Hey Mellie, d'ya fancy this one? If ya do, pick me up on the way. I'm free on Saturday as my babbies are playing Friday night. Wolfie...................the quiet one subtle as a brick ay ya muvva! LOL Would love to say eys, but I am on call from now until next week, I cn'at stray that far!!!!! I'm pushin me luck comin over to you next week!! Mellie How Come My Coat Of Arms Has Buckles At The Back?

Forgot to ask did ya see the man (RON) in the paper doh know how he sneeked that one in without you an me seein im i dat see im!!! was he in the Police most wanted or did yow put him in the claassifieds fer serle LOL Mellie How Come My Coat Of Arms Has Buckles At The Back?

Hey Mellie, d'ya fancy this one? If ya do, pick me up on the way. I'm free on Saturday as my babbies are playing Friday night. Wolfie...................the quiet one -----Original Message----- From: Carol O'Neill [mailto:roneil@blueyonder.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 11:16 PM To: ENG-BLACK-COUNTRY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [B.C.] Hereford Family History Fair Is being held next Saturday, it's a big one and is being held at Hereford Racecourse, 10am - 4pm, Roman Road, Hereford, HR4 9QU, on Saturday 15th April 2006. Best Wishes Carol O'Neill www.genealogyprinters.com ==== ENG-BLACK-COUNTRY Mailing List ==== Wherever possible (except for personal messages) please post replies to the list.Other people can learn from them! -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.1/307 - Release Date: 10/04/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.1/309 - Release Date: 11/04/2006

Hi All, Just to remind everybody, in the series THE LOST WORLD OF. . . . . UK BBC2 is showing the first of 3 progs THE LOST WORLD OF FRIESE-GREEN* on Tuesday evening next 18 April at 9.00pm. F-G was a pioneer cinematographer, and this is his journey round UK 80 years ago and should be as interesting as the previous LOST WORLD OF. . . . progs. The present one is Cornwall and Devon. Best regards. Vic Kent, UK * I recall the 1951 film THE MAGIC BOX biopic with Robert Donat as F-G with a cameo role with Laurence Olivier as a policeman who discovers F-G showing his first movie and cannot understand why the goings on are not behind the screen!

Hello list Taking up Dave Ogden's theme for April, let me tell you a little regarding my granddad, John (Jack) WEBB and what he did for a living. He was born in High Street Langley, to Emanuel and Sarah Jane WEBB who lived in the back-to-back terraced houses that are just feint in my memory. In 1911 granddad went to work in the already well-establish chemical industry based in Oldbury, just a stones throw from his home. He was employed by Chance & Hunt Ltd and I remember him taking me to his workplace when I was very small, showing me the large waste mound (a small hill really) that everyone knew as "Blue Billy". The strange thing is that I don't know exactly what he did at Chance & Hunt, only that he was a "chemical worker". What I do know is that he was part of the works fire brigade, which no doubt had to be kept alert due to the proximity of Albright & Wilson's phosphorous works! Upon marriage, granddad moved to Baldwin St Smethwick and afterwards to Addenbrooke Rd, from both addresses he walked to work, regardless of the weather. In 1955 he was presented with a gold watch (which I still have) engraved in recognition of forty-four years service. Chance & Hunt became part of the ICI empire and I believe is now just a trade name for one of their divisions. Rob G Halesowen

Forgot to ask did ya see the man (RON) in the paper doh know how he sneeked that one in without you an me seein im ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mellie" <chouikh2006@btinternet.com> To: "Carol O'Neill" <roneil@blueyonder.co.uk>; <ENG-BLACK-COUNTRY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 11:53 PM Subject: Re: [B.C.] Hereford Family History Fair > Is being held next Saturday, it's a big one and is being held at Hereford > Racecourse, 10am - 4pm, Roman Road, Hereford, HR4 9QU, > on Saturday 15th April 2006. > > Best Wishes > Carol O'Neill > > dow ferget to torke to that bloke wot fancies ya ar wench!! > orl see ya befewer then with this monita! > Mellie > How Come My Coat Of Arms Has Buckles At The Back? > >

I had a GG Grandfather John Flynn who lived on Dudley Street in Wednesbury in 1858 who is listed on my Great Grandmother Ellen's Marriage Registration as being a "Inspector of Nuisance" a good article on this is "POLLUTED CITIES -THE DREAM AND THE REALITY compiled by Dee Finney Air Pollution before late Victorian times". I would like to know more about Dudley Street and Wednesbury in the time frame of 1837 to 1865. Mason mhem@bellsouth.net -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.1/309 - Release Date: 4/11/2006

