Free newspaper online access for 1 week

[Wirral]

Hi All
Sorry if this has already been posted elsewhere. It is National Library Week April 13-19 2008 & you can access 19th century newspapers at Gale Library. You need to register, but it is free. :)
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/libraryweek/

[ChristineR]

Thanks Wirral, if it is posted elsewhere then I missed it |hug|

I didn't have to register - just clicked on 'skip registration'

ChristineR

[ChristineR]

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OH WOW !!!!!!!!!!!

just found a column in 1892 - Long Lost Relatives, Lloyds weekly newspaper, London.

John Cole Randall of Harwich went to Australia 1849/1850 and last heard of in New Zealand, his nephew Thomas Peck seeking news

Of course, when I break this news to hubby, he say "well you can't tell him about John, he's dead"

Is this my lucky day or what :D I had no idea when John left England.

ChristineR
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[v.wells]

|jumphappy


OH WOW !!!!!!!!!!!

just found a column in 1893 - Long Lost Relatives, Lloyds weekly newspaper, London.

John Cole Randall of Harwich went to Australia 1849/1850 and last heard of in New Zealand, his nephew Thomas Peck seeking news

Of course, when I break this news to hubby, he say "well you can't tell him about John, he's dead"

Is this my lucky day or what :D I had no idea when John left England.

ChristineR
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Good for you Christine and I laughed reading your hubby's response! :D:D

I have no luck with these types of search engines - all that came up was 2007 news - not my era of interest - I will have another go at it later!

Thanks Wirral for the link!

[busyglen]

Thanks Wirral,

I've spent ages doing different searches, and am amazed what has turned up. Nothing of value to me at the moment, but I did come across an entry for our Island in the 1850's when there was a murder.

Glenys

[Mutley]

Thanks Wirral,
I have to grab the chance at that link whenever it becomes available to us abroad.
And I have found a couple of more snippets for my ruffians:o

[Barnzzz]

hello, this has been fantastic for me ! I've found 1 marriage announcement and 6 death announcements. I've also found lots of articles about a rellie who I thought had been sent to prison because he was bankrupt, but now find that it was because of suspected fraud, and that he was eventually found not guilty !

Sue

[ChristineR]

While I was trying to get the page up without the green highlighted words (instead of just doing the obvious and using the browse issue option) I found that that issue would not come up with searching on some of the other name combinations in that article.

So it is worth just browsing in case you pick up something of interest. Even if you do not find any relatives it is all great stuff to put their lives into context.

:)

[ET in the USA]

Wirral,
You should be ashamed -|blush|
Anyone who puts a link like this on the forum ought to have to come over to clean my house, go to the store & walk the dog - I haven't done a thing all day but search for everyone I have who lived between 1800 - 1900 ! Great fun & I even found some things. Thanks Wirral.

[Pam Downes]

I'm always easily lead astray by the other news on the same pages as my stuff, but this one has to be shared:
from the Belfast News-Letter, Tuesday 22 August 1876.
John Frank, the public executioner in New South Wales, has died in the Sydney Infirmary from debility caused by debauchery.
Not quite sure which smilie to use there, but I'm sure Mutley or Jan will find an appropriate one. :)

The article I was originally looking at was slightly more serious.
"The altogether unprecented heat of the present week has been particularly fatal to the labourers engaged in getting in the harvest in Lincolnshire. No fewer than five cases of sunstroke were reported on Friday, three of them proving fatal. At Sutton, Henry Cox, aged 30, died; at Billinghay, Charles Carr, aged twenty; and at Holbeach, James Feur, two other cases having occurred at the same place."
Pam

[ChristineR]

And I found this one...

The Leeds Mercury (Leeds, England), Saturday, January 15, 1870; Issue 9910

EXTRAORDINARY CONFESSION OF MURDER
George Dyer, forty-seven, clerk, a person of diminutive stature, was brought up before Mr Vaughan, charged at Bow-Street on Monday, on his own confession, with having murdered George Wilson at the gold diggings at Lodden, in Victoria, Australia. Prisoner said that he quarrelled with Wilson, his mate, at the diggings,, about sharing the gold, and he knocked him down with his spade, cutting his head completely open. His body he threw down a well.

I never did get to see what happened to him, they had to wait on hearing back from New South Wales before doing anything more. There was not an inquest held in Victoria for him, so presuming George was never found.

:)

[melsibob]

I am now sulking as I have only just seen this and have missed the boat|doh| Most of my tree lived some distance away from here - in various locations - this would probably have been realy useful............groan!

[Chris Miles]

Hi
Me too, just my luck, always a day too late

[Dargie]

Me too!!!
Just found another branch to my tree through a wonderful article called "Suicide in Buxhall". I was just getting the hang of how to find things and then it all closed down.
Oh, for the information I may have found that now is locked away!
Thanks anyway for the help in finding this brief moment of enlightenment!
Marj.
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[Sue Mackay]

Just shows how important it is to log into B-G every day and read the new posts!

Better make a note of the date in your diary. I think this is the second or maybe third year they have had a free trial for National Library Week

[Pam Downes]

I am now sulking as I have only just seen this and have missed the boat|doh| Most of my tree lived some distance away from here - in various locations - this would probably have been realy useful............groan!
Another date to put in your diary for next year, along with May Day Bank Holiday weekend for WDYTYA Live 2009. :)
Time was when it was 'library month' -then you really had time to get things done.
Pam

[caliope]

Thank you, Wirral, for that information!!

I read your message quite by chance an hour and a half away from midnight. I was able to find three articles on my direct ancestors. (If I knew how to do the dancing smiley faces, I would be inserting them here!). I wish I'd had more time. I, for one, will be checking ALL the new B-G posts daily from now on!

[Pam Downes]

And just to prove that it's not only that site that can't rely on OCR for accurate indexing...
I've just spotted that one article I saved in the British Newspapers 1600-1900 section is indexed as 'Porkshire Lent Assizes'. :eek: :D Though to be fair, it is quite a fancy 'Y'. :D
Pam

[Pam Downes]

I love this one...

Highworth
This town will be lighted with gas (by Mr Wm Steers) on Easter Tuesday, on which occasion the children of the different schools (about 400) will be regaled with cake and ale. :)

That was from Jackson's Oxford Journal for Saturday, March 23, 1850, and I presume it refers to Highworth in Wiltshire.
Such a simple sentence, but so much social history in it.