tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3478765237017313952023-11-16T17:02:30.604+10:00Jottings, Journeys and GenealogyThis is where I share news about my own family history, my travels and my everyday life. If you think we may be related, please contact me! My email address is in the sidebar.Judy Websterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730547717403140047noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347876523701731395.post-62691482328355488632022-02-05T16:26:00.001+10:002022-02-05T16:32:53.993+10:00George HUGILL (joiner of Stockton-on-Tees)<div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="10" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0SJBDduQAfSXU8mVZpibfyZASYtZfbI2RExOZ0Y84ilDs-Ikojoq8dWw4ry-uFGTMFbQqVSzkoI4aiiRL3ZLHcvkkmVVmZwETCKSe8qjkgXbvGBaCt3vbV6GuS_8-EdQpPWUYQKcNmxXgPr9_gMLPdeVL5jWHm3qJxrHrkW-3fFWKY0ViODewzb4kAw=s593" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="593" data-original-width="223" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0SJBDduQAfSXU8mVZpibfyZASYtZfbI2RExOZ0Y84ilDs-Ikojoq8dWw4ry-uFGTMFbQqVSzkoI4aiiRL3ZLHcvkkmVVmZwETCKSe8qjkgXbvGBaCt3vbV6GuS_8-EdQpPWUYQKcNmxXgPr9_gMLPdeVL5jWHm3qJxrHrkW-3fFWKY0ViODewzb4kAw=w151-h400" width="151" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">St. Thomas's Church<br />(photos by Judy Webster, 2005)</span></td></tr></tbody></table>On this day 178 years ago (<b>5 Feb 1844</b>), at St. Thomas's Church, <b>Stockton-on-Tees</b>, County Durham, England, <b>George HUGILL</b> married <b>Jane BLACKBURN</b>.
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George was probably a brother of my 2x great-grandmother <b>Mary HUGILL</b>, who had married <b>John PEACOCK</b> in the same church in 1836. George HUGILL, a joiner of Stockton-on-Tees, was the executor for John's will, but unfortunately that document doesn't specify their relationship.<br /><br />
In census returns, the birthplace of Mary PEACOCK nee HUGILL (born c.1813) and George HUGILL (c.1816-1817) is shown as <b>Hull, Yorkshire.</b>
<br /><br />Today I ordered the certificate for George and Jane's marriage in 1844. I want to know whether George gave the same details then as he did when he married again (as a widower) in 1858, to <b>Helen WRIGHT</b>. According to the 1858 certificate, George was a son of <b>Joseph HUGILL</b>, a <b>joiner.</b>
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George HUGILL and Jane BLACKBURN had three children:
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* <b>John George HUGILL</b> died from burns at the age of 9 (see <i>Carlisle Patriot</i>, 14 Jan 1854).
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* <b>Frederick HUGILL</b> (1846-1926) was a watchmaker and jeweller. He and his wife <b>Elizabeth ROBINSON</b> moved to Bangor in North Wales, but their five children were born in the Stockton area - <b>Jane</b> (she married <b>George William EWART</b>), <b>George Frederick, Helen, Elizabeth</b> and <b>Florence.</b>
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* <b>William HUGILL</b>, born 1849. I have not yet researched him.
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This is my Week 5 post for <a href="https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-themes-2022/" target="_blank">52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks</a>. Amy Johnson Crow has challenged us to <b>do something with the family history information</b> that we've gathered. Even if I don't always stick to the suggested themes, I'll try to post something here each week.<br />
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(This post first appeared on https://judy-webster.blogspot.com/2022/02/george-hugill-joiner-of-stockton-on-tees.html)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br /><br />© <b>Judy WEBSTER</b>. Visit <a href="http://www.judywebster.com.au/index.html">my main Web site</a> for advice about sources and strategies for family history, and over 70,000 names from my indexes to Archives records. See <b><a href="http://bit.ly/2Ettbrick">Top Tips for Overcoming Brick Walls in Family History</a>.</b><br /><br /></div>Judy Websterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730547717403140047noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347876523701731395.post-89497471822835224502022-01-25T17:00:00.005+10:002023-05-01T15:41:01.979+10:00RUSHWORTH and WEBSTER - what's the connection?<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiX_i6_r1XCEXIuSN5oqMBYJ_AB2tM9ICoS9AHdxVYr4ZK3pxYRawxI4NEiIVBxn4yCAo9E99pgyJB-c6BJxk_ojQezhC8kGRcifwFiyNLxz9VDqDx-f8WFuQdVpSPeQsds9ZiCXbEx3jmDI4J6PhVYXQHRtpzxfn5579VsThv4qWExjQ5mRHCMQoAZag" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="222" data-original-width="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiX_i6_r1XCEXIuSN5oqMBYJ_AB2tM9ICoS9AHdxVYr4ZK3pxYRawxI4NEiIVBxn4yCAo9E99pgyJB-c6BJxk_ojQezhC8kGRcifwFiyNLxz9VDqDx-f8WFuQdVpSPeQsds9ZiCXbEx3jmDI4J6PhVYXQHRtpzxfn5579VsThv4qWExjQ5mRHCMQoAZag" /></a></div>
'<i>Curious</i>' is this week's theme for '52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks'. I'm curious to know more about the connection between my WEBSTERs and the RUSHWORTH family.
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<li>In 1793, <b>Joseph RUSHWORTH</b> was a witness at the marriage of <b>William WEBSTER</b> and <b>Elizabeth Harley PORTER</b> in Middlesex, England. [<i>Source</i>: <a href="https://click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=OZ1vVhik6DU&mid=50142&u1=AncLondonMetArchivesJottings&murl=https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/categories/london_met_archives" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Parish register of marriages</a>, St.James, Clerkenwell, Middlesex. London Metropolitan Archives ref. p76/js1/034.]</li>
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<li>In 1813, <b>Thomas RUSHWORTH</b> was chosen as the guardian of <b>Thomas WEBSTER</b> aged 19, 'child of <b>William WEBSTER</b> late of the Borough in Southwark London deceased and the nephew sole executor and residuary legatee named in the will of <b>Henry WEBSTER</b>' of Leeds, Yorkshire. [<i>Source</i>: Curation, Henry WEBSTER, 20 Oct 1813. Borthwick Institute for Archives, Yorkshire, England. Copy ordered via <a href="https://tidd.ly/2YnHgCK" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Prerogative and Exchequer Courts of York Probate Index</a>.]</li>
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<li>In 1841, <b>Cecelia RUSHWORTH</b>, 99 Waterloo Bridge Road, Lambeth, Surrey, was present at the death of <b>Elizabeth Harley WEBSTER</b>. [<i>Source</i>: General Register Office (England/Wales); death certificate of Elizabeth Harley WEBSTER. Cecelia was the informant.]</li>
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RUSHWORTH is not a very common name, and at the time of the 1841 census, most of them were in Yorkshire.
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So the burning question is... <b>when did the connection between the RUSHWORTH and WEBSTER families start?</b> Are they related somehow (see <a href="https://judy-webster.blogspot.com/2022/01/webster-family-origins-yorkshire-and.html">Webster Family Origins: Yorkshire or Scotland?</a>) or were they just friends, associates or neighbours? If you have any information, please leave a comment here, or email me at the address shown in the sidebar.
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This is my Week 4 post for <a href="https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-themes-2022/" target="_blank">52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks</a>. Amy Johnson Crow has challenged us to <b>do something with the family history information</b> that we've gathered. Even if I don't always stick to the suggested themes, I'll try to post something here each week. It may just be an 'On This Day' biographical snippet, or an extract from an interesting document, but anything is better than nothing!<br />
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(This post first appeared on https://judy-webster.blogspot.com/2022/01/rushworth-and-webster-whats-connection.html)
<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br /><br />© <b>Judy WEBSTER</b>. Visit <a href="http://www.judywebster.com.au/index.html">my main Web site</a> for advice about sources and strategies for family history, and over 70,000 names from my indexes to Archives records. See <b><a href="http://bit.ly/2Ettbrick">Top Tips for Overcoming Brick Walls in Family History</a>.</b><br /><br /></div>Judy Websterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730547717403140047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347876523701731395.post-33404891424481786912022-01-23T16:34:00.001+10:002022-01-24T06:56:25.599+10:00Photo of Col WEBSTER with Bert and Flossie<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiaclkWbHOuvHunpfuMezhsNV1V361JcIiuDFw5SIhxWwP3k8kxY9u-jnJ4QR6IBqj8myVQj2Wjzt_B9Y16p5pQForQklbV4PqtemxTSc7Mnq43d4Q27-rl_uQiFtKksWplW-RsRE57wm1KXDqERjPf-SfYnjjB20mq8PkfE3ulIAPNbqdRLYiBLm_jlQ" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="673" data-original-width="898" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiaclkWbHOuvHunpfuMezhsNV1V361JcIiuDFw5SIhxWwP3k8kxY9u-jnJ4QR6IBqj8myVQj2Wjzt_B9Y16p5pQForQklbV4PqtemxTSc7Mnq43d4Q27-rl_uQiFtKksWplW-RsRE57wm1KXDqERjPf-SfYnjjB20mq8PkfE3ulIAPNbqdRLYiBLm_jlQ=w640-h480" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Col Webster playing with Bert and Flossie, 2005<br />(photo by Judy Webster)<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>
<i>Favourite Photo</i> is this week's theme for '52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks'. I chose this photo because it brings back many happy memories of my Dad (Col WEBSTER) and our beloved dogs Flossie (a Border Collie) and Bert (a Smithfield). They were both 'rescue dogs', and hugely important in our lives.
