel

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: drownings in the thames
« on: Thursday 12 June 25 22:42 BST (UK)  »
Hi
I have followed this thread with interest although I thought some posts were not quite "polite"
I am pleased that you have closure for your Mary.
In my opinion, our ancestors deserve that. Their lifetimes were so very different to ours in the "moral" sense.
Rebel

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The Common Room / Re: "Presumed Dead" on Habitual Criminals' Register
« on: Wednesday 04 June 25 18:50 BST (UK)  »
Hi
Your  posting caught my eye as I also have Ward tree-connections in that area.
But I cant find a birth reg (and therefore MMN) for 1852 in ECC. Did you perhaps mean the Wortley and Penistone one? (III/1852 MMn Gregory)
Awful man!
Rebel

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The Common Room / Re: Coal Porter at docks- Poplar
« on: Friday 23 May 25 17:52 BST (UK)  »
Hi
Thanks for your answer.
I'll have to look at their subscription offers first!
I've just read their T & Cs....
looks like you can be shot at dawn for sharing info!

Rebel

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