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Durham Completed Look up Requests / Re: Monumental inscriptions for Tow Law.
« on: Thursday 18 September 08 15:44 BST (UK)  »
Hi there,
could you let me know what you have on Hughes? thankyou
Gen

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Durham / Re: mystery of hughes family Easington
« on: Friday 05 September 08 00:18 BST (UK)  »
Thankyou Carol you have been most helpful, i found the five you mentioned however they are not all the names i had been given, 3 are correct, 2 i have never heard of although there was some talk of some deaths, the real mystery would be the names given to me who i cant find, is it possible a baby would be born without a record?

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Durham / mystery of hughes family Easington
« on: Thursday 04 September 08 22:34 BST (UK)  »
Hi all,
I am new to searching my family history but have hit a dead end when i have barely started. My grandfather was John Edward hughes born  17/05/1917, He served in the 1st battalion Durham light infantry as a stretcher bearer. The great mystery is that he had two brothers John and Robert, and three sisters, mary , florence and ruth, i have no idea of the dates of birth of these children, we know little about the parents either, other than their names were Edward Hughes and Florence hughes nee Teesdale/teasdale?, so i am told the mother is buried in Murton cemetery. I have searched a variety of different dates for borth registration etc. to no avail, however as i understand the children at some stage entered a workhouse ( i imagine the whole family went together) my grandad managed to escape this somehow, also i am told subsequently some of his siblings, which ones i am not sure, ended up in a lunatic assylum ( i am guessing winterton) Can anyone help i don't know where to even start looking now, and have read that there is a 100 year block on the assylum records....is there any truth to this, as i know the hospital no longer exists and the records are at county Durham record office. I also know the father was a miner and the two boys had to go down the mines at a young age, but it is pure guesswork that they were at easington colliery......if anyone can give me pointers i would be so grateful

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Buckinghamshire / Re: searching family members from Stewkley
« on: Tuesday 02 September 08 00:37 BST (UK)  »

....oh forgot to ask Suz, sorry for my ignorance but what are the reference numbers you gave me?

Gen Minnow

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Buckinghamshire / Re: searching family members from Stewkley
« on: Tuesday 02 September 08 00:35 BST (UK)  »
Thankyou Suz,

the info you found is great I greatly apprecisae it and will  add what you have found to my tree. John Bedfords wife is a total mystery to all my family, i guess my next step will be to go to Stewkley to see what i can find, i am quite excited about this but also a little worried i won't find anything. Thanks again,

Gen Minnow

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Buckinghamshire / searching family members from Stewkley
« on: Monday 01 September 08 02:01 BST (UK)  »
I am new to searching my family history but have found that I had a considerable number of ancestors by name of Bates and Bedfords who lived in Stewkley going back four generations as far as I have found. I am trying to locate my gt. gt. gt. gt. grandfather John Bedford, the only entry I have found was in the 1861 census. He was born in Stewkley in 1789 (not sure if this can go a year either way depending on month of birth) He lived at 6 high road stewkley and was a widower at this time, I have no idea of the wifes name or when she died, he lived with his son george (age 42) born in stewkley and his wife Jane bedford, age 37 born in fringford oxford ( this was a little hard to decipher). George and jane had 7 children at this time all born in Stewkley:
Hannah 13
Mary N 11
sarah 8
Elizabeth 6
George 4
Charles 2
James 4 months

If anyone could help i would be stunned but very grateful, I am sure in time i wil get much better at this so i apologise in advance as i imagine i will be posting quite a few like this in the upcoming weeks.

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