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I can't get into familysearch.org frontwards, backwards or sideways. Maybe I should do that old cache-clearing crap.

Black snow? Who's got black snow?? What's that, volcano snow???

Janey


did you get any snow today, or yesterday?


I hear London, Ontario, had massive amounts



I had no problems getting into family search

London Ont got buried. It wasn't like that when I grew up there -- the snow belt apparently shifted after I left. ;)

My little sister broke her leg falling off a snowbank on the side of the road shortly after.

On CNN this a.m. they actually showed that bit of Canada on the weather map -- a dark blue band stretching across the SW Ontario peninsula, covering London and I guess Kitchener-Waterloo, and all points around.

Got stuck in the snow belt on Xmas eve some years ago. Left Toronto too late with my then beau, driving his company cargo van. A maelstrom of snow and wind. People were driving off the road into fields all along the 401.

We stopped to pick up two loads of them -- a family with toddlers dressed as if it were Easter, and a retirement-age couple who were in the median ... and the husband flatly refused to come with us. In the two minutes at a time we were out in it, loading the people into the back of the van (only boxes to sit on, but traffic was only going about 10 miles an hour), I thought I was going to die from the wind. But Mr Man was going to wait for a tow truck, a truly brilliant thing to do in that weather, which was literally deathly in not too long a time. If your car stalled and you couldn't get heat ... if the snow blocked your tailpipe and the CO backed up ... totally moronic and unforgivable thing to do to his wife.

We made it to the service centre in the middle of the snow belt, Woodstock, just as people were starting to pull in there. Eventually the restaurant was so full of puking children and the like we just went out to the van and lit candles. But we stayed with the older woman until her fool husband made it in, so she wasn't alone. I could've punched him.

About 2 a.m., we were able to head back out. I've driven in some fine snowstorms since, but I don't think I'll bother again if I decide to drive in future.


Oh, and my mum was chortling the other morning -- apparently Buffalo NY got 60 cm overnight! That's exactly two feet, for the foreigners. Buffalo really has been getting hit hard in recent years. Like the snow belt in SW Ontario, it's "lake effect" weather.

Janey - we've got black snow - it's when it's piled up by the roadside and it's turned all black - no volcanoes in Whitley Bay!

Is it the coal dust from them there mines MC

ja...x

What do they dump on the snow to turn it black -- or what turns it black?

Here it takes quite a while for old hard snow piles at the side of the road to turn black just from road air pollution.

Evening

Just looked at my great grandmother on several other Ancestry trees and they have her death as Stratford New Zealand.
She actually lived at 100 Faraday Street Walworth SE17
My grandmother's half sister was able to tell me that was where she died but cannot see it on FreeBMD or Ancestry
I have left comments on the Ancestry trees but would be nice to back it up.

She is Florence Mary Milcock as below

1881 Listed as Wilcock age 26 Evenlode
WILCOCK, William Head Married M 40 Labourer
Evenlode Worcestershire
WILCOCK, Caroline Wife Married F 26 Wife
Stow On The Wold Worcestershire
WILCOCK, Thomas Son Single M 6
Evenlode Worcestershire
WILCOCK, Florence Daughter Single F 3
Evenlode Worcestershire
WILCOCK, Mary Daughter Single F 1
Evenlode Worcestershire

1901 Address: 165, Gordon Road, Camberwell
NORGATE, Charles Head Married M 51 1850 Laundry Proprietor
Kopley Hampshire
NORGATE, Sarah A Wife Married F 50 1851
Walworth London
NORGATE, Bertha E Daughter Single F 20 1881
Camberwell London
NORGATE, May L Daughter Single F 8 1893
Camberwell London
NORGATE, Elizabeth A Niece Single F 31 1870
Farley Hampshire
NICHOLLS, Henrietta E Niece Single F 34 1867
Ropley Hampshire
MILCOCK, Florence M Servant Single F 23 1878 Cook (Domestic)
Evenlode Gloucestershire
TASKER, Rose H Servant Single F 19 1882 Housemaid (Domestic)
Islington
London

London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921
about William Thynne Name: William Thynne widower Printer
Age: 28
Estimated birth year: abt 1875
103 .... street
Spouse Name: Florence Wilcock (Milcock) spinster
Spouse Age: 29
Record Type: Marriage
Event Date: 6 Dec 1903
60 Faraday street
Parish: St Stephen, Walworth Common
County: Middlesex
Borough: Southwark
Father Name: Joseph Thynne Printer deceased
Spouse Father Name: William Wilcock (Milcock) labourer deceased
witnesses Sarah Moore
John Thomas Milcock


1911 Address: 100 Faraday St Walworth S E
THYNNE, William Head Married M 47 1864 Machine Minder St Lukes London
THYNNE, Florence Maryann Wife Married
7 years F 34 1877 Gloucestershire Evenlade
THYNNE, William John Son Single M 26 1885 Machine Tin Cutter London St Lukes
THYNNE, George Frederick Son Single M 25 1886 Machine Minder London St Lukes
THYNNE, Lily Annie Jane Daughter Single F 23 1888 Book Sticker London St Lukes
THYNNE, Samuel Son M 13 1898 School Essex Stratford
THYNNE, Florence Caroline Daughter F 6 1905 London Surrey Walworth
THYNNE, Frank Son M 5 1906 London Surrey Walworth
THYNNE, Violet Ruth Daughter F 4 1907 London Surrey Walworth
THYNNE, Thomas Henry Son M 3 1908 London Walworth
THYNNE, Alexander Son M 1 1910 London Walworth

Can anyone else see it please?

I had that with one of my gt gt grandfathers LK lived all his life in Essex and kent and died a rich man it seems in the US I left a message but it has'nt been replied to.

ja...x

Now I'm confused are you saying she did die in NZ or she did'nt?

is this her?

Deaths Mar 1925 (>99%)
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Thynne Florence M 47 Edmonton 3a 756

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No she died in Walworth SE17

sorry I edited LK

I cant see her leaving the country either

ja...x

I saw that one Jax but that is a long way from Walworth.
The original info I had was she died at home

she would be the right age though.

There are only 4 Florence Thynne's on the 1911 and that is the only one that fits unless there was one that married between 1911 and 1925? Just checked and there was'nt

ja...x

You mention Stratford on your tree thats E.15 I think

ja...x

I suppose it is possible that she meant that was her address when she died?

You feeling better today?

Some of the children from William's first two marriages were in Stratford.

You will just have to shell out for the death cert to see then lol

Maybe she was visiting one of his kids or gone to see Tottenham or Arsenal play and died there lol

Yeah I'm ok thanks

ja...x

Certainly closer than new zealand though

you know what we say to all those people we help??


get that certificate!

lol!!