Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Friday, July 26, 2013
If at first....
I often wondered why my father, his twin sister Doris & his brother Edward were born in Upper Norwood, Croydon. The address given on the Birth Certificate was 37 St, Aubyns Road. I thought that they may have had a shoe shop but only having census records to go by (1901 & 1911 they were in Bath) I couldn't be sure. My father was born in 1904 & his brother in 1906 (both certificates were witnessed by Thomas Pain Bedford on 15th March 1918!). Playing around on Ancestry on Wednesday I found they were all baptised on 10th Oct 1906 with an address of 40 Church Rd, Upper Norwood. When I did a google search it came up with a row of shops! I then went to the Newspaper Archives & did a search with that address - bingo!! That gave me 'Mrs K. Butler', I then went to Find My Past & put K. Butler in, scrolled down to British Newspapers & got this....
It pays to keep trying!!
Monday, January 21, 2013
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Free 1911 census
Until 18 November 2012, view a 1911 census transcript for free on findmypast.co.uk – this usually costs 10 credits. They've also lowered the cost of viewing an original 1911 census image – you'll pay just 5 credits instead of 30. Which means that when we start Term 4 at The Community Centre we will be able to do much more!
An example of the fascinating insight the 1911 census can give us
into the past is the census return. Mary Howey, a
27-year-old suffragette, demonstrates her political views by writing 'votes for women' across her census form. In the infirmity column of the census, Mary wrote 'not enfranchised',
which the enumerator has crossed out in red.
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Sunday, October 7, 2012
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