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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: St Vincents Home for Boys Elmwood House, Leeds
« on: Monday 24 September 07 15:27 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Jane I have that too and some more generic stuff on industrial schools.

Just woundered if there was anyone out there who had anything specific, I am nowhere near Leeds so the chances of picking up any local knowledge myself are pretty slim.

My gg unlces are listed on the 1891 census as boarders at this institutuion.  I think they may have been placed there by family members after the death of their parents.  The funny thing is that they came from Sunderland so they would be children from out of area.

By 1901 only one of the brohters survives.  He became a boot finisher - no doubt using skills learnt at the school

The Past is Myself

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / St Vincents Home for Boys Elmwood House, Leeds
« on: Monday 24 September 07 12:59 BST (UK)  »
Does anyone have any information on this place.  I assume it was an Industrial School. 

All the best

The Past is Myself

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Cumberland / Re: william graham
« on: Monday 24 September 07 11:27 BST (UK)  »
I have 2 documents on William Graham which might be of interest. If I have your conventional email I could send them to you

I am meant to be related to him as a ancestor of the Hogarths of Longdales.  My uncle knew of all the details by word of mouth through the family.  He says that my g grandfather who was otherwise a godly man had seen nothing wrong with this.  He commented that poaching was a way of life and an economic necessity.

What is your interest

All the best

The Past Is Myself

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Shropshire / Re: BEATON family, Worthen, Shropshire
« on: Wednesday 12 September 07 12:35 BST (UK)  »
Greetings all.

I too am a descendant of the Bettons of Worthen/Montgomeryshire.

Via Elizabeth and Phillip (lead miner) see 1841 census Worthen - Shropshire and 1851 census Upper and Nether Heath Montgomeryshire.  Although they crossed the boarder making a different national census to them it was only a few miles down the road.

My descendants through the generations left Worthen - no doubt following the Shropshire Union canal to Chester, got invovled in steam engines, thence to Cumberland (steam engine driver and agricultural labourer), thence to Northumberland and coal mining/joinery.

I see that you have a Lewis in the family listed as one of their children.

For us 'Louis' is still a family name.  I also know that they have transposed it at will to Lewis in some records.  I have always woundered where it originated, my great uncle was called Louis in 1881 and it seemed to appear from nowhere when the rest of the family were all called after previous family members.  Like the other post I find that their naming conventions were all very clanish.  Its nice to see that Louis/Lewis as a name goes back a further generation.

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