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Alderney, Guernsey, Jersey, Sark / Re: Guernsey occupation cards
« on: Thursday 20 August 20 10:50 BST (UK)  »
There are several places in St Peter Port Guernsey you could try, but the majority of records have not yet been digitized.

The Priaulx Library - https://www.priaulxlibrary.co.uk/

The Royal Court House - www.guernseyroyalcourt.gg

Island Archives - https://www.gov.gg/islandarchives

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Hampshire & IOW Lookup Requests / Re: Southampton, sholling lookup - Pearce
« on: Tuesday 18 August 20 14:57 BST (UK)  »
Welcome to RootsChat j pearce

George Cecil Pearce was married to Eileen and returned from Australia in the mid 1980's.

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United States of America / Re: Loraine Lapierre
« on: Thursday 13 August 20 14:46 BST (UK)  »
Thank you both.

So sad reading that reading the cause of death.

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Occupation Interests / Re: Carpet Beater
« on: Tuesday 11 February 20 09:07 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you everyone.
I also found these which might be of interest: https://www.hatads.org.uk/catalogue/record/f0c5d52e-d712-4970-b233-6242d5cc5814
And insurance for these people: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9EQKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1769&lpg=PA1769&dq=STEAM+CARPET+BEATING+1904&source=bl&ots=CtJNkxTijg&sig=ACfU3U1ieflwx3moCDM950UUs8LIBvnT8A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwizsuOwkMnnAhXbh1wKHXVwDG8Q6AEwFXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=STEAM%20CARPET%20BEATING%201904&f=false

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Occupation Interests / Carpet Beater
« on: Tuesday 11 February 20 07:37 GMT (UK)  »
Hello

has anyone any idea what a Carpet Beater was?

The only reference on RC was: https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=663428.msg5088580#msg5088580
I found this on the will of James J (Johnson) McKellow died 5.12.1904 South Melbourne Australia. It looks to me on the original and the transcriber at Ancestry as Carpet Beater, this seems to be an "odd" occupation, but then the first powered cleaning machine was so cumbersome it was carried around on a horse-drawn wagon.


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Wiltshire / Re: Marriage place
« on: Thursday 17 October 19 14:36 BST (UK)  »
Thank you everyone.

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Wiltshire / Marriage place
« on: Wednesday 16 October 19 14:52 BST (UK)  »
looking at the marriage of Richard King Bedingfield and Charlotte Elizabeth Trower in 1836.

record 1, bride and groom born Wokingham Berkshire, married 6.7.1836, Jurisdiction: The Dean of Sarum in Wiltshire, Berkshire, Dorset and Uffculme, Devon, County Berkshire.

record 2, married 6.7.1836 Dean of Salisbury Dorset.

record 3, married 16.6.1836 Wokingham Berkshire, by licence.

As all 3 records are for the same people, why the difference?

N.B. on the 1851 census, he is shown as: Schoolmaster And Clergyman Without Cure Of Souls. Ba Queens College Cambridge


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Occupation Interests / Re: Stapley buyer
« on: Sunday 18 August 19 21:03 BST (UK)  »
Thank you,  :-[

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Occupation Interests / Re: Stapley buyer
« on: Sunday 18 August 19 10:11 BST (UK)  »
There is a chance it was, but it says "to John Pearson retired farmer" note no comma - so is his name "John Pearson retired farmer"?

It could be "Ernest Pearson Stapley, buyer" - note comma inserted, there are a number of Ernest Pearson Stapley's in Kent.  :-[

However, if John was his father, it would have been more likely for him to be Ernest Pearson, also I could not find a marriage for John Pearson to a Miss Stapley in Kent or Sussex for a double-barreled surname and being a farmer he would be unlikely to have traveled much.

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