Carol wrote: >>Is being held next Saturday, it's a big one and is being held at Hereford Racecourse, 10am - 4pm, Roman Road, Hereford, HR4 9QU, on Saturday 15th April 2006.<< Full details with location at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ukhfhs/events.html I'll be on the Guild of One-Name Studies stand - see you there! Polly Rubery List admin: MIDMARCH-L@rootsweb.com A genealogy and local history list covering the Counties of Brecon, Hereford, Monmouth, Shropshire, Stafford and Worcester. ENG-HEREFORD@rootsweb.com A genealogy and local history list covering the County of Hereford ROWBERRY-L@rootsweb.com ROWBERRY/RUBERY ONS - GOONS #278 rowberry@one-name.org http://www.rowberry.org Webmaster for the Herefordshire Family History Society http://www.rootsweb.com/~ukhfhs/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol O'Neill" <roneil@blueyonder.co.uk> To: <ENG-BLACK-COUNTRY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 11:16 PM Subject: [B.C.] Hereford Family History Fair Is being held next Saturday, it's a big one and is being held at Hereford Racecourse, 10am - 4pm, Roman Road, Hereford, HR4 9QU, on Saturday 15th April 2006. Best Wishes Carol O'Neill www.genealogyprinters.com ==== ENG-BLACK-COUNTRY Mailing List ==== Wherever possible (except for personal messages) please post replies to the list.Other people can learn from them!

Hi, I am new to this list and hoping someone might be able to help me out. I am looking for information about the parents, maiden name of mother, marriage information and more about the family from the birth record or other records from the family below: LEWIS JAMES b. 1850, father THOMAS JAMES, mother MARY. The BMD index has Quarter June, year 1850, District Dudley, Cty. Staffordshire Worcestershire, Vol 18, page 387. I couldn't locate him in the IGI. The 1851 Census: Thos. James, 36 Butcher, b. Hay, Breconshire, Mary, wife, age 26, b. Bristol, Lewis, son, b. 1850, 6mos, Tipton, Staff., address 284 Bloomfield, Tipton, St. Paul. The BMSGH also lists Register at Sandwell Ref TIP/29/267. The 1861 Census: THOMAS JAMES, head, age 45, Labourer, b. Brecon, Herefordshire, MARY, wife, age 35, Bristol, LEWIS JAMES, son, age 11, b. Handsworth, Staffordshire, SARAH JAMES, dau., age 7, b. Bloomfield, Staffordshire, LOUISA JAMES, dau., age 4, b. Handsworth, Staffordshire, SOFIA JAMES, dau., age 5mos., Handsworth, Staffordshire. SARAH, dau., b. 1854, address 33 Watt & Booth St., Handsworth, St. James. The 1871 Census: THOMAS JAMES, age 54, Night Watchman, b. Brecon, Landgrost, MARY, age 42, b. Bristol, LEWIS, age 21, Moulder, Handsworth, Staff., SOPHIA, age 10, scholar, b. Handsworth, Staff., CHARLOTTE, age 7, scholar, b. Handsworth, Staff., EMILY, age 6, scholar, b. Handsworth, Staff., ALICE, age 2, b. Handsworth, Staff., address 120 Chapel St., Handsworth, St. James. LEWIS JAMES married ALICE E. RENSHAW on July 23, 1871 at St. Mark's Church in Birmingham. He came to the United States prior to 1880, he was an Iron Moulder. His wife and 3 children came to the United States March 31, 1880 on board the Scythia steerage class. Thank you, Nancy USA

Has anyone else come across women of the late 1800's, in their family who have suddenly 'upped sticks' and deserted their children and husband. I know women's sufferage came about at the end of the 1800's and I am wondering if this influenced women who were not happy at home bringing up children etc to leave them and move on. I have one case in my own family and as yet I am not sure if she went off with another man or just vanished. In another case that I have been trying to sort for a friend, the woman in question married in 1881 at the age of 20. It looks as if she had about 7 children in 10 years before she vanished. The husband is recorded in 1891 as being a Pawnbroker Manager and married but there are no children or wife with him. I have found a set of 10 children living with a couple of the same surname in Gloucestershire but 7 of them have the surname of the runnaway wife as a second name. It looks to me as if a brother and his wife took the children on. I have also found entries in the 1891 census for a woman of the same surname as the runnaway wife working as a laundress in a school about 40 miles away. Then in 1901 she is living even further away as a railway restaurant worker. Any ideas? Were women suddenly taking their lives into their hands or what? Yorkie

