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Re: You know when you're obsessed with FH when...
« Reply #54 on: Wednesday 06 April 11 11:39 BST (UK) »
Spend an entire week of glorious weather in the basement of the record office in Kendal . . .

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Re: You know when you're obsessed with FH when...
« Reply #55 on: Wednesday 06 April 11 20:31 BST (UK) »
Better than getting frazzled by the heat.

Out shopping or at work and you get a new thought on tracing an elusive ancestor.
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LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: You know when you're obsessed with FH when...
« Reply #56 on: Friday 08 April 11 08:18 BST (UK) »
when you go for a run on a sunday and you have to visit the cemeteries :'(
Dumfriesshire: Bell, Kerr, Dickson, Hetherington
Orkney: Cursiter, Peace, Drever, Cooper, Paterson, Brock, Leslie, Malcomson, Miller, Scott
Cumberland: Charlton, Young

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Re: You know when you're obsessed with FH when...
« Reply #57 on: Friday 08 April 11 08:22 BST (UK) »
When you get a precious couple of hours of 'me' time and you plan a soak in the bath, manicure, pedicure etc - but I'll just take a look at Rootschat first  ::)

Stoneham - Kent / Essex / Herts / Bucks / Devon
Pike - Kent
Pay - Kent
Swan/Swaine - Herts / London
Bissenden - Kent
Chappell - Herts
Hammond - Essex

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Re: You know when you're obsessed with FH when...
« Reply #58 on: Friday 08 April 11 08:24 BST (UK) »
But have you ever caught yourself reading the credits after a movie, just in case you see a match?
I am Australian, from all the lands I come (my ancestors, at least!)

Pine/Pyne, Dowdeswell, Kempster, Sando/Sandoe/Sandow, Nancarrow, Hounslow, Youatt, Richardson, Jarmyn, Oxlade, Coad, Kelsey, Crampton, Lindner, Pittaway, and too many others to name.
Devon, Dorset, Gloucs, Cornwall, Warwickshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Wilts, Germany, Sweden, and of course London, to name a few.

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Re: You know when you're obsessed with FH when...
« Reply #59 on: Friday 08 April 11 12:22 BST (UK) »
Sifting through parish registers and the eye being caught by surnames which are the same as friends and work colleagues.
Researching:

LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: You know when you're obsessed with FH when...
« Reply #60 on: Friday 08 April 11 12:30 BST (UK) »
Having a new link, I want to get to the Nat Archives to check out some recprds - keep thinking when can I make it
Douglas, Varnden, Joy(i)ce Surrey, Clarke Northants/Hunts, Pullen Worcs/Herefords, Holmes Birmingham/USA/Canada/Australia, Jackson Cheshire/Yorkshire, Lomas Cheshire, Lee Yorkshire, Cocks Lancashire, Leah Cheshire, Cook Yorkshire, Catlow Lancashire
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Re: You know when you're obsessed with FH when...
« Reply #61 on: Friday 08 April 11 12:48 BST (UK) »
Quote from: coombs on Friday 08 April 11 12:22 BST (UK)
Sifting through parish registers and the eye being caught by surnames which are the same as friends and work colleagues.

Speaking of same names, I have a William Coombs (b. c.1819 Beaminster) who settled in Crewkerne with his wife and family. Any connection?
I am Australian, from all the lands I come (my ancestors, at least!)

Pine/Pyne, Dowdeswell, Kempster, Sando/Sandoe/Sandow, Nancarrow, Hounslow, Youatt, Richardson, Jarmyn, Oxlade, Coad, Kelsey, Crampton, Lindner, Pittaway, and too many others to name.
Devon, Dorset, Gloucs, Cornwall, Warwickshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Wilts, Germany, Sweden, and of course London, to name a few.

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Re: You know when you're obsessed with FH when...
« Reply #62 on: Friday 08 April 11 19:19 BST (UK) »
The three little words that have you quivering with excitement are:-

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Stoneham - Kent / Essex / Herts / Bucks / Devon
Pike - Kent
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Bissenden - Kent
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