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Dec 8, 2020 •
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Elizabeth Higgeson was baptised on 22nd April 1726 at St Martin in the Fields, London. Her parents were Richard Higgeson and Hannah Curtis. There is no trace of them on familysearch.org and I shall be...
Dec 8, 2020 •
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James and Rachel are both 48 on the 1881 census. James was born in Newbury, Berkshire, but I have found nothing to confirm this, or the names of his parents etc. Rachel was born in New Cross/Deptford ...
Dec 8, 2020 •
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Charles Coltson married Ann Field in 1747 in the City of London. His family may have been quite well-to-do, as Charles worked at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. In his Will, dated 1785, he is said to ...
Nov 30, 2019 •
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Jul 24, 2019 •
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Jean-Charles Driant lived in London, UK from roughly 1945 until his death in 1989. He was a minor TV and film actor, and was married in 1947. He was born in 1922 in France. I have not been able to fin...
Jun 5, 2019 •
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Constance was born in Haverfordwest, west Wales in 1891. In 1912 she had a daughter, Emmeline James, born in Cardiff. In 1917 in Aberdare she married William David Price, a coal miner. They had a son,...
Feb 9, 2019 •
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Nov 30, 2018 •
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Nov 30, 2018 •
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A Henry Mobbs was born in Norwich in 1867 and in 1891 he married Ann Hardy.His father was another Henry Mobbs, described as a cloth hawker. I think he is the Henry Mobbs buried in Norwich in 1903, bor...
Oct 23, 2018 •
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Mary Patricia Wake was born on 25th May 1924, in the Rotorua area of New Zealand. Her mother was Agnes Veronica Wake, born in England in 1900 and known as Veronica. Mary's father is unknown, but may h...
Sep 23, 2018 •
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Sep 23, 2018 •
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Florence Edith Adams was born in 1920 in the Thakeham area of Sussex, England.In 1938 she gave birth to a son, Paul, in Hastings, Sussex, who was adopted in 1940.In 1942 Florence married John J McInne...
Jun 15, 2018 •
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Oct 25, 2012 •
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My great-grandfather John Nickols spent almost all of his life in south Lincolnshire, but he was born in Norfolk, in the village of Wormegay (near Downham Market) in April 1848. His parents were Thoma...
Oct 23, 2012 •
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I am descended from a sister of Reverend Andrew Gillison (1868-1915), who emigrated in 1905 from Scotland to Australia. He later went as a military chaplain to Galipoli, where he was shot dead as he...
Oct 23, 2012 •
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Robert Cawston came from Essex to London, and in 1839 he married Elizabeth Coulsell at St Saviour's, Southwark. He was a hatter, and on his marriage certificate it states that his father was Joseph Ca...
Oct 22, 2012 •
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It is, as you all must have found, much easier to search for ancestors with rare names. One name I came across recently, and had not heard of before, is Costerdine. A Mary Costerdine was married in...
Oct 22, 2012 •
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Eveline Nickols is my father's mother. She was born in Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire in 1893 and married my grandfather, John Wilson, of Carlton-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire in 1920. She then lived in Willo...
Oct 22, 2012 •
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Lilias Tweedie was born in 1837 in Glencorse, Midlothian, the first child of Andrew Tweedie and Margaret Robb. Attached is a photograph of a portrait of Lilias. If anyone is interested in her fami...