Postcards of Bucks

[emm1473]

Hi Ann

It would be great to exchange e-mail addresses but I think they get wiped for security if you type them on this site. 
I am not sure if you have a facebook account but if you do then you can find me as Emma Mann and you will be able to access my e-mail address and we can chat fully.  I would also then be able to e-mail you a copy of the family tree that I have so we can see if there is information one of us has that the other needs

[Firstome]

I did have facebook Emm.  I lost everything, so it is a journey of exploration at present.  Just trying to get my printer and scanner back to make friends with my stripped down pc.

I am not that hot on Facebook.  I am Glencoe and then the live addy and have the same user name as I have here.  Can you make the first move and we will see if I can still access it.

I have had two weeks of hell with this virus attack and not yet back to sleeping through the night.  Being almost 76 things get quite a strain and I wish I was twenty years younger for all this technical stuff.

I have photocopies (very poor old ones) of court case for Timothy in his old age when he was assulted by younger men in High Wycombe.  I did have a copy of Jabez' last will and testament but not sure if I have it now.  Ann

[emm1473]

Hi Ann

I can't find you on facebook - just confirm I am looking for Ann Glencoe?

Emma

[Firstome]

before the .. live.com or is it the co.uk? ... was the name of the Scottish area you said but no mention of Ann.  Sorry, I am hopeless.  Ann

[Firstome]

Emma, I know another way.  We can discuss ancestry there too.
For free, visit www.Yours.co.uk and register.  Then go to Forums and then Hobbies and then look for threads written by Firstome.

You will see one about Horrors or Not?  That is about my ancestral family.
From there we can make hidden messages protected by Yours and can exchange our email addresses.  Ann

[ellvera]

Hi there
excuse me for butting in - I have been following this thread over recent days in my search for info about Buckinghamshire
All you need to do is send each other a personal message by clicking on the profile button on the bottom left of every post.The square box with a face on it.Then you can exchange email addresses privately.
Best of luck to both of you.How exciting.
Barbara
modifed to add: you may need to make a few more posts before you can utilise that feature - I have only just realised you are new here

[Firstome]

Hi Barbara, So nice to meet you.  We both realised that we could do private Emails via Roots and are now in direct contact with each other.  Thank you for pointing this out.

Barbara, is there any particular part of Buckinghamshire you are interested in?  I lived in Bucks for 60 years, so I might be able to help.  I also belong to the odd Bucks website and have found a girl who lived just yards from where I lived as a child and she now lives in Australia.  Her sister was in my class at school, although I cannot place that one.

I was born in Beaconsfield which is about 6 miles east of High Wycombe and my husband grew up in Gerrards Cross a few miles away.  My grandparents had farms and butchers shop in Bucks, and my mother was born in Bucks.  Surely I can help in some way, so please shout as I am a little hard of hearing, being 75 coming up 76. LOL, Ann of Bucks.

[ggrocott]

Hope you don't mind me butting in. 

The postcards and your mention of the Ings grabbed my attention since I know there were Ings in Haddenham.  However none of them were related to me- my ancestors are the Adams, Stevens, Smalls, Roses and Montagues - all from Haddenham and the surrounding villages.  My grandparents moved to Ealing in the late 1800s but Dad used to go back to Haddenham in the summer to help out with the harvest and visit his Aunt and cousins who still lived in the village and he took us there a few times when we were children.

[Firstome]

Nice to meet you Grocott (sorry if I got spelling wrong).
Haddenham was and probably is still, the most beautiful small village.  Well, that Aylesbury was once a lovely small market town which we visited about 60 years ago but, to my mind, was ruined by developers and council after WW2.  We liked to visit Thame, th other larger town in the 70s and 80s and that had broad streets where the market was easily accommodated.  I must look out for your family name in the early 1880s census then.  Probably neighbours of my descendents.

Every man and his dog seemed to move to London in the mid to late 1880s, many of my branches went there too.  Guess that was where the work was.  How is your research going?  I had researched my main branches and had reached out to twigs on my home tree and recently lost all my notes and most of my tree due to a horrid virus getting past my actual working securites.  I had new drivers and had no idea how to store but did Email myself on another computer quite a bit of stuff.  Just need to get the darn stuff back now as the other pc is now playing up!  Such is life.  Hope to chat with you more, Ann