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Dad was aged 86 when I took this photo at 'Taminga' (the 32-acre property near Fernvale, Queensland, to which Mum and Dad retired after they left Cunnamulla).
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Flossie came to live there in 1998. Bertie joined us for Christmas 2002, when my sister Robyn was "just fostering him from the pound until New Year". (Haha - a likely story!) To nobody's surprise, they fell in love with each other and Bert became the newest member of our family.
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That Christmas was rather entertaining. In three days, Bertie ate a chair, an outdoor sofa, two foam boxes, a mat, a dog bed, assorted garden tools, and several toys belonging to Flossie. He was only ten months old, so the chewing phase was in full swing, but thankfully it didn't last too long. And in his entire life, he never chewed a shoe!
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This is my Week 3 post for <a href="https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-themes-2022/" target="_blank">52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks</a>. Amy Johnson Crow has challenged us to <b>do something with the family history information</b> that we've gathered. Even if I don't always stick to the suggested themes, I'll try to post something here each week. It may just be an 'On This Day' biographical snippet, or an extract from an interesting document, but anything is better than nothing!
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(This post first appeared on https://judy-webster.blogspot.com/2022/01/photo-of-col-webster-with-bert-and.html)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br /><br />© <b>Judy WEBSTER</b>. Visit <a href="http://www.judywebster.com.au/index.html">my main Web site</a> for advice about sources and strategies for family history, and over 70,000 names from my indexes to Archives records. See <b><a href="http://bit.ly/2Ettbrick">Top Tips for Overcoming Brick Walls in Family History</a>.</b><br /><br /></div>Judy Websterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730547717403140047noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347876523701731395.post-12268231092496077992022-01-14T10:21:00.002+10:002022-01-24T06:57:30.033+10:00Children of William WEBSTER and Elizabeth PORTER<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSM3HdbQin4E3PK3Tf-8rcNKcqbW0ko5dw15wEGgI-nm8AVV7q2j4fvywG-067pnB-QhScjDUqH5TbnCJ7ujpHGhCaOhTfRduNlJxwRFaVGNd_xvRsra01ERwoFYkWdzBbJZzzvY8SQBepn19DAtBy5QNgWgL3DGifUrFSdrunQnnSasIc1Rv5RH1NcQ=s508" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="173" data-original-width="508" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSM3HdbQin4E3PK3Tf-8rcNKcqbW0ko5dw15wEGgI-nm8AVV7q2j4fvywG-067pnB-QhScjDUqH5TbnCJ7ujpHGhCaOhTfRduNlJxwRFaVGNd_xvRsra01ERwoFYkWdzBbJZzzvY8SQBepn19DAtBy5QNgWgL3DGifUrFSdrunQnnSasIc1Rv5RH1NcQ=w400-h136" width="400" /></a>
In a <a href="https://judy-webster.blogspot.com/2022/01/webster-family-origins-yorkshire-and.html">previous post</a> I wrote about the origins of <b>William WEBSTER</b>, who married <b>Elizabeth Harley PORTER.</b> William and Elizabeth had eight children - <b>Thomas, James</b> (my ancestor), <b>Elizabeth, Ann, William, Henry, George</b> and <b>Ebenezer.</b> They were all baptised at either Stockwell Chapel or St.Saviour's Church in Southwark, Surrey, England. All eight were still alive in early 1813, when they were named in the will of their uncle, Henry WEBSTER.
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Brothers <b>James and George WEBSTER</b> married sisters <b>Mary and Sarah GIBLETT</b>, and I know a lot about their descendants.
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<b>Thomas and Ebenezer WEBSTER</b> (the eldest and youngest of the siblings) died in Leeds, Yorkshire (unmarried).
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<b>Ann WEBSTER</b> was born circa 1800, and her brother <b>William WEBSTER</b> was born 21 Dec 1802 (the baptism register shows his birth date). When <a href="https://dictionaryofsydney.org/contributor/flynn_michael" target="_blank">Michael FLYNN</a> (historian, author, and my 6th cousin) was researching the PORTER descendants, he found the 1851 census entry, in Tottenham (Middlesex), for William WEBSTER (aged 47, born Southwark Surrey, unmarried), Anne WEBSTER (aged 49, sister, born Stockwell Surrey, unmarried), and <b>Mariamne PORTER</b> (aged 14). Other sources confirm that her name was Mariamne, not Marianne. For her relationship, it looks as though the enumerator couldn't decide whether to put 'Niece' or something starting with C. Mariamne was in fact a daughter of William and Anne's cousin.
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Although Ancestry's index showed the wrong year, I found an image of an 1857 burial register entry that, based on the address (Tottenham) and age, fits this <b>William WEBSTER</b>. To check whether it was the same person, I bought the 1857 death certificate. William WEBSTER's occupation shown there fits with the 1851 census entry ('agent for iron works'). Although I'd have liked to find a will, I'm still confident that this William and Anne are the children of William WEBSTER and Elizabeth Harley PORTER.
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I have yet to research the other WEBSTER siblings - Elizabeth (baptised 1797), Ann (baptised 1800) and Henry (born and baptised 1805). If you'd like to exchange information about the family, or if you have questions about the sources that I used, please email me at the address shown in the sidebar.
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This is my Week 2 post for <a href="https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-themes-2022/" target="_blank">52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks</a>. Amy Johnson Crow has challenged us to <b>do something with the family history information</b> that we've gathered. Even if I don't always stick to the suggested themes, I'll try to post something here each week. It may just be an 'On This Day' biographical snippet, or an extract from an interesting document, but anything is better than nothing!<br />
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(This post first appeared on https://judy-webster.blogspot.com/2022/01/children-of-william-webster-and.html)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br /><br />© <b>Judy WEBSTER</b>. Visit <a href="http://www.judywebster.com.au/index.html">my main Web site</a> for advice about sources and strategies for family history, and over 70,000 names from my indexes to Archives records. See <b><a href="http://bit.ly/2Ettbrick">Top Tips for Overcoming Brick Walls in Family History</a>.</b><br /><br /></div>Judy Websterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730547717403140047noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347876523701731395.post-76732218019335484712022-01-07T16:13:00.008+10:002023-05-01T15:45:40.476+10:00Webster Family Origins: Yorkshire and Scotland?<div style="text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEchxa0K5MoVqhSeMKGWzD8YzXttcrNdtC2nKAdH64ED3-oxZYpOQf5ykDA9uOnCc82dKv3rhvmtlZzRvUBmcDIap8SFkcEJCMxDW5ID-iBxexGcFiTV3kUBmKlotqLiCRYkGaJprL-GR7s8GurD6AEdLwjdbRaY5HqpPWCAfR0_Yyi999Y6egAjlVAw=s495" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Earliest known Websters as at January 2022" border="0" data-original-height="302" data-original-width="495" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEchxa0K5MoVqhSeMKGWzD8YzXttcrNdtC2nKAdH64ED3-oxZYpOQf5ykDA9uOnCc82dKv3rhvmtlZzRvUBmcDIap8SFkcEJCMxDW5ID-iBxexGcFiTV3kUBmKlotqLiCRYkGaJprL-GR7s8GurD6AEdLwjdbRaY5HqpPWCAfR0_Yyi999Y6egAjlVAw=w400-h244" title="Webster pedigree" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pedigree chart showing our earliest known Websters<br />(ignore the numbers generated by my genealogy software)</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">My <b>WEBSTER</b> family allegedly left <b>Aberdeen</b> (Scotland) in 1745 ('because of the political troubles of the time') and settled in <b>Yorkshire</b> (England).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">My 4xgreat-grandfather <b>William WEBSTER</b> (who married <b>Elizabeth Harley PORTER</b>) died in 1810 aged 44. He was in <b>Southwark, Surrey</b>, but as yet I don't know where he was born. William was a <b>dyer</b>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">His brother <b>Henry WEBSTER</b>, a <b>drysalter</b>, died in <b>Leeds, Yorkshire</b>, in or before 1813. One of the wills that I bought *proves* that William and Henry were brothers. It also proves that umpteen trees on Ancestry have the wrong birth/death years for William!</div><div><br /></div>If you'd like to exchange information about this family, please email me at the address shown in the sidebar.<div><br />
<b>Sources</b> include... (contact me for more detailed citations)
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* <a href="https://tidd.ly/2YnHgCK" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Exchequer Court of York probate records</a>.
