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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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Caroline Gurney - Historical Research Services - About - Caroline Gurney | Historical Research Services
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Caroline Gurney Historical Research Services. 8203;I'm a professional genealogist, house historian and historical researcher, based in Chipping Sodbury, near Bristol. I have been passionately interested in history since childhood. I began researching my own family history at the age of 14, when I sat both my grandmothers down in a sunny garden and got them to compete in telling family stories. I spent 10 years in the Diplomatic Service, doing a variety of jobs in the FCO and in British diplomatic mission...
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Caroline Gurney | Historical Research Services - Blog
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Caroline Gurney Historical Research Services. My contribution to the recent BBC documentary about Cutty Sark. BBC Scotland's documentary about the. Was broadcast nationwide for the first time on 29 May. It is the first programme in the. Series which looks at four iconic ships, built on the river Clyde, that helped forge links with countries throughout the world. I discussed with David the new information which I had uncovered about Sidney William Smith, First Mate on. The Log of the Cutty Sark. I plan to...
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