Hello Bedford requests. Anyone know of any Myler/Mylars in the Cardington, Bedford area? Am looking for any of them in the 1700s and before. Any help would be great. Ed Mylar Paradise, Ca USA Ed Mylar >From: BEDFORD-D-request@rootsweb.com >Reply-To: BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com >To: BEDFORD-D@rootsweb.com >Subject: BEDFORD-D Digest V06 #18 >Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2006 10:00:01 -0700 > >Content-Type: text/plain > >BEDFORD-D Digest Volume 06 : Issue 18 > >Today's Topics: > #1 grave ["Owen" <oclarke4@comcast.net>] > #2 Re: [BDF] grave [Stella Stanger ><sstanger@sfu.ca>] > #3 Unusual Christian names: Hamlet [AudreyJoyceMcC@aol.com] > #4 RE: [BDF] Unusual Christian names: [David ><david11000carca@yahoo.fr>] > #5 Re: [BDF] Unusual Christian names: [AudreyJoyceMcC@aol.com] > #6 PRATT ["palmby" ><palmby@bigpond.net.au>] > #7 OLD PHOTOGRAPHS [Eve McLaughlin ><eve@varneys.demon.] > #8 Re: [BDF] Unusual Christian names: [Eve McLaughlin ><eve@varneys.demon.] > #9 Re: [BDF] Unusual Christian names: [Alicerawley@aol.com] > #10 [BDF] Unusual Christian names: Ase [<rosemary.hill3@ntlworld.com>] > #11 Re: [BDF] Unusual Christian names: [Julie Harold ><julie@highfields1.pl] > >Administrivia: >To unsubscribe from BEDFORD-D, send a message to > > BEDFORD-D-request@rootsweb.com > >that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > >To unsubscribe on the web, go to > >http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/subscribe.html > >Hugh > >Listowner > >hugh@xtra.co.nz >______________________________ >X-Message: #1 >Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 08:45:52 -0800 >From: "Owen" <oclarke4@comcast.net> >To: BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <009701c628e1$4bd17a50$6501a8c0@Lois> >Subject: grave >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > >Could some kind soul who happens to be in Luton with their camera at the >ready please take a photograph of my late wife's grave. she passed away >from a blood clot in 1949 just after the birth of our baby (3 lbs 10 oz) >the smallest on record in the Harpenden hospital at the time (December 7th >1948). I believe the grave yard is no longer in use as there is a more >modern one up at Stopsley, I think. >Address is Church Cemetry on the hill close by the St.Mary's Parish church, >Row O 18 Sectiion 9. >Unfortunately I cannot go there to keep it tidy as I now live in the USA. >Owen > >______________________________ >X-Message: #2 >Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 11:24:53 -0800 >From: Stella Stanger <sstanger@sfu.ca> >To: BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com >Message-Id: <7.0.1.0.0.20060203112401.01b54b88@sfu.ca> >Subject: Re: [BDF] grave >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > >Hi Owen, If no one on the list can help. >There may be Volunteers - at the Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness >- England. >http://www.raogk.org/england.htm > >Cheers, Stella > > >At 08:45 AM 2/3/2006, you wrote: > >Could some kind soul who happens to be in Luton with their camera at > >the ready please take a photograph of my late wife's grave. she > >passed away from a blood clot in 1949 just after the birth of our > >baby (3 lbs 10 oz) the smallest on record in the Harpenden hospital > >at the time (December 7th 1948). I believe the grave yard is no > >longer in use as there is a more modern one up at Stopsley, I think. > >Address is Church Cemetry on the hill close by the St.Mary's Parish > >church, Row O 18 Sectiion 9. > >Unfortunately I cannot go there to keep it tidy as I now live in the USA. > >Owen > > > > > >==== BEDFORD Mailing List ==== > >For any updates our info about the status of this list go to > >http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com > >______________________________ >X-Message: #3 >Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 14:57:03 EST >From: AudreyJoyceMcC@aol.com >To: BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <20c.11b8bf64.31150f8f@aol.com> >Subject: Unusual Christian names: Hamlet >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > >Listers > >Does anyone have any Hamlets in their family? > >It seems to crop-up in one branch of my family all the time [usually as a >middle name] as far back as I can trace them...I can't imagine that they >knew >Shakespeare's play Hamlet which is the only Hamlet I have heard of outside >these >people? Their surname was VOERKER [later Anglicised as WORKER]. > >cathy > >______________________________ >X-Message: #4 >Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 21:18:29 +0100 (CET) >From: David <david11000carca@yahoo.fr> >To: BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <20060203201829.18825.qmail@web26301.