<br />* <a href="https://click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=OZ1vVhik6DU&mid=50142&u1=AncFreedomLondonJottings&murl=https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/2052/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Freedom of the City admission papers, London, England</a>.
<br />* Non-conformist parish records, Leeds, Yorkshire (two versions of a burial register, plus a third volume that appears to be a register of graves).
<br />* <a href="https://tidd.ly/3fOx6QI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Newspaper death notices</a>, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, 1823 and 1826.
<br />* Birth, death and marriage certificates.
<br />* Parish registers of baptism, marriage and burial.
<br />* Private family papers, including letters written by a relative in England before 1903.
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This is my Week 1 post for <a href="https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-themes-2022/" target="_blank">52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks</a>. Amy Johnson Crow has challenged us to <b>do something with the family history information</b> that we've gathered. Even if I don't always stick to the suggested themes, I'll try to post something here each week. It may just be an 'On This Day' biographical snippet, or an extract from an interesting document, but anything is better than nothing!<br />
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(This post first appeared on https://judy-webster.blogspot.com/2022/01/webster-family-origins-yorkshire-and.html)<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br /><br />© <b>Judy WEBSTER</b>. Visit <a href="http://www.judywebster.com.au/index.html">my main Web site</a> for advice about sources and strategies for family history, and over 70,000 names from my indexes to Archives records. See <b><a href="http://bit.ly/2Ettbrick">Top Tips for Overcoming Brick Walls in Family History</a>.</b><br /><br /></div>Judy Websterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730547717403140047noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347876523701731395.post-84976082440761118682017-01-05T17:02:00.004+10:002023-07-31T16:30:38.777+10:00Genealogy in 2016: Accentuate the Positive<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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With the <b>'Accentuate the Positive'</b> geneameme, Jill Ball encourages us to focus on our recent genealogical achievements, not the things that are still on our 'to do' list at the end of 2016.
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<li><b>An elusive ancestor I found</b> was my gr-gr-gr-great-grandfather William WEBSTER (occupation: dyer), whose burial was among 79,000 new records added to the <a href="https://bit.ly/2GLbur" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Greater London Burial Index</a> on FindMyPast. I subsequently found an image of the original burial register in the <a href="https://click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=OZ1vVhik6DU&mid=50142&u1=AncLondonMetArchivesJottings&murl=https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/categories/london_met_archives" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">London Metropolitan Archives collection</a> on Ancestry.</li>
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<li><b>A precious family photo I found</b> (courtesy of a distant cousin) was Helen Rebecca CAMPBELL (born Tiree, Argyllshire, Scotland) who married William Tasman WOOLDRIDGE in Tasmania, Australia. There is a strong resemblance between Helen and her brother John CAMPBELL, whose portrait (painted by Alfred Bock) was in the historical museum at Sale in Gippsland, Victoria.</li>
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<li><b>An ancestor whose grave I found</b> was Carl Ludwig RIENECKER. I somehow missed it when I tramped through Forest Hill cemetery (Queensland), which has several sections separated by bushland. Luckily there is a grave location map linked to the <a href="https://bit.ly/2BillG" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Billion Graves Cemetery Index</a>.</li>
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<li><b>An important vital record I found</b> was the marriage of James WEBSTER and Mary GIBLETT in Bath, Somerset, in 1817. FindMyPast has an index (<a href="https://bit.ly/2Smar2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Somerset marriages post-1754</a>) but the image of the original register is in <a href="https://click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=OZ1vVhik6DU&mid=50142&u1=AncSomMarJottings&murl=https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/60858/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Somerset, England, Marriage Registers, Bonds and Allegations</a> on Ancestry.</li>
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<li><b>A newly found family member shared</b> information about descendants of Annie Louisa WEBSTER (1848-1916) who married William SMITH, a builder in Camberwell, Surrey, England. Some members of that family use the hyphenated surname WEBSTER-SMITH.</li>
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<li><b>A geneasurprise I received</b> was (1) Dick Eastman, in his famous online genealogy newsletter, recommended my Web page (<a href="http://www.judywebster.com.au/methods.html" target="_blank"><i>Using and Compiling Indexes</i></a>); (2) some of my English relatives were born or married in China (Ethel Winifred HUDSON, Edgar Murray HYND and their children) or died in Africa (Geoffrey Aubie TURNER). The sources I used included <a href="https://click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=OZ1vVhik6DU&mid=50142&u1=AncAndrewsNewsJottings&murl=https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/1897/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Andrews Newspaper Index Cards 1790-1976</a> and the <a href="https://click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=OZ1vVhik6DU&mid=50142&u1=AncNatProbCalendarJottings&murl=https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/1904/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">National Probate Calendar</a> on Ancestry, and <a href="https://bit.ly/2BNbOs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">British Nationals born overseas</a> and <a href="https://bit.ly/2BNmos" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">British Nationals married overseas</a> on FindMyPast.</li>
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<li><b>A 2016 blog post that I was proud of</b> (because I think it will help a lot of people) was '<a href="https://genie-leftovers.blogspot.com/2016/12/40-of-my-favourite-genealogy-indexes.html" target="_blank">40 of My Favourite Genealogy Indexes and Sources</a>'.</li>
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<li><b>A new piece of software I mastered</b> was IrfanView (see '<a href="https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog/2016/03/17/repeat-an-image-citation-how-to/" target="_blank">How to save source information so that it appears on an image</a>' and '<a href="https://genealogy.about.com/od/photos/fl/How-to-Label-Your-Digital-Photographs.htm" target="_blank">Using IrfanView to Label Digital Photos</a>').</li>
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<li><b>A social media tool I enjoyed using for genealogy</b> was Tweetdeck. I make separate columns for selected people and topics (such as hashtags #genealogy and #AncestryHour) so that I can easily see those tweets. With Tweetdeck I can also schedule my own tweets to be posted when I'm away or asleep.</li>
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<li><b>A genealogy webinar from which I learnt something new</b> was <a href="https://legacy.familytreewebinars.com/?aid=1530" target="_blank">Publishing a Genealogy E-Book</a>, by Thomas MacEntee.</li>
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<li><b>I was pleased with the presentation I gave to</b> Toowoomba and Darling Downs Family History Society ('Not Just the Patient: how hospital and asylum records tell the story of a family' and 'Ancestors who moved or vanished'). Just before I left home, I broke my toe, so driving to Toowoomba and giving a long presentation was quite a challenge.</li>
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<li><b>I taught a friend how to</b> use the <a href="https://bit.ly/2worldlist" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">full list of all record sets on FindMyPast</a> to gain access to some that (inexplicably) can't be found via their A to Z Search.</li>
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<li><b>A genealogy book that taught me something new</b> was <i>Ancestral Trails: The Complete Guide to British Genealogy and Family History</i>, by Mark Herber.</li>
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<li><b>A great repository I visited</b> was the <a href="https://www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/" target="_blank">Borthwick Institute for Archives</a> (Yorkshire, England) - but it was a 'virtual' visit, not an overseas trip! Many of the Borthwick's original records are now online as digital images. This year I downloaded several wills and hundreds of parish records via the magnificent <a href="https://bit.ly/2yorksh" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Yorkshire Collection</a> and <a href="https://bit.ly/2pecy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Prerogative and Exchequer Courts Of York Probate Index</a> on FindMyPast.</li>
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<li><b>A new history book I enjoyed</b> was <i>Shadows of the Workhouse: The Drama of Life in Postwar London</i> (the beautifully written memoirs of Jennifer Worth).</li>
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<li><b>A geneadventure I enjoyed</b> was a genealogy conference on a 7-night Barrier Reef cruise organised by Unlock the Past.</li>
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<li><b>Another positive I would like to share</b> is... In 2016 I made a lot of progress because I took a close look at what I'd previously found (or failed to find). I studied certificates again, and suddenly realised the significance of witnesses' names. Taking one ancestor at a time (and then their siblings), I listed the records that were missing from my collection. I obtained certificates, wills, school records and other items that were unavailable (because of access restrictions) when I started family history 40 years ago. I checked what sources I'd previously used, and I looked for new indexes (and digital images of original records) on the Internet and in libraries and Archives.
