surname FINNIS

[finnisfinder]

 Thanks Marie, going to try and get a copy of the book. Have heard about it before, hope it's still in print.


  Finnisfinder.

[Bill749]

Here are the full details of the book - it is no longer in print, but you may find one on eBay or one of the second-hand book sites.

Regards, Bill

Broady, June, 1989. Deal in Old Photographs. Pub: Allan Sutton. ISBN: 0-86299-675-9
A collection of old photographs of Deal, mainly drawn from the Will Honey Collection in Deal's Maritime and Local History Museum, with brief descriptions by June Broady.

[Bill749]

Check out this link: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Kent-Old-Deal-in-Old-Photographs_W0QQitemZ250238398503QQihZ015QQcategoryZ274QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem - I think this is probably the same book.

Bill

[Elaine and Marie Dewell]

Hi and thanks casalguidi.
And Bill749 how stupid I feel ( I am a librarian and I should know better!).
I wrote that up from memory and just found my book.
Yes, mine is the Broady, June, 1989, Deal in Old Photographs. (Gloucester, Alan Sutton), 99. ISBN 0862996759
Brown cover with pic of lifeboatman on the cover.
I got mine in Deal 11 years ago from a little bookshop on a corner in the town.
There were lots of others and I should have bought all the different titles...I have only 4 books on Deal...but who was to know I would become a bit obsessed with Deal all these years later.

Thanks for that link Bill749- why is it I always forget about ebay? I have now ordered this other one...they seem to have a few in stock. Even including postage, that is really, really cheap compared to Aussie prices.
And your link went eventually to another site with a long list of books I thought weren't available.

Finnisfinder...have sent you an email.
Cheers, Marie

[finnisfinder]

 Hello Bill and Marie, I checked out the e-bay link. I think it's a different book, "Pocket Photographs/Images of Deal." It had a different ISBN number. There are some used copies on Amazon of the 1989 edition.

Please Bill are you able to do a look up of baptisms of children of John Roberts b 1751 Deal and Susannah Finnis b 1752 in Deal? They were married 1772 in Deal. I'm assuming they had children!

Thanks Finnisfinder.

[Bill749]

No problem - will have a look next time I'm in the library

Bill

[Elaine and Marie Dewell]

Hi again,
Finnisfinder, I was just looking in that Old Bailey online service (I have only found it today but it has obviously been around for ages).
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/forms/formMain.jsp

I was looking for a Dewell and Marsh but there is also 10 listings for Finnis. Maybe you will find that lifeboatman who did ill to his wife.

Are there any such online services for courts in Kent? Cheers, marie

[finnisfinder]

 Hi Marie, tried the Old Bailey web site, it's very slow. Think it's been added to and available from yesterday.

 Never thought I might have ancestors with criminal records!

 I made a mistake, the photo of the lifeboat crew was in a book by Beryl Foley Fisher called "Bygone Deal and Walmer"

  The chap who attacked his wife got taken to the Lunatic Asylum. He was suffering from dementia and epilepsy. Was just looking at the notes I have, seems he was a Bathing Machine Proprietor. His estate amounted to £43.

Are there photos of bathing machines at Deal in June Broady's book?

Maggie.

[littlemisshoo]

i have a william james finnis who married annie lousia blown in 1901 they moved to strood. any connections?