tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45627193850144759852024-02-07T03:29:09.700+00:00Trace your RootsDiscover your ancestors - grow your family treeMaureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18155165859619395075noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562719385014475985.post-51309010235663914372018-01-16T15:06:00.001+00:002018-01-16T15:06:38.570+00:00SEARCH MILITARY RECORDS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Reviewer Lori Reed has given <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Trace-Your-Roots-Maureen-Vincent-Northam-ebook/dp/B00Y2PFXYC/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1433675249&sr=1-4&keywords=Trace+your+Roots" target="_blank"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><b>Trace your Roots</b></span></a> a smashing five-stars on Net Galley. Here's what she had to say:<br />
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This book is a invaluable took in the study and research of our ancestors. I am starting research going back to the Revolutionary War and Pilgrims. that can be quite daunting. With the wisdom in this book my job finding my ancestors and their records is infinitely more organized and simple. This is written for any beginning genology researcher as well as those seasoned will all find valuable assistance here. I appreciated the attention to detailed and extensive information. With this book in my hand I will be much more successful in my search.<br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">What better way to rid the country of its undesirables
than to send them somewhere else?</span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Many convicted criminals were transported to
the penal colonies, which was an alternative punishment to the hangman’s rope.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The cost to the state wasn’t great, no first
class sea voyages for these people, and so everything swung along nicely for
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The American War of Independence put paid to
the practise of hosting convicts in the latter quarter of the eighteenth
century. But in 1787, Britain had another idea and transportation to Australia
began. It is said that some 160,000 convicted criminals – men, women, and
children – were transported to Australia.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Fortunately for us, there are many records
we can check in order to trace our ancestors’ journeys.</span></div>
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On the Ancestry website, type in your family surname and find out all kinds of facts and available records related to it.<br />
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Found a few things searching my own family name of Kilminster from Wilshire and Gloucester including emigration records and passenger lists.<br />
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Do your search<b><span style="color: #ffe599;"> <a href="http://www.ancestry.co.uk/learn/facts?o_xid=67624&o_lid=67624&o_sch=Display" target="_blank">HERE</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #ffe599;"><span style="color: #741b47;">. </span><span style="background-color: #741b47;"><span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></span></span></b>Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18155165859619395075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562719385014475985.post-17534242192831202912015-08-12T12:48:00.000+01:002015-08-12T12:52:40.489+01:00Broadening your census horizons<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKLtFbhvnhpBmCFmx0YmPZJr91e5BlYUmem_LV4RsX1P7qwq_PnQ-fJAjftPCsoyCSsvUveqU2JnoQH0gxEDsBaYORtFJYbNi79ScWZ73TbEaBvgN9k0MwKQZOTzBK_cnqx9Q81bXDoIM/s1600/lynne-black1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKLtFbhvnhpBmCFmx0YmPZJr91e5BlYUmem_LV4RsX1P7qwq_PnQ-fJAjftPCsoyCSsvUveqU2JnoQH0gxEDsBaYORtFJYbNi79ScWZ73TbEaBvgN9k0MwKQZOTzBK_cnqx9Q81bXDoIM/s200/lynne-black1.jpg" width="150" /></a><br />
My guest, Lynne Black tells us how broadening her census searches helped her keep track of her family's whereabouts, which led to further interesting findings.<br />
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Mary Sarah Young was born in 1867, the fourth daughter, and fifth child of seven of Hannah Halliday and George Shields Young.<br />
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Although born in Gateshead in County Durham, her family moved to Yorkshire when she was young and she grew up in Shipley.<br />
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Mary came from a well-educated family. Several of her older sisters
had been governesses or worked in schools, and at the age of 24 in 1891
Mary herself was working in Shipley as a School Assistant Mistress.<br />
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However she had vanished from Yorkshire in the 1901 census and by
broadening my search I found her living down in Okehampton, Devon with
her mother Hannah and two sisters Marion and Edith. Mary was single and
her family all widows; Mary was the only one in the household working,
and by this time she’d had a promotion to Schoolmistress.<br />
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It can’t have been too long after that before she and mother Hannah had moved on again, to Pembrokeshire. Her youngest sister Edith accompanied
them but didn’t stay that long; she had fallen for a surveyor from
Okehampton and they married in Pembrokeshire in 1905 before moving back
down to Devon.<br />
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Her sister Dora came up from her home in Essex to visit in October
1908, but shockingly died during her visit, leaving a husband and 3
young children.<br />
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By 1911 Mary had been appointed as a Head Teacher of an elementary
school owned by Pembrokeshire County Education Authority. She and her
mother were living in Rhydberth, Tenby.<br />
<img alt="Mary S Young's 1911 census entry" class="wp-image-841 size-medium" height="33" src="https://starryblackness.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/1911census-job-descr.jpg?w=450&h=47" width="320" /><br />
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The <a href="https://www.pgfl.org.uk/schools/tf/TenbyJunior/about/default.aspx?s=21" target="_blank" title="Tenby Junior School website">Tenby Junior School website </a>tells
me: “Tenby Council School was built in 1915 while the First World War
was at its height. It was officially opened in June 1916 by Mr S.B.
