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The Common Room / Re: Elspeth/Alice
« on: Wednesday 21 December 16 18:01 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you all for your input, certainly a thinking cap needed.  The lady in question was married as Alice, was Elspeth on her husband's death certificate, back to Alice as next of kin on a son's enlistment papers, mostly Alice in the census but one Elspeth. It may be worth me looking at a child's death cert sometime.
I had found Elsie as an abbreviation for Elizabeth in the early 18th century, again a Scottish family. I will look out for that book.

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The Common Room / Elspeth/Alice
« on: Wednesday 21 December 16 14:42 GMT (UK)  »
Broken down a brick wall  :) and have come across a wife's name varying between Alice and Elspeth. It is a Scottish family and definitely the same person as other family members may be named - census, relationship on certificates, etc. Has anyone else encountered this combination? If it is normal it may break down another wall in another family where I have been searching of a death and second marriage.
Comments welcome.

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The Common Room / Re: "A papist"
« on: Thursday 14 April 16 19:51 BST (UK)  »
I found several in a north of England burial register, after all they had to be buried in the parish churchyard. It was probably up to the vicar how they were entered in the register.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Thank you to all those who have asked for help
« on: Saturday 30 January 16 14:27 GMT (UK)  »
And so say many of us.

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Northumberland Completed Look up Requests / Re: George Davidson baptism Norham c 1804 COMPLETED
« on: Friday 08 January 16 17:32 GMT (UK)  »
True 2zpool, but most residents were buried in the parish church graveyard and appear in the burial records (and usually BTs when complete sets survive). I have found that very useful before the cemeteries opened for my many ancestors in the border country.

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Northumberland Completed Look up Requests / Re: George Davidson baptism Norham c 1804
« on: Thursday 07 January 16 17:58 GMT (UK)  »
Many thanks CaroleW and 2zpool. Exactly what I was looking for.

Unfortunately there are no BTs for Norham (or more likely I can't find them) and I am not able to get to Woodhorn to look at microfilm. I have seen in both the Norham and Cornhill registers entries that relate to events 'over the border' and am very thankful to those farsighted vicars.

Lily

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Northumberland Completed Look up Requests / George Davidson baptism Norham c 1804 COMPLETED
« on: Thursday 07 January 16 11:03 GMT (UK)  »
New Year resolution: Try to sort out some queries in earlier parts of my family tree.
Please could someone check the Norham baptism register for information on George Davidson. I have conflicting information: census indicates birth c1804 as does the MI. His parents are Ebenezer, a schoolmaster, and Margaret (Hume).
There is a baptism for a George to these parents in Cornhill in 1798. It was quite usual in this family to name a later child after one that had died but so far I have been unable to locate a burial for the earlier child.
Many thanks

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The Common Room / Re: "Churched" ?
« on: Sunday 24 May 15 21:27 BST (UK)  »
In the 1960's when I had my children it was still considered that before taking a baby into a house other than you own home it should be taken to church first - usually for baptism. That is probably what the old lady meant by the baby being 'churched' - the first house visited was the house of God at a time when religious observance was widespread.

With some very bad weather my eldest's gt grandma was very happy to care for her for an hour in her house so that I could do some shopping a week before the baptism service. She didn't hold with those 'old wives tales'.

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The Common Room / Re: Help needed with a talk, please
« on: Thursday 07 May 15 19:43 BST (UK)  »
I've did a similar talk many years ago and although I know you do not wish to go down the family tree route a VERY brief out line is useful. Why? Because then you can stress the need for later  searchers to get answers to questions they wished they had asked and the benefit of an older generation having already written down some information. In particular maiden names of female forebears, pencil information on the back of photos, where they lived at such and such a time, little habits or 'quirks' of family members etc.
They may need the spur to get them started and it is useful to know and understand why the information they carry in their heads is important.
Lilym

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