Hello All, For the rest of April, the List theme is "what did my ancestors do and where did they work". This is quite a poignant theme with the "recent" closure of so many companies lately in the Black Country. One of the latest being Speare and Jackson at Wood Green Wednesbury, Some of you may be aware that this was formerly Elwells and prior to that.......well, ironmaking since the 16th Century springs to mind on that site. I suppose it will end up as housing. Tinsleys have been saved for the present, and look what a history that company have had! Other companies that spring readily to mind lately are F.H.Lloyds, The Patent Shaft, Conex Sanbra, Rubery Owen, Jenson, Accles and Pollack, Royal Doulton, The Crown Tubeworks (Whitehouses), Beans, Norton Villiers, Mitchells and Butlers Brewery, Fellowes Moreton and Clayton, Great Western Railways, Midland Tar Distillers, Ag Labs on one of the many farms that were in the BC until very recently, Mining, In Service, Teaching etc.etc., It doesn't matter if your ancestors didn't work in one of the firms mentioned, it's really interesting to note what they did as a job and where they did it, even if it was in an outhouse making nails, gun locks or even Jews harps. We could learn a lot about the diversity of expertise in our area. So all in all it boils down to a job with a short description and where they carried it out. Can I ask you all not to revert to dialect with replies to this, many subscribers overseas (and in this Country) don't understand what we're on about, and remember BC dialect on one side of the Dudley Moon (I won't go into the Four Moons of Oldbury <g>) is far removed to that from the other. Dave Wednesbury England List Admin: Black Country etc.,

Hi Cassy What wonderful news that you have at long last had a breakthrough with regard to Baby Carroll (Alice FRANKLIN). I know how much it means to you, especially the help from a cousin. Rita

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Is being held next Saturday, it's a big one and is being held at Hereford Racecourse, 10am - 4pm, Roman Road, Hereford, HR4 9QU, on Saturday 15th April 2006. Best Wishes Carol O'Neill dow ferget to torke to that bloke wot fancies ya ar wench!! orl see ya befewer then with this monita! Mellie How Come My Coat Of Arms Has Buckles At The Back?

Is being held next Saturday, it's a big one and is being held at Hereford Racecourse, 10am - 4pm, Roman Road, Hereford, HR4 9QU, on Saturday 15th April 2006. Best Wishes Carol O'Neill www.genealogyprinters.com

Hi mellie,glad you enjoyed the site,thought it might be right up your street,haven't heard from Anne in Oz yet, buy maybe they are not up yet. bye for now Dave in Inskip On 11/04/06, Mellie <chouikh2006@btinternet.com> wrote: > > >>Hi Mellie,first time we have spoken,pleased to meet yow. > > Yes,it would appear that he did work for the Board,but do Google it, its a > super site and very interesting,gives loads of detail,staff,census > etc.,massive place. > > Let me know what you think, > Regards > Dave in Inskip<< > > Index of English and Welsh Lunatic Asylums and Mental Hospitals > Based on a comprehensive survey in 1844, and extended to other asylums. > > I like this site!!!!! they all have my coat of arms! ROTFLMFAO > Mellie > How Come My Coat Of Arms Has Buckles At The Back? > -- Sheffield Records Online http://www.sheffieldrecordsonline.org.uk Online Sheffield 1841,1861 census, trade directories,probate, message forum & more. If you are chasing your Ancestors round Sheffield---this is the place to be at.

Let me know what you think, Regards Dave in Inskip seriously Dave I really do think its a great site! Mellie How Come My Coat Of Arms Has Buckles At The Back?

before Wuf asks me what a paroxysm is LOL amongst other things its another word for ~ GOAD and IRRITATE LOL, both of which I thought you might like LOL actually Ron Oneill would agree with you ROTFL DILLIGAF!! AND before anyone complains that I am making fun of people afflicted with epilepsy, don't even go there, I HAVE EPILEPSY and make as much fun of myself as I do other people LOL the devil makes me do it ROTFL or is it the voices? par·ox·ysm (prk-szm) n. 1. A sudden outburst of emotion or action: a paroxysm of laughter. 2. a. A sudden attack, recurrence, or intensification of a disease. b. A spasm or fit; a convulsion. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Middle English paroxism, periodic attack of a disease, from Medieval Latin paroxysmus, from Greek paroxusmos, from paroxnein, to stimulate, irritate : para-, intensive pref.; see para-1 + oxnein, to goad, sharpen (from oxus, sharp; see ak- in Indo-European roots).] Mellie How Come My Coat Of Arms Has Buckles At The Back?

Strangely enough, a Barclays Bank email has just appeared in one of my alias email inboxes!!! so I scrolled down (before forwarding it to barclays bank security team) and it doesn't say ANYTHING about an amount in an account, however, I would presume that if the link is clicked on, then it would, and the hoaxer/hacker would be relying on peoples greed to think they were going to get moeny form the bank over and above what might be in their account! I also think its most likely that once the link is clicked, you may well have opened back door access to you computer to the hacker so that if you have got any personal details stored he's got them now! moral of the story DON'T CLICK ON THE LINK which is not as interesting as the moral of the story i just sent cassy ROTFL Mellie How Come My Coat Of Arms Has Buckles At The Back?

"there were seventy-one insane persons, subject to insanity in various forms; several of them being epileptics, liable, after their paroxysms of epilepsy, to fits of raving madness, during which they were usually excessively violent, and some of them under great excitement, and furiously maniacal." (1844 Report p.98) SEE, I FIT RIGHT IN THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mellie How Come My Coat Of Arms Has Buckles At The Back?