Reviewed in last night's Dorset Evening Echo is 'Weymouth, a Portrait in Colour" by Stuart Morris (already well known for his books on Portland). It is, to quote from 'The Wanderer' "a potted history, combined with a sedate romp through the area which makes it immensely readable". It is 32 colour pages. It retails at 2.99 sterling and is available from the Dovecote Press. See http://www.dovecotepress.com - I am pretty sure you can order books direct from it using a credit card. Dovecote Press also publish Jo Draper's indispensible "Dorset - The Complete Guide" and the excellent little "Discover Dorset" series, so if you are interested in local books, have a look. For example I have recently bought "Dress and Textiles" - a fascinating history both of Dorset fashion and of the textile industry in the county. I know I usually only recommend books that I have personally read, and I have to confess that I have not seen "Weymouth - a Portrait in Colour", but as the review so glowing and as I have other books by Stuart, I feel that this may be worth investigating further. I will be looking out for it locally. Helen Helen Jones, Weymouth, Dorset http://www.melcombe.freeserve.co.uk List Admin Rootsweb Eng Dorset & Scammell Lists, and British Genealogy Eng-Dorset, Surnames & Forenames list
This is a date for your diary... September is to be "Archives Awareness Month" and on Saturday September 27th the Dorset Record Office will be having an Open Day, with special displays and tours behind the scenes. It will run from 10.30-3.30pm. I know quite a lot of people subscribed to this and the other Dorset mailing lists went to the RO's 10th Birthday Open Day two years ago and had a very good day. It is very interesting to go 'behind the scenes'. I don't think I will be able to make this as we seem to be spending every Saturday in the autumn touring various Universities with our eldest daughter, but I will keep you posted with news about this Open Day as and when I receive it. Helen Helen Jones, Weymouth, Dorset http://www.melcombe.freeserve.co.uk List Admin Rootsweb Eng Dorset & Scammell Lists, and British Genealogy Eng-Dorset, Surnames & Forenames list
The following list of new aquisitions at the Dorset Record Office comes from their newsletter "On the Record" Don't forget to check out Access to Archives too - http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk If you haven't visited for a while, do check the RO online catalogue http://www.dorsetcc.gov.uk/archives as they have been very busy filming and you may well find new additions to your parishes of interests. Many poor records have been filmed recently and I found last week that Ashmore baps and burials had been filmed to 1999 & 1997, and East Stour baps till 1997. These are just the two parishes I looked at and I know there are additions to plenty more. I also found (and they have probably had these for ages!) that they have all the Somerset census returns for the parishes close to the Dorset borders, including Bruton and Wincanton. The bad news for overseas and out of county researchers is that research fees have risen to 10 pounds sterling per half hour and they are still unable to accept credit cards. Anyway here are the new aquisitions: Meyrick Estate, Bournemouth (reference D.1824): sale particulars of part of the Bournemouth estate belonging to Sir George A E T G Meyrick, May 1921. Beck Family of Portland (reference D.1820): George Beck served as a soldier between 1898 and 1918 rising to the rank of Regimental Sergeant Major. The collection includes Georges diaries compiled during the First World War, the first volume beginning in 1914. These diaries chronicle his day-to-day experiences of the war in France and the colleagues he fought alongside. The following entry for Friday 7 July 1916 is not untypical: Trenches at Auchonvillers: Wet day. Enemy trenches bombarded from 8 to 9am. Germans retaliated on our front line Wet night. A 5.9 fell very close to my dugout, well shook up. Candle put out by explosion & torch switched on. Near thing. Up to waist in mud & water. Trench waders full up. Shelling all night. No sleep. Melbury Bubb Parish Church Archive (reference PE/MBB): baptism and burial registers dating from 1813, marriage register dating from 1838 Douch Collection (D.1822): includes a letter from John Tilley of Dorset to his sister Susannah living with Capped Bishop in Boston, USA, dated 5 February 1776, just a few months before the Americans declared their independence from Britain. In the letter, John conveys his hope that the disturbance with the Americans will be sorted out by the Spring. He also says I herd that you had the Small Pox very bad but later conveys the encouraging news that things is very reasonable now in England, informing his sister that beef is available at 3p per pound, sometimes 2p per pound! In a farm account book of 1815-1836 relating to glebe land at Frampton, Throop Farm and Stratton Farm, there is a huge amount of information about the running of the farmland. For example, on 2 May 1815, James Saltbury was paid 14 shillings for turning Dung at Frampton. On 18 December 1816, £1 6s was paid to Mr Galpin for Bottled Beer, no doubt in good time for Christmas. Also new books: There have been numerous additions to the library in the last year but the following selection may be of particular interest. We are grateful for two donations of books relating to Dorchester, namely · Dorchester Divided by the Community Play Research Group, (the result of considerable research