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Interesting ancestor plus a 1795 weather report for Alrewas, Staffs
I've not done any research for my tree for ages, but this morning I've had the chance to sit down for a while and have a go at some of my Staffs relations.
First I discovered my 3xg-grandmother's name, (she had been Elizabeth X for about five years!!), but is now Elizabeth Lakin nee Gildart and she has a baptism, marriage and burial entry, so nice and tidy. Interestingly, though she was buried at Alrewas, Staffs in 1845 she died in Bradford, Yorks. I've yet to work out what she was doing there! Next I started on her father, James Gildart - He seems to have been buried in 1793 at Alrewas and his burial entry states: Quote:
The following page has some interesting info (I only saw it because I couldn't find James' burial when I looked the first time! Quote:
I wonder if John Edmonds wrote any more interesting snippets? Should anyone want to trawl (!) the PR is on FMP - I started from James Gildart buried 1793.
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Merry
In the days when I used to go to Records offices and trawl through PRs, I was almost always sidetracked by the Vicar's (or clerk's) comments about this and that. One register had a veritable book at the back of it, a diary of happenings in the village, the weather, the crops, visitors and some quite scurrilous gossip. As for your 26 stone man - I suppose people had eating disorders back then too, but not everyone was in a position to indulge their disorder. A butcher was very well placed! OC |
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Maybe Mrs Gildart wasn't given so much to eat as she lived on about another 35 years!
Oh, I see FMP has an article about Mr Edmonds: http://search.findmypast.co.uk/searc...shire-baptisms For those with a sub, click at the bottom: Alrewas, All Saints register: a parish newsletter
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One of my ancestors was in the burial register with the marginal comment "A very tall man". This drives me mad - was he 5ft 10 or 7 ft?
I also had the rather unworthy picture in my mind of the local carpenter/undertaker surveying the corpse and sucking his teeth (undertaker not corpse) and saying "I'll have to make him a coffin, I've got nothing in stock to fit him he's that tall". OC |
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And charging extra for it!
My mother had a boyfriend who was 6'8". His best friend was only about 5'4". They both used the same tailor and the tall man had to pay extra but the shorter man didn't get a rebate!
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* begs Merry's forgiveness as I haven't been to Lichfield yet*.
The River Trent regularly froze over until the early 20th century. There are loads of photographs on the internet of people ice skating on the Trent at Burton.
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G/g/g/ Uncle Alfred, an 1858 settler in NZ, is described by a fellow worker as "a regular
cockney, desperate as regards his h's." Love that! |
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Merry
That's very interesting and shows the challenges we face with the weather aren't new! I have found in a Cornish register a note about a tree that had been planted as a replacement for one that had died after a very long time. These little snippets are so useful. I've not found any references to physical aspects of any of my ancestors in burial registers, but I did find one who "died suddenly" with no further details!
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