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sylvia
Thanks for your picture post, Sylvia. Where did this actually come from?
BTW, in my originating post, I made it seem as though Fred Deeming had been born in Ashby de la Zouch, but according to the article in your picture, Birkenhead was his birthplace, wasn't it? The 1861 Census has him as being born in Ashby. Need to get a Birth Certificate for him, I suppose, assuming it doesn't pre-date the GRO records. I can't imagine them getting Fred's birthplace wrong for that article, can you?
Anyway, wherever he was born, he was living in Ashby at the same time as my Great Grandfather James Patrick Deeming's birth in the same place. I'm now wondering why Fred Deeming's family happened to be in Ashby de la Zouch at that time. Will we ever be able to find out?
Incidentally, did you know that there used to be a waxwork of Frederick Deeming in the Chamber of Horrors at Madame Tussaud's, in London? My father took me to see him when I was a small kid. Now, the strange thing was, I grew up believing his Christian name was actually Francis, and when I first went online, I started looking for him under that. Obviously, I soon discovered the mistake. A year or so ago, a friend of mine lent me an old booklet he fortuitously had from Madame Tussaud's, with a mini-history of the place, and lo and behold! - Deeming was listed in there, sure enough, as "Francis Deeming" - so my childhood memory had been correct after all! Experience has told me that childhood memories are often essentially accurate. I've e-mailed Madame Tussaud's many times about this, have received not one human response, even though the auto-replies affirmed receipts of my enquiries. Maybe some of you stalwarts out there could could try!
ATB, Dave.
