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Durham / Re: Deaths in Sunderland Shipyards
« on: Friday 26 February 10 00:53 GMT (UK)  »
Like the last post, I have just come across this old thread. My great grandfather George BURN, a shipyard rivetter died aged 35 as a result of "Accidentally injured by falling from deck of new ship to ground in Robert Thompson and Sons shipbuilding yard Southwick   through overbalancing himself" - from death cert 13 March 1906, after an inquest

Interestingly perhaps, the last clause appears to have bene added as an afterthought!

Middx

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Parishes in London - Naming
« on: Monday 18 February 08 23:59 GMT (UK)  »
Hello

I am new to this site and this is my first post! Bizarrely I came straight to this chat thread by typing  "births middlesex 1780" into google!!! Having then registered myself I thought I would just say hi & thanks for leading me to this site.

I was born in Middx before 1965, and can sympathise with your confusion. All your areas are now in London administratively, but were not at the time of course. I thought the link to rootsweb was useful. I also find that on the census search on ancestry.co.uk site, clicking on the county at the bottom of the search page after having selected a census year, brings up a list of parishes, and that whilst London appears in censuses from 1871, it is not an option for censuses before that & have found my ancestors in both counties even though they hadn't moved!

Cheers
Middx :)

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