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I'm sure that you, too, will enjoy success in 2017 if you follow Pauleen Cass's superb advice in <a href="https://worldwidegenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/09/my-three-rs-of-genealogy-research.html" target="_blank">My 3 Rs of Genealogy Research</a>.</li>
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My previous posts in the 'Accentuate the Positive' series were in <a href="https://genie-leftovers.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/accentuate-positive-2012-geneameme.html" target="_blank">2012</a> and <a href="https://genie-leftovers.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/genealogy-in-2013-accentuate-positive.html" target="_blank">2013</a>. If you'd like to join in, see <a href="https://geniaus.blogspot.com.au/2016/12/accentuate-positive-geneameme-2016.html" target="_blank">Jill's blog</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br /><br />© <b>Judy WEBSTER</b>. Visit <a href="http://www.judywebster.com.au/index.html">my main Web site</a> for advice about sources and strategies for family history, and over 70,000 names from my indexes to Archives records. See <b><a href="http://bit.ly/2Ettbrick">Top Tips for Overcoming Brick Walls in Family History</a>.</b><br /><br /></div>Judy Websterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730547717403140047noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347876523701731395.post-4390394880012286722016-01-12T16:55:00.005+10:002023-05-01T16:05:42.417+10:00Kitty (Catherine) ASHTON and Peter MATTHEWUPDATED 2020...
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Briefly... Kitty ASHTON was born in Yorkshire, England, probably in 1777 or 1778. She married Peter MATTHEW in 1803, and died in 1862. Associated surnames include HUDSON, LEAPER and GELDER, and perhaps MOUNTAIN. If you think we are related, please contact me as explained below.
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So far the earliest record I've found for my great-great-great-grandmother <b>Kitty</b> (or Catherine) <b>ASHTON</b> is her marriage in 1803; but 1841, 1851 and 1861 census records suggest that she was born in about 1777 or 1778 at <b>Swinton, Yorkshire.</b> The question is... which Swinton?!
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<b>CuriousFox</b> lists four places named Swinton in <b>Yorkshire</b>: Swinton near Malton (North Yorkshire); Swinton near Masham (North Yorkshire); Swinton (West Yorkshire); and Swinton Bridge (West Yorkshire). My initial reaction was that, based on the location of other events for the family, I should focus on the Swinton near Malton, which is in the parish of <b>Appleton le Street</b>. However, later research showed that the extended family had some links to West Yorkshire, so I'm keeping an open mind.
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On <b>6 Feb 1803</b>, at <b>Kirby Misperton</b>, North Yorkshire, England, <b>Kitty ASHTON</b> of the parish of Kirby Misperton was married (by banns) to <b>Peter MATTHEW</b> of the parish of Crambe. Both signed. Witnesses were Mary MATTHEW, John HARWOOD and Isabella BOWER. (Names of the last two witnesses are rather difficult to read, but they both appear as witnesses to other marriages in this register.)
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Parish register of marriages, Kirby Misperton, held by North Yorkshire County Record Office</td></tr>
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The Bishop's Transcript of the burial register for Crambe, Yorkshire (North Riding) says 'Peter MATTHEW, abode Barton, buried 3rd April 1832 aged 74' (Borthwick Institute for Archives ref.PR-CRAM 8 page 22). If this is Kitty's husband, he was a lot older than her. I have not yet found a will or other document to prove or disprove my theory.
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Census enumerator's returns for <b>Barton-le-Willows</b>, North Yorkshire, 30 Mar 1851, list <b>Kitty MATTHEW</b> as the head of the household, 'widow aged 73, grocer, born Swinton, Yorkshire'. The household included her son-in-law William LEAPER, his wife Jane and their children.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Part of the 1851 census return for Barton-le-Willows (re Kitty MATTHEW, born Swinton)</td></tr>
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Census enumerator's returns for Barton-le-Willows, 7 Apr 1861, list <b>Kitty MATHEW</b> (only one 'T' here) as 'mother-in-law, widow aged 83, born Swinton, Yorkshire, deaf', living with William LEAPER and his wife Jane, four children and two grandchildren.
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In the 1841 census, Kitty was not with Jane and William LEAPER or Christiana and William HUDSON, who were then at Barton-le-Willows. I eventually found her, but not easily, because her given name is not shown in census indexes. Aged 63, she was at Pontefract with her son-in-law William GELDER and his young children. His wife, Kitty's daughter Elizabeth, died in 1840.
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I bought the death certificate for <b>Kitty MATTHEWS</b> who died 25 May 1862 at Barton-le-Willows, aged 84, widow of Peter MATTHEWS, a farm labourer. (The name is usually spelled MATTHEW but the certificate has an S.) The informant was William LEAPER of Barton-le-Willows.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;">FreeBMD indexed the given name as Kelly instead of Kitty. The envelope icon shows that there is a Postem for this entry. Postems are explained on <a href="https://uk-australia.blogspot.com.au/2010/08/postems-on-freebmd-england-and-wales.html" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/UkApostm</a>.</td></tr>
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When I saw the handwriting in the General Register Office index, I could understand that mistake.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Kitty' looks a bit like 'Kelly' in this GRO index entry</td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Questions and 'To Do' List</span></b>
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<li>Search for any ASHTON references (especially a baptism for Kitty or Catherine ASHTON in the late 1770s) in parish registers and Bishop's Transcripts for Kirby Misperton, Appleton-le-Street, Malton and nearby parishes. ParLoc (parish locator programme) lists these parishes within a 5 mile radius of Appleton-le-Street (North Yorkshire): Barton-le-Street; Bulmer; Hovingham; Huttons Ambo; Kirby Misperton; New Malton; New Malton, St Leonard; New Malton, St Michael; Normanby; Norton; Old Malton; Parnham (?); Salton; Slingsby; Terrington.</li>
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<li>If searches in North Yorkshire are negative, try parishes around Swinton in West Yorkshire. ParLoc lists these parishes within a 2 mile radius of Swinton in West Yorkshire: Adwick upon Dearne; Bolton upon Dearne; Mexborough; Wath upon Dearne. My HUDSON and BARBER families had Bolton upon Dearne connections, but I will investigate North Yorkshire first.</li>
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<li>How many children did Peter and Kitty MATTHEW have? I already know of three - Elizabeth (married William <b>GELDER</b>), Christiana (married William <b>HUDSON</b>) and Jane (married William <b>LEAPER</b>). Are there any clues in their records or records of their descendants?</li>
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<li>Was Kitty related to James ASHTON and Thomas ASHTON who witnessed marriages at Kirby Misperton in 1804-1807?</li>
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<li>Hannah ASHTON witnessed the marriage of a Mary MATTHEW and Joseph MOUNTAIN in 1804 at Kirby Misperton. Was this Mary MATTHEW the same one who witnessed the marriage of Peter MATTHEW and Kitty ASHTON in 1803?</li>
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<li>Try to contact anyone researching ASHTON or MATTHEW in the Swinton or Kirby Misperton area. Use the suggestions in my talk <i>Who Else is Researching Your Family?</i></li>
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<li>Personally repeat the parish register and Bishop's Transcript searches previously done by a volunteer using microfilm at the Borthwick Institute in York.</li>
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<li>Thoroughly search Crambe parish records.</li>
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<li>Do separate searches in each record set in the <a href="http://bit.ly/2yorksh" target="_blank">Yorkshire collection</a> on FindMyPast. Repeat the search when more records are added later this year. Periodically repeat any searches with negative results in case database errors are corrected.</li>
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<li>Pay attention to <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FamilyTreeDNA</a> matches on the X-chromosome. They could be through Kitty ASHTON or her parents or Peter MATTHEW or his mother.</li>
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<li>Look for <a href="https://uk-australia.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/10-tips-for-wills-intestacies-and.html" target="_blank">wills and probate records</a> for all family members.</li>
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<li>Check that I've added <a href="https://uk-australia.blogspot.com.au/2010/08/postems-on-freebmd-england-and-wales.html" target="_blank"><b>postems</b></a> to all relevant entries in FreeBMD.</li>
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<li>Check that I've added all relevant people to <a href="https://genie-leftovers.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/using-lostcousins-for-genealogy-uk.html" target="_blank">LostCousins</a>.</li>
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<li>Update this list as my research progresses!</li>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Sources</span></b> used in this research include
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<li>Parish register of marriages, Kirby Misperton, North Yorkshire. Microfilm of the original register is at North Yorkshire County Record Office. Some images are also in the <a href="https://bit.ly/2yksmar" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Yorkshire marriages</a> record set at FindMyPast.</li>
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<li>West Yorkshire parish register images on <a href="https://click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=OZ1vVhik6DU&mid=50142&u1=AncCatalogJottings&murl=https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/catalog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ancestry</a>.</li>
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<li>Census enumerator's returns, Great Britain. Public Record Office, London. Images also at <a href="http://bit.ly/2ukcen" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FindMyPast</a>.</li>
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<li>Civil registration index, England and Wales (<a href="https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/login.asp" target="_blank">General Register Office</a>). Also at <a href="https://bit.ly/2ukBmdPr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FindMyPast</a> and <a href="https://www.freebmd.org.uk/" target="_blank">FreeBMD</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="https://bit.ly/2nbiew" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">National Burial Index (England and Wales)</a>.</li>
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<li><a href="https://worldwidegenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/08/curiousfox-gazetteer-and-message-system.html" target="_blank">CuriousFox</a> (gazetteer and message system).</li>
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<li><a href="https://www.genuki.org.uk/" target="_blank">GENUKI</a> Web site.</li>
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<li>'ParLoc' parish locator programme.</li>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">How to contact me</span></b>
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If you think we are related, please contact me by <b>email</b> at <span style="color: red;">genieblogs@gmail.com</span> or by <b>post</b> as explained <a href="https://judy-webster.blogspot.com.au/p/about-me.html"><u>here</u></a>. I also welcome <b>comments</b> (including suggestions for research strategies or sources).
