Description:
Genealogy in Great Britain and the islands.
|
|
|
Identity of church?
|
| |
Hi, Someone on the Glamorgan group is trying to help an ex-pat identify a church from two (old) photographs. There are indications it may be in west Wales, north Wales or possibly Yorkshire. [link]
|
|
|
1871 Census Paignton
|
| |
A relative of mine is shown on the 1871 census living at Victoria Place, Paignton, Devon. Can anyone tell me please where exactly this was. Thanks, Peter
|
|
|
Claridge
|
| |
Hi Sue.....on the off chance she did remarry, the FreeBMD site has this: March Qtr. 1927 MARY HANNINGTON & ALFRED E. CHITTY Registered at Reading, Berks 2c 710 I couldn't find a death for a Mary (A) Chitty.....but it may have not been transcribed as yet. mary lou ______________________________ ______________________________ _____... more »
|
|
|
29 October, 2-3pm - Death & Resurrection Men: The Body Snatchers
|
| |
In 1831 in London it was estimated that there were at least 800 medical students each requiring at least three bodies for their anatomical studies for dissection. The only legal source was that of hanged felons which yielded just 52 bodies in the same year. Thus the resurrection trade flourished and bodysnatching was in the medical... more »
|
|
|
Old Bailey sessions 1766
|
| |
Back about 1991-93 I visited the Greater London Public Records Office and pored over the indictment slips for the Old Bailey for the quarter that included February 1766. The slips were all on preprinted forms measuring about 4 by 7 inches and were held together with a cord threaded through a hole drilled through corner of the slips. I was able to transcribe the... more »
|
|
|
FreeBMD Death Search
|
| |
Can anyone tell me if there's a way to perform a search for someone's death in FreeBMD when you know their d.o.b but not their age at death? I'm sure I must be a bit slow on the uptake here but there must be an easier way than enumerating every person with the relevant name and then calculating their d.o.b from the age-at-death (when available of course)... more »
|
|
|
Excerpts from Irish newspapers
|
| |
From The Cork Examiner, 1 June 1865 - MAIL NEWS. GIBRALTAR, MAY 26TH.--The steamers Morocco and Italian, from Liverpool, arrived here yesterday. Exchange and freights unaltered. The Ripon, with a heavy portion of the Calcutta and China mails, arrived at Southampton yesterday. The mails left for London at 11.35 a.m.... more »
|
|
|
Northern Ireland Film Festival
|
| |
The Ulster American Society will host the Northern Ireland Film Festival at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on Nov. 7th & 8th to showcase positive, forward-looking films made in or about Northern Ireland. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased on-line at [link]. (Seating is limited and... more »
|
|
|
