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Surname Saturday: Poll
This week’s Surname Saturday theme looks at the POLL family of Norfolk and their silk weaving roots and fascination with Hebrew names. Continue reading
Posted in Norfolk, Poll, Surname Saturday, Weaver
Tagged Elizabeth Poll, Hebrew, Ishmael Poll, James Poll, Kerunhappuck Poll, Mary Fiddamont, Mary Syers, Norfolk, Norwich Textiles, silk, Simon Poll, Surname Saturday, weaver, weaving, Wymondham
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Surname Saturday: GILBERT
Surname Saturday: GILBERT – The Gilbert family of Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire are the focus of this week’s meme day. Continue reading
Posted in Abbotsley, Farmers, Gilbert, Littleport, Surname Saturday
Tagged Abbotsley, Burnt Chimney Drove, Colin Tabeart, Elizabeth Brightly, Elizabeth Hale, Elizabeth Howlett, Gilbert, Huntingdonshire, James Gilbert, Land Tax, Littleport, Robert Edsope, Surname Saturday, Thomas Cade, William Gilbert
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The death of a child
William Martin died aged 10 in 1890 when he was entrusted with a horse and cart. The Factory Act (1891) could have protected him and many others from a working childhood. Continue reading
Posted in Martin, Occupations
Tagged accidental death, child labour, employment, factory, inquest, Pyemoor, Pymoor, The Factory Act 1878, William Martin
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National Mills Weekend 2012
National Mills Weekend 2012 – visiting The Great Mill at Haddenham, Cambridgeshire. Continue reading
Posted in Miller, Newman
Tagged Daniel Cockle, Haddenham, miller, National Mills Weekend, Neville's Mill, Philip Newman, windmills
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Surname Saturday: NEWMAN
The Newman family of Cambridgeshire are this week’s Geneabloggers topic for ‘Surname Saturday’ – a story of illegitimacy, windmills and dinosaur poop. Continue reading
Posted in Cambridgeshire, Ely, Haddenham, Levitt, Miller, Newman, Surname Saturday
Tagged accident, Alfred Newman, Cambridge Chronicle, Cambridgeshire, Charles Newman, coprolites, dinosaur poo, elias dann, Elias Newman, Elizabeth Whitehead, Ely, Emma Levitt, fenstanton, Haddenham, Hannah Squire, Huntingdonshire, illegitimacy, John Newman, John Seymore, Lydia Ingle, Philip Newman, Rebecca Newman, Robert Pate, Somersham, Swaffham Bulbeck, William Pate, windmill
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Wicken Windmill
This weekend is National Mills Weekend in the UK, and so I decided to head off to one of the few working mills left in Cambridgeshire, in a village called Wicken. Wicken was once home to my Bishop family during … Continue reading
Posted in Cambridgeshire, Haddenham, Miller, Occupations, Wicken
Tagged business, corn, engineering, flour, grain, machine, mill, milling, National Mills Weekend, sails, village, windmill, windpower
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Tombstone Tuesday: James, Elizabeth and Willie Gilbert
James and Elizabeth Gilbert’s Gravestone, originally uploaded by familytreeuk. This headstone stands in the cemetery in Littleport, Cambridgeshire. The Gilbert family were and are land owners in the area. The stone shows that Elizabeth and James died close together – … Continue reading
Posted in Farmers, Gilbert, Littleport
Tagged burial, buried, cemetery, death, Elizabeth Gilbert, grave, headstone, James Gilbert, memorial, tombstone tuesday, Willie Gilbert
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Elveden and the Brightwells
One of the family trees that I am currently climbing has a bit of an evolutionary name. The most recent incarnations in the late-19th century are ‘Brightle’, ‘Brightley’ and ‘Brightly’ as found in Littleport and Little Downham fenland, Cambridgeshire. The … Continue reading
Posted in Brightwell, Elveden, Farmers, Genealogy, Littleport, Suffolk
Tagged Ann Church, Brightle, Brightley, Brightly, Brightwell, Bury Record Office, Elden, Elveden, Gathercole, Genuki, George Burton, Harper, John Brightly, John Brightwell, Littleport, Martha Bacon, Mary Crane, Robert Brightwell, Suffolk, Turner
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A life consumed
The ‘White Plague’, ‘Consumption’, ‘T.B’, Tuberculosis. If you’ve been researching your family tree, you’re bound to have stumbled across some of these phrases as causes of death (i’d only not seen the ‘white plague’ term before, but I’ve seen the … Continue reading
Posted in Bowers, Cambridgeshire, Fenland, Little Downham, Martin, Railwaymen, Wicken
Tagged consumption, disease, health, milk, nutrition, overcrowding, scarlet fever, TB, tuberculosis, ventilation, white plague
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New season of Littleport Society meetings announced.
I’ve just received the latest edition of The Littleport Society magazine, so thought i’d share the event info with you that covers the next few months. I’ve been a member of the society for years now and they are exceptionally … Continue reading
Posted in Cambridgeshire, Fenland, Littleport, Railwaymen
Tagged Addenbrookes, Alan Litshel, Bill Wittering, bottles, eels, fens, Gerald Siviour, Gordon Easton, Hilary Ritchie, history, huguenot, Iain Harvey, Littleport, Littleport Society, Malcolm Gaskill, meetings, Mike Petty, nursing, Peter Carter, railways, Royal Mail, St George's Church, talks, Tessa West, Victoria Street, witches
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