Are You Sitting Comfortably Part 2

[kenjo]

Gee, I'm having a little cry....what a wonderful thing you are all doing..
Just another clue why we do this....
Grand Work..

[liverpool annie]

Well I'm home ..... but I need to make coffee first .... so I can read and inwardly digest what we have here !

Did anybody hear from Trystan ..... before we go too much further .... ?? I did ask him to add to the thread so we would know .... 

Hi Jo ! how cool to be so close to the man who may hold all our answers ....

I just hope "our Robert " is in there !! 

I'll be back !!

Annie 

[sarah]

Last night I had to lock and edit this thread as it contained dates,names and far to much information on living people. When posting please give this a little thought.

A marriage that takes place before 1925 should be ok but information posted on any children is very likely to be that of a living person. The more information you post ie Date of birth, Full Name, spouse, siblings, address etc the more you are revealing to the world.

Different language can be used in posts which you may be able to get around this problem. If all the date is not essential why not say "early 1960's".

If you have anymore questions or want to run something past us before posting I am sure  either myself or the moderators would be happen to check anything out.

Sarah

[JeannieR]

Hi guys.....

I have been following this story, since Annie first started it.......Fantastic work...

It has taken me, like Jo , about two hours to catch up with Part 2, and can't believe how much has been discovered by you all.

Just hope you do find some family alive. They would be heartened to know, I am sure, that such super people still exist......

When you have solved this one... I could do with some help !!

Regards

JeannieR

[JAP]

The whole question of posting relatively 'recent' information is a very vexed one.

Especially when it comes from Web sites where the information is in the public domain and easily accessible.

For instance, the FamilySearch site has details in its US Social Security Death Index right up to this current year, 2007!  Those details include the precise date of death of the individual and usually the precise date of birth of the individual.  A quick check of a few pages revealed birth dates as recent as the 1970s and 1980s - there may well be later ones.

Development of a set of clear guidelines on what's OK on RootsChat and what's not would be really helpful.

Not to mention that it would probably save the Moderators lots of work 

Perhaps a discussion on a separate thread might be useful?

JAP

[liverpool annie]

Maybe the best we can do - if we find later information that is pertinent to the subject at hand  AND to take the onus off RootsChat - would be to post urls to the site that is giving the information !  somebody will probably let us know !!

A friend went to the Liverpool Records Office today and sent me this ! ..... wonderful of him to do it ... but I think we already have most of this information and  I think the Cotton Brokerage is a red herring don't you ?? I'm posting it .... just in case anybody sees anything I don't !!  I did ask if we could have a look up of the death and funeral notices ... FOR SURE the next time !

Back in circulation and had a look in Liverpool RO this morning. Probate record gives no occupation, with his address as 'The Cot, Grange Lane, Gateacre, Liverpool'. Probate was granted to his widow, Elizabeth Neil Stead.
Voters registers give no occupation, so I did not search there.
Kelly's Directory: 1923 - he is listed at 5 Queen's Road, Hoylake. 1926 at The Cot [as above]. No occupation for either, though they are shown in many entries at that period.
There was a family of cotton brokers called Stead, active until living memory. Any connection?
Grange Lane is still there, but much built over since the large-scale OS maps of 1904 and 1927 where I looked for The Cot. It does not appear, though the larger houses are named. Pressure on time and m/film readers meant I could not look in newspaper files for a death notice, which might give funeral details. Will keep this in my look-up list for another time.
Nearest C of E parish churches are Childwall All Saints [huge graveyard] and St Stephen's, Gateacre - I do not know about this one

Annie 

[kenjo]

Just a quick update...re: contacting Barnard relatives....in Australia....
I have phoned twice and left one message......I will ring again.....
Not keen on  leaving messages ..would hate to sound like a crank......
Jo

[liverpool annie]

Thanks for trying Jo ! - fingers crossed he calls back soon !! 

Here's something interesting ............ According to the book "Locations & Whereabouts of Monumental Inscriptions" those for All Saints Childwall are held at the Lancs Record Office and the Manchester central Library and at Stockport Library ........  but theres no dates  !! 
Or is the Manchester one - just for large monuments not gravestones ??  ....... my cousin has been slowly making his way around the graveyard a section at a time ........ all scientific of course .... he made a "grid map "  but nothing yet !

Annie 

Jeannie .... I'll share !! 

[ShaunJ]

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