Hi Christine, playing around on Google. I now think its trying to say 'Letter Press Printer. Mike Morris Toronto Canada >________________________________ > From: Christine Benson <christinebenson313@btinternet.com> >To: CHESHIRE mailing list <CHESHIRE@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2014 9:50:57 AM >  >I am trying to read the occupation of John STUBBS in 1861. In other years he >is a printer and the third word could be printer but the second letter looks >like an "e". But the rest of it I cannot read at all. <snip> > > >

<<snipped>> Adrian, have you tried contacting Cheshire South Methodist Circuit directly? See here: http://www.cheshiresouth.org.uk/contact.html <<snipped>> Good thought Ruth - I hadn't worked out where the chapel ended up in current Circuits, so thanks for that. Adrian B

Resending this, as it was returned last time. Hope someone can help. ----- Original Message ----- From: Alan To: cheshire@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 1:42 PM Subject: Wills Hoping somebody on the list can help. Found a precis of an early will, which contains the words, "bequest to poor of -----. power reserved". Power reserved is a new one on me! Any advice or information appreciated, as I have no idea what this might mean. The gent in question was a mariner, if this has any relevance. Angela

Adrian, have you tried contacting Cheshire South Methodist Circuit directly? See here: http://www.cheshiresouth.org.uk/contact.html They may be able to give you a clue as to what may have happened to any records. Ruth

(Since it looks like we're back...) Anyone able to say whether there is a burial register available for Bradeley Road Primitive Methodist (PM) Chapel in Haslington? I'm looking for some lost Coopers from 1870s to 1890s - for instance, Eliza Cooper, d Q2 of 1890 aged 14. The family's baptisms are recorded in the Circuit book of the Sandbach PM circuit at a time when they lived in Haslington / Crewe Green. This suggests to me that they attended Bradeley Road PM Chapel (unless there's another PM Chapel in Haslington?) but that it didn't have its own baptism register so the entries were made in the Circuit's register. As for burials, the missing children are not in St. Matthew's burial register of this time and there is a small burial ground at Bradeley Road PM chapel. Unfortunately, while I know the MIs have been published (there can't be many), I cannot find any indication anywhere in Chester RO or LDS catalogue of an existing burial register. Or a Circuit burial register - if there is such a thing. Anyone know of anything I might be able to consult? As is often the case this is surely not that important in the overall scheme of things but I've got obsessed with wondering what happened to them! Thanks Adrian B

Thanks for your replies Helen Adrian Dorothy and Carol, I was just asking whether anyone else was having the same problem and if so what did they do to put it right. I wasn't sure as to whether it was a scam after I had registered, some other company posing as FMP. Regards, Jill -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [CHS] Fwd: Testing Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 20:59:49 +0100 From: HOLDEN DOROTHY <dmholden@ntlworld.com> To: Gillian Morgan <jill@morgantowers.plus.com> Hi Jill, saw your message but I don't know what the answer is! Kind regards, Dot On 25 June 2014 10:38, Gillian Morgan <jill@morgantowers.plus.com <mailto:jill@morgantowers.plus.com>> wrote: Has anyone got my message? Jill. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: £1 Offer Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 23:28:35 +0100 From: Gillian Morgan <jill@morgantowers.plus.com <mailto:jill@morgantowers.plus.com>> To: CHESHIRE@rootsweb. com <CHESHIRE@rootsweb.com <mailto:CHESHIRE@rootsweb.com>> Hi, Anyone having trouble with the £1 Offer on Find My Past? After paying £1 my first attempt was successeful but, after that first time I am unable to access any records except the ones I had already seen on my first attempt. Am I doing something wrong? Regards, Jill. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CHESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com <mailto:CHESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- Dot Holden Dover Kent UK There are three things that can never be retrieved, the spoken word, time past and the neglected opportunity

Yes... (Well, I got the one sent on 25th - not the earlier one) Adrian -----Original Message----- From: cheshire-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:cheshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Gillian Morgan Sent: 25 June 2014 10:39 To: CHESHIRE@rootsweb. com Subject: [CHS] Fwd: Testing Has anyone got my message? Jill. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: £1 Offer Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 23:28:35 +0100 From: Gillian Morgan <jill@morgantowers.plus.com> To: CHESHIRE@rootsweb. com <CHESHIRE@rootsweb.com> Hi, Anyone having trouble with the £1 Offer on Find My Past? After paying £1 my first attempt was successeful but, after that first time I am unable to access any records except the ones I had already seen on my first attempt. Am I doing something wrong? Regards, Jill. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CHESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

> > Pardon me but as I can get onto the Rootsweb site, I shall see if mail is > working.... > > Adrian B It will probably be days before things return to normal. Ancestry and Rootsweb crashed under a heavy co-ordinated DDOS attack on the 16th and they've been working on the fix ever since. Rootwebs came back up here in the states last night, and I began getting emails again this afternoon. Brian PS. More than likely everyone is going to start sending test pings and make it all worse before it gets better.