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> >Subject: RE: [BDF] Unusual Christian names: Hamlet >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > >Hi Cathy > > Perhaps not as uncommon as both you and I thought - there are over 1700 >entries on the IGI (OK, some will be duplicated) > > My favourite has to be > > Christened 9 Nov 1814 at Norwich: Hamlet Prince William Denmark, son of >Hamlet and Amy Denmark ( controlled extract, not a member submission!!!) > > Regards > > David > > > >AudreyJoyceMcC@aol.com a écrit : Listers > >Does anyone have any Hamlets in their family? > >It seems to crop-up in one branch of my family all the time [usually as a >middle name] as far back as I can trace them...I can't imagine that they >knew >Shakespeare's play Hamlet which is the only Hamlet I have heard of outside >these >people? Their surname was VOERKER [later Anglicised as WORKER]. > >cathy > > > > > >==== BEDFORD Mailing List ==== >The Bedfordshire Surnames List can be viewed at: >http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/bedf.html > > > > >- ------------------------------- > Nouveau : téléphonez moins cher avec Yahoo! Messenger ! Découvez les >tarifs exceptionnels pour appeler la France et l'international.Téléchargez >la version beta. > >______________________________ >X-Message: #5 >Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 17:59:26 EST >From: AudreyJoyceMcC@aol.com >To: BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <d5.367aee15.31153a4e@aol.com> >Subject: Re: [BDF] Unusual Christian names: Hamlet >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > >In a message dated 2/3/06 8:18:58 PM GMT Standard Time, >david11000carca@yahoo.fr writes: > > > My favourite has to be > > > > Christened 9 Nov 1814 at Norwich: Hamlet Prince William Denmark, son of > > Hamlet and Amy Denmark ( controlled extract, not a member submission!!!) > > > > > >Thank you, my people were in Norwich too before Bedfordshire - so perhaps >it >is just a Norfolk thing?! > >cathy > >______________________________ >X-Message: #6 >Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 18:38:08 +1000 >From: "palmby" <palmby@bigpond.net.au> >To: BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <004a01c62966$5351a360$ef9ae23c@qld.bigpond.net.au> >Subject: PRATT >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > >good evening from Downunder. > I Have got Charles PRATT born about 1842 in Leighton Buzzard. he married >in to my HOOTON line in London in 1867. > I do have a lot of other Pratts from Leighton Buzzard that are in with my >Samuels line , but can't seem to make any connection between the two . > Wondering if anyone may be able to help me please > many thanks > Sheila > Gold Coast > OZ > >______________________________ >X-Message: #7 >Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 11:25:36 +0000 >From: Eve McLaughlin <eve@varneys.demon.co.uk> >To: BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <yS4KiHAw8I5DFw4H@varneys.demon.co.uk> >Subject: OLD PHOTOGRAPHS > > Bucks Genealogical Society Meeting Feb 11 >Do you have a problem working out whose all those old ancestral photos >could be? Tom Doig is offering advice on > DATING AND IDENTIFYING OLD PHOTOGRAPHS >on Saturday, February 11 at 3pm. > >Research, bookstall, library access from 2pm. >Venue, Walton Court Community Centre, Hannon Rd, off Ellen Rd, >Aylesbury. This is approached by following signs to Stoke Mandeville >Hospital, turning at the first roundabout (Entrance 1) into Churchill >Drive, then left into Ellen Rd and follow this road round till you see >the 'Walton Court' sign. Parking on either side of the Walton Court >shopping precinct or at the end of Cole Rd (next turning right). From >the A418, follow the Walton Court signs at the first big roundabout. >Hannon Rd if the fourth turning right (and marked to Stoke Mandeville >Hosp. avoiding speed bumps). The Community Centre is at the