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October 2024 Newsletter
published by Pat Hase - 7 months 3 days ago.
HOW TO USE THE FAMILYSEARCH.ORG WEBSITE
Classes on learning how to use FamilySearch will be held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 7pm, beginning 16th October with setting up an account and starting your FamilyTree. These will be held at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 11 Ellenborough Park North, Weston-super-Mare. Please contact Chris Reid for further information: chrisfulfit@gmail.com
All are welcome.

undertaking funerals in WsM
published by Brian & Pam Airey - 7 months 3 days ago.

I am sure I attached the file and pressed "save".  Anyway I have tried again. Hopefully good now

Brian


undertaking funerals in WsM
published by uphill - 7 months 7 days ago.

Hi - have been trying to find document - where do I look ? Am interested in some of the old businesses of Weston


October 2024 Newsletter
published by Jenny Towey - 7 months 14 days ago.

Most useful document: my GGF's Freedom of the City certificate in the London Guildhall - why? because he was born in Germany and aliens were not allowed to have any city Freedom - so they had to check his claim of becoming naturalised as a British Subject...and they wrote down his naturalisation certificate number on the Freedom certificate and gave the town where he was born!!!

Two items of criminal activity: a GGM was imprisoned for 6 months but I haven't found anything about where or why.  The second was a 2C2R who murdered his wife and was hanged by Thomas Pierrepoint in Hull.

LDS connection: my 4GGU Robert Carlile emigrated to Heber with one of the Capt Jolley transports in 1851.  I have found researching his family and the journey quite fascinating.

Oct advice: take a DNA test with Ancestry - they're on sale!!!

Thanks, Pat.


INSURANCE AGENT BECOMES ENGINEER
published by LeedsChris - 7 months 21 days ago.

Just a thought. In looking at the Census and public records for my own Great Grandfather (b1832 d1916) he would appear to have had a different trade/profession in almost every census and record I have found for him! Here’s a list:

1851 – Tinner (?) Journeyman

1858 – Plate Layer

1861 – Train Examiner

1861 – Railway Carriage Fitter

1867 – Book-keeper, 5,6,7, Clarence Street, Cheltenham

1869-1871 - Accountant,

1871 – House Decorator

1875 – Confectioner

1881 – Clerk to Highway Inspector

1883 - Confectioner

1884 – Confectioner

1888 – Insurance Agent

1889 – Superintendent, Assurance Company

1891 – Agent, Life Assurance

1899 – Photographer

1901 – Photo Agent

1911 – Old Age Pensioner

1916 – Formerly an Insurance Agent 

I think people could move around into different jobs more easily in the past?


Idependent chapel
published by Pat Hase - 7 months 24 days ago.

Have you tried the Ancestry Bristol Non-Conformist Baptism Marriage and Burial records 1644-1981?  It contains several Weston-super-Mare entries.


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