General Chat

one of the brick walls was helped by info on the 1911 census when it came out. I was so excited when I let the other relatives know.
I've a couple of others that I'm going to go back to.

lovely day again here, wind has gone and my mulberry has got shoots and some leaves after its severe pruning. If I prune it to about 7 foot high, it makes picking the berries easier. Beats me why I'm inside
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Hi all, my brickwall stops here in Aberdeen, as info I'm looking for
is somewhere in India. Had help from helpers on GR and looked
to India its self and drawn a blank. Recently got in touch with a 2nd
cousin I knew nothing of and hoped she had the info but sadly no.
Yesterday a 1st cousin of my OH, who he knew nothing of, got in
touch through Ancestry and the excitement of new finds I find is
the icing on the cake when looking for family members.
So keep smiling and here's to our future discoveries.
:-D

Emma x

Morning..... from a foggy old Melbourne city.

Fog is so thick can only see two houses away in my street.
11c at 8:am and heading for a top of 15c and sunny ( so they say!! )

I guess i have been one of the lucky ones when it comes to searching my FH as i have never experianced a brick wall. On my fathers side and my surname, my ancestors stayed in one or two neighbouring villages for 4 hundred plus years, with my 8x great grandparents Richard Hull & Mary Banbird of Great Coggeshall Essex, marrying in 1656. ( Parish records ) and the ERO...or SEAX which hold digital images of parish church bapt,marriages/banns,deaths/burials from 1400s to 1800s.
My direct blood greats in England were from mainly two counties ,Yorkshire and Essex, 1400s to 1900s the rest were by many times great cousins,uncles,aunts, moving from county to county over the century's, but i only seriously research one generation off the main branch of a given surname.
I consider myself fortunate.
Researching in the U.K and Australia now for just on 40 plus years, and i first started FH at the ripe old age of 21.....so there isnt to much i havent checked. I probably know more about County Essex, than my country of birth, Aussie....lol

Emma. My Grandmother was born in India ( Ajmere ) near Deli. Her ancestry is from Yorkshire
I found her birth in India using "India office family history research".

http://indiafamily.bl.uk/UI/

Having a sickie today, and as i am self employed, there is no one to answer to....:-D
On the down side.... working for yourself there is no sick leave pay :-(

Might have some brekkie, then mow the lawns if the weather lets me ;-)

Av a good un

Tony :-)

Morning all from a cool Sydney town..

Tony,,With all those convicts ...skite... :-P
Always thought you were a bit shifty.. :-D :-D :-D

Lovely to see some new comers or old ones returning..afraid I am a bit of a slack member and pop in when I can..

With all the new people from Melb. no fighting over who is the best football team...I go for the SWANS,, :-D :-D :-D

Have a good weekend all

Love mary xxx
Sydney

Hya All .bright & breezy just now here in Scotland .but rain forecast for a few days ..i have hit a brick wall with relies .from .scotland & Ireland .just now .winter time is my time really for ancestry .nowt on tv.& cant get in the garden .so comp is my companion .enjoy looking .love seeing how people lived .& they so struggled ..dont know how they coped one of my ancesters had 19.children by two wives ..why so many .as a lot of them died at birth .poor little mites, mind he had a factory . and money but he sounded a selfish man .from things i have read about him ,,.Irish familys`changed there surname`s 1800s`. but i still enjoy trying to find them .have a GDay .Take care all .Barbara xx 10.32am . . :-D ;-)

Hi All,

Tony thanks for that site, think I looked in some time ago
but will give it another try.

Lovely here in Aberdeen so far, but.........

Anyway have a good weekend all.

Emma x

hi ya, exactly right Tones, no sick pay, no holiday pay and a shoddy tax return ....but I enjoy all my spare time.

Its raining tonight which means I dont have to water my peas and seedlings in the morning.
fogggg yeek , we get a sea mist in the summer sometimes, no frost either.
while I havent been working evenings, I've been watching time team. I would love to dig up an old field.