Sketch, J.P., C.C., Chairman of the Education Committee. The school was
situated in Greenhill Road and pupils came from the School which had
previously been held beneath the Methodist Chapel in Warren Street,
which was subsequently demolished in the 1980s. The Headmaster at this
time was Mr J Howells.” Given Mary’s religious background, I’m
wondering whether she taught at the Warren Street Chapel. <a href="http://www.archiveswales.org.uk/anw/get_collection.php?coll_id=76433&inst_id=32&term=Warren%20Street%20British%20School" target="_blank">Pembrokeshire Record Office website</a> has some potential for archive material if I want to follow it up at a later date.<br />
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Her sister Marion remarried at the start of the war, a John Ogden, a widower, back in Yorkshire in Keighley.<br />
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Eight years later in 1919, after the first world war which took her nephew George Shields Young,
Mary is also found back up in Yorkshire, listed on the electoral roll
in the School House in Oldfield, where she was still living in 1926.<br />
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I googled ‘Oldfield School West Yorkshire’ and it came up with the website of the <a href="http://www.oldfieldprimarykeighley.co.uk/" target="_blank" title="Oldfield Primary School">Oldfield Primary School</a>
which has a lovely image of an old school building on the home page.
It’s been taken on a frosty morning and I can just picture Mary wrapped
up well walking up the path to the door. I rang the school and the
secretary said that she was actually speaking from the School House,
which I really loved.<br />
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By 1929, aged 62, she has moved to Harrogate, Yorkshire, where she lived for the rest of her life.<br />
She died, aged 75, in the midst of the second world war, on Christmas
Day 1942. In her will left effects of £871 5s 1d [£25K in 2005 money]
to her brother and her nephew.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #4c1130;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">. </span></span>Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18155165859619395075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562719385014475985.post-25442760954734566902015-08-08T11:25:00.000+01:002015-08-08T11:26:55.902+01:00Summer Sale<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #741b47;">. </span>Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18155165859619395075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562719385014475985.post-65471104188665060032015-07-09T08:13:00.001+01:002015-07-09T08:13:11.843+01:00Was Beer the end of Mother’s Ruin?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Welcome to my guest <a href="http://rolandclarke.com/" target="_blank">Roland Clarke</a> who tells us about his famous family, researching on Wikipedia - and gin!<br />
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When I was growing up, I was often told that my Quaker
ancestors had helped bring an end to the repercussions of ‘Mother’s Ruin’ by
promoting beer.<br />
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brewing firm of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman%27s_Brewery">Truman
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So when Maureen Vincent-Northam asked me to write about
those ancestors, I began wondering whether that was just a family legend, whether
that would be an interesting starting-point. Was there was some truth behind the
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My fourth great-grandfather was <a href="http://spartacus-educational.com/REfowell.htm">Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton</a>,
1st Baronet (1 April 1786–19 February 1845) and he married Hannah Gurney, the
sister of Joseph Gurney and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Fry">Elizabeth Fry</a> – yes, the
prison reformer that was on the old British £5 note.<br />
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Although Thomas Fowell wasn’t a Quaker, as they were, he was
a committed social reformer and in the forefront of the abolitionist movement,
succeeding William Wilberforce as its parliamentary leader in the House of
Commons, having been elected an MP in 1818.</div>
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And as Wikipedia says, ‘In 1808, Buxton's Hanbury family
connections led to an appointment to work at the brewery of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Truman_Brewery" title="Old Truman Brewery">Truman, Hanbury & Company</a>, in Brick Lane, Spitalfieds,
London. In 1811 he was made a partner in the business, renamed Truman,
Hanbury, Buxton & Co. Later he became sole owner.’</div>
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find it is a useful starting point for any research, and from there I can
corroborate the facts using other sources. In this case, my late mother had a
lot of Buxton books that she was given by my paternal grandmother, who was born
Rebekah Mary Buxton in 1900 – a direct descendent of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton.