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(This post first appeared on <a href="https://judy-webster.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/kitty-catherine-ashton-1-of-52-ancestors.html">https://judy-webster.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/kitty-catherine-ashton-1-of-52-ancestors.html</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br /><br />© <b>Judy WEBSTER</b>. Visit <a href="http://www.judywebster.com.au/index.html">my main Web site</a> for advice about sources and strategies for family history, and over 70,000 names from my indexes to Archives records. See <b><a href="http://bit.ly/2Ettbrick">Top Tips for Overcoming Brick Walls in Family History</a>.</b><br /><br /></div>Judy Websterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730547717403140047noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347876523701731395.post-16911848256685786422014-09-05T11:02:00.001+10:002020-06-08T13:12:51.844+10:00Ten Books<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A friend challenged me to name <b>ten books that have had an impact on my life.</b> I didn't want to 'over-think' this, so here are some that quickly sprang to mind. (Yes, I know I have cheated by listing a trilogy as one item!)
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Although I try to support local bookshops, sometimes it is both cheaper and more convenient to order a particular title via <a href="https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=10920&awinaffid=207681&clickref=Jottings.10books.BDep&ued=https://www.bookdepository.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>The Book Depository</b></a>, whose excellent service includes free shipping worldwide. For out-of-print books, I search at <a href="https://affiliates.abebooks.com/Qx6A6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Abe Books</a>.
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<li><i>Christy</i> (Catherine Marshall)</li>
<li><i>Mila 18</i> (Leon Uris)</li>
<li><i>The Crystal Cave</i>, <i>The Hollow Hills</i> and <i>The Last Enchantment</i> (trilogy by Mary Stewart)</li>
<li><i>Weevils in the Flour: an Oral Record of the 1930s Depression in Australia</i> (Wendy Lowenstein)</li>
<li><i>To Kill a Mockingbird</i> (Harper Lee)</li>
<li><i>The Grapes of Wrath</i> (John Steinbeck)</li>
<li><i>On the Beach</i> (Neville Shute)</li>
<li><i>You Can Heal Your Life</i> (Louise L. Hay)</li>
<li><i>Jonathan Livingston Seagull</i> (Richard Bach)</li>
<li><a href="https://affiliates.abebooks.com/B77b9" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><i>Professional Genealogy: a manual for researchers, writers, editors, lecturers and librarians</i></a> (Elizabeth Shown Mills)</li>
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Number 10 is certainly not 'light reading', but it needs to be on this list because it changed the course of my life. If family history is your hobby, have a look at '<a href="http://www.judywebster.com.au/reading.html" target="_blank">Suggested Reading (Genealogy and History)</a>'.
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</tbody></table><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br /><br />© <b>Judy WEBSTER</b>. Visit <a href="http://www.judywebster.com.au/index.html">my main Web site</a> for advice about sources and strategies for family history, and over 70,000 names from my indexes to Archives records. See <b><a href="http://bit.ly/2Ettbrick">Top Tips for Overcoming Brick Walls in Family History</a>.</b><br /><br /></div>Judy Websterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730547717403140047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347876523701731395.post-9372448049597760232013-04-28T07:08:00.000+10:002019-09-15T13:27:59.073+10:00Australian Meal Panel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The <b>Australian Meal Panel</b> (by DBY Research) has some interesting new questions this month. I have been taking part in this paid online survey for several years, and if you live in Australia, you can too. The money I earn is either donated to charity or used to buy certificates or wills for family history research.
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About once a month you will receive an email inviting you to do a short survey about <b>food</b>, for which you will be paid. You can also earn extra money by sending in one week's supermarket receipts after each survey.
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DBY Research is a consumer research group specialising in food and food retailing. They need people of all ages across Australia to tell them what foods they buy and what they eat. The information sought is not sensitive or private, and it is strictly confidential. By completing the survey, you help to establish important facts and trends about the eating habits of Australians.
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To join, go to <a href="http://www.dbyresearch.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>www.dbyresearch.com</b></a>, and when asked for the <b>5-digit pin</b>, enter <b>86127</b>.
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~ ~ ~<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br /><br />© <b>Judy WEBSTER</b>. Visit <a href="http://www.judywebster.com.au/index.html">my main Web site</a> for advice about sources and strategies for family history, and over 70,000 names from my indexes to Archives records. See <b><a href="http://bit.ly/2Ettbrick">Top Tips for Overcoming Brick Walls in Family History</a>.</b><br /><br /></div>Judy Websterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730547717403140047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347876523701731395.post-66392500862791404642012-12-11T20:20:00.001+10:002022-01-24T07:20:49.450+10:00Recipe for White ChristmasIn a comment on <a href="http://judy-webster.blogspot.com/2012/12/our-family-christmas-then-and-now.html" target="_blank">Our Family Christmas - Then and Now</a>, Donna asked, "What is White Christmas?" and I explained that it is a type of confectionery. This is the recipe I use, but there are many variations.
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<b>White Christmas</b>
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2 cups 'Rice Bubbles' cereal (overseas readers may know it as 'Rice Krispies')
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1.5 cups mixed dried fruit including glace cherries
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1 cup desiccated coconut
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1 cup powdered milk
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Melt the shortening. Add vanilla. Place all dry ingredients into a bowl and mix thoroughly. Add melted shortening (not too hot) and mix till well combined. Press into a shallow tin and allow to set in refrigerator. Cut into squares.
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<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br /><br />© <b>Judy WEBSTER</b>. Visit <a href="http://www.judywebster.com.au/index.html">my main Web site</a> for advice about sources and strategies for family history, and over 70,000 names from my indexes to Archives records. See <b><a href="http://bit.ly/2Ettbrick">Top Tips for Overcoming Brick Walls in Family History</a>.</b><br /><br /></div>Judy Websterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730547717403140047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347876523701731395.post-7380235189487760582012-12-10T10:01:00.001+10:002022-01-24T07:21:41.841+10:00Our Family Christmas - Then and Now<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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In '<a href="http://cassmob.wordpress.com/2012/12/02/deck-the-halls-2012-christmas-geneameme/" target="_blank">Family History Across the Seas</a>', Pauleen invited us to take part in the <b>2012 Christmas GeneaMeme</b> by describing how we celebrate Christmas in our part of the world. I will answer these questions from both a historical and a modern Australian perspective.
