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Caro's Family Chronicles: Lest We Forget: 11/11/12
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Stories from my family history and tips on how to research. Sunday, 11 November 2012. Lest We Forget: 11/11/12. In memory of the members of our family who gave their lives in the service of their country. This list has been updated from last year, with the addition of five more names to the World War 1 Roll of Honour. The list now contains three sets of brothers. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:. Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn. We will remember them. Subscribe to: P...
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Caro's Family Chronicles: October 2012
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Stories from my family history and tips on how to research. Monday, 29 October 2012. Politics and Pills – an 1820 Medical Bill: Part 2. This is my second post about the 1820 medical bill I recently bought on eBay. You can read Part 1 of the post here. A poisonous compound of mercury. Before the age of modern medicine, calomel was widely used as a laxative and purgative and was even given to teething babies! Charles Tennant noted in his book, “. In the summer of 1815 George wrote to his wife from London:.
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Caro's Family Chronicles: Ancestors who died of tuberculosis
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Stories from my family history and tips on how to research. Thursday, 24 March 2011. Ancestors who died of tuberculosis. Today is World Tuberculosis Day. It commemorates 24 March 1882, the day on which Dr Robert Koch. Announced that he had discovered the cause of tuberculosis - the bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis has been with us since antiquity. Tubercular decay has been found in the spines of Egyptian mummies and the famous Greek physician, Hippocrates. Genealogists do not have to rea...
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Caro's Family Chronicles: The Beau Brummell of the Yard
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Stories from my family history and tips on how to research. Saturday, 20 November 2010. The Beau Brummell of the Yard. My great-grandfather, John McCarthy (1863-1927) was a detective with the. Starting as a constable on the beat in Islington in 1881, by 1912 he had worked his way up to be Superintendent in charge of the. Along the way, he had some fascinating jobs and cases. He joined CID in 1887 as a founder member of the newly reformed. In the early 1890s he spent a year in. John McCarthy was one of th...
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Caro's Family Chronicles: Politics and Pills – an 1820 Medical Bill: Part 1
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Stories from my family history and tips on how to research. Sunday, 28 October 2012. Politics and Pills – an 1820 Medical Bill: Part 1. Two weeks ago I received an email from eBay which caused me considerable excitement. Many of my Scottish ancestors came from the town of Coupar Angus. In Perthshire and I have a “saved search” in “My eBay” which sends me alerts whenever the town’s name appears in an eBay listing. Which I now use as the header for my business website. And my Facebook page. Despite these c...
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Caro's Family Chronicles: Lost in London - 4: Tracing an ordinary London family
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Stories from my family history and tips on how to research. Saturday, 8 October 2011. Lost in London - 4: Tracing an ordinary London family. This article is from the Times of 15 May 1846. There was a family tradition that Thomas Bluett. Posted by Caroline Gurney. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). My Other Websites and Blogs. Caroline Gurney - Historical Research Services. Caroline Gurney - Historical Research Services. Australia Day: Gateway to a new and better life. Ancestors who died of tuberculosis.
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Caro's Family Chronicles: Scanning Saturday - My new Flip-Pal
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Stories from my family history and tips on how to research. Saturday, 22 January 2011. Scanning Saturday - My new Flip-Pal. Yesterday I received my new Flip-Pal. Scanner, thanks to the kindness of a friend in the United States. For those who haven't yet come across this gadget, it is a small, portable, battery operated scanner that can be used to scan a wide variety of objects. I have been experimenting with the scanner for the past 24 hours and thought I would share some of the results with you. The sca...
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Sodbury Genealogy - Blog
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Sodbury Genealogy is now a Registered One-Place Study. Sodbury Genealogy has been officially registered as a one-place study. One-place studies are a branch of family history with a focus on the entire population of a single village or community, not just a single, geographically dispersed family line. It now has a dedicated page. On the Register of One-Place Studies website. The Gloucestershire Wassail and Little Sodbury / Horton. The word wassail comes from the Old English greeting. By the 19th century...
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Confession: I’m a GeneaFreak in My Sleep | Clue Wagon
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My name is Kerry. I like dead people. How I Make Money. Stuff I Personally Own and Recommend. Hey, where’s the job hunting stuff? Confession: I’m a GeneaFreak in My Sleep. One morning when I was a sophomore in high school, I woke up naked. I found my pajamas across the room, on the floor, neatly folded, with a book placed on top of them. That’s how I found out I was a sleepwalker. Wanted that retainer gone. When I was in my mid-20s, I worked for the phone company (Bell Atlantic alumni, holla! I thought&#...
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