Among these was “<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Buxton-liberator-H-1883--Mottram/dp/B009UVLWN4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1436368591&sr=8-1&keywords=Buxton+the+Liberator">Buxton
the Liberator</a>” by R H. Mottram in 1883, which confirms almost all the facts,
as do some of the other sources that I found – referenced in this article or at
the end.</div>
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There were no direct references to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mother’s Ruin</i> in any of these initial sources, but on Historic UK I
found an article on <a href="http://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Mothers-Ruin/"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mother’s Ruin</i></a>, and in it the
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“Gin had become the poor man's drink as it was cheap, and
some workers were given gin as part of their wages. Duty paid on gin was 2
pence a gallon, as opposed to 4 shillings and nine pence on strong beer.”</div>
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“Gin was the opium of the people, it led them to the
debtors' prison or the gallows, ruined them, drove them to madness, suicide and
death, but it kept them warm in winter, and allayed the terrible hunger pangs
of the poorest.”</div>
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“In 1830 the Duke of Wellington's administration passed the
Sale of Beer Act, which removed all taxes on beer, and permitted anyone to open
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This Bill virtually ended the traffic in gin smuggling.</div>
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By the end of 1830 there were 24,000 beer shops in England
and Wales, and six years later there were 46,000 and 56,000 Public Houses.”</div>
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Did Thomas Fowell Buxton vote in favour of either Act? Would
a brewer vote to enable anyone to brew and sell beer on payment of a licence
costing two guineas?</div>
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The Duke of Wellington’s administration were Tories, while
Buxton was nominally a Whig. On his election in 1818, his friend and future
brother-in-law, Joseph Gurney, wrote to him arguing: “Do not let thy
independence of all party be the means of leading thee away from sound
Whiggism. Let us take special care to avoid the spirit of Toryism. I mean that
spirit which bears the worst things with endless apathy, because they are old.”</div>
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The Hansard record of the passage of the Beer Act in 1830
include an interesting record on <a href="http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1830/may/21/sale-of-beer-bill#S2V0024P0_18300521_HOC_75">Mr
F Buxton’s opinion</a>.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>“Mr F Buxton</b>, while admitting that the fears
entertained of this measure, as far as the brewers were concerned, had been
greatly exaggerated, contended that the loss to the publicans would be as
great, if not greater, than was anticipated. There had only been one or two
instances of petitions being presented in favour of the clause under the
consideration of the House, while hundreds had been presented against it. He
did not mean to say that the measure would be positively bad; but it would at
any rate, be questionable. By it public-houses might be opened during all hours
of the night, and in any places, and no security was given for their being
properly conducted, for the fine or penalty proposed by the Bill was no
security at all. At present there was some difficulty found in keeping
public-houses in good order, though the publican was liable to have his license
taken away, which was equal to a fine of 500l. What then would be the
state of the case where the fine was only 2l.10s. He conceived that the
other parts of the Bill contained innovations, sufficient to satisfy the
advocates of free-trade, and he hoped the House would refuse to accede to the
introduction of any more. If at a future period it should be found necessary to
make any fresh innovations, then let them be done, but he thought some consideration
ought at present to be extended to the publicans. He should support the
Amendment of the hon. Member, which was exactly in accordance with a clause
introduced into the bill of an hon. and learned Gentleman some years back.”</span></span></div>
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At this stage of my investigations, I sense that Buxton
voted for the Bill, once the amendment under discussion was defeated, and that
the large breweries went on to benefit from the growth in outlets. And Mother’s
Ruin met its demise – for a while.</div>
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Of course the fascination with my ancestors doesn’t end
there. Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton’s greatest achievement was as an abolitionist,
helping to end the slave trade in the British Empire. And then there are the social
and criminal justice achievements of his Quaker in-laws the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurney_family_(Norwich)">Gurneys</a>, who
continued their connection with the Buxton family down the generations. Maybe I
will talk about them another time.</div>