back left >of the precinct, security buzzer access. >-- >Eve McLaughlin > >Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians >Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society > >______________________________ >X-Message: #8 >Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 11:30:19 +0000 >From: Eve McLaughlin <eve@varneys.demon.co.uk> >To: BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <MjWVOIALBJ5DFwNO@varneys.demon.co.uk> >Subject: Re: [BDF] Unusual Christian names: Hamlet > >In message <d5.367aee15.31153a4e@aol.com>, AudreyJoyceMcC@aol.com writes > >In a message dated 2/3/06 8:18:58 PM GMT Standard Time, > >david11000carca@yahoo.fr writes: > > > >> My favourite has to be > >> > >> Christened 9 Nov 1814 at Norwich: Hamlet Prince William Denmark, son >of > >> Hamlet and Amy Denmark ( controlled extract, not a member >submission!!!) > >> >I think it is very tempting, if you are surnamed Denmark (and have a bit >of a literary bent). It is like all the people called Nelson who named >a baby Horatio (and confused their descendants) - at least none of the >Denmarks would have claimed royal ancestry because of it. > >-- >Eve McLaughlin > >Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians >Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society > >______________________________ >X-Message: #9 >Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 12:21:00 -0500 >From: Alicerawley@aol.com >To: BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <04FD9CD4.5419A82E.356EFD96@aol.com> >Subject: Re: [BDF] Unusual Christian names: Hamlet >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > >i knew a bernadette hamlet who lived in cleveland st birkenhead merseyside >in the 40s - 50s > >______________________________ >X-Message: #10 >Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 21:32:44 +0000 >From: <rosemary.hill3@ntlworld.com> >To: BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com >Message-Id: ><20060204213244.SWRS1154.aamta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@smtp.ntlworld.com> >Subject: [BDF] Unusual Christian names: Asenath >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >I have an ancestor from shillington called Asenath HILL (maiden name)which >I believe is a name from the old testament possibly connected to Joseph. >They were methodists in the mid 19th century and wondered if this may have >contributed to them choosing such an unusual name? >Rosemary > > > > From: AudreyJoyceMcC@aol.com > > Date: 2006/02/03 Fri PM 07:57:03 GMT > > To: BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: [BDF] Unusual Christian names: Hamlet > > > > Listers > > > > Does anyone have any Hamlets in their family? > > > > It seems to crop-up in one branch of my family all the time [usually as >a > > middle name] as far back as I can trace them...I can't imagine that they >knew > > Shakespeare's play Hamlet which is the only Hamlet I have heard of >outside these > > people? Their surname was VOERKER [later Anglicised as WORKER]. > > > > cathy > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== BEDFORD Mailing List ==== > > The Bedfordshire Surnames List can be viewed at: > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/bedf.html > > > > > >- --------------------------------------- >Email sent from www.ntlworld.com >Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software >Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information > >______________________________ >X-Message: #11 >Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 10:45:35 +0000 >From: Julie Harold <julie@highfields1.plus.com> >To: BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <43E5D74F.3090003@highfields1.plus.com> >Subject: Re: [BDF] Unusual Christian names: Hamlet >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >I have a Hamlet in mine - early 1800's I think and in Suffolk. > >Julie > >Alicerawley@aol.com wrote: > > > i knew a bernadette hamlet who lived in cleveland st birkenhead >merseyside in the 40s - 50s > > > > > > ==== BEDFORD Mailing List ==== > > Go to the Bedfordshire Lookup Exchange at: > > http://freespace.virgin.net/m.harbach/bdf.html > > > > -- > > This email has been verified as Virus free > > Virus Protection and more available at http://www.plus.net > > > > >-- > >http://www.highfields1.plus.com/famhist.html