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<li><b>Do you have any special Christmas traditions in your family?</b> The answers below cover most of them, apart from my father's pre-Christmas tradition, which I wrote about in <a href="http://genfamilies.blogspot.com/2011/11/col-webster-inspiration-for.html" target="_blank">GenFamilies</a>. On Boxing Day we have a special family lunch with a large selection of cold meats and salads. The highlight is my sister Margaret's potato salad (the best I've ever tasted).</li>
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<li><b>Is church attendance an important part of your Christmas celebrations and do you go the evening before or on Christmas Day?</b> No, because I have almost always been a long way from a town at Christmas. On one of the few occasions when we spent Christmas in Brisbane, we went to a midnight service. It was a small suburban Anglican church, but the incense was so overpowering that we felt quite ill.</li>
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<li><b>Did/do you or your children/grandchildren believe in Santa?</b> My sisters and I believed in Santa. We hung a pillow case at the foot of the bed, and we left a note saying that there was a snack in the fridge.</li>
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<li><b>Do you go carolling in your neighbourhood?</b> No. It doesn't happen in the places where I've spent Christmas.</li>
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<li><b>What's your favourite Christmas music?</b> Michael Crawford's Christmas album.</li>
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<li><b>What's your favourite Christmas carol?</b> <i>We Three Kings</i>.</li>
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<li><b>Do you have a special Christmas movie/book you like to watch/read?</b> No, but if <i>Carols from Kings College Cambridge</i> is on TV I always watch that.</li>
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<li><b>Does your family do individual gifts, gifts for littlies only, Secret Santa (aka Kris Kringle)?</b> With no children or nieces or nephews, it is not an issue. We give individual gifts (lots of small things rather than something expensive). Even the dog gets a Christmas present - usually a new toy to keep him occupied while we eat!</li>
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<li><b>Is your main Christmas meal indoors or outdoors, at home or away?</b> Indoors at home, but we sometimes have drinks and nibbles outside at sundown, and occasionally a barbecue on the evening of Boxing Day.</li>
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<li><b>What do you eat as your main course for the Christmas meal?</b> Dad's mother was born in England and always cooked a traditional dinner, even in this hot climate, so we did the same. In the middle of the day we have roast chicken and roast vegetables - potato, sweet potato, pumpkin, carrot, onion, parsnip and beetroot (try it; it's good!) - with mushy peas and a slice of top quality leg ham. (Do other people have cold ham with a hot meal, or are we odd?!) Several hours later we tuck into plum pudding with or without icecream, custard, cream, and fresh homemade fruit salad.</li>
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<li><b>Do you have a special recipe you use for Christmas?</b> Yes, my mother's recipe for plum pudding. I will be making it this week. I need to chose a day with no risk of thunderstorms to cause a blackout!</li>
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<li><b>Does Christmas pudding feature on the Christmas menu? Is it your recipe or one you inherited?</b> The pudding is the highlight of our Christmas meals, so there is a lot of pressure on the cook! I use my mother's recipe. She was a domestic science teacher, and I recently found her rough notes from the first time she made the pudding, when she was experimenting with quantities.</li>
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<li><b>Do you have any other special Christmas foods? What are they?</b> In recent years I have made Rum Balls or White Christmas. For a historical perspective, see question 16 below.</li>
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<li><b>Do you give home-made food/craft for gifts at Christmas?</b> I often bake ginger biscuits (Mum's recipe) for my sisters, and sometimes I print personalised calendars using my own photos, or bookmarks with paper that I made myself (a hobby that I rarely have time for now).</li>
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<li><b>Do you return to your family for Christmas or vice versa?</b> While my parents were alive, I always spent Christmas with them and at least one of my two sisters. Robyn missed a couple of family Christmases when she was nursing in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere. We usually went to Mum and Dad (which, before 1990, meant our childhood home out in the bush). When we were kids we spent one Christmas at a motel in Brisbane, because Mum had just come out of hospital after major surgery. I was old enough to appreciate the effort Mum and Dad made to stick to our traditions even in that strange environment.</li>
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<li><b>Is your Christmas celebrated differently from your childhood ones? If yes, how does it differ?</b> Many things are still the same. We are older on the outside but just the same inside! But nowadays, with shops close by, some things are very different from my childhood. We grew up on a grazing property in outback Queensland, almost fifty miles (on unsealed roads) from town, so we had to be somewhat self-sufficient. Mum made the icecream and custard herself. Christmas dinner was a rooster we'd fattened, plus wild duck. Things that are commonplace now (such as mixed nuts) were a treat that we only had at Christmas.</li>
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<li><b>How do you celebrate Christmas with your friends? Lunch? Pre-Christmas outings? Drop-ins?</b> Maybe lunch or dinner a week or two before Christmas. Some of my friends are so busy (have we lost the plot?!) that it is easier to get together after Christmas when things feel a bit flat.</li>
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<li><b>Do you decorate your house with lights? A little or a lot?</b> No lights - just a candle in a festive lead-light holder (the photograph above).</li>
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<li><b>Is your neighbourhood a 'Christmas lights' tour venue?</b> Some houses in my suburb in Brisbane take part, but the numbers have decreased since a massive hail storm wiped them out a few years ago.</li>
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<li><b>Does your family attend Carols by Candlelight singalongs/concerts? Where?</b> Rarely, because we've usually been a long way from a town.</li>
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<li><b>Have any of your Christmases been spent camping (unlikely for our northern-hemisphere friends)?</b> No.</li>
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<li><b>Is Christmas spent at your home, with family or at a holiday venue?</b> With family at one or other of our homes.</li>
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<li><b>Do you have snow for Christmas where you live?</b> No chance of that here in Queensland!</li>
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<li><b>Do you have a Christmas tree every year?</b> Yes, always (even the year we spent Christmas in a motel room). When we were kids, Dad took us to sandhills on a friend's property where we chose a small pine tree. Occasionally, if it was unbearably hot or if roads were boggy, we chose a different type of tree from closer to home.</li>
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<li><b>Is your Christmas tree a live tree (potted/harvested) or an imitation?</b> Always live, even if it is just a few small branches cut from a gum tree in the garden and bundled together. That's what it will be this year.</li>
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<li><b>Do you have special Christmas tree decorations?</b> Nothing elaborate or expensive - just lots of tinsel (red, green, silver, gold and blue) and coloured balls, and a star on top.</li>
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<li><b>Which is more important to your family, Christmas or Thanksgiving?</b> There is no Thanksgiving in Australia - but writing this has reminded me of how much I have, so before Christmas I will make a special effort to share it with those less fortunate (via <a href="http://www.kiva.org/invitedby/judy3877" target="_blank">Kiva</a>).</li>
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When I see my sisters I will ask whether they want to add a comment with their own special memories. I enjoying reading about other people's Christmas traditions (especially those in other parts of the world), so I hope you will write your own story and put a link to it here and on <a href="http://cassmob.wordpress.com/2012/12/02/deck-the-halls-2012-christmas-geneameme/" target="_blank">Family History Across the Seas</a>.
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<b>Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas!</b>
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I enjoy taking photographs that capture the beauty of Nature, and I will share some of them with you. Today's photo shows an orchid (attached to a tree) that was almost invisible until it burst into bloom yesterday.
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Stay tuned for more glimpses of the Australian countryside!
<hr><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br /><br />© <b>Judy WEBSTER</b>. Visit <a href="http://www.judywebster.com.au/index.html">my main Web site</a> for advice about sources and strategies for family history, and over 70,000 names from my indexes to Archives records. See <b><a href="http://bit.ly/2Ettbrick">Top Tips for Overcoming Brick Walls in Family History</a>.</b><br /><br /></div>Judy Websterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730547717403140047noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347876523701731395.post-27290735481280767152012-06-03T16:51:00.000+10:002013-09-14T19:45:27.944+10:00To Citizens of the USA (Humour for the Queen's Jubilee)This was originally posted some time ago by Diana Christova. I couldn't resist sharing it during the Jubilee celebrations. (No offence to my American friends or President Obama...)
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<b>To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II:</b>
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In light of your immediate failure to financially manage yourselves and also in recent years your tendency to elect incompetent Presidents of the USA and therefore not able to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. (You should look up 'revocation' in the Oxford English Dictionary.)
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Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except Kansas, which she does not fancy).
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Your new Prime Minister, David Cameron, will appoint a Governor for America without the need for further elections.
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Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire may be circulated sometime next year to determine whether any of you noticed.
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To aid in the transition to a British Crown dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:
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<b>1.</b> The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'colour,' 'favour,' 'labour' and 'neighbour.' Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters, and the suffix '-ize' will be replaced by the suffix '-ise.'Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. (Look up 'vocabulary').
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<b>2.</b> Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such as ''like' and 'you know' is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. There is no such thing as U.S. English. We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take into account the reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of '-ize.'
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<b>3.</b> July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday.
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<b>4.</b> You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers, or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not quite ready to be independent. Guns should only be used for shooting grouse. If you can't sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist, then you're not ready to shoot grouse.
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<b>5.</b> Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. Although a permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.
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<b>6.</b> All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left side with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.
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<b>7.</b> The former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling gasoline) of roughly $10/US gallon. Get used to it.
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<b>8.</b> You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called crisps. Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with catsup but with vinegar.
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<b>9.</b> The cold, tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as beer, and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as Lager. New Zealand beer is also acceptable, as New Zealand is pound for pound the greatest sporting nation on earth and it can only be due to the beer. They are also part of the British Commonwealth - see what it did for them.
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<b>10.</b> Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters. Watching Andie Macdowell attempt English dialogue in Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to having one's ears removed with a cheese grater.
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<b>11.</b> You will cease playing American football. There are only two kinds of proper football; one you call soccer, and rugby (dominated by the New Zealanders). Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies).
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<b>12.</b> Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the World Series for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.1% of you are aware there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. You will learn cricket, and we will let you face the Australians (World dominators) first to take the sting out of their deliveries.
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<b>13.</b> An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due (backdated to 1776).
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<b>14.</b> Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 p.m. with proper cups, with saucers, and never mugs, with high quality biscuits (cookies) and cakes; plus strawberries (with cream) when in season.
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<b>15.</b> You must tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us mad.
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God Save the Queen!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br /><br />© <b>Judy WEBSTER</b>. Visit <a href="http://www.judywebster.com.au/index.html">my main Web site</a> for advice about sources and strategies for family history, and over 70,000 names from my indexes to Archives records. See <b><a href="http://bit.ly/2Ettbrick">Top Tips for Overcoming Brick Walls in Family History</a>.</b><br /><br /></div>Judy Websterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730547717403140047noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347876523701731395.post-56699208914671762212012-05-26T16:40:00.001+10:002022-01-24T07:30:37.078+10:00How My Cousin HelpedMany of you will have heard the story of my father's <b>'Do Good Money'</b>. This was money he set aside and periodically loaned to a hard-working person in need of help. When Dad passed away, my sisters and I decided to continue his tradition.
