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    Gilt toy maker and black ornament maker

    Can anyone help with a clear description of what a "gilt toy" maker or manufacturer and a "black ornament" maker or manufacturer actually produced? (I know that the word 'toy' has more of the...
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    William Cooksey's second wife was Hannah Miller...

    William Cooksey's second wife was Hannah Miller (nee Mallin), widow of John Miller. Can anyone suggest a plausible reason why they would have married in West Derby, Liverpool?

    Cooksey's business...
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    My belated thanks to Jan1954 and to Mikejee. The...

    My belated thanks to Jan1954 and to Mikejee. The Black Country History website was entirely new to me - and potentially valuable resource as it develops. I was delighted to read the copartnership...
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    Commercial and company records 1815-1860

    Other than trade directories, do records of nineteenth century companies exist?

    My interest is companies and businesses known to have been operating in West Bromwich between about 1815 and 1860,...
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    Mallin Street

    Further to what I thought might be my last posting on this topic, I came across the following at www.churches.lichfield.anglican.org/westbrom/allsaints/History.htm

    The year was 1871; the church,...
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    Mallin Street

    For the benefit of anyone who may access this thread in future, I have found the following in a much longer and detailed account in British History Online at...
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    Mallin Street

    Thank you everyone. Very interesting. Especially Peter's suggestion that a local builder may have named the street for himself rather than, say, by the local council. Mallin is certainly a west...
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    Mallin Street

    Might anyone be able to explain the origin of the name of "Mallin Street" in Sandwell?
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    The Homestead, Newton Solney

    Thanks birdlip. I will follow through your suggestion.
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    The Homestead, Newton Solney

    Can any contributor shed any light on the location of a 1916 address "The Homestead, Newton Solney, Burton on Trent"?

    The address appears on the Abingdon, Berkshire, Roll of Honour...
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    Hazelwood Perrin

    Hazelwood (Haslewood) Per(r)in
    Born Cropredy 1677.
    Died Bucknell 1752
    Children with Elizabeth, baptisms at Bucknell 1701-1711.

    Searching for marriage of Hazelwood and Elizabeth.
    Also searching...
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    The Homestead, Newton Solney

    Can any contributor shed any light on the location of a 1916 address "The Homestead, Newton Solney, Burton on Trent"?

    The address appears on the Abingdon, Berkshire, Roll of Honour...
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    Clarkes Field Colliery

    I seem to have stumped everyone with this query. However, I have this evening found, maybe, a clue: listed in the Wolverhampton Archives And Local Studies 1841 Census Street Index is a "Clarks Field"...
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    Dutch Church

    Can anyone tell me if there was a "Dutch Church" anywhere in Essex, other than at Colchester?

    An aunt in Australia has a wooden model of what she has always known of as "the Dutch Church" and...
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    Clarkes Field Colliery

    Listed in the West Bromwich section of Robson's Birmingham & Sheffield Directory, 1839 (available online at www.historicaldirectories.org) under "Coal Masters" is "Miller Richard, Clarkes Field...
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    Thanks, Mike. Most helpful. I'll certainly look...

    Thanks, Mike. Most helpful. I'll certainly look forward to visiting Acton Scott farm museum.

    I'd be interested to know what the local Shropshire papers were during the late nineteenth century.
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    c19th Shropshire Farmers & Farming

    One of the delights of researching family history is being drawn into the social history. My own researches have taken me from c17th dissenters in the Essex marshes, to life on a great estate in...
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    Janet, many thanks. The information about the...

    Janet, many thanks. The information about the mistranscribed FROSH family was most helpful. I have spent several hours since your posting building a considerable picture from online sources. I have...
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    "Clooskiltin" Cork?

    Can anyone help identify a place name transcription?

    After much searching of the English 1871 census for Minnie Mary Mahoney from Cork, I found an entry transcribed as ‘Minnie Maconey’...
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    Hello Trish. Thank you for your comments and...

    Hello Trish. Thank you for your comments and thoughts. I will look further into your suggestion about the road names and the Plant family at number 9.

    At the time of his marriage to Ellen Frost,...
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    Hello Trish I'm having difficulty finding any...

    Hello Trish

    I'm having difficulty finding any 'leads' on my maternal great-grandmother Ellen Frost.

    Aged 21, a spinster, she married George William Plant at Hartshill on 29 January 1894, giving...
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    Stoke Old Road 1891 Census

    Can anyone kindly tell me which census District of the 1891 census for Stoke Upon Trent includes Stoke Old Road?
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    Reading WW1 Royal Navy Service Record

    I'd welcome advice on reading a Great-Uncle's WW1 Royal Navy Service record. I have the following questions:

    1. Attentive 1 and Attentive 2
    I am assuming these are shore establishments, but where...
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    2 Railway Carriages, Shelton

    I'd be very interested to hear from anyone who might be able to shed some light on an apparently curious address "Railway Carriages, Shelton" in the 1861 census.

    The reference is Folio 75; Page...
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    Springfield Villas, Tottenham

    My thanks to Brenda and Marian for sharing your thoughts and ideas.

    I did find Northumberland Park in my A-Z of London and on www.streetmap.co.uk

    However, the only references I could find to...
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