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For now, thanks Maureen for letting me ramble.</div>
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Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton</div>
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Trumans, brewing and gin</div>
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Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18155165859619395075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562719385014475985.post-45107035441114703512015-06-28T22:12:00.004+01:002015-06-28T22:12:29.908+01:00Stranger than fiction<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ten years ago, I received, out of the blue, a letter which went on to change my life. It was to spark off a chain of events which led, a few months later, to my meeting up with the family that I never, in my wildest dreams, imagined that I would ever know.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is a long and complicated story and would probably fill an entire book, but the piece that follows is just one small part of it. During the past ten years I have shared it with family and a few close friends, but now perhaps the time is right for it to have a wider audience.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tissues at the ready?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br /><div class="MsoTitle" style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I’ve always been bizarrely fascinated by the kind of stories in which long-lost relatives are finally reunited, and their relationship is ultimately proved, by means of a pair of long-separated objects. But these stories belong in the realm of fairy tales with unexpected happy endings, not in the real world. Or so I’d always thought...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">As a product of the post-war baby-boom, I was born at a time when money was scarce and luxuries were even scarcer. For much of my childhood the family didn’t even own a camera, so photographs of my early years are very few and far between. Hence, the ones which do exist (mostly taken on borrowed Box Brownies) have become all the more valuable. Which might explain why I’ve kept them all – including one particular picture which, for my whole life, I’ve never really liked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The photograph is a grainy black-and-white 3” x 2” enprint. It was taken at my first Christmas, when I was four months old, and shows me (dressed in my best but still baby-bald) sitting propped up on cushions on a dark velvet-upholstered sofa. I appear to be waving at the camera and half-smiling. The photo could have been quite pleasing, if it had been a simple above-the-waist shot:</span></div>
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When I sat down to write Trace your Roots I had great plans. I wanted
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">.</span>Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18155165859619395075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562719385014475985.post-32032219083158712942015-06-19T18:28:00.001+01:002015-06-19T18:30:08.187+01:00Broad Thoughts From A Home: TRACE YOUR ROOTS - a guest post by Maureen Vincent...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitxsIR3qzShBF-7Ev9X0XxT8s70t4mpr-zUE586y6oWPH5h1qxJRnM7ZaCMenWI4ZyWRY34xQu0C3C3CODzXQXZUML-24DeqIN9wPXNLvZawxO8v-o5No3gAd5bdrDY7w1HfAy0A7QhFE/s1600/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitxsIR3qzShBF-7Ev9X0XxT8s70t4mpr-zUE586y6oWPH5h1qxJRnM7ZaCMenWI4ZyWRY34xQu0C3C3CODzXQXZUML-24DeqIN9wPXNLvZawxO8v-o5No3gAd5bdrDY7w1HfAy0A7QhFE/s1600/photo.jpg" /></a><br />
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brothers, meeting up abroad because one had swapped sections to surprise his
brother! Being war heroes was in their blood as their father was a staff
sergeant and when he died in 1927 he had a ceremonious funeral where the guard
rode their horses backwards and the bugler played the last post. This was
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<span class="5yl5">A very useful site to reseach those who died during the two world wars is <a href="http://www.cwgc.org/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ffe599;">The Commonwealth War Graves Commission. </span></b></a></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkIrxnZkJB91_BqHEJwn2QPKNHeB7YRhLlWNLazNwnMVEhg1C5yBjZQXmmGe0UEGi8gij0ZcnG3KZiPApw6UZxek7jyHQquAax3O-lWERbAdS6OEAMuLFtePn29DqYjOGpO_frhvEPnu4/s1600/Nicola+Robinson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkIrxnZkJB91_BqHEJwn2QPKNHeB7YRhLlWNLazNwnMVEhg1C5yBjZQXmmGe0UEGi8gij0ZcnG3KZiPApw6UZxek7jyHQquAax3O-lWERbAdS6OEAMuLFtePn29DqYjOGpO_frhvEPnu4/s200/Nicola+Robinson.jpg" width="200" /></a>My favourite story comes from using Google. My grandma was born Norah Kenworthy Hilton. Kenworthy was her mother’s maiden name (Rebecca Kenworthy).<br />
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Rebecca was born in Oldham but her parents had moved from Rishworth.<br />
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I was fortunate to have a wealth of information about them already; they'd been farmers for a long time and up until the early 1900s had occupied many farms including ‘Stott Hall Farm’ - the one that sits within the M62.<br />