My cousins took me walking over the Bodmin Moors , that amazed me. Same day they took me to Tintagel and that was just superb.

going searching xxxxxxxxxxx

HI Yette I love Time Team also.. Would love to join them in a dig..also love COAST ..shows how the shape of England has changed over the thousands of years.all by itself.and without a carbon tax.. :-D :-D
Nature is wonderful..
Been doing some FH as it has been rainy here and OH has not been to good..but we do eat so its out to the shops again today..
Keep warm all the Aussies and the people up top keep cool..
Have a nice weekend all..

Love Mary xx
Sydney

Hi All from a Hot ?[don't think so Mary] Newcastle ,where we are STILL getting an overnight frost ,and it is down to 19c again at 9am.
Sorry to hear that hubby isn't too good Mary,chin up ,Liz and i are still hoping for a miracle for you both .
Yvette ,Tintagel and Bodmin Moor ,they are great arn't they ? i am so glad that we spent two weeks down there last year because Liz can no longer sit in a car to go that distance ,so we will have to live on memories of that lovely area ,and i am so glad we took many pictures ,a couple of us two sat under the remains of the castle,in the little bay near Merlins cave.which a bystander [Swedish] took for us.
I took many pics of the old tin ,and lead mines where the cornish pasty came into being ,used to feed the miners on their shifts underground, tasty they are too .lol.me having quite a few in that magical two weeks.
The weather got so bad yesterday that we never got out for the anniversary dinner i promised ,so we will go next week instead,so ,instead i made the wife one of her fav' dishes ,a lovely cauli' cheese with minature roast new tatties,while i plumped for Macaroni cheese using the same sauce,which is one of my own recipes.
No doubt our Tones ,is contemplating how many cases the wife needs for this holiday ,lol,i always find the distribution a tad leaned towards the female ,lol,like ,mister ,one case ,wife three ,sound about right ?
well ,i need to think of starting dinner prep' a lot easier now .as some of the veggies are now in season and there is a lovely head of calabrese out in the patch with my name on it,plus one nice fat Courgette which will slice nicely for frying in a spiced flour and olive oil ,now the only problem is what to do to go with them :-).
Have a good weekend all ,Fred.xxx :-D.

Cousin took his GPS and we went geocaching as well, They live in Liskeard , so quite close to the moors. As hes lived there all his life, explained all the stones and old buildings.
you sound like a great cook Badger, Poss made tea tonight because I'm over it. Pity I love to eat.
urgh Mary, shopping day tomorrow.
are you and Barbara both in the UK Emma ? xxx

Hya yep I live in dumfries & galloway area .moved here over 4yrs ago from lancashire ..love it here so laid back .quiet rds & beautifull scenery ..decided to retire here as loved our holidays for many yrs . have ancesters from Aberdeenshire .Banf .Mulben .. hoping to go up that way in sept .& try & find more info & look at the area ..been up the west side .inverness & fort william..all very differant .loch lomond. trossachs .I know lancashire has lovely places but were we lived it changed so much /; our town .was becoming very busy & more like a sm city .Take care Barbra x

Evening.... from a very cold Melbourne :-(

I'm also a Time team fan, and watch it every night on the History channel. :-)

Well, the suitcases are out and started to pack a few things in ready for our trip northwards in a few weeks, and will be heading away from a 14c Melbourne to a 34c Phuket.... :-)
Barb has pre-booked her luxury full massage,deep cleansing,facial scrub, and exfoliation thingo,ect,ect..... with all the pampering nessecary that our fairer sex need to make e'm feel bewdiful..... :-D
One and a half hrs of pampering for BHT1,700...( $54 au or 26 GPB )
Daughters have also booked this deal.

