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I have had to close the forum to new members. Registration is shut. I'm sorry for it - but I can no longer vouch for who comes through the door.
You may also find that certain older topics are no longer where you left them. I have, with great reluctance, removed a small number of threads and posts from this forum. I did so at the written request of a firm of solicitors acting for the landowner, who hold that the material touched on matters they would prefer were not aired in public.
I have complied, because I am one man and they are not. I want it set down plainly, here, that I did so under protest, and that I do not accept the grounds. Nothing removed was untrue. Nothing removed was anyone's business to suppress.
But I will not delete this board. What is left here stays, and you may read it for as long as I can keep the lights on. I have locked the doors; I have not burned the house. I have kept copies of everything. I would ask, gently, that those of you who hold anything of your own do the same.
E. Selwood
I have had to close the forum to new members. Registration is shut. I'm sorry for it - but I can no longer vouch for who comes through the door.
You may also find that certain older topics are no longer where you left them. I have, with great reluctance, removed a small number of threads and posts from this forum. I did so at the written request of a firm of solicitors acting for the landowner, who hold that the material touched on matters they would prefer were not aired in public.
I have complied, because I am one man and they are not. I want it set down plainly, here, that I did so under protest, and that I do not accept the grounds. Nothing removed was untrue. Nothing removed was anyone's business to suppress.
But I will not delete this board. What is left here stays, and you may read it for as long as I can keep the lights on. I have locked the doors; I have not burned the house. I have kept copies of everything. I would ask, gently, that those of you who hold anything of your own do the same.
E. Selwood
Search found 8 matches
- Wed Mar 13, 2019 11:00 am
- Forum: Lost Villages & Deserted Settlements
- Topic: Census ghost - a household that appears once, then never again
- Replies: 3
- Views: 27
<t>That last line, Col, the only night of their lives anyone wrote down. I shall keep looking for the Marles. It feels owed, somehow, after they let me find them. Forty years and they still do this to me, these people. I will report back if I ever turn them up, though I have a feeling this is one of...
- Mon Mar 11, 2019 8:00 pm
- Forum: Lost Villages & Deserted Settlements
- Topic: Census ghost - a household that appears once, then never again
- Replies: 3
- Views: 27
Census ghost - a household that appears once, then never again
<t>A strange one for the genealogists. I have a household in the 1851 census, a family of five, name of Marle, living at a place given only as Candle Cottages in this county. Father, mother, three children, all with ages and birthplaces, all perfectly ordinary. And then nothing. Not in 1841, not in ...
- Tue Oct 13, 2015 7:00 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Anyone know a good chimney sweep?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 21
- Tue Oct 13, 2015 11:00 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Anyone know a good chimney sweep?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 21
Anyone know a good chimney sweep?
<t>Mundane one, sorry. Can anyone recommend a chimney sweep who actually turns up? Ours wants doing before we light the woodburner and the chap we used has moved away. I would rather someone local and reliable than cheap. It seems to be word-of-mouth only round here, theres nothing online for the vi...
- Wed Oct 08, 2014 3:30 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: The buses up here are a disgrace
- Replies: 2
- Views: 21
<t>Same our end, we lost the Tuesday service last year. It is the quiet way a village dies, you know. Not all at once: just the bus, then the shop, then the school, then the pub, and one day it is only weekend cottages and nobody left to put the bins out for the old folk. Sorry, that got bleak befor...
- Fri May 16, 2014 11:00 am
- Forum: Lost Villages & Deserted Settlements
- Topic: My family came from a hamlet that isn't there - help tracing?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 28
<t>Mrs Astley you are a marvel. I went and looked and there they are, a whole crop of Tuckers turning up at the next parish over from about 1760, which is exactly when Stowell goes quiet in my registers. Emparked. The poor souls were cleared out for somebody's view. It does make you cross, even at t...
- Wed May 14, 2014 2:00 pm
- Forum: Lost Villages & Deserted Settlements
- Topic: My family came from a hamlet that isn't there - help tracing?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 28
My family came from a hamlet that isn't there - help tracing?
<t>I wonder if the brains trust can help. I have been doing my family tree for years and one branch, the Tuckers, are recorded in the parish registers as of Stowell right through the 1700s, marriages, baptisms, burials, the lot. But there is no Stowell on the modern map, not as a village. There is a...
- Thu Mar 27, 2014 1:35 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Tracing my lot
- Replies: 1
- Views: 21
Tracing my lot
<t>Hello everybody. Brenda. I'm the family-history one, three-times-great this and parish-register that, you'll soon learn to glaze over. I came to it tracing my own lot, who turned out to be from a hamlet that's barely there now, which is what got me curious about the whole business of villages tha...