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So one afternoon, a bit bored of census checking, I googled ‘Kenworthy Stott Hall Farm’ and found a terrible tragedy. On this website I scrolled down the page and discovered a transcript of an old diary which also records their deaths. Read it <a href="http://members.iinet.net.au/%7Ebillk/html/d0000/g0000002.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ffe599;"><b>HERE</b></span></a><br />
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I've visited the graves in the churchyard and showed them to one of their great, great grandchildren, who I met through <a href="http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ffe599;"><b>Genes Reunited</b></span></a> another great resource for anyone trying to find out more about their past.
Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18155165859619395075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562719385014475985.post-80707598612711648562015-06-07T12:59:00.001+01:002015-06-07T13:01:38.420+01:00Book Launch Party<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Excited much! <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trace-Your-Roots-Maureen-Vincent-Northam-ebook/dp/B00Y2PFXYC/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1433675249&sr=1-4&keywords=Trace+your+Roots" target="_blank"><span style="color: #fff2cc;"><b>Trace your Roots</b></span> </a>now has a new publisher<br />
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And to launch the new, fully revised and updated book, we are having an online party on Facebook.<br />
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Join me on 19th June 2015 where there'll be virtual food, music, gossip, fun and give-aways!<br />
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Full details <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/859146140799078/" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a>Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18155165859619395075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562719385014475985.post-47937157248263090252013-04-20T20:55:00.000+01:002013-04-20T20:55:00.565+01:001901 Census<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Have you taken a look at the 1901 census yet? Over 400 million people in England and Wales are to be discovered - your ancesters must be on there somewhere!</div>
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Check it out <a href="http://www.1901censusonline.com/" target="_blank"><b>HERE </b></a></div>
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<span style="color: #fff2cc;">.</span>Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18155165859619395075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562719385014475985.post-42177189440116135352012-10-11T07:54:00.002+01:002012-10-11T07:54:52.615+01:00The Joys of Research<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz4BNYRgWcTbT8JTZXbh9oJjEXdlAWXW3rr322y5wFCFw50Tu8eaRwG0K4VJDvpG7WY2M6RM0Yn2j79mL76axcTxIbSEcrjgkyeKJVsuDnOx0GSEBzJCXUjJALXT49FCKg8V-x6KTqj5Q/s1600/SilentDeceptionCover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz4BNYRgWcTbT8JTZXbh9oJjEXdlAWXW3rr322y5wFCFw50Tu8eaRwG0K4VJDvpG7WY2M6RM0Yn2j79mL76axcTxIbSEcrjgkyeKJVsuDnOx0GSEBzJCXUjJALXT49FCKg8V-x6KTqj5Q/s200/SilentDeceptionCover.jpg" width="141" /></a><br />
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Trace your Roots aids research in all kinds of ways. Read how it helped author Cathie Dunn when she wrote her novella, <b><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silent-Deception-ebook/dp/B008GF3T7C/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1" target="_blank"><i>Silent Deception</i></a></b>.<br />
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As a writer of historical novels, conducting research is hugely important. You have to get it right to be believable. I love historical research, browsing books, leaflets and credible websites. But yes, it can also be distracting, and I often end up reading for the rest of the day, jotting down notes.<br />
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Apart from a range of history books about England, Scotland and Italy, you’ll find a detailed account about medieval France (en Français!) as well as several booklets from local historians in Scotland on my bookshelves. These came in very useful when I needed more in-depth information about medieval Normandy and smuggling in Glencoe in the 1700s.<br />
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But sometimes, you stumble across a piece of information you haven’t expected. I love it when that happens.<br />
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One such example is a detail about marriage laws in the 19th century I stumbled across whilst reading Maureen Vincent-Northam’s detailed guide, Trace Your Roots. I was interested in it as my own roots are so varied, and I wanted to learn more about how to track them. My ancestors came from different places: Germany, blue-blooded French Huguenot, Scotland, Ireland and Sweden. And although Trace Your Roots deals primarily with British ancestry, the tips can be used for searching in other countries as well.<br />
