Genealogy Forum UK

Thanks, snoopysue!

My apologies for a long silence. As you may have seen elsewhere, I was writing a novel between last October and May which I put up on Kindle last week, The German Girl . It's about May 1968 in Paris, but that's another story... When you reach your mid-60s like me, it's a disconcerting fact of life t...

Thank you, folks! Sorry I've neglected the BC blog lately, it took me from October till May non-stop to write it! I hope you'll find it amusing. It's entirely fictional, of course...

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Many thanks, beardie, I have an Adam Plant b. about 1898 Rowley Regis, about the right age, son of Jospeh Plant and Elizabeth Harvey, grandson of William Warwick Plant and Ruth Willetts, great grandson of Ezekiel Plant and Abiah Clarke. Computer says he's also my 5th cousin twice removed!

Very poignant, San and linell. I had his birth and parents but not his death at Gallipoli, I saw the battlefield and memorial three years ago. Richard was my 5th cousin twice removed. Sorry I've been inactive lately, folks, we were Down Under for a month mid Jan-mid Feb. I hope to be more useful fro...

Dr Robert Carr has written again to ask me to post a link about Jeremiah Westwood, son of Thomas Westwood and True Holloway, we were discussing Jeremiah back in March. He wrote on 14 March 2012 to me: "I am searching for records relating to Jeremiah Westwood, who was my grandfather's grandfathe...

I used to tag along with the Angling Club with my Dad, they'd let me fish at vacant pegs. I remember Hampton Ferry, the Coven canal, Hampton Loade, the Soar near Loughbrough. Some of the club members caught enormous numbers of fish, I loved watching the weigh-ins, no idea to this day how they manage...

Looks like a Huguenot surname. There were Johannots involved in the paper-making industry after they came to England as religious refugees.

I stand corrected, San!

In 1871:

Zipporah Nickless 63
Thomas Nickless 28
Charlotte Nickless 27
Phebe Nickless 2
William Nickless 1

I have Zipporah Nickless (earlier Nicholls, by the way) as marrying Frank Jaques in 1890, but you may be right!

Interesting, San. I've just come across this Brummie site which has a lot that is also Black Country, including that one: m I note these listed there which I'd overlooked: outdoor (off licence), pop (soft fizzy drink), " looking like something nobody owns ", cob (bread roll), " as fat...

I don't remember it myself, Margaret, but it's on the internet in various forms to express surprise, used in Birmingham and the Black Country: 'Never in a rain of pig's pudding', 'That's never right, in the reign of pigs puddin'.

Our kid is said in quite a lot of England to mean a brother, often younger, or another male relative, Mark. It can even be used as a greeting to a friend, how're you doin', our kid? " It's common in Lancashire and also in the North-East (Geordie: "wor kid"), so is not exclusive to Bi...

Indeed so, Margarett. Things keep coming to me, like wallop , of course, beer, the proverbial pint of cold fourpenny with which to wet your whistle . There was a wealth of sayings we've lost. Who could easily make sense now of: "You'll eat a peck of dirt before you die"? A peck was an old ...

Another couple of additions: the mysterious Old Shaggy is probably similar to Old Nick (the Devil) and Old Harry . I should have mentioned Black Country summat , from somewhat , meaning something . It's there in Chaucer's late 14th-century Canterbury Tales when the Host says: "Squier, come near...