Has anyone got my message? Jill. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: £1 Offer Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 23:28:35 +0100 From: Gillian Morgan <jill@morgantowers.plus.com> To: CHESHIRE@rootsweb. com <CHESHIRE@rootsweb.com> Hi, Anyone having trouble with the £1 Offer on Find My Past? After paying £1 my first attempt was successeful but, after that first time I am unable to access any records except the ones I had already seen on my first attempt. Am I doing something wrong? Regards, Jill.

Pardon me but as I can get onto the Rootsweb site, I shall see if mail is working.... Adrian B

Hi, Anyone having trouble with the £1 Offer on Find My Past? After paying £1 my first attempt was successeful but, after that first time I am unable to access any records except the ones I had already seen on my first attempt. Am I doing something wrong? Regards, Jill.

Hello folks Some do say "Microsoft". One called my father's when I was there..."that will be difficult we do not have a computer" which was quite true for dad's home!! Rapid end of call. Jacqui ________________________________________ From: cheshire-bounces@rootsweb.com <cheshire-bounces@rootsweb.com> on behalf of Adrian Bruce <abruce@madasafish.com> Sent: 16 June 2014 11:24 To: 'CHESHIRE-L' Subject: Re: [CHS] Non-gen - Another round of scam phone calls <<snipped>> I've had calls supposedly from Microsoft, telling me that there was something wrong with my computer <<snipped>> All sorts of lying ****** variants on this. I'm actually quite surprised if they said that they were from Microsoft as that puts them at risk from a real company - normally they say that they are from the technical department of - the World Wide Web (it's not an organisation so can't have a technical department), - the Internet (ditto), - Windows (it's a product not an organisation so again it doesn't have a technical department) Apparently they might tell you - if you let them near the machine - that there are all sorts of error messages - and you then get worried because those messages are there. Relax. Any PC will produce lots of messages as a perfectly normal part of doing its job - that's all those messages are. (Don't bother trying to understand the messages - the days are long gone when any non-Windows specialist could understand the messages). Adrian ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CHESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I have received those calls here in Canada. My usual reply is to advise the caller to get a real job expressed in nautical terms (if you get the drift) On 2014-06-16, at 3:21 PM, w Simkins wrote: > Hello folks > > Some do say "Microsoft". One called my father's when I was there..."that will be difficult we do not have a computer" which was quite true for dad's home!! Rapid end of call. > > Jacqui > ________________________________________ > From: cheshire-bounces@rootsweb.com <cheshire-bounces@rootsweb.com> on behalf of Adrian Bruce <abruce@madasafish.com> > Sent: 16 June 2014 11:24 > To: 'CHESHIRE-L' > Subject: Re: [CHS] Non-gen - Another round of scam phone calls > > <<snipped>> I've had calls supposedly from Microsoft, telling me that there > was something wrong with my computer > <<snipped>> > > All sorts of lying ****** variants on this. I'm actually quite surprised if > they said that they were from Microsoft as that puts them at risk from a > real company - normally they say that they are from the technical department > of > - the World Wide Web (it's not an organisation so can't have a technical > department), > - the Internet (ditto), > - Windows (it's a product not an organisation so again it doesn't have a > technical department) > > Apparently they might tell you - if you let them near the machine - that > there are all sorts of error messages - and you then get worried because > those messages are there. Relax. Any PC will produce lots of messages as a > perfectly normal part of doing its job - that's all those messages are. > (Don't bother trying to understand the messages - the days are long gone > when any non-Windows specialist could understand the messages). > > Adrian > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CHESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CHESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

Yes, I had one today too and let the young woman ramble on before I had great joy in telling her I didn't have a Windows computer so how could I be "registered" with them. She couldn't answer that probably cos it wasn't on the script. Cheers Jenni ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lesley Baxendale" <tree.dovercourt17@googlemail.com> To: "M&LFHS" <forum@list.mlfhs.org.uk>; "CHESHIRE-L" <CHESHIRE@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 6:01 PM Subject: [CHS] Non-gen - Another round of scam phone calls > Hi All, > > I thought it might be appropriate to warn people that there seems to be > another round of scam phone calls in progress. > > For the last three days I've had calls supposedly from Microsoft, > telling me that there was something wrong with my computer and that I > needed to update my CLSID. > > It's a scam - if you get one of these, hang up. I let them ramble on a > bit & then told them not to talk rubbish before I hung up. > > The following link, although from last year, explains what it's about & > I found it very interesting/useful: > > http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/68552-63-warning-scam > > The bottom comment on the page is the most useful to know "Microsoft > will only contact you if you request it! Do not fall for the scam!" > > Regards > > Lesley Baxendale > Colwyn Bay > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CHESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com

