Genealogy Chat

Hello again,

Thanks Anne, yes, James is her father - they are in the 1851 census for Stanwick, where James is shown as widower, living with his mother Sarah, children Charlotte and Alfred.

I have found a death for an Alfred 1859 at Thrapston which could be his, and Charlotte is living with her Aunt Dinah in the 1861 census Wellingborough but nothing after that.

I will try the GRO for her birth for July/Sept 1843 Northamptonshire and see if they can find a record.

Grateful for your help and thanks again.

Yes, Arthur that would make a difference - special lenses for your particular needs. Hope it all resolves for you as it is a worry you don't really need isn't it?

Reece

hello
reece your magnlla tree looks lovely hope frost keeps away

great day here as well

arthur why do people not like it when an eyesore is improved and mined their own :-(

<3to all bye for now

sally w

Sorry you are having such a nightmare with the glasses Arthur

Reece - would your Charlotte have James as a father ?

James Chamberlain
Birth 10 March 1815 in Stanwick Northampton
Death Mar 1853 in Thrapston Northamptonshire

Charlotte S Jul - Sep 1843

There are only freeBMD - not a oot to help you with

Tried the IGI as well - she seems very elusive

If she did have James as a Father - then there is a small tree someone has started - with the name of someone to contact as well.

Will see if I can find anything else for you

Take care all

Reece

I have had varifocals from the first time I needed them - all without a problem.

Visited the opticians yesterday and they adjusted the nose pieces and ear pieces to try to ensure that I am looking through the correct part of the lense - hopeless.

I am now phoning them to arrange an appointment with the optician/optometrist to confirm my problem. This is the first time I have had a prism incorporated - this helps with the 'double vision' effect I get due to one eye being slightly weaker in the vertical plane.

They will then make a pair of varifocals using the same lense material that I had last time.. Apparently the very expensive Zeiss lenses - I was told they would give me a greater area of view - are part of the problem. To get clear vision for computer, reading or distance, my head position has to be just so, with very little latitude.

Should get a refund as the Zeiss lenses were very expensive!

Glad Sue is making good progress.

On the garden front I am waiting for a letter before I take any action. I think it will be Kent County Council, not the Parish Council, that will send the letter - this may make it easier. Only time will tell.

Hello all,

I like your new picture, Sylvia. People do have difficulties with their "new" glasses whenever they are renewed. I do like my varifocals though, so persevere with them, Arthur.

The garden is "springing" into life - I thought you might like to see our lovely magnolia tree!

The estate agent is coming tomorrow with their photographer so I will have to tidy up even more - the cupboard holding the family history is full already! Where to put it all arhh.................

Puzzling over my Chamberlain family still - could anyone on ancestry have a look at Charlotte*S Chamberlain in Northampton and see if there is a place of birth, for me please? The date is apparently shown as July 1843. I could try for her birth record to see if parents' names are there.


Enjoy this lovely weather everyone - hosepipe ban or not.

Love

Reece <3 <3 <3 <3

hi all
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lovely sunny weather :-D


I had vari-focal before I had my cataracts done ........ I found them so easy to get used because there was just a graduated change between reading-mid distance-long distance! And there was no annoying line between the different strengths


Now I have vari-focal readers :-D

The optician I go to calls them computer glasses, others do call them vari-focal ................. it means I can read, see the keyboard, and see the computer screen. Plus I can also see long distance in a little bit at the top.


My first readers after the operations were only readers, and I found it quite difficult on the computer.


take care everyone



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Cynthia - hope you are going to spend your 13p wisely - perhaps spend half and save half.

I too have had a pay increase - by the time the tax man has taken his percentage I get £20 a month - not enough to cover thebus fare home. I would need an inclrease of £35 min for that.

At least we did get a pay rise. Something to be greatful for.

I have no idea what is happening to GR this morning - this is now the third time I have typed this- it keeps dissapearing & then pops back on again. Very strange.

I am going off air and will pop back later.

Fantastic weather at the moment

Take care all

Susan,

I am pleased your eye op went well and hope that you will soon feel the benefit

Old - do go back to your optician - I wear varifocals too, and it took about six weeks to get used to them. I do wear them all the time, though which means I know exactly where they are! Having had two pairs of specs before that I always seemed to lose the ones I wanted at that moment.

There is probably some ancient law the council will find to put you to more worry and trouble over your "extra piece" of front garden. Do you have a local newspaper that you can get involved with - they usually love something like this so do contact them. Good luck with it.

Second Estate agent coming today to value our house for sale - first one has been and then I have to make a decision as to which one to use.

