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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Benjamin Broadbent b. 1812 in Hemingfield
« on: Tuesday 22 April 14 16:55 BST (UK)  »
Hi Marcia, How exciting that this thread has been revived ! I'm away from home and all my data for a week so can' t help a great deal at the moment. I've not been doind much by way of research either for some time so it is not on the tip of my tongue. I promise I'll be in touch next week. It does sound very much as if we have common ancestors and you will be fascinated by the coroner's report and all the shenanigans surrounding the murder and trial.
Best wishes,

Grizzly.

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Census and Resource Discussion / Re: How to look for an address in the censuses please.
« on: Monday 04 February 13 22:00 GMT (UK)  »
Whoops ! Apologies for putting this in the wrong place and thanks for moving it Little Nell.


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Census and Resource Discussion / Re: How to look for an address in the censuses please.
« on: Monday 04 February 13 20:48 GMT (UK)  »
Stan...that is wonderful and works beautifully ! Thank you very much indeed.

The street I'm looking for in in Forest Hill, Lewisham so not easy as even the street name changes- but it's all here in this index.

A busy evening ahead.

Thank again all, you've saved me from a bit of hair-pulling !


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Census and Resource Discussion / Re: How to look for an address in the censuses please.
« on: Monday 04 February 13 17:56 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks. Forgot to say I'm with Ancestry. I've found the 1911 entry by putting the address plus "1911 census" in Google which brought up a name 6 doors down from another family tree. I could then turn the pages back to my address. It didn't work for other years though.


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Census and Resource Discussion / How to look for an address in the censuses please.
« on: Monday 04 February 13 17:17 GMT (UK)  »
I'm trying to do the history of my son's house, built around 1843.
Is there any way of looking up an address in the censuses rather than the name of an occupant ?

Thanks

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Abraham White: killed Cortonwood colliery 1894- details wanted.
« on: Sunday 27 January 13 20:14 GMT (UK)  »
Mo...Thanks, what a wonderful website. I've not met it before and it makes fascinating reading.

Thanks Bookbox. An e-mail to the Barnsley archive is on the way.

Fingers crossed...I can feel the bricks shaking !

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Abraham White: killed Cortonwood colliery 1894- details wanted.
« on: Sunday 27 January 13 18:42 GMT (UK)  »
I've come up against a brick wall trying to find details of the death of my great grandfather, Abraham White (born Hemingfield 1853) in a roof fall at Cortonwood Colliery on 5th October 1894.

I don't know if it was usual for newspapers to publish facts about the event itself, an inquest report or an obituary but I can't find anything at all. I don't even know if he was the only one killed in the fall.

I've not got a subscription to the Newspaper Archive but can't see anything on the Search facility.

Any hints gratefully received !

Thanks

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Technical Help / Re: Exporting family tree from desktop Family Tree Maker to Google Nexus tablet-
« on: Sunday 20 January 13 21:58 GMT (UK)  »
The only way I can find to do this is if I save the branches of the tree that I want on the tablet as a Gedcom file from my Family Tree program  and then upload them to my Ancestry account -ie Start A New Tree.  The tree is then automatically available, via the app, on my tablet.

This works fine so long as I remember to tick the box on Ancestry to keep the tree private.

If anyone knows of a more direct way to do it .....?

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Yorkshire (West Riding) Lookup Requests / Re: Harriet Waterhouse, birth abt 1817 Masborough (Rotherham)
« on: Wednesday 16 January 13 21:34 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Carol. I was happy from the censuses that I'd got Henry marrying a Harriet but wanted to know more about Harriet Waterhouse's birth date and parents so I could hopefully- eliminate her from the censuses on the grounds of wrong age !  I was also hoping to find her parents so, when I get the marriage certificate, I'll know if it is the right father at least.

It's a right awkward family; Henry's father was Abraham White and he married a Catherine or Kitty Memnett  or Memmett or Memmet depending on the spelling. Just when I think I've got that nailed it turns out that Kitty's father was the "reputed son of Sarah Memnett" and Kitty's mother was a foundling from Ackworth hospital ( ie could have been a Londoner) with no surname given !

Grrr!!

(Edit: Sorry. forgot to say, thanks for the 1851; didn't manage to find that.)

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