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Lorna

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Family History Researcher from Kent now living in Shropshire via Gloucestershire.

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Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 12h

Oh fab thanks. Didn't realise it had more on FMP. 😀

Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 13h

If anyone has Folds3 access and wouldn't mind getting me a copy of the Chelsea Pension details it would be very much appreciated as I don't have a subscription.

Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 14h

On 03-Oct-1869 the baptism of 2x Great Uncle William David TAYLOR in Christ Church, Folkestone, Kent, England.

Son of Mark TAYLOR and Sarah Ann.
FHL Film Number 1836244 / 85

#ChelseaPensioner

Ancestry.com. England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA.

Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 14h

They are related to me on maternal maternal lines but also then Albert and Winifred were 6C 1R along with having 21 other by marriage connections.

FreeBMD. England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1837-1915. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. [and family knowledge]

Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 14h

Marriage of 2x Great Uncle Albert John HOLMANS to Alice Mary SMITH on 04-Oct-1913 in Capel-le-Ferne, Kent, England.

Also, listed on the same page are 3x Great Aunt Winifred Eliza MARSH and her spouse Walter SHARP.

Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 14h

On 03-Oct-1869 the baptism of 2x Great Uncle William David TAYLOR in Christ Church, Folkestone, Kent, England.

Son of Mark TAYLOR and Sarah Ann.
FHL Film Number 1836244 / 85

#ChelseaPensioner

Ancestry.com. England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA.

Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 14h

On 02-Oct-1806 the baptism of Thomas GOOSEY, son of Elizabeth at Irchester, Northamptonshire, England. Presumably related somewhere along the line.

Ancestry.com. Northamptonshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1532-1812

Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 14h

On 01-Oct-1907 my great uncle's first wife was born. Florence Kathleen SPAIN, as she was then known, died in Q4 972.

Registration District Dover
Volume 5f
Page 1104

England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2007.

Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 15h

Since rebuilding it has housed animals, been a hospital, Earl of Guildford's family home and is now flats.

Not sure if the cesspit aromas and stagnant pond drift towards it or just down lane towards Home Farm Cottage.

#OPS #Kent #Fire
bluebellgenealogy.co.uk/one-place-st...

One-Place Study - Bluebell Family History Research

There are a number of different directions genealogy research can take including singular focus lines of enquiry including One-Name Studies and One-Place Studies. Many researchers just focus on the UK...

bluebellgenealogy.co.uk

Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 15h

After the #52Ancestors prompt of Water it moves to Fire.

In 1913 the Mansion at Waldershare Park, Kent, England burnt down during the installation of electric lighting.

Now this is right by the location of my #One-PlaceStudy so imagine the family would have been first external people on scene.

Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 17h

#Countryfile tomorrow spends time in a spot linked closely to my family. #HappyPlace #Memorial

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC One - Countryfile, Kent Riviera

The team explore the agricultural connections between the 'Garden of England' and France.

Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 1d

Flowers look stunning, probably from a family member's garden i'd imagine.

Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 2d

It is getting ridiculous. All it will get is me going FFS can you do as I've asked if my discussions with Alexa (just trying to get a timer set) are anything to go by recently.

Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 2d

Having learnt that someone I know is related to you I can see why they don't harp on about it openly. 😉

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 3d

If anyone has some time to help out in transcribing old, handwritten weather records.

www.met.ie/met-eireann-...

Met Éireann opens historic weather transcription project to all - Met Éireann - The Irish Meteorological Service

Met Éireann, the Irish National Meteorological Service, is the leading provider of weather information and related services for Ireland.

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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 2d

Got my printed photos and some frames today to have a go at what looks best…nearly ready to launch my little online shop, hopefully in time for people to do some Christmas shopping! 😀
Here’s a very small selection…

Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 2d

Shropshire seems to like the concept. 😛

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fictional Scrooge and his real churchyard grave - BBC News

The story behind the real-life churchyard gravestone bearing the name of the famous literary character.

Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 2d

Ooh just down the road. One of the other places around here with a fake grave.

news.bbc.co.uk/local/shrops...

BBC - Verger in Tong faked grave of Dickens' Little Nell

Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry to hear that but if you want something a bit different perhaps and slightly off piste I'm almost at the end of The Brokenwood Mysteries. Been binging!!

Enjoyed quite a lot of random stuff on U recently including Sister Boniface Mysteries which are set in the 1960s!!

Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 4d

Some people are just showing off with their colourful expansive maps. 😃

The updated DNA origins with a whole four regions all basically covering UK and Ireland.

Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 4d

If it was more then I'd absolutely agree with asking this but just thinking about the work involved for presumably a number of volunteers to orchestrate the refund.

Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 5d

Oh jeez.

It's like the posts that ask "do you remember your childhood phone number" and I'm there thinking of course because some of us still need to use it if they want to talk to their family.

Just realised that I could also dial what was my nan's number and she died in 2011!!

Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 5d

Suppose I better watch #Countryfile this weekend since believe involves people and places I know. 😛

Have you been to #SamphireHoe at all @allthosebefore.bsky.social??

Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 5d

Got to add a new twig to the family tree yesterday for who I am honorific auntie.

Will be getting a blue plaque organised like did for their siblings. Start them young on history acknowledgement is what I say. 😛

Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 6d

Good luck!

Possibly see if people you know in area can look for you as well (they may know landlord or someone who'd rent to you so they can move on).

There's many people looking that often you can't even get on the viewing list. I tried to see about 50 and got to look at four horrible places.

Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social · 7d

Oooh this might be interesting for some researchers.

New Books at Project Gutenberg @new.gutenberg.org · 7d

New #ebook at Project Gutenberg: A brief summary in plain language of the most important laws concerning women by Barbara Leigh Smith https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77027