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Staffs Col

Staffs Col Report 19 Oct 2013 18:00

The lethargic boards were the first thing I noticed when I returned from my 2 year break - I was away when the board format changed do haven't got a clue why it did. Before the change people posted, chatted argued and generally had a good laugh and as Bob says the boards used to fly now they barely creep along...why if it wasn't broke did they try and fix it :-\

BarbinSGlos

BarbinSGlos Report 19 Oct 2013 17:28

Prickles, don't you go nowhere!

How you find all these people so quickly amazes me :-D :-D

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Bobtanian

Bobtanian Report 19 Oct 2013 17:21

in the beginning when there were only two main boards the boards used to fly, now with dwindling membership , apathy, and research finished,(up to a point,) with nine boards to choose from........boards refreshing like walking through cold treacle......

not surprised that its slow.......anyone seen Errol? lately,

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me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960

PricklyHolly

PricklyHolly Report 19 Oct 2013 16:35

Phew!

I thought for a minute you were in Jericho, fighting the battle with Joshua Barb.

It's ok.....i'l go quietly.

Researching:
"If I don't see you through the week.........I will see you through the window". :o))

Budgie Rustler

Budgie Rustler Report 19 Oct 2013 16:32

They aint ancestors sweetie. I`m just a curious B*gger,,lol :-) :-) :-)

Researching:
... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz3lwXEGWIM ... There is no God. No single Creator. There is only Creation itself. Creation does not need to be explained ... It just IS.

BarbinSGlos

BarbinSGlos Report 19 Oct 2013 16:28

Sorry sorry just a tinge of excitement for a ickle moment. I'll be quiet now.

Honest, mwah

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PricklyHolly

PricklyHolly Report 19 Oct 2013 16:27

Post it on "Find Ancestors" Jimbum so we can all have a stab at it.

Ooops.......I don't mean that we can all have a stab at your bum!!

lol

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"If I don't see you through the week.........I will see you through the window". :o))

PricklyHolly

PricklyHolly Report 19 Oct 2013 16:25

Are you in Jericho Barb?

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"If I don't see you through the week.........I will see you through the window". :o))

Budgie Rustler

Budgie Rustler Report 19 Oct 2013 16:24

Hi Prickly sweetie, Oliver`s father is down as a coal miner,
I`m beginning to wonder if he was an itinerant worker say from Ireland.
I reckon the Finch name could possibly be of Irish origin. :-S

Researching:
... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz3lwXEGWIM ... There is no God. No single Creator. There is only Creation itself. Creation does not need to be explained ... It just IS.

BarbinSGlos

BarbinSGlos Report 19 Oct 2013 16:20

And the walls came tumbling down ??????

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PricklyHolly

PricklyHolly Report 19 Oct 2013 16:09

About the closest i can find so far...

Marriages Mar 1894 (>99%)

Budd Albert Petworth 2b 519
Finch Henry E. Preston 2b 519
Whittington Ali Petworth 2b 519
Whittington Alice Petworth 2b 519

An odd record don't you think?

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"If I don't see you through the week.........I will see you through the window". :o))

Budgie Rustler

Budgie Rustler Report 19 Oct 2013 16:00

Hiya all,
So then! who`s bored and would like to knock down a brick wall for me?
I just cant seem to crack this one. I must be missing something simple and its got me stumped .
Any offers???..

After a few years of research I discovered my mother was adopted at about 6 weeks old so far so good.
Since then I have also found that the adoptees had already got a male child with them, so the boy and my mother were raised as brother and sister.... But I have also found the boy was adopted too.

What I am trying to find are the boys parents... with me so far?
Right... When I saw that the boy`s birth certificate was available I thought good, I can now find out who his real parents are, easy aint it, or so I thought.
I sent for the certificate and great! both the parents names were on it.. Henry FINCH and Alice FINCH formerly Whinting or looks like Whinting to me).
Should be simple from now that I have both names and an address for birth.

Nothing comes that easy in this hobby though does it? lol.
Try as I might I have hit a brick wall .
The boy OLIVER FINCH was born 17 Jan 1908 @ Holmes Yard,Brookhill Lane, Pinxton, Derbys.

He is on the 1911 census as living with his adopted parents under his own birth name and still in Pinxton at different address, but same parish (Blackwell)
The thing is, even with the evidence I have .... I cannot find anything else about Oliver`s parents such as whereabouts, births, deaths or marriage.

Well there you have it, if your feeling bored, amaze me please....
Or, make me look a fool, which doesn`t bother me really, if you come up trumps on this one.
Shane. :-)

Researching:
... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz3lwXEGWIM ... There is no God. No single Creator. There is only Creation itself. Creation does not need to be explained ... It just IS.

Sharron

Sharron Report 19 Oct 2013 15:05

Underpinnings.

BarbinSGlos

BarbinSGlos Report 19 Oct 2013 15:00

I know, its a snuggly word innit.

I mean like a "pregnant pause " yuk

Love yer silly head anyway PH. :-D :-D

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PricklyHolly

PricklyHolly Report 19 Oct 2013 14:56

Hello Barbinglos

I am good thankyou. I am feeling rather idle so i am wearing my silly head today.

Call me old fashioned but i love that phrase........."With child"

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"If I don't see you through the week.........I will see you through the window". :o))

BarbinSGlos

BarbinSGlos Report 19 Oct 2013 14:48

Prickles :-D :-D

Hello my lovely !! How's you :-D

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PricklyHolly

PricklyHolly Report 19 Oct 2013 14:47

Good to see you have changed your name to "Bums" DC.

I like it.

lol x

Researching:
"If I don't see you through the week.........I will see you through the window". :o))

PricklyHolly

PricklyHolly Report 19 Oct 2013 14:45

Back when i was "with child" Barb..........i thought blimey, where did that come from?

xxx

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"If I don't see you through the week.........I will see you through the window". :o))

DazedConfused

DazedConfused Report 19 Oct 2013 14:45

In the past 2 weeks I have only been looking in every couple of days. And to be honest, I think I could stay off for weeks and come back and nothing will have happened.

It is sooo slow on here....

And when something does happen I invariably miss it ..... bums...... ;-)

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We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars, Oscar Wilde New avatar, my dad age about 3/4 months, could have been worse, it could have been the awful nude on a rug!!

BarbinSGlos

BarbinSGlos Report 19 Oct 2013 14:33

Back when I was ""with child "" I ate pounds and pounds of Granny Smiths. Every day I would crave for them.

I haven't been able to look at one since 1964 :-D

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