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I am trying to find which cemetery Kenneth was buried in. Kenneth's sister was the mother of a relative coming for a holiday from Canada and wishes to visit the grave but can't remember which cem...

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This thread is for my Jacobs distant cousins and focuses on David Jacobs 1819-1869 and David Henry Jacobs 1827-1906 and their glass making designs. I have recently read the various posts on the g...

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I have not used this site as a research tool for quite a few years. I had actually put in a google search for an elusive Welsh ancestor and a post popped up from this site. I got quite excited un...

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I have just purchased a death entry: James BEARLEY, Male, 62 years, Maltster's Labourer, Died 11th May 1863 at Union Workhouse, Old Stratford, Warwickshire. Informant: William GIBBS(X), Present a...

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I was trawling through a parish burial register and came across a strange entry in the "by whom the ceremony was performed" box. This is from 1950: Certified by George Roberts, contractors Any id...

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Have you ever heard the term? Well I hadn't until yesterday when I read an article about them in Wales, where there are 4 such villages, and they are called that because they had no casualties in...

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The biographer of an ancestor wrote "He was long afflicted with a chronical distemper, but continued his public services and private studies notwithstanding the apparent incapacity of his weak bo...

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Hello I have a R S Shoulder Title Badge that was among my Dad's WWII memorabilia. From my internet searches, I can see that there are several variations to these badges. Image: https://i.postimg....

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Is anyone else having trouble logging on? I keep getting 'unknown error' or 'incorrect email or password' whenever I've tried the last couple of days to accept a £5 a month offer.

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Hello The members of this website have been very helpful to me with answers to many questions, so I’m taking this opportunity to give back. My father was an Australian Navigator flying with RAF...

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Help please with the death of Henry William Woodall (sometimes spelt Woodhall)born 1835 Islington to William and Caroline. Married to Frances Elizabeth Vigor 25 Apr 1872 1891 census RG12 piece 10...

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Information from a reply to my original thread lead me to the records linked below. Not sure if I should've started a new thread, hopefully it is ok. Any further info would be much appreciated. ...

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I’ve hit a brick wall with Frank Bartholomew who I’ve been researching for some time. He was born in Gravesend in May 1876/1877 (depending on which later census you look at). Frank was one so...

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This thread provides a range of data on Albert Aaron Goldsmid 1846-1933 and Phoebe Hart 1844-1909. There are numbers of Ancestry Public Family Trees which have details on the lines but numbers ha...

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Hello In amongst my Dad's box of memorabilia is a tiny roll of lead flashing. It's 1 3/4" high and about 1 1/2" long when uncoiled. I do have a photo, but can't work out how to upload it here, as...

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Hello, my great-grandmother died 2nd December 1946 at age 35. Per her death certificate she died at “The Hospital, Barming Heath, U.D.”. I am assuming this is Oakwood Hospital. I am wanting t...

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A girl baptised Mary to Charles Keeton of Metheringham and his wife, Mary, née Sewell, in 1776 either died in 1777, aged less than a year, or, as one of my 4 x great-grandmothers went on to marr...

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How much luck have people here had with the volunteer-driven features of the various cemetery look up services found on-line.? Looking to request some snaps of memorials in some London cemeteries...

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A Victorian Hair Mourning Locket turned up in a family collection. The picture in it is of a young woman maybe 18 years of age. While she looks like my ggg grandmother I suspect it is in fact her...

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Would really appreciate some help with a record found on Ancestry. Mary Ellen McGOVERN b1882 is with her parents and sister at the bottom of page 16 but page 17 is missing ….top of Page 18 are ...

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I have been asked if I can help identify the parents of Edmund Hill who was apparently born on March 25,1850 in Lowton Lancashire. Lowton is part of the Wigan and Leigh registration districts. Th...

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Hi everyone. Just a quick question that I've been poring over for a while. I found a marriage notice for a pair of relatives in the Bradford Observer dated 28 Jan 1869. It states they were marrie...

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I am looking for a George McCannon 46th Regiment of Foot, he was in Hull 1851 service no 1448 but by 1856 his son was in the Dublin Royal Hibernian Military Schools as an army Orphan. George was ...

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Deceased Catholic Clergy of Australia 1788 - 2024 http://www.catholicdirectory.com.au/deceasedclergy/list/name

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I’m looking at a marriage record and “filiam” is crossed out and what looks like “relictam Jacobi Ward”. Does this mean her father abandoned her?…..an unnecessary detail I would have ...

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