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Would you be so good as to do me a great favour and take a snap of my Grandparents gravestone? I have the plot number and a map I can email via P.M.

Cheers, Tony.

We get a 'phone call from a half niece who has been 'doing the tree thing' for a number of years and saw a message from myself on the mighty Interweb date 1999! She says she's bake to the 1400s, My Mam is her Granny but my Dad aint her Grampy. Fell out with her Mam (my half sister) quite some years ...

As you know the Chelmsford Crematorium Starchild, do you also know the area? The reason I'm asking is I'm thinking of popping a letter in the local newspaper to see if I get any replies from Oakes's possibly also doing genealogy. Do you know the name and address of the paper?

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Encountered one in my R.A.F. time, Wayne Groves, we had to check up on him after half an hour from him getting a technical job to do on Argosy aircraft. I think his services were dispenced with. Cheers, Tony.

Thank you once again for yourt informative reply. Looks like a holiday in Camberwell!

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How do I access 1831 / 1821 / 1811 census's if they are about, I have access to "Ancestry" care of our local library?

I know I can download / register, but it gets me out and down the town. Cheers, Tony.

But I bet you would have if you had been there

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1841 Census - Robert Oakes - Shoemaker, his 4 sons William (the elder), George, Henry and Francis? all shoemakers. 1851 Census - William Oakes - William (the elder) now a Master Bootmaker employing three men and a 1 boy. 1861 Census - William (the elder) - bootmaker (what happened to the master bit)...

EVERYBODY diddit, ! ! !

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It looks to me like a 30 overwritten with 27! (I think you have just about every formulation there Jimmy)

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Our kind of SHAKY BOTTLE was made/prepared thus. Obtain a medicine bottle, one of those flat clear glass jobs with a cork, save some pocket money, go to the chemist and buy some pure liquorice (looked like obsidion and was just as hard). Find a relatively clean curbstone and a cobble, breaking up th...

Anyone remember "Shaky Bottle" ? ? ?

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Marianne is/was researching Bayliss and I'm researching Oakes. There was a 'coming together' and later they got married, but typing out my plea got the old grey cells whirring and I remembered a wodge of paperwork I had put 'somewhere safe'. After searching, I found it and in there was a letter from...

If you have been reading my bleatings...you may remember I've tried this genealogy thing a few times before but got frustrated and put it on hold. My last session was about 4 - 5 hears ago and I had an enormous amount of help from a friend called Marianne. I've tried to contact her again but I think...

After extensive reading, I think I'm starting to grasp it.

But bleedin' typical! There isn't anyone down on the list for the parts Surrey or Suffolk for which I have addresses.

Cheers tony.