I guessed as much, Pam, but thought I would mention it. Perhaps you have blocked more of this type of attempted advertising than we realise.
Cheers. Ed
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02-10-2021 3:36 PM
Thread: Spam ostensibly from BG
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I guessed as much, Pam, but thought I would...
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02-10-2021 10:00 AM
Thread: Spam ostensibly from BG
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Spam ostensibly from BG
Received a strange spam email ostensibly saying there had been a recent reply to a thread I was subscribed to.
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04-02-2021 12:30 PM
Thread: Ship ownership
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Helachau, Thanks for your interest in this. ...
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Thanks for your interest in this. As you have discovered there were numerous "London Packet" vessels of various kinds so difficult to differentiate even on the Lloyds register. The... -
03-02-2021 4:55 PM
Thread: Ship ownership
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Ship ownership
Yes I had been checking the Lloyds registers of shipping on Archive.org and that is where my question came from as the other details compared except for a schooner carrying 8 guns and the brig.
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01-02-2021 12:08 PM
Thread: Ship ownership
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Ship ownership
In researching our Jury family of lightermen in Wapping I found a record in the watermans company books at the LMA a few years ago that Robert Jury had a one third share in a brig "London Packet",...
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01-02-2021 11:10 AM
Thread: Puzzling Mortality Statistics
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Tony, Did your respected journalist give the...
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Service deaths during Palestine Mandate 1948
I am at a loss to identify where these deaths are recorded. I have a recollection of indexes of service deaths overseas when they were available in libraries on microfiche but the GRO index on line...
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26-07-2020 4:09 PM
Thread: Duplicate birth registration on GRO
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Thanks for the link Pam. At least my memory is...
Thanks for the link Pam. At least my memory is not completely fallible even if a bit wonky. There are restrictions but not quite what I thought. As this birth was in 1927 a trifle before my own it...
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26-07-2020 1:34 PM
Thread: Duplicate birth registration on GRO
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Well I must confess that I was relying on memory...
Well I must confess that I was relying on memory when I thought that there was a restriction on who could buy a birth certificate of someone who was still alive, obviously not a good idea at my age....
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26-07-2020 8:55 AM
Thread: Duplicate birth registration on GRO
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Duplicate birth registration on GRO
As I have said I am not aware that the marital status of the mother and father came up at the time of the registration. It may well have done but I have never seen any reference to it, nor...
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25-07-2020 5:44 PM
Thread: Duplicate birth registration on GRO
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Thank you both. As I said I have not come across...
Thank you both. As I said I have not come across this before. I was not even aware that the marriage or otherwise of the parents came up during a birth registration. It certainly did not as far as my...
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25-07-2020 4:05 PM
Thread: Duplicate birth registration on GRO
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Duplicate birth registration on GRO
After many years I have again come across something not found before.
A duplicate birth registration on the gro in 1928. One under the mother's maiden name and the other under the presumably... -
24-01-2020 2:12 PM
Thread: School for young ladies and gentlemen.
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Peter I haven't been to Bancroft road for about...
Peter I haven't been to Bancroft road for about twenty years. Rather a long way to go from Cheshire quite apart from tempus fugit!! Thanks for the suggestion though.
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24-01-2020 11:04 AM
Thread: School for young ladies and gentlemen.
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School for young ladies and gentlemen.
Most peoples perspective of Georgian and Victorian East end of london is influenced by Oliver and Jack the Ripper, so they may, like me, be surprised by an entry in Holdens Triennial Directory...
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24-01-2020 10:51 AM
Thread: Infant Mortality
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Tony, are there any Medical Officer of health...
Tony, are there any Medical Officer of health reports for the area and the period concerned? There are for some areas of London and these are most illuminating giving details of reportable diseases...
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15-12-2019 2:48 PM
Thread: Hermitage street,Wapping
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Thanks for the reference but I have seen most of...
Thanks for the reference but I have seen most of these maps over the years. I think that bowles map actually says "L Hermitage Street" but the L falls in the adjacent section. Presumably because it...
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14-12-2019 2:03 PM
Thread: Hermitage street,Wapping
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Thanks for all of the responses. Seems as though...
Thanks for all of the responses. Seems as though there was not a Hermitage street as such so references to it are merely an abbreviation. Interesting article on the island aspect. I knew this of...
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12-12-2019 2:57 PM
Thread: Hermitage street,Wapping
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Hermitage street,Wapping
In 18th and 19th century references to individuals there is mention of them residing in Hermitage street. None of the online maps of that section of East London show such a street. There is Great...
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20-11-2019 8:28 PM
Thread: FamilySearch matching
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Some twenty odd years ago we did volunteer work...
Some twenty odd years ago we did volunteer work at a LDS the, but are not as members of the church. This was in the days of the igi and church members were under great pressure at certain times of...
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01-11-2019 10:25 PM
Thread: Strange Log-in experience today!
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There's the rub. Should be able to! Doesn't...
There's the rub. Should be able to! Doesn't work"as before" for everyone. Curiouser and curiouser!!
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01-11-2019 1:51 PM
Thread: Strange Log-in experience today!
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What is not clear on the new layout of the main...
What is not clear on the new layout of the main site is that your previous forum log in saved on the system will not work. Does that mean that when the "security upgrade" is complete we will need to...
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16-10-2019 3:49 PM
Thread: East indiamen
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Lesley from my reading of the trade not all the...
Lesley from my reading of the trade not all the vessels used were actually owned by the company. Many were chartered by the EIC with the owners providing the crew. Just makes it more complicated to...
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16-10-2019 11:26 AM
Thread: East indiamen
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East indiamen
I have a settlement entry in 1831 for Robert Jury which states he had been apprenticed to the captain of an east indiaman. He does not appear on the list of merchant navy apprentices. Does anyone...
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15-09-2019 11:34 AM
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One of the problems of identifying photos by...
One of the problems of identifying photos by style is that not everyone's circumstances are the same. This is a large, presumably family group with a mixture of clothing styles. If the photo was...
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09-09-2019 1:58 PM
Thread: Ww2 service records.
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Ww2 service records.
Have just received the service records of my father in law and they are disappointing. The brevity of the information, several times repeated over ten pages,leaves us with less information than...
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