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The Common Room / Re: Affiliation Order 1879
« on: Friday 16 August 13 21:44 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for the link, Stan.  I'll have a read of it later.

Thanks for that Bookbox.  It is all a bit of a mystery at the moment, as Emma was a married lady and seems to have had a child by A N Other.  She had several other children with her husband after this.  Judging by the number of times they were reported in the newspaper for drunkenness and fights, I don't think it was a marriage made in Heaven!  :D

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The Common Room / Affiliation Order 1879
« on: Friday 16 August 13 20:39 BST (UK)  »
My great grandmother, Emma Chaplin (nee Cookson) appears to have brought an Affiliation Order against a John Ramsden (or Ramsay) in 1879.  I say 'appears' because I have not yet proven that it is my Emma in the article.

My question is, does anyone know how old the child had to be (or rather, the maximum age) when this order went to court?  Did it have to take place during the child's first year?

Thank you.

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World War One / Re: Great War Nurse - who was she?
« on: Tuesday 02 July 13 14:59 BST (UK)  »
This looks interesting; thank you, I'll have look.

Janet

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World War One / Great War Nurse - who was she?
« on: Tuesday 02 July 13 14:13 BST (UK)  »
My grandfather died in France during the Great War.  I have a copy of a letter written to his widow by his nurse in 1917 just after he died.  I have been wondering if it would be possible to find out more about her; she signed her name as 'M Bannister Sister in Charge'.  I have looked at the National Archives but there are three possibilities.  Unfortunately as I don't know our nurse's first name I don't know if it is likely I can find out more.

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Warwickshire / Re: William Bird (1857-1928) and Charlotte Selina Whittaker (1854-1942)
« on: Thursday 04 April 13 20:15 BST (UK)  »
Thank you.  I'll have a look and give Auntie a ring soon.  I mustn't leave it too long; she's 97!

It's odd, sometimes, to talk to someone who remembers very well people who were born in the 1850's.  It makes the ancestors seem a little closer, somehow!

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Warwickshire / Re: William Bird (1857-1928) and Charlotte Selina Whittaker (1854-1942)
« on: Thursday 04 April 13 09:15 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for all that lovely information.  Frank's wife's surname WAS Allen so it is the right marriage.

I didn't know when he died; I wonder why my Dad never mentioned it at the time.  Perhaps he wasn't told as he didn't have much contact with his Leicester family by then.

I have also been told that Frank and Maud divorced and that he re-married but I don't know if this is true.

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Warwickshire / Re: William Bird (1857-1928) and Charlotte Selina Whittaker (1854-1942)
« on: Wednesday 03 April 13 20:09 BST (UK)  »
Thank you to you both for your replies.  Frank didn't die in the Great War; my grandfather was the only son to fall in that conflict.  My aunt now tells me that Frank did marry but I can't find out much more, she only knows her name was Maud.  I will ask her again some time; she is 97 and sometimes suddenly remembers something interesting!

I have tried the surnames board in the past but I will give it another try. 

Thanks again

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Warwickshire / William Bird (1857-1928) and Charlotte Selina Whittaker (1854-1942)
« on: Wednesday 03 April 13 17:12 BST (UK)  »
Are there any descendants of this couple on here, please?  They lived in Rugby Warwickshire until the early 1900's when they divorced.  My grandfather was Herbert Bird born 1892, one of their 11 children.  I have researched this family over the last ten years but I don't know what happened to William (born 1879) or Frank (born 1898).

William worked at the Rugby Cement Works until he inherited a lot of money (and went on to spend it  :-\).  After this he became a 'Gentleman' and finished up as a Hairdresser.  He married again to a girl half his age in 1908.  Her name was Iva Agnes Crooks.  Just over a year after William's death in 1928, Iva remarried to a widower named Joseph West.  He died in 1932.  Iva died in 1968.  She had three children with William.

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The Lighter Side / My dear old Dad! Born 100 years ago this month
« on: Tuesday 05 February 13 09:09 GMT (UK)  »
My dear old Dad, Herbert Stanley BIRD, died 25 years ago today and I remember that day like it was yesterday, every hour of it!  He was born in Rugby on the 20th February 1913 so he would be nearly 100 now.

I'm sure Dad would be interested to know about all his long line of BIRD ancestors that I have discovered over the last 15 years.

Happy memories of a lovely Dad x

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