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On the user-friendly Web site of <b>Kiva</b>, a non-profit organisation working with microfinance institutions around the world, we choose a borrower to support with a loan of just $25. Similar loans by other lenders are combined until the required total is reached. In this way we enable people without access to traditional banks to expand their businesses, support and educate their children, save for the future and raise themselves out of poverty. My sisters and I have now made over 40 loans. As the <b>money is repaid</b> (often in monthly instalments) we could withdraw it, but we always lend it to someone else. <b>A small sum that is loaned over and over again helps more people than a one-time donation.</b>
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Some of my family and friends do not like transferring money via the Internet. To avoid that problem, one of my cousins posted me a cheque for $100 and asked me to make loans on her behalf. I chose these four borrowers:
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1. <b><a href="http://www.kiva.org/lend/425549" target="_blank">Gulchehra</a> (Tajikistan)</b>
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Gulchehra has four children, and her husband is a taxi driver in the Russian Federation. Since 2004 Gulchehra has been making gold embroidered capes for brides. She does this at home and sells the capes at a market. She asked for a loan to repair her house, specifically to buy plastic windows, doors and fibreboard. (This made me realise how lucky I am to have a house with windows!)
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2. <b><a href="http://www.kiva.org/lend/426793" target="_blank">Bordados Mazahuas group</a> (Mexico)</b>
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The group consists of three women and one man who business is agriculture. They needed a loan to buy chickens and sheep. One of the women, Doña Soledad, is a 59-year-old widow whose profits are used to buy food, shoes and clothing for herself and her daughter. The other members of the group are Olivia and Juliana who raise chickens and Don Mario who has sheep.
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3. <b><a href="http://www.kiva.org/lend/425757" target="_blank">Mujeres Emprendedoras group</a> (Paraguay)</b>
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This group has 22 members, all women. One member of the group, Alana, applied for a loan to invest in her tailoring business. She wanted to buy more fabric, buttons, glue, zippers and other materials so she could fill her current orders.
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4. <b><a href="http://www.kiva.org/lend/419807" target="_blank">Mirador De Yahuarcocha group</a> (Ecuador)</b>
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This group consists of five entrepreneurial women with the same goal, which is to move forward with their business and improve their quality of life. The group's president, Paola, lives with her parents. She and her co-workers make shirts of Indian fabric. Her loan was used to buy an industrial sewing machine to increase productivity. Paola dreams of having a large workshop and employing people who need a job.
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<b>You can help!</b>
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At any given time there are thousands of individuals and groups listed on Kiva. <b>Please join me in making a difference through small loans (not handouts).</b> You can choose a borrower from <a href="http://www.kiva.org/invitedby/judy3877"><b>Kiva's Web site</b></a> - or if you don't want to make payments via the Internet, follow my cousin's example and send me a cheque for any amount you chose (it can be less than $25) and ask me to put it towards a loan on your behalf. When I do so, I will send you a link to the borrower's profile so you can follow their progress.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br /><br />© <b>Judy WEBSTER</b>. Visit <a href="http://www.judywebster.com.au/index.html">my main Web site</a> for advice about sources and strategies for family history, and over 70,000 names from my indexes to Archives records. See <b><a href="http://bit.ly/2Ettbrick">Top Tips for Overcoming Brick Walls in Family History</a>.</b><br /><br /></div>Judy Websterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730547717403140047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347876523701731395.post-45111725303061380832011-09-05T15:51:00.000+10:002014-10-13T08:45:47.835+10:0099 ThingsThe <a href="http://kinexxions.blogspot.com/2009/01/99-things-meme.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">99 Things Meme</a> is a list of 99 things you can do, or have happen to you, during your lifetime. I am putting my list here so you can get to know me better. If you would like to do something similar, just copy the text below and paste it into your blog or into a note on Facebook. Substitute your annotations for mine, and change the font to show your answers, as follows:
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<b>Things you have already done or found - bold type</b><br />
<i>Things you would like to do or find - italics</i><br />
Things you have not done or found and don't care to - plain type<br />
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Here is my contribution:<br />
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<li><b>Started your own blog.</b> (<a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/02331380147873608965" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Seven of them</a>.)</li>
<li><b>Slept under the stars.</b></li>
<li>Played in a band.</li>
<li><b>Visited Hawaii.</b></li>
<li><b>Watched a meteor shower.</b></li>
<li>Given more than you can afford to charity.</li>
<li><b>Been to Disneyland/world.</b> (Both.)</li>
<li>Climbed a mountain.</li>
<li><b>Held a praying mantis.</b></li>
<li>Sang a solo. (Only to keep myself alert while driving long distances.)</li>
<li>Bungee jumped.</li>
<li><b>Visited Paris.</b></li>
<li><b>Watched a lightning storm at sea.</b> (Yes, and once was from a plane at 35,000 ft - spectacular!)</li>
<li><b>Taught yourself an art from scratch.</b> (Creating Web pages by writing HTML code in a text editor.)</li>
<li>Adopted a child.</li>
<li><b>Had food poisoning.</b></li>
<li>Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty.</li>
<li><b>Grown your own vegetables.</b></li>
<li>Seen the Mona Lisa in France.</li>
<li><b>Slept on an overnight train.</b> (In Norway, and on trips from Brisbane to outback Queensland and North Queensland.)</li>
<li><b>Had a pillow fight.</b></li>
<li>Hitch hiked.</li>
<li><b>Taken a sick day when you're not ill.</b></li>
<li>Built a snow fort. (I've only even <i>seen</i> fresh snow once.)</li>
<li><b>Held a lamb.</b> (Hundreds! I grew up on a sheep grazing property.)</li>
<li>Gone skinny dipping.</li>
<li>Run a marathon.</li>
<li>Ridden a gondola in Venice.</li>
<li><b>Seen a total eclipse.</b></li>
<li><b>Watched a sunrise or sunset.</b> (Thousands, and it is always a joy.)</li>
<li>Hit a home run. (No, but I've served an ace.)</li>
<li><b>Been on a cruise.</b> (A <a href="http://genie-leftovers.blogspot.com/2011/03/genealogy-conference-on-cruise-pacific.html" target="_blank">genealogy cruise</a>.)</li>
<li><b>Seen Niagara Falls in person.</b></li>
<li><b>Visited the birthplace of your ancestors.</b></li>
<li><i>Seen an Amish community.</i></li>
<li>Taught yourself a new language. (Not unless you count HTML as a language.)</li>
<li><b>Had enough money to be truly satisfied.</b> (People are more important than possessions.)</li>
<li><i>Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person.</i></li>
<li>Gone rock climbing.</li>
<li><b>Seen Michelangelo's David in person.</b></li>
<li>Sung Karaoke. (Pigs might fly...)</li>
<li><i>Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt.</i></li>
<li>Bought a stranger a meal in a restaurant.</li>
<li><b>Visited Africa.</b></li>
<li><b>Walked on a beach by moonlight.</b></li>
<li>Been transported in an ambulance.</li>
<li>Had your portrait painted.</li>
<li>Gone deep sea fishing.</li>
<li><b>Seen the Sistine chapel in person.</b></li>
<li><b>Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.</b></li>
<li><b>Gone scuba diving or snorkeling.</b> (Snorkeling only.)</li>
<li><b>Kissed in the rain.</b></li>
<li><b>Played in the mud.</b></li>
<li><b>Gone to a drive-in theatre.</b></li>
<li>Been in a movie.</li>
<li>Visited the Great Wall of China.</li>
<li><b>Started a business</b>. (A <a href="http://www.judywebster.com.au/index.html" target="_blank">genealogy business</a>.)</li>
<li>Taken a martial arts class.</li>
<li>Visited Russia.</li>
<li><i>Served at a soup kitchen.</i></li>
<li>Sold Girl Guide biscuits.</li>
<li><b>Gone whale watching.</b></li>
<li><b>Gotten flowers for no reason.</b></li>
<li><b>Donated blood.</b></li>
<li>Gone sky diving.</li>
<li><b>Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp.</b></li>
<li>Bounced a check.</li>
<li>Flown in a helicopter.</li>
<li><b>Saved a favorite childhood toy.</b></li>
<li>Visited the Lincoln Memorial.</li>
<li>Eaten Caviar.</li>
<li><i>Pieced a quilt.</i></li>
<li><b>Stood in Times Square.</b></li>
<li><i>Toured the Everglades.</i></li>
<li>Been fired from a job.</li>
<li><b>Seen the Changing of the Guard in London.</b></li>
<li>Broken a bone.</li>
<li>Been on a speeding motorcycle. (On a motorcycle as a passenger, but it was not speeding.)</li>
<li><b>Seen the Grand Canyon in person.</b></li>
<li><b>Published a book.</b> (A family history book plus <a href="http://www.judywebster.com.au/publicat.html" target="_blank">genealogy indexes and guides</a>.)</li>
<li>Visited the Vatican.</li>
<li><b>Bought a brand new car.</b></li>
<li>Walked in Jerusalem.</li>
<li><b>Had your picture in the newspaper</b>. (Publicity for my <a href="http://www.judywebster.com.au/talks.html" target="_blank">genealogy seminars</a>.)</li>
<li>Read the entire Bible.</li>
<li>Visited the White House.</li>
<li>Killed and prepared an animal for eating. (Not me personally, but I saw my father do it when we lived in the country and ate our own mutton.)</li>
<li><b>Had chickenpox.</b> (As an adult. Horrible.)</li>
<li><b>Saved someone's life.</b> (So I'm told. My job involved crossmatching and issuing blood for transfusion in life-threatening situations.)</li>
<li><b>Sat on a jury.</b></li>
<li><b>Met someone famous.</b></li>
<li>Joined a book club.</li>
<li><b>Lost a loved one.</b></li>
<li>Had a baby.</li>
<li>Seen the Alamo in person.</li>
<li>Swum in the Great Salt Lake.</li>
<li>Been involved in a law suit. (Not unless you count the time I was to be called as a witness, but they settled out of court.)</li>
<li><b>Owned a cell phone.</b></li>
<li><b>Been stung by a bee.</b></li>
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Now that you know me better you may also want to see my <a href="http://genie-leftovers.blogspot.com.au/2011/09/99-things-australian-genealogists-list.html"><b>genealogy-themed '99 things' list</b></a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br /><br />© <b>Judy WEBSTER</b>. Visit <a href="http://www.judywebster.com.au/index.html">my main Web site</a> for advice about sources and strategies for family history, and over 70,000 names from my indexes to Archives records. See <b><a href="http://bit.ly/2Ettbrick">Top Tips for Overcoming Brick Walls in Family History</a>.</b><br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347876523701731395.post-11854307175634861932011-08-10T20:05:00.002+10:002022-01-28T08:42:02.268+10:00London riotsI am having a very busy time in the UK, attending seminars and other genealogy events, doing some research, and visiting relatives and friends. Right now I am staying with a friend in Charlton, London. We expected our area to be safe, but on Monday night we had a police helicopter overhead until about 2am, spotlighting rioters and looters at our local shopping centre (four blocks away). We could smell burning rubber and hear shouting in the main road that runs parallel to our street.