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But the guide didn’t just give me plenty of pointers for my personal search - it also provided me with details I discovered would come in handy for the novella I was writing at the time, Silent Deception. You see, whilst it is set in the mid-1860s, the back story is about a young woman being married off in the early 1800s to a man she loathes, all the while she’s in love with a young nobleman. Thanks to this little gem of a book, I discovered that the law on Marriages and Divorces changed in 1857, giving women slightly better chances for obtaining a divorce (though they still had to prove their cases, unlike men!). I dug a little deeper and found some hugely fascinating information.<br />
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I was thrilled to include the detail about changed laws, and another about marriage licenses, gained from Trace Your Roots in my novella. In my eyes, this added another layer of historical depth - which is what I love about writing historical novels.<br />
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So, if you write historical fiction, be open to any information you spot, however unimportant it may seem at first glance. It might just be the missing piece that binds the storyline together...<br />
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Have you ever visited the places your ancestors came
from? This is something I always enjoy doing, even if it’s just walking around the
town they once lived in; sometimes I’ve have nothing more to go on – having gleaned
this sparse info from an old census. I try to make a point of visiting the
parish church, as this is where many important events would have taken place
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If I’m lucky, the census or other documentation will
reveal a fuller address which enables me to track down the house, or at least
the street where my ancestors’ lived.</div>
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A few weeks ago, I took myself off to the lovely
Wiltshire town of Chippenham where, according to the 1881 census, my great
grandmother was born. At the time the census was taken, Rachel Peace was 14
years old and living with her family in Twerton, Somerset. </div>
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That’s the great thing about consulting these records –
they tell you each family members’ birthplace as well as where they were living
when the census was taken. And of course, I just had to hunt down the street listed in
Twerton where – on 3rd April 1881 at least – my great great grandparents
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Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18155165859619395075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562719385014475985.post-52687962160560023202012-08-10T16:58:00.001+01:002015-06-07T12:39:31.795+01:00Tracing sales<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well, maybe not tracing sales exactly, more 'keeping an eye' on them.<br />
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If you fancy downloading a copy to your Kindle device or the free Kindle for computers, here's the link!<br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trace-Your-Roots-Maureen-Vincent-Northam-ebook/dp/B00Y2PFXYC/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1433675249&sr=1-4&keywords=Trace+your+Roots" style="color: #ffd966;" target="_blank"><b>TRACE YOUR ROOTS</b></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trace-Your-Roots-Genealogy-ebook/dp/B008BE7VMM/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=A3TVV12T0I6NSM&qid=1307823310&sr=1-1" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #fff2cc;">TRACE YOUR ROOTS</span></b></a> has gone digital! You can now download it as an e-book for your e-reader.<br />
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If you don't have a Kindle, it can be downloaded to the Kindle for PC (a free version of the e-reader that, like it says on the tin, sits on your computer).<br />
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A little while back, I reviewed this neat piece of kit and you can read what I said about it <a href="http://writerschecklist.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/free-kindle-for-pc.html" target="_blank"><b style="color: #ffd966;">HERE</b></a>.<br />
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Get the all-singing all-dancing Kindle version Trace your Roots <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trace-Your-Roots-Maureen-Vincent-Northam-ebook/dp/B00Y2PFXYC/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1433675249&sr=1-4&keywords=Trace+your+Roots" target="_blank"><b style="color: #ffd966;">HERE</b></a>.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trace-Your-Roots-Genealogy-ebook/dp/B008BE7VMM/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=A3TVV12T0I6NSM&qid=1307823310&sr=1-1" target="_blank"></a>Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18155165859619395075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562719385014475985.post-79790882564391560072012-06-19T14:57:00.001+01:002012-06-19T14:57:47.202+01:00London Book Fair 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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the three-day period, it was great to think that Trace your Roots was there on
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Can <b><i style="color: #ffe599;">Trace
your Roots</i></b> help fiction writers? Author David Robinson believes it can.
