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Nov 11, 2006 •
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"When the train of human events appear to deviate from their wonted
course, and become productive of character altogether new and unexampled, they
have a claim on the world to be perpetuated. An ins...
Oct 30, 2006 •
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The Descendants of Thomas Coward
Old man THOMAS COWARD was born 1820 in Norfolk, and died 1862 in March, Cambridgshire. I have yet to discover more about his parents, but I know that he married MA...
Oct 22, 2006 •
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I managed to find the baptism records for Elias in the Independant church of Heage, 3 miles South down the hill from Norton Steer Farm which is about a mile and a half East of the village of Wirkswort...
Oct 22, 2006 •
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I am the direct descendant of Robert Wickson who was born in 1706 in the village of Eynsham.The village was ungoing a lot of change during Johns lifetime, and after the civil war seige of Bleinham Pal...
Oct 22, 2006 •
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I am the direct descendant of John Wickson, born August 25, 1734. He was born in the village of Enysham (Ensham) Oxfordshire.
ENSHAM, a parish in the hundred of WOOTTON, county of OXFORD, 5½ miles ...
Oct 21, 2006 •
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I am a direct decendant of John Wickson of Sutton in Oxfordshire.
sutton is a small hamlet attached to the village of Stanton Harcourt
STANTON HARCOURT, lies between the rivers Thames and Windrus...
Oct 21, 2006 •
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I am the direct descendant (gg grandson) of Henry Launchbury and his wife Hannah. Henry was born the eighth child of Thomas Launchbury (1780 – 1843) and Mary Bason (c 1782 - February 06, 1872) in 1820...
Oct 21, 2006 •
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"Dec 1858 - A deposit of £2 a-side was made on Monday November 29th, at Mr Osborne`s, "four Bums Inn" Taghill, between William Calladine and James Prince, and another deposit of £1 a-side is to be mad...
Feb 8, 2006 •
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1880; Census Place: Brandon, Rankin, Mississippi; Roll: T9_663; Family History Film: 1254663; Page: 333.1000; Enumeration District: 75; Image: 0286.
Beverly Carradine
Age: 32
Estimated birth ye...
Feb 8, 2006 •
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I spent my schooldays being compared to David Carradine (aka Kung Fu) and the joke has been re-kindled with the success of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill films (lol). So I thought I would look into the...
Feb 3, 2006 •
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The records of medieval and early-modern taxation are an informative sources for family historians. These records, part of the vast archive of the Exchequer, include material relating to the assessmen...
Jan 31, 2006 •
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Pinnock, Pennock or Penn
Believe it or not, Pinnock, Pennock or Penn all have the same root, that of the Celtic word for a hill, Penno.
Perhaps my own Clan, the Pinnock's were living on a smaller...
Jan 31, 2006 •
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Wickson Wixon
Wick itself is the Old Norse name for a bay, as in wick in Scotland, or Wicklow in Ireland. In the North East of the UK and Ireland, it suggests that it is the son of a man who was fr...
Jan 31, 2006 •
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Calladine, Culludyne, Carradine or Callidine.
It seems we were of Irish stock, living in Iceland, or at least until the island was invaded by the Norsemen. Therefore, the clan that arrived in Engl...
Jan 31, 2006 •
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The Birchenough’s were generations of stone carvers and monumental masons. There are Internet sites, which seem to proclaim the name to be of Dutch origin - word "Birch" meaning birch tree, and "Hof" ...
Jan 26, 2006 •
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There has been a census every ten years since 1801, excluding 1941. However, only those that date from 1841 are of real value to the family historian. The administration of the early census returns 18...
Jan 26, 2006 •
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Let me confess up front, that my own personal experience with genealogy is from trial and error. I am a conservation bookbinder, who used to work with some professional genealogists, including the Roy...
Jan 17, 2006 •
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When considering my ancestors, I have sat endless hours online, and in the dusty archives, looking for the concrete evidence, or clues as to where that evidence may lie. Usually we hit walls, and then...
Jan 15, 2006 •
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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 R...
Jan 15, 2006 •
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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-...