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I went off apples about 1955 when I was about 13 years old. Where I lived most houses had an apple tree in their back garden and in the autumn we would go apple raiding.

I got stuck up a tree and shouted for my pal to help me down, I found when I got down that it was not my pal who helped me down, it was the local policeman. He skelped my backside so when I got home told my dad the policeman had hit me, my dad asked why and I told him we got caught apple raiding, needless to say I could not sit down for a week :-(

think I might be sickening for something here - I'm actually cleaning - if my DiL calls in she'll think I'm depressed!!! no emoticons either!!! sad face here

So give her the Jobs then just so she won,t think you,re depressed,and have a Coffee while perusing the Chat files. :o))>

Just thinking about preparing onions & red cabbage for pickling.
On reflection, I might just leave it until tomorrow.
Problem is, I might be less inclined tomorrow. ;-) ;-)

Perhaps you should have done it yesterday,save having to think about it today.better than that though, just don,t do it. :o))>

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

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...... ;-)

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

xxx

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

I like it.

lol x

Prickles :-D :-D

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

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"

I know, its a snuggly word innit.

I mean like a "pregnant pause " yuk

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

Underpinnings.

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. :-)

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?

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

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

Are you in Jericho Barb?

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

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

Honest, mwah