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Overall, though, it is much safer here than in many other areas. Last night there were no helicopters here, but police cars with sirens blaring were zooming past on the main road at about one minute intervals from 8pm until I fell asleep around 10:30pm. (<b>Postscript:</b> see <b>Monday 8th August</b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2011_England_riots#London" target="_blank">Timeline of the 2011 England Riots</a>.)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br /><br />© <b>Judy WEBSTER</b>. Visit <a href="http://www.judywebster.com.au/index.html">my main Web site</a> for advice about sources and strategies for family history, and over 70,000 names from my indexes to Archives records. See <b><a href="http://bit.ly/2Ettbrick">Top Tips for Overcoming Brick Walls in Family History</a>.</b><br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347876523701731395.post-80757750211096678932011-05-01T19:24:00.003+10:002022-01-24T07:43:17.427+10:00Personal news (cruise, Robyn etc)As you can see from the description above, this page will be used for personal news and personal genealogy. One of my <b>goals</b> for the coming year is to spend more time researching (and writing about) my own family. I will be visiting Yorkshire and London later this year, so I will start by writing about ancestors from those areas (<a href="http://judy-webster.blogspot.com.au/2011/05/freedom-certificate-james-webster.html" target="_blank">Webster</a> and <a href="http://judy-webster.blogspot.com.au/2011/05/webster-and-hudson-graves-helidon.html">Hudson</a>).
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On March 19th, when P & O's <i>Pacific Dawn</i> sailed out of Brisbane on a 7-night cruise to Noumea, Lifou and Vanuatu, I was one of the 2,000 passengers. This was <b>my first cruise</b>, and I loved it. A description of the experience is on <a href="http://genie-leftovers.blogspot.com/2011/03/genealogy-conference-on-cruise-pacific.html" target="_blank">Genealogy Leftovers</a> (with a few photos).
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<b>Robyn</b> is busily packing up and preparing to leave her flat and move up north to the new house. I will be visiting her there for a week in June. I've seen the block of land, but not the house.
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It's time to cook dinner, so that's all for now, folks!
<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br /><br />© <b>Judy WEBSTER</b>. Visit <a href="http://www.judywebster.com.au/index.html">my main Web site</a> for advice about sources and strategies for family history, and over 70,000 names from my indexes to Archives records. See <b><a href="http://bit.ly/2Ettbrick">Top Tips for Overcoming Brick Walls in Family History</a>.</b><br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347876523701731395.post-64925038570158886082011-05-01T18:50:00.002+10:002022-04-09T11:21:59.471+10:00Freedom certificate, James WEBSTER<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">James Webster's freedom certificate (left side)</td></tr>
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One of my family treasures is the original Certificate of Freedom issued to my great-great-great-grandfather, James WEBSTER, on 1 July 1823. James had been apprenticed to John PORTER, a stationer of Pall Mall, London, whom we believe was his uncle. (Thanks to Michael FLYNN for his help with the PORTER research.)<br />
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This certificate was entrusted to me by Rodney CARR. It was handed down through his branch of the family (descendants of James WEBSTER's eldest daughter, Sarah). The authenticity of this large document, only a portion of which is shown above, was confirmed by the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers.
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For information about this family (including James's parents, William WEBSTER and Elizabeth Harley PORTER), see the <a href="http://www.judywebster.com.au/webster/index.htm" target="_blank">Webster family tree</a> on my Web site.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br /><br />© <b>Judy WEBSTER</b>. Visit <a href="http://www.judywebster.com.au/index.html">my main Web site</a> for advice about sources and strategies for family history, and over 70,000 names from my indexes to Archives records. See <b><a href="http://bit.ly/2Ettbrick">Top Tips for Overcoming Brick Walls in Family History</a>.</b><br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347876523701731395.post-68670242280093722192011-05-01T18:34:00.000+10:002022-01-24T07:36:45.677+10:00WEBSTER and HUDSON graves, HelidonI have two sets of great-grandparents buried in the General Cemetery, Helidon, Queensland -<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">James Campbell WEBSTER and Ellen WEBSTER nee BUTLER</td></tr>
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George HUDSON (son of William HUDSON and Christiana MATTHEW of Barton-le-Willows, North Yorkshire, England) married Mary PEACOCK (daughter of John PEACOCK and Mary HUGILL) at Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, England in 1863. George and Mary HUDSON emigrated to Queensland in the 1880s.
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James Campbell WEBSTER and Ellen BUTLER were married at Coonamble NSW and later moved to Queensland.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br /><br />© <b>Judy WEBSTER</b>. Visit <a href="http://www.judywebster.com.au/index.html">my main Web site</a> for advice about sources and strategies for family history, and over 70,000 names from my indexes to Archives records. See <b><a href="http://bit.ly/2Ettbrick">Top Tips for Overcoming Brick Walls in Family History</a>.</b><br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-347876523701731395.post-12890225957181266892011-05-01T18:16:00.001+10:002022-01-24T07:41:02.687+10:00Welcome and ExplanationHello folks! I know that some of my family and friends are not familiar with this type of Web page (called a 'blog', short for 'Web log') so here is a brief explanation.
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When I write something new, that article ('post') appears at the top of the page, with older posts below it. When the page fills up, you can click a link at the bottom to see <b>older posts.</b>
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The right column includes a list of <b>Keywords.</b> Click a keyword to gather together one or more articles on that topic. (This will be very useful later, when there are many surnames, places and other keywords.) To go back to the main page, click the 'Home' tab.
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At the end of each post there is either a link to <b>Comments</b> or a Comment Form. I sincerely hope that you will use 'Comments' to add extra details, or suggest a source or Web site, or correct my mistakes, or ask me a question. Your comment will be emailed directly to me, and I will reply as soon as possible.
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Please bookmark the Home Page <b>https://judy-webster.blogspot.com.au</b> and visit it whenever you wish.
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One of my <b>goals</b> for the coming year is to spend more time researching (and writing about) my own family. I will be visiting Yorkshire and London later this year, so I will start by writing about ancestors from those areas. Stay tuned!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><br /><br />© <b>Judy WEBSTER</b>. Visit <a href="http://www.judywebster.com.au/index.html">my main Web site</a> for advice about sources and strategies for family history, and over 70,000 names from my indexes to Archives records. See <b><a href="http://bit.ly/2Ettbrick">Top Tips for Overcoming Brick Walls in Family History</a>.</b><br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0