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[Dimps]

Not to a great extent.  Any advice?

[toni*]

The Gales site has British newspapers online 1600-1900, they did report deaths from abroad so it would suggest searching this at your local library they should have access to begin with.

[Dimps]

Thanks Toni.  I have just looked at the Gale site and requested a trial - for the school where I work, as I will shortly be running an after school history club.

I will have a wander down to my local library to find out whether the local library service subscribe.

[Dimps]

I phoned the library service and discovered that I can access Gales digitised Times newspapers using the bar code number on my library card.  I have given it a go and it is brilliant.  No news about Albert, although plenty about his son.

I have been reading articles about the SS Princess Alice disaster of 1878 which the children have been learning about at school.

[toni*]

thats good then
 
ps i offered to run an after school history club school said what a brilliant idea and then i never heard from them again

[Dimps]

Our Yr 5/6 children will be studying the Victorians next half term, so I will help a group of children research either a family that lived in one of their houses during that era or the family of a child found in the school log books.  We will then use the family researched in the wider context of the growth and development of the area during Victorian times.  Hopefully.  I'm calling it, "Who do you think the Victorians were?"

[Bel78]

Hi Dimps
Ive been looking to find my grandfather and great grandfather’s side of the family.
Great grandfather GW Linberry Kerr , owner of a tea garden in Kurseong.
If you have any info on the above that would be great.
Thanks
Belinda

[Dimps]

Hello Belinda,

I do, although I never solved the mystery of Albert’s death.  How can I help?

Deborah

[Bel78]

Thanks for your prompt reply.
I know GW Linberry  and Albert died in Kurseong but we dont know anything much about Albert’s wife. Ive read the chat msgs somewhere that after Albert died, his wife married a Kerr. Do you know anything about Albert’s wife?
Ill have to do a bit of digging about Albert when i get to Kurseong.
Cheers.