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Antie Em wrote:Is this still a Brickwall, or have you solved it?

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Hi,
Thanks the brick wall is down.
Thanks
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Have you tried asking at the museum of lace in Nottingham? Link m I've been trying to phone them withing the last few hours. The call just disconnects without dialing out. There is a note on the BBC to say the musium is closing in April but does not say which april I may have picked up an old feed....

This is something that speculation won't help. In my case the occupation came up on a marriage certificate of my Great Grandfather who describe his father as a "Silk Glove Hand" on his 2nd marriage he said he was a Silversmith. In actual fact he was a machine knitter in the lace mills. In ...

Does anyone know what a "Silk Glove Hand" is. As it is from Nottingham it could be related to the lace industry?

Thomas Fletcher b. 1800 Benniworth, Linc. father Christopher Fletcher mother Mary.
I need information on Christopher and Mary's marriage preferable from the LFHS Horncastle Deanary Indax.
Can anyone help.

Hi thanks for that. I should have made a posting. I was able to get that link in and have located her baptism in Co. Offaly and the marriage of the father in Dublin. Also picked up a living relative the we did not know that we had. I guess I was just lucky on this one. Can't just blame the Irish the...

Mary White b. abt 1852 Ireland father Jarvis White father. Can be found in Nottingham 1871 census. I am unable to get anything else on Mary or in fact Jarvis White prior to his marriage of Rhoda Jane Merrett. My mother Granddaughter of Jarvis White always spoke of an Irish connection. She said her g...

Hi everyone, From time to time when searching on Familyseach.org we see that a particular entry has been submitted by a member of the LDS Church. Now a friend who otherwise is a good researcher and has help me a lot says that such entries mean that the family must be Mormons. Now I am looking at the...

Sorry about the delay I was sleeping. Time difference I am afraid in Australia. Thanks for the great job you are doing I will give all details below as I know them. William Jarvis Bell (drops the Jarvis on census) born Nottingham 1885 the son of William E Ball and Vashti White was married to Mary An...

I have reason to believe the above went to the USA based on my boy memories and I cannot find his death in the indexes. My account with Amnesty is limited to UK and Australia. Can someone check any USA records, Thanks Details: William Jarvis BELL born 1885 St Peters, Nottingham, England Married 1904...

peterd wrote:there at least 6 william fletchers who married in grimsby between 1912 -1926 no way of proving any are him ?


and here the parents

Marriages Sep 1894
Fletcher Marshall Herbert Louth 7a 1125
Ladley Betsy Louth 7a 1125

Thanks I think I have the one. Only one fitted in.

Hi,
Can someone check my findings as I am new I may have missed something.
William Fletcher b. 1895 in Grimsby the son of Marshall H Fletcher and Betsy nee Ladley. I believe he died in 1975 but cannot find any marriage reference for him.
Thanks

Possible "Uncle Marshall" 1901 Great Grimsby Marshall H Fletcher 33 Betsy Fletcher 33 William Fletcher 5 Elizabeth Fletcher 2 William Ladley 27 Thank I have him. 1911 Census they lived in 20 Durban Road, Grimsby another son ,Arthur I seem to have traced him through tentatively to the perc...

Just to complete the set of census for Thomas and Martha: 1871 At Holton Road, Waltham Thomas Flecher Head 66 Farmer 66 acres b. Benniworth, Lincolnshire Martha Flecher Wife 40 b. Benniworth, Lincolnshire Elzia N Flecher Daur 13 Farmer's daughter b. Waltham, Lincolnshire John W Flecher Son 11 Schol...