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by lynda rivett 18 years, 3 months ago
harvey gilbert SMITH and florence bell BEASTON,live in kansas and did the historic cattle drives from texas to kansas and ended up in okla ,they also help with the opening of the cherokee strip(okla land rush)they ended up in coal county okla with...
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by Dave Calladine 18 years, 4 months ago
James Brindley, the Derbyshire born canal builder, constructed the first canal in the county in 1777: a branch of the Grand Trunk, later called the Trent and Mersey. The canal ran from the navigable River Trent at Shardlow to Liverpool. Two years...
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by Dave Calladine 18 years, 4 months ago
Heanor today is a medium sized market town, located in the East Midlands. Situated in Derbyshire, almost midway between Derby and Nottingham, it has good access to both centres for shopping and night-life. The focal point of any market town is,...
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by Dave Calladine 18 years, 4 months ago
There had been a hall at Shipley since at least the 13th century. It is known that Sir Edward Leche, the Lord of the Manor, built a hall there in 1630's, a tall gabled house. In 1713 the Hall was passed to Sir Edward's granddaughter, Hester...
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by Dave Calladine 18 years, 4 months ago
Langley is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, 700 years before Langley Mill existed! Other local places in the Domesday Book were Heanor, Codnor, and "Smithycotes."
At the end of the 18th century, non-conformist groups were already meeting...
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by Dave Calladine 18 years, 4 months ago
Aldercar is an old area of what is now a joint parish with Langley Mill. The grandest building in Aldercar (and Langley Mill too, for that matter) was Aldercar Hall. By the mid 1800's the Hall, originally built in 1668, was occupied by the Wright...
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by Dave Calladine 18 years, 4 months ago
Few people would readily associate the village of Smalley, situated about two miles west of Heanor, with Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 - but there is a clear link.
During the winter of 1745, Charles Edward Stuart, the...
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by herby 18 years, 4 months ago
i am herby dela torre, 25 yrs old and i am interested to know the genalogy of the dela torre families around the world. please provide information to: herby@uymail.com or you can contact me thru mobile number: +639063708611
thank you so much!
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by 7776547 18 years, 4 months ago
i am looking for Jackson relatives of mine on the Mildred Frances Aldridge Jackson side out of the Winchester KY area and around.Mygrandmother had i believe daughters Beaulah Clay Jackson Northern my mother
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by Cor 18 years, 4 months ago
In 1878 that was where my great grandfather was born. He moved to Central Lake, MI in 1900 as a lumberjack. In 1905 he married Harriett Murphy of Echo Township,MI. He moved to Charlevoix,MI in 1923 farming 40 acres in Antrim county during the...
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by Dave Calladine 18 years, 4 months ago
1851 Census HO107 1730/ 317/ 116 Coombe, Woodstock Union
Lanchbury William; Head Married 71 Ag Lab born Oxf Coombe
Lanchbury Ann; Wife Married 62 born Oxf Coombe
Lanchbury James; son, Unmarried 30 Ag Lab born Oxf Coombe
Lanchbury Henry; son,...
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by jqvalle 18 years, 4 months ago
John Mehaffey was possibly born in Ireland in 1785 and possibly died in N. Carolina in 8/1873. His wife may have been Margaret Clugston (? died in 1867 in Ireland). They had three daughters, Margaretta (born 1/26/1840), Sarah Anne (born...
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by jqvalle 18 years, 4 months ago
Wesley Hudson was listed in the 1850 US Census as living in Owen County, KY at age 40 years with his wife Mahala or Mahulda with children Mary, John, Lucinda, James, William and Thomas. Their marriage date is possibly 12/28/1838. They had another...
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by missy1253 18 years, 4 months ago
I'm looking for any information on the birth of my great grandmother,Her name was Molly Kilcreas. She was born to Josh Kilcreas on Jan.20,1876 and on her birth certificate it listed Galveston, Texas as where she was born. No mother listed. Mr....
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by Mgasm95 18 years, 4 months ago
My grandfather's name is Dominick Mastroeni from Santa Lucia, Sicily. He came over to the states in the 60's with my mother and grandmother. Since my mother grew up here, she never got the chance to meet any of my grandfathers? family. We don't...
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by Dave Calladine 18 years, 4 months ago
1841 Census HO107 20/06 10. Dean Ct Fm, Hill End, Hormer, Cumnor
Adams William; 54 Farmer
Adams Mary; 54
Adams Elizabeth; 95
Constable Elizabeth; 23 Domestic Servant
Lansbury Charles 20 fm serv
1841 Census HO107 020/06 12 Dean Ct Fm, Hill...
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by Dave Calladine 18 years, 4 months ago
Stanton Harcourt St Michael Parish Baptisms, Wickson (Wixon) transcribed by K. V. Elphinstone, copied and cheched by Colin Harris, Oxfordshire county Archivist 1961.
1813 14 November, George Wickson, s. John and Charlotte, lab of Sutton....
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by sidbobb 18 years, 4 months ago
Moses Bobb listed in the 1840 Union County PA census with wife Rebecka Breininger Bobb and one female child under 5 years of age. Moses is my gggrandfather. Moses is listed in the 1850 Union County PA census with wife Rebecka Breininger Bobb....
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by ravensky 18 years, 4 months ago
james campbell was a pirate /privateer who was jean lafittes first mate.he also served in tne navy aboard the uss constitution in the war of 1812.i'm proud to be his descendant.
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