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Durham Completed Look up Requests / Re: Monumental inscriptions for Tow Law.
« on: Thursday 25 June 09 19:04 BST (UK)  »
Hi Adam
Thank you for your reply.
Yes, the McCabes were a Catholic family. I suppose I'm looking for anything that might lead me to discover where in Ireland the family came from originally so I can persue that line.  I have names but that's about it.

Margaret

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Durham Completed Look up Requests / Re: Monumental inscriptions for Tow Law.
« on: Wednesday 24 June 09 20:36 BST (UK)  »
Hi Adam
 Could you tell me what information you have about the McCabe family from Tow Law.
Thank you

Margaret

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The Lighter Side / Re: Do you have photos of ancestors on your wall?
« on: Wednesday 24 October 07 10:14 BST (UK)  »
Glad to see that I'm not the only one with lots of dead people on their walls!!
I bought some of those multi-picture frames and put in a selection which now adorn the walls in the dining room. And some special ones are in separate frames, including the one shown here of great great grandfather and second wife. It's a Christmas card. And one of my grandfather taken during WW1 with some friends.
It lovely to look at the pictures and see who it is that you are spending so much of your time trying to find out about!!

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The Lighter Side / Re: Lived to be how old?
« on: Saturday 20 October 07 00:08 BST (UK)  »
My gran was 107 when she died in 2005.
When she turned 100 in 1997 we really hoped that she would live into the 21st century, so she could say that she had lived in 3 centuries.
She used to talk about her grandmother who was born in the 1840s - it makes you feel that you have a personal link to the past.

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The Common Room / WW2 Memorabilia in Kent
« on: Friday 21 September 07 22:01 BST (UK)  »
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7006408.stm

Did anyone see an item on South East news about a load of letters, photos etc found in Sittingbourne in Kent and handed into the police. They are all to do with WW2.
A valuable resource for someone but destined to be incinerated if nobody claims them!
Have a look and see if you recognise any information.



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The Lighter Side / Coincidence?
« on: Monday 17 September 07 18:57 BST (UK)  »
I thought that all my Nana's maternal ancestors were born, married and died in the north-east. Then I discovered that her grandmother had been born in Kent. As I had moved from the north-east to Kent I was mildly interested. Then I found she had been born in Chatham - well I live near there - then I found out from the 1861 census that she lived in a certain street; now occupied by a school where I had worked in the past. There was building work at the school some years ago where the foundations of all the houses could be seen. It just seemed so strange that her parents had moved to find work, just like me and ended up in the same area as I did.
Have any others found little oddities like this in their research?

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The Lighter Side / Re: What are you going to leave your Descendants
« on: Saturday 15 September 07 13:28 BST (UK)  »
Oh yes Kickbuttgirlie
My two passions are needlework and tracing my family tree and I would also like to embroider both mine and my husband's family for our children to keep.
Quite an undertaking, though.
Maybe one for my retirement!

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The Lighter Side / Re: I never thought I'd get to 100!
« on: Friday 14 September 07 23:05 BST (UK)  »
Excellent - well done.
I'm off to count mine now!

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The Lighter Side / Re: Grandparents
« on: Sunday 09 September 07 19:48 BST (UK)  »
Maternal
Veronica Mary McCabe born 1897 Sunderland (English and Irish stock)
Frederick John Wymark Bell born 1885 Sunderland (English stock)

Paternal
Eleanor Metcalfe Phimister born 1890 Sunderland (English, Scottish and French stock)
John Wilson Keehner born 1889 Sunderland (German, English and Scottish stock)

My maternal grandmother died 2005 aged 107

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