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Cumberland / Re: Huntington's Chorea
« on: Sunday 17 January 10 14:11 GMT (UK)  »
To answer Anthony Pearson, what is Huntingtons Chorea...
All humans have the Huntingtin gene (HTT), which codes for the protein huntingtin (HTT). Part of this gene is a repeated section called a trinucleotide repeat, which varies in length between individuals and may change length between generations.
When the length of this repeated section reaches a certain threshold, it produces an altered form of the protein, called mutant huntingtin protein (mHTT). The differing functions of these proteins are the cause of pathological changes which in turn cause the disease symptoms.
The Huntington's disease mutation is genetically dominant, because either of a person's HTT genes being mutated, causes the disease. It is not inherited according to gender, but the length of the repeated section of the gene, and hence its severity, can be influenced by the gender of the affected parent.
There is no cure unless maybe in the distant future the DNA coding from this mutated gene, can be altered. This is where research is at with all mutated genes, the transcription of which, thro' its pathogenesis, results in these conditions.

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Cumberland / Re: WW2 Prison Camps in Cumberland and Westmorland
« on: Tuesday 05 January 10 15:37 GMT (UK)  »
Very interesting. My photos show the whole of the interior and are really good ones too.  It's good to see some of the panels really close up like that. Thank you for posting that link.

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Cumberland / Re: WW2 Prison Camps in Cumberland and Westmorland
« on: Tuesday 05 January 10 14:05 GMT (UK)  »
Hi!  I have 2 photos of the "Church" which was created at the POW Camp at Moota, by the German POW's, and was ornately painted with biblical characters by a German prisoner. I understand he painted his own likeness into that of Christ on the Cross.  I understand too, that around the alter written in German were the words "All men are Brothers".  I knew a local man Willy Ulrick who was also in the camp , but stayed here after the war. He was a well known painter in the area, and remembered the church well and said how very colourful and beautiful it was.  All the figures were life-size, and the beams of the old Barrack were painted to look as if they were actually carved , a kind of  trompe l'oeil . (A trick of the eye) It was demolished after the war, which was sacrilidge in my opinion.

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Cumberland / Re: Ellwood/Ashbridge in Caldbeck
« on: Monday 23 February 09 12:46 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you! I will try and find it. I have tried a few times there but no luck. What did you put in the search box?
Thanks again!

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Cumberland / Re: Ellwood/Ashbridge in Caldbeck
« on: Sunday 22 February 09 15:17 GMT (UK)  »
I'm trying to find the christening or birth registration of Jane Ashbridge, born 1818 in Caldbeck, in the hope of finding the names of her parents. She married John Barnes a Miller of Tallentire/Bridekirk. Wondered if she may be a relative of your ashbridge?

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Thank you so much. I have found both censuses! Now to look for John C Knox in 1851 and I then have them both complete, which is all thanks to you. I much appreciate it. I should have come here first!

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You really are superb! THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH! 
How did you find it? Did you type in KNO* ? is that how one uses a wildcard, because I'm not sure how to do that.
I've been looking for months! I cannot tell you how grateful I am!
 :D

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Oh Wow! thats great!  Where Did you find it?
I have searched Ancestry till dizzy! Do i just put those page numbers in the search box?
Sorry not terribly good at this!
Could you send a link maybe to make things easier?
THANK YOU!

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I have hit a brick wall with this family because I cannot find them on the 1891 census or the 1901 census, yet they were alive at that time.
John C. Knox was born in Sculcoates . Hull Yorkshire in 1846 and died in Seaham Durham in 1929 (reg district Easington)
He was married to Esther  Knox (nee Barnes) who was born in Heath Derbyshire, in 1846 and died in Seaham Durham in 1918 (reg district Easington)
Could anyone please help me find both the census recording these people, who are my great, great grandparents, or point me in the right direction!
Thank you.

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