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I would guess that the baptism in 1840 was private (e.g. emergency) and no one got around to the public reception into the Church which was supposed to follow shortly afterwards. Was she about to get...

Some forums offer a selection of the more common smilies in the bar along with bold/italic etc., , and you only go advanced if you want one of the more esoteric ones.

For my suggestion: How about...

Be aware that since 2003 people have been able to opt out of having their names on the publicly-accessible electoral rolls, and many people do so. The 192.com site claims to have the latest ones, but...

Regrettably the church and churchyard were flattened in WW2 bombing and though the church was rebuilt, very few of the original stones remain. Further, part of the area where the above list of MIs...

It's generally unwise to reply "I couldn't find him in the XYZ Church registers", because it may stop someone with keener eyes from trying. Perhaps if there's a neatly typed and sorted transcription...

Different people will be using different DNS servers (usually provided by their ISP) to convert www.british-genealogy.com into a numeric IP address. Some took longer to catch up with the new host...

The book is a somewhat cryptic index + a little more information(in pre-computer days, Elizabeth was obviously trying to save her fingers and typewriter ribbon). John's entry is:

WISE...

Sorry, no Thomas Wise listed, only Henry(1778), John(1816) and Robert(1777).

Nothing much in the Marriage register either: St Peter & St Paul, Bromley, 10-Dec-1774, Thomas Wise bachelor of...

The biggest free site is historicaldirectories.org (www. in front). Some local history libraries/archives are putting their collections online. DVDs are available from our former hosts and elsewhere....

Bristol is, of course, fairly close to the coast. Does the time of year, picture, or message suggest it might simply be a holiday card? If it's a personal photo, is there a photographer's name and...

You could wander around the Kent MIs at
www.
kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Libr/MIs/MIslist.htm

IIRC, on Ancestry, you look at the enumerator's books, but I've forgotten how, and what you do next.

However, at the historical directories site, historicaldirectories.org (www. in front), Kelly's...

Regardless of the 1946 Act, I believe that railwaymen, along with other public sector workers, retired at age 60 — my railwayman granddad, born 1885, retired in 1945. They are certainly moaning now...

There may be Education Committee minutes, but you'll have to search them manually, and it won't be quick! If they're like ours, they'll contain records of truancy, scholarships, prizes, etc., so hope...

In your timeframe of the early 20th century, most firemen (as in putters-out of fires) would be part-time, so this could have just been his "day job".

As Jan1954 says, Fire Brigades at that time...

Another 20 free credits on FMP's new "jailbird" records, but says not available if you've used any of their previous introductory offers, so I haven't tried. See:...

From Post Office London Street Directories at the historical directories site, http://www.historicaldirectories.org/ and Ancestry (1902) for 99 Harrow Road:-

1895 (p417, image 264),...

You may find it worth using "Geoff's Excelent Search Engine" front end to the CWGC site -- it has lots more search options than the official site:
www.
hut-six.co.uk/cgi-bin/search1421.php

I've now found at Bromley Local Studies a nice 1986 picture of the shop which indeed has "Oakley Stores" on the gable front. Photo ref K8/23. If you want a copy, I suggest you contact them directly...

The Clarks (no-e) are only shown there in local directories and electoral rolls for 1957 and 1958 (allow for ERs being drawn up in October of the preceding year). The 1957 directory (not published in...

The name "Yellow Pages" may well have started in the 1970s, maybe as an American import, but before then they were known as "Classified Directories" and have existed independently or as appendices to...

Three days for the price of one access to their archive of newspapers during January.

Plus coming in March: free access to a regional newspaper archive to their UK registered users.

Also...

I had this scam call a few months ago. As we'd been warned about it in the local press, I was preparing to give them a fake PIN and tell them I had to go out urgently, so could they send the courier...

I haven't had a PPI or personal accident claims call for about a fortnight now since I invested in a called ID unit and stopped answering callers with suspicious/no numbers. I'm feeling quite...

It's not unusual for registers to do the occasional step back in time. Maybe a page of notes got lost and turned up later. One Church round here kept two registers in parallel at one time (vicar's...