I just tell them I don't understand as I have a PhD in computing... They hang up immediately. Lol! Sent from my iPhone > On 16 Jun 2014, at 09:32, "Lesley Baxendale" <tree.dovercourt17@googlemail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > I thought it might be appropriate to warn people that there seems to be > another round of scam phone calls in progress. > > For the last three days I've had calls supposedly from Microsoft, > telling me that there was something wrong with my computer and that I > needed to update my CLSID. > > It's a scam - if you get one of these, hang up. I let them ramble on a > bit & then told them not to talk rubbish before I hung up. > > The following link, although from last year, explains what it's about & > I found it very interesting/useful: > > http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/68552-63-warning-scam > > The bottom comment on the page is the most useful to know "Microsoft > will only contact you if you request it! Do not fall for the scam!" > > Regards > > Lesley Baxendale > Colwyn Bay > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CHESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

There are lots of examples of people winding up junk callers but this classic one must be the best! http://www.hark.com/clips/qlztssnyzk-telemarketer-calls-murder-scene http://goo.gl/kTD9Bu There is no bad language etc, just a very funny wind up of some poor junk caller. Martin Briscoe Fort William martin@mbriscoe.me.uk

The other way is to say that you have several computer so which one do they mean. A friend did this and switched on an ancient very slow laptop that was not connected to the Internet because he was interested to see how they work the scam. They told him to bring up the CMD prompt then type in a DIR command for a particular file extension, this brought up hundreds of matches (they were some very obscure system files). They expressed concern because the computer was heavily infected and wanted him to give them remote access. I just do not pick up any International, Withheld etc calls and also any numbers that I do not recognise. I let the answer machine take the call, if it is a genuine call then they will speak but the majority either hand up or are just silent. You have to bear in mind that it is quite easy to fake the number displayed on your phone or buy blocks of numbers around the country so some scam / junk callers use a number on your local exchange to make it look genuine. When they hang up I look up the number, most times other people have been getting junk / scam calls from the same number and often someone will have identified them though often you find the same number has been used for lots of different junk or scam calls over the years. http://whocallsme.com/ I then store the number in my DECT phone's contacts and set it to be in a JUNK group which has a suitable selective ring so I know next time it is a junk caller without having to look. There are a few devices that you can get to intercept these type of calls but let friends numbers connect as normal. The best known is this one, I would buy one tomorrow if they improved it slightly in one area. http://www.truecall.co.uk/home.aspx Martin Briscoe Fort William martin@mbriscoe.me.uk -----Original Message----- From: cheshire-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:cheshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Jenni Sent: 16 June 2014 10:09 To: CHESHIRE-L Subject: Re: [CHS] Non-gen - Another round of scam phone calls Yes, I had one today too and let the young woman ramble on before I had great joy in telling her I didn't have a Windows computer so how could I be "registered" with them. She couldn't answer that probably cos it wasn't on the script. Cheers Jenni

<<snipped>> I've had calls supposedly from Microsoft, telling me that there was something wrong with my computer <<snipped>> All sorts of lying ****** variants on this. I'm actually quite surprised if they said that they were from Microsoft as that puts them at risk from a real company - normally they say that they are from the technical department of - the World Wide Web (it's not an organisation so can't have a technical department), - the Internet (ditto), - Windows (it's a product not an organisation so again it doesn't have a technical department) Apparently they might tell you - if you let them near the machine - that there are all sorts of error messages - and you then get worried because those messages are there. Relax. Any PC will produce lots of messages as a perfectly normal part of doing its job - that's all those messages are. (Don't bother trying to understand the messages - the days are long gone when any non-Windows specialist could understand the messages). Adrian

Hi All, I thought it might be appropriate to warn people that there seems to be another round of scam phone calls in progress. For the last three days I've had calls supposedly from Microsoft, telling me that there was something wrong with my computer and that I needed to update my CLSID. It's a scam - if you get one of these, hang up. I let them ramble on a bit & then told them not to talk rubbish before I hung up. The following link, although from last year, explains what it's about & I found it very interesting/useful: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/68552-63-warning-scam The bottom comment on the page is the most useful to know "Microsoft will only contact you if you request it! Do not fall for the scam!" Regards Lesley Baxendale Colwyn Bay

Thanks Adrian, I have looked over the border, as far as I can online, but there are not so many baptisms online for Derbyshire as Cheshire. Christine