Large, steel thing about three metres by one and a half, and about a metre deep, for putting (typically) builders' waste in. Stu ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary" <murcon@attcanada.ca> To: <ENG-DERBYSHIRE-CHESTERFIELD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 1:13 AM Subject: Re: [Chesterfield] Found in a skip (1) > Isn't a skip a dumpster? > Mary > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stuart Basson" <stuart@chesterfield5-2.freeserve.co.uk> > To: <ENG-DERBYSHIRE-CHESTERFIELD-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 7:23 PM > Subject: [Chesterfield] Found in a skip (1) > > > > Some photocopies of funeral cards: > > > > William Townsend d 21/8/1889 aged 54, buried in Chesterfield Cemetery > > 25/8/1889 > > John Townsend d 7/7/1875 aged 48, buried in Chesterfield Cemertery > 9/7/1875 > > Annie, wife of Henry Evans, d 24/7/1885, aged 26, buried in Wingerworth > > Church, 26/7/1885 > > > > Also a photocopy of a page from a local paper, with the following deaths: > > > > King, Ann; d aged 82 in Chesterfield Workhouse on August 22nd > > Bacon, Charles, d aged 54 in Whittington on August 31st > > Holmes, Rebecca, d aged 3 in Newbold on September 1st > > Smith, William; d aged 68 in Wingerworth on Sptember 2nd > > Lievesley, Ethel, aged 2, in Whittington on August 3rd > > Flint, James William, aged 27, in Hasland on September 3rd > > Foster, Ada, age 3, in Whittington on August 30th > > Warren, Ethel, age 3, at Hasland on September 4th > > Whittaker, Elizabeth, age 75, at Barlow on August 25th. > > > > Cross-ref with FreeBMD suggests 1900 to be the year. > > > > More to follow later. > > > > Stu > > > > > > ==== ENG-DERBYSHIRE-CHESTERFIELD Mailing List ==== > > Check out the list's website for rules, guidelines, how to post to the > list, view archives, unsubscribe, change from L to D or D to L: > > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/Chesterfield/ > > > > > > > > > ==== ENG-DERBYSHIRE-CHESTERFIELD Mailing List ==== > Check out the list's website for rules, guidelines, how to post to the list, view archives, unsubscribe, change from L to D or D to L: > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/Chesterfield/ > >

Thanks to all who wrote and told me what a skip is in UK. Sound like what we call a dumpster in USA. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com Professional Genealogy Research All outgoing mail virus free, scanned by Norton 2002