Love to everyone

Reece <3 <3 <3 <3

Lovely to hear from Reece again.......yes, I imagine going through a lifetime's collection of things would set your head and heart in a whirl. It's understandable that you can't sleep properly. Hopefully, once you are settled down and have got into some sort of routine, the sleep problem will sort itself out. <3



Hope your garden problem gets sorted soon Arthur....keep us posted!

I haven't heard about the crystal wotsit, but my OH has tri-focal glasses which, apparently, are quite unusual. He still messes about with them though, lifting them up to see certain print at certain angles........ :-S



Glad you're coping Sue and, hopefully, your eyes will settle down nicely in a few days.




As for the tv.......well.........he's driving me bonkers! He sits for ages scrolling all through the channels to see what's on that it's hardly worth settling down to watch anything..... :-|



He is also missing his daily paper (which he forfeited in lieu of Sky). Can't win sometimes.



I had some excitement yesterday when I received a letter from the DWP.


My pension has risen by




13p.


:-S :-S :-S :-S :-S


It cost more than that to notify me...... :-0



Ah well.....such is life......it's a beautiful morning so I should be happy.


Love to all Cx.

Arthur - Hope it all goes in your favour - they are just jealous you thought of it first. Sorry to hear about the glasses - I should have taken mine back - but think I should have waited for the eye to settle down a bit longer - before I got my new glasses.

Glorious weather here - don't need a coat

Sus - really pleased the op went well

Reece - I am sure it will all be worth it in the end - I know its sad some times but I think we need a reminder sometimes of the old days.

Sylvia - you mentioned the word again - hope you dont get what Lake Tahoe had - 30 inches of the white stuff in an hour

Sending healing thoughts to Evelyn & Robert.

Welcome to Sky Cynthia - its one of the things I really wouldn't like to lose.

Sky is so easy to use & once you ahve it you won't want to lose it .

Will be absent for a few days as we are off to the outlaws again - so no internet - I am going to be moping around without it. :-( :-( :-(

Take care all <3 <3 <3 <3

Glad the op went well Susan.

I am struggling with a new pair of varifocal glasses - really bad when on the computer.

Going back to the shop to see if the prescription is correct and to find out what can be done to give me back the excellent vision I had with my last pair.
I needed a new prescription that incorporated a 'crystal' to make one eye work less hard. Do not understand what that means.

The warm sunny weather has meant a lot of work in the garden.

Had a visit from the Highways dept. as some mean minded person has complained about my enlarged front garden - said I have enclosed council property. I saw it as removing an eyesore (sorry about the pun). The council had never taken any responsibility for the area in the over eight years I have lived here.

Will let you know the outcome - it may be some time.

Hi Everyone

Just a short one today .
Op has gone well and I can see quite well but it is very scratchy at the moment and my eyes are watering very badly .

I hope to be back again tomorrow and a bit of the scratchy ness will have gone

Nice to have you back Reece ,my love and thoughts are with you.

Love to eveyone
Suex <3 <3 <3

Hi all
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we had s**w yesterday morning!!!


Only a few white flakes here at the house, but OH was in another part of town, and said there was 2-3 cm there :-0


and it is now officially SPRING!!!



Reece .............. it's bound to be a sad time as you sort through the mementoes and memories of a life time ...... but then think that you will soon be living close to your family <3 <3


Hope that Sue's operation has gone well. <3 <3



and also thinking of Robert and his wife ....... hoping that all is going well for Mrs Robert <3 <3


What fascinating finds, Sally and Anne! I haven't yet found any of mine in the workhouse .... though several are called Pauper on the census :-(


C ....... are you going to acquire OH's Sky, as you did his Kindle :-D :-D :-D


Hope that Josie and Arthur are doing well.




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Hello friends,

Yes, I'm around but finding it difficult to post anything cheerful! So thanks for your kind thoughts - I have wondered how Evelyn and Robert and his wife are doing too - I send very best wishes to you all.

Have tried some occasional tweaks to the tree but still have the same "brick walls".

Liked your stories too, I don't know whether I, too, have found a strange story or not. It begins to look as though my gt gt grandmother might have had two more children after her husband was transported but we cannot find their birth records although we have found the daughter in two census records. Sadly, both parents died while the children were still very young.

Anne you could write a book about yours or even feature on WDYTYA!

Still busy sorting through a lifetime's collections and having trouble sleeping. Don't know if the two are connected.

