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Offline BarryBear

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Re: I really admire my ancestors for living without...
« Reply #36 on: Friday 01 October 04 23:50 BST (UK) »
........with anaesthetics!.....
Lawson in Durham and Croydon,
Corbett in Surrey,
Watts in Surrey and Croydon,
King in Herts,
Knight in South East London,
Papworth in East London,
Brewer in Essex,
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Fillery in Surrey
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Re: I really admire my ancestors for living without...
« Reply #37 on: Saturday 01 April 06 12:12 BST (UK) »
Chips!

Excellent thread!  But, who could do without chips
(for those in the USA, they call them French Fries)
Once I ordered Chips in a USA restaurant, and they gave a bunch of what the English call crisps, and the Canadians
call the potatoe chips.   But, I must admire our ancestors for
living without our USA - Canadian - English double speak.
i.e. lift vs elevator, escalator vs moving staircase.
For North American they would guess a moving staircase to be
something in a haunted house or a horror flick.
And we haven't even added in the folks from the Land Down Under, or the Scottish-Welsh-Irish lingo.

Then there is the letter Z - Zed in England & Zee in the USA.
Canadians call it Zed, but many blindly repeat the ZEE.
The only product with the ZEE label is a paper product
used in the washroom or is it bathroom or lavatory
or heads?????
Zelley,  Lovell, Godbold, Woods, Phillips, Lewis, Emery,
Magee, Baker, White. Flisher, Kyne, Tilston, Valence/Vallens,
Mabb/Mabbe, Bellamy, Selley, Martha Smith, Arno (of Dartmouth, Devon}.
Dorset, London, Warwick, East Anglia, Kent,  Devon
North Wales          

The ancestors lived here and there, in many scattered
places, with various occupations

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Re: I really admire my ancestors for living without...
« Reply #38 on: Saturday 01 April 06 12:26 BST (UK) »
Underware  8)
 ( Not sure if Knickers are allowed on this lovely site)
and Birth Control  :-X
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Re: I really admire my ancestors for living without...
« Reply #39 on: Saturday 01 April 06 13:11 BST (UK) »
Epidurals, pethidine, entonox, tens machines and every other method of pain relief that would have made having 150 kids in 10 years a tad more comfortable.
Reynolds, Woodham, Payne, Wilmott, Hart, Richardson, Packwood, Tandy, Dexter - Bedfordshire.
Chamberlain and Wagstaff- Hunts.
Freeman, Cheney, Cox- Northants.
Burns, Muter, Cobban, Hossack, Strachan, Moonlight.
Lanarkshire, Ross and Cromarty and Kincardineshire.
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Re: I really admire my ancestors for living without...
« Reply #40 on: Saturday 01 April 06 13:27 BST (UK) »
Digital cameras

Central heating (but with the smell of a wood fire in the background, which they probably had)

Straightening tongs - well the females with the curly hair anyway


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Re: I really admire my ancestors for living without...
« Reply #41 on: Saturday 01 April 06 14:22 BST (UK) »
modern day reading glasses, seeing that I just read the last posting from gadget as "straighting thongs" now where did I leave mine?, ........................glasses that is!

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Re: I really admire my ancestors for living without...
« Reply #42 on: Saturday 01 April 06 14:39 BST (UK) »
Jaffa Cakes ;D

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Re: I really admire my ancestors for living without...
« Reply #43 on: Saturday 01 April 06 14:47 BST (UK) »
modern day reading glasses, seeing that I just read the last posting from gadget as "straighting thongs" now where did I leave mine?, ........................glasses that is!

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Re: I really admire my ancestors for living without...
« Reply #44 on: Saturday 01 April 06 17:50 BST (UK) »
Hey I reckon I must be an ancestor I grew up without the following:

Electricity
Central heating
A car - we went everywhere on a bike
TV = battery radio had to do
Pc's
We had water from a pump - Malvern water from our own well of course.
We filled buckets to flush the loo
No bathroom, we had a tin bath in front of the fire

So do I qualify?
Beard Voyce, Scrivens in Worcestershire