Here he tells us how it got him digger deeper into his characters' history.</div>
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All
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keep a copy of <b style="color: #ffe599;">Trace Your Roots</b>
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When
Maureen sent me a copy of <b style="color: #ffe599;">Trace Your
Roots</b>, I thumbed through it and tried one or two of the suggestions.
Behold: within the space of an hour or two, I’d tracked down both sets of
grandparents and their respective weddings, my father’s birthplace which had
always been subject to some doubt, the births and marriages of several uncles
and aunts, my own birth record in the parish registry and my brother’s.</div>
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suddenly interested in tracing the family line, but… I’m a writer. Somewhere
along the line, I have to turn out the words. Hobbies like genealogy must take
a back seat, especially when you’re sitting dangerously close to publication
deadlines and you still have another 20,000 words to find.</div>
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mainstay of my work is crime fiction, usually from a private detective point of
view. How many times has Joe Murray needed to make a link between characters A
and Z? How could Alex Croft have dug out the descendants of The Great Zepelli
and narrowed down his search for <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Handshaker-ebook/dp/B00689RIWA/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1337458037&sr=1-1" style="color: #ffd966;" target="_blank"><b><i>TheHandshaker</i></b></a>? </div>
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clue. Now I have. I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">know</i> how that
person can be traced, I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">know</i> how Joe
can track down the heir to the fortune he’s stumbled across, and I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">know</i> how Alex Croft can tackle the
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hero/heroine specifically searches out family history in an effort to come to
terms with present problems. How much easier is it to produce that kind of work
when you have all the research to hand in one volume, and I could see this
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Maureen
didn’t produce <b style="color: #ffe599;">Trace Your Roots</b> as a
handbook for writers, but as a handy guide for budding genealogists, but like
thrifty, “waste not, want not” devotees, we scribes can turn any book into a
useful tool for our researches.</div>
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We are thrilled to be appearing in the latest addition of the <b style="color: #ffe599;"><a href="http://www.townswomen.org.uk/page.asp?node=36&sec=Magazine_information" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ffe599;">Townswoman</span></a></b>.<br />
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Having been approached by the magazine's editor to write for their 10 top tips feature, I needed to come up with ten helpful tips on finding your roots.<br />
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The task was simple and writing for the magazine was a great pleasure.<br />
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Everyone's family is unique: why not discover more about yours?<br />
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I have a spot in the June issue of Writer's News / Writing Magazine where I talk about Trace your Roots. The piece begins... 'Genealogy isn't all cerebral slog...' and it's true. It's a great pastime and can be huge fun too - ask anyone who's done it!<br />
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<br />Maureenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18155165859619395075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4562719385014475985.post-24143027321378908722012-04-26T14:34:00.000+01:002012-04-26T14:38:52.302+01:00Guesting on Susan Jones' writing blog<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm featured over on Susan Jones' fabulous writers' blog today.<br />
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Sue, a successful writer and poet, allowed me to talk a little about <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Greatest-Guide-Genealogy-Guides/dp/1907906118/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1307823310&sr=1-1" target="_blank"><b style="color: #ffe599;">Trace your Roots</b></a> and how it came about.<br />
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Find the post <a href="http://susanjanejones.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><b style="color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: large;">HERE</span></b></a><br />
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