All for now love to everyone <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Reece

To be honest.....I think our long ago memories become clearer with age. It's trying to remember what I did yesterday that's difficult.... :-D


One of my clearest memories is of being about three years old and sitting at the head of a table at a birthday party. I felt quite comfortable being there......maybe it was indicative of things to come as I have chaired many a committee meeting from the head of a table!!! :-S



We have had Sky fitted and my OH is exhausted with trying to work it out. Our son and grandchildren say that it is SO easy........yeah......right. OH has given up and is going to sleep............bless....


Wasn't it sad about the footballer collapsing on Saturday? It's good to hear that he is making a recovery.

My son works for a large firm of solicitors in Bolton and his office is actually in the Reebok stadium - he overlooks the pitch apparently. He has commented about all the flowers and things left in support of the footballer outside the main entrance.

I drove past there today and could see them from a distance. Let's hope there is a happy ending to this sad story.



Just wondering how everyone is.......Reece ? Josie ? Arthur ? Thinking especially of Robert and sending special ((hugs)) <3




Love to all.......Cx

Sue hope all is going well

Sally i love hearing all these stories

I always find family stories interesting - funny how people kept things to themselves.

When I was little I use to go shopping with my nan - we would walk (what i though was miles) to go to a butchers shop - on the way bypassing at least 5 others - my nan would only shop at this one.

Long time after when I did my tree i found out the family use to own the butchers shop & my nan wouldn't shop anywhere else - even though it had been sold to another family.

After i found out who my father was etc - i traced his family - only to find out that I had lived two streets away from his parents -This was when I was in my early years & never knew it. They knew who my mum was - so must have seen me as well.

My mum told me i had met them when I was a lot younger - thinking back I also remember meeting my father a couple of times - but not know who he was - just a strange man who made my mum cross & upset.

Its funny i was only 7 when he died - i remember going out for a long walk with my mum - up a very long steep road & stopping at a church to look at flowers lying on the garden. When we got home I heard my mum say to my nan " The one I saw in the paper - it was him - there were flowers from his parent s - Just had to make sure it was him - I feel free of him at last" I always remember that comment - she was a lot happier.

Many years later when i got the coroners report & date of the funeral I realised we had walked up to the family crematorium to see his flowers on that morning. Its funny out of all the trips i made when little that one is always very vivid.

Its like various names I heard - (I have a very funny memory for names & places ) - only have a meaning now - when you find that person in your tree & think i know that name & back comes the memory.

My OH always wonders how I can remember so much of the family tree at any one time - all branches on both mine & his tree. Loads of names filter through my mind when searching. ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) Its just one of those quirky things - my friends at work think I am possessed sometimes when i repeat conversations back to them from years ago.

Well on that little note - i must go back to work

Take care all <3 <3 <3 <3

hello

sue hope all goes well fot you <3

ann my gt gran inthe1860.s was liveing inn a shed in a feild she t was in the workhouse by1871 census the oldest child liveing with her brother she then had three more children by 1878 my gran in 1873 no father named they were stillthere in 1881 census but i do not think left soon after

my gran never talked about it in fact none of the family new untill i joind gr
she lived withus until she died when i was ten

i have been watching the skateing i want matthew to win

well it is late now s must go to bed

sally w :-D

Good luck Sue - will be thinking of you

Cynthia - such good news for your friend
Thank you for the flying pig - I know where to come

Sally - what a wonderful find - its a wonder anyone survived some of the conditions in the victorrian times let alone further back.

One of my family (dont know how yet) ended up in the workhouse - which funny enough I can see from my bedroom window as it is now Brighton General Hospital. Looks like this branch of the family didn't move around a lot , and i have gone back to some of my roots.

I know they lived in a good part of town (well it is now) not sure about then - he was a shoemaker - with a large family - next census nearly all of them are in the workhouse. Youngest boys were placed in an aprentice school & oldest girl was a servant in a house. I know the mother died in the workhouse. Its so sad - but i would like to do some more digging one day when I get more spare time.

Its funny we all seem to have the same family backgrounds in one line or another of our tree

We seem to have lost Arthur at the moment as well as Josie.

Well the Oz GP is about to start so I will come off air as OH will get ratty with all my clicking.

Will pop back in later.

Take care all

Sue


good luck on the 19th
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HI Everyone

Second op tomorrow,i will be very glad to get it over and done with.

I miss my computer so much and all of you lovely people .

Cynthia that is wonderful news re your friend being able to return home she must be so happy .

Anne I am sending positive thoughts for you and your family.

Will try to get back Tuesday night ,will be to sore tomorrow night .

Lovely to hear Evelyn has been heard from ,sending lots of love to you .and everyone else..

Suex <3 <3 <3