Tag: Kent
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Unexpected circle
#England #Folkestone #Kent #Lancashire #Liverpool #Shifnal #Shropshire #Telford #Yorkshire A comment people will hear me say time and again is that with family history research you never know where investigations will lead and sometimes you will just come up against a brick wall. Sometimes at a later date, perhaps years down the line, one more…
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Goosey Goosey Gander
#Ancestry #Death #England #Essex #Film #FindMyPast #GeneralRegisterOffice #Goosey #GRO #Kent #KinkyBoots #Northamptonshire #Probate #Warwickshire Goosey Goosey Gander 1 is a nursery rhyme with origins that date back to the 1780s. The only bit that I have ever really known is this first line and actually the standard lyrics are not very nice and involve throwing…
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Carry on….connection
#Actor #BluePlaque #CarryOn #Deal #Death #England #Film #Homosexuality #Kent Whilst researching one of my 3x Great Grandparents, Hannah DAWSON, had an interesting and unexpected find. I knew that in later life she was living with one of her daughter’s and when went to find the address spotted it had a blue plaque1 affixed. It is…
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Remembering Alan Gordon Gavin
#Alkham #Arnhem #Belgium #Death #England #Goirle #Kent #KIA #Leopoldsburg #Military #Netherlands #Poppel #Tilburg #WWI #WWII As we are coming up to Remembrance Sunday I thought that I would write a post about one of my wider family members who fought in World War II and sadly did not return home again. Alan Gordon GAVIN was…
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Burials of the unknown
*Please note this article references drowning and the death of a child* #Deal #Kent #Sholden #Graves #Church #Drowning #KFHS #StNicholas #ParishRegisters A few years ago, I visited a distant relative and she very kindly donated to me her microfiche reader and box of records that she had purchased. They are all transcriptions undertaken by members…