I will however give this a miss, and just do my morning jog in the warm aqua blue salt water, of the Andaman Sea ( Free of charge ).... ;-)

Fred. You hit the nail on the head.....Quote:" like ,mister ,one case ,wife three ,sound about right ?"
I have already been told by the boss that my suitcase is to small......:-S
I can see it will be full of handbags and shoes on our return trip back to Oz.....hee hee

Its 7pm and 9c at the moment and i can hear the local lads football team up at the Council footy oval doing there thursday night training in readiness for the local weekend footy. They can have that to themselves, running around in short sleeved singlets and shorts. I'm well past those days..BBbbbbrrrrr and sitting here comfortable with the ducted heating on 23c....lol
Even the cat Bourbon is curled up on his rug Zzzzzzz and purring away.

Barbra. My Barnes ( Greats ) married in Lancashire 1830s St. Mary's "Walton on the Hill" and 7 daughters born/bapt in Liverpool ( St. Peters )before they immigrated to Aussie and settled in Melbourne. Not long after they arrived a 7th child was born ( a boy )....so it looks like they had to travel circ 17 thousand kms to the other side of the world, to finally get their son.....;-) Trouble is he never married, and died a batchelor....but after living a life with 7 sisters in the house....i would probably do the same....hee hee
The girls however....went on and produced 55 children between them....one daughter( Sarah BARNES) having 19 children ( two died ).........so the BARNES gene was very strong in Oz ;-)
My Grand Uncle Edward Hull also moved from Essex to Lanc's and married in West Derby in 1907.


Hoping all are well, enjoy your Night/Day

Av a good un.

Tony :-)

Hi all,
so sorry for not answering sooner Yvette, I live in Aberdeen
and also have a static caravan at Banchory, Aberdeenshire,
great base for visiting Royal Deeside etc.

Tony tried that site again with no luck, so think I will try variants
of the name.

Take care all.

Emma x

Hi All ,
Sorry I have been absent , I am soooo busy with this tree and I just think I have started to get somewhere when more information arrives from lost cousins ,and the thing is they had so many children.I am still getting calls for more invitations, as I told my cousin they will out number us at the reunion, not to worry it is wonderful to know that they wish to come.

Tony you must be fairly pleased with Collingwood, our Swans could do with some new blood.
Hi Mary I am sorry to hear that your oh is feeling poorly
It is bitterley cold here and like Sydney we havent seen the Sunshine for weeks.
Hi to all the new people and to Yvette also Badger who is always cooking up a storm, you make me feel hungry, and it is time I went and had some dinner .
Love & hugs to you all
Marie from OZ

Ahem.......someone forgot to mention the Royal Wattle Cat *looks at Tony* :-P

Btw keep an eye on your numbers ;-)

Good morning everyone :-)

O'k....who let the cat in...!!!


:-P


Tony :-D
ps. Morning Jupee ;-)

pmsl :-D :-D :-P

Morning Tony, or should I say evening ;-)

Had your VB tab yet?

Searching the recesses of my memory there lol

offering apologies for not being on either. had a hard time logging in , i'm not sure if it was the site or my server but it was getting monononotononous, lovely day out :)

Howdy Folks .when you look in !.a nice sunny Day here ..havent seen .colin on .threads for a long.time .hope he is ok ..have a great time tone!! on hols ..might have gone already.??well take care All.Tatty Bye Barbra xx ;-)

Morning from a sunny Melbourne sunday :-)

Hi Barbra. No, not on holidays yet, but not long to go now.... :-D
Suitcases are packed and sitting paitently on the lounge room floor...lol

Marie. Yes, very pleased with my footy club ( Collingwood ) and they are doing quite well with only one loss for the year against Geelong( so far )

Last day of July as we move into August, and then Spring ( September ) will be here, and before long i will be getting the Veg patch ready for summer :-)
Our 4 Camelia trees are in full bloom, and look a great sight form our lounge room window showing off there various colors.

The dear old mothers birthday coming up on the 3rd Aug, and she will be 92 and still going strong, god bless her<3
Probably outlive me at this rate....hee hee
O'h well, there goes me inheritance :-S.....LOL

Wishing all a great weekend.

Tony :-)