engendered by their play Fire from Heaven). · Dorchester Civic Society have also donated a CD entitled Dorchester Heritage Buildings which is available for use in the Search Room and presents a photographic record of Department of the Environment listed buildings in existence in the county town in 1996. · Stephen Friars Local History Companion available in the Catalogue Room provides an invaluable, single volume, guide to Local History. It is in an easy to use A-Z format. · For those interested in the history of the financial world we now hold British Banking, A Guide to Historical Records by John Ortell and Alison Turton. Of more local interest, 3 books in particular stand out: · A donated volume, dated 1866 entitled General Rules for the Governance of the Dorset County Lunatic Asylums gives a fascinating insight into life in the 19th Century mental institutions at Forston and Charminster. · Yours Reverently From the Pulpit, the Pub and the Parish notes 1948-53 and The Parson Knows from the Parish notes 1953-68 by the Reverend Oliver Willmott, present an often amusing account of the vagaries of 20th Century life. · Transport history comes vividly to life in - Along the Dusty Road. Motor Buses and Carriers from Dorchester Pt.1 The Piddle Valley by Roger Grimley. Happy Hunting Helen Helen Jones, Weymouth, Dorset http://www.melcombe.freeserve.co.uk List Admin Rootsweb Eng Dorset & Scammell Lists, and British Genealogy Eng-Dorset, Surnames & Forenames list
At least in that case no common blood line was shared between Uncle and neice. Try to get your head around this one. From my Dorset Bunter and Chant families that later settled in New South Wales two Chant sons of a Bunter sister married two Bunter daughters of a Bunter brother. In other words their children: Two Chant brothers married two Bunter sisters who were cousins. Another Bunter daughter/sister married a nephew of the Chant brothers so a 1st cousin once removed. So the two sisters nephew was married to their sister. After one of the Chant brothers first wives, his Bunter cousin died of TB he married another of his Chant brother's daughters two weeks before my great grandmother was born to uncle and neice. He'd got his neice pregnant while she was looking after his young motherless children. So her uncle was her husband. She was mother of her Chant/Bunter)cousins(children of first marriage) and mother and cousin of her own children and her husbands children by his first marriage were also his cousins. And his children from his second marriage were his great neices and nephews. My great grandmother moved to WA with her parents and uncle/grandfather where yet another Bunter brother of the Bunter sister and Bunter brother first mentioned had settled my great grandmother than married a step grandson of a man whose first wife was her Bunter grandmothers neice also named Bunter. Of Four Bunter siblings to arrive in three Australian States from Dorset far removed from each other I connect to three on different family lines other than as just siblings. I have noticed this intermarrying in early colonial Australia between cousins etc was not uncommon and tracing sideways on my Dorset families it seems to not have exactly been uncommon in the home country either, Church of England religious laws or not. I am glad to see where I have found cases of family members being baptised twice in registers was not wrong either. Many are often just before they married seems common. By then a different vicar/incumbant was performing the ceremony and may explain why they were baptised again if they were not sure the ceremony had been performed when young. Maybe the baptism certificsate had been lost. These were not only used as proof of being baptised so you could be buried in consecrated ground but as legal proof of where you were from when travelling/working in other parishes where questions of poor relief or vagrancy might be raised. regards Michael Cheeseman -----Original Message----- From: Helen Jones [mailto:hsj@melcombe.freeserve.co.uk] Sent: Monday, 21 July 2003 10:26 PM To: ENG-DORSET-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [DOR-LIFE] Deceased wife's sister's daughter At 11:48 20/07/2003 +0800, Caroline Ingram wrote: >Hi > I know we have had a similar discussion on marriage with deceased >wife's sister previously. Can anyone confirm that you were also not >supposed to marry your deceased wife's sister's daughter (ie your >neice)? I have one of these in my tree in 1852. Although I dont know >exactly where they married it was in the Wareham registration district >so it was close to where they were living. > >regards >Caroline >Western Australia The theory was that when you were married you became one flesh so then marrying any member of your wife's immediate family was incest. The Forbidden partners as stated in the Book of Common Prayer 1662 lists 60 prohibted combinations. At number 30 is a man's wife's sister's daughter. This was not removed from the list until 1931. Thus it would have been illegal by Canon Law in 1852. This means that any children would have been illegitimate. "Marriage Laws, Rites, Records and Customs" by Colin Chapman has the whole list of prohibited marriage partners as Appendix 11. All the best Helen Helen Jones, Weymouth, Dorset http://www.melcombe.freeserve.co.uk List Admin Rootsweb Eng Dorset & Scammell Lists, and British Genealogy Eng-Dorset, Surnames & Forenames list ==== ENG-DORSET-LIFE Mailing List ==== For old maps, see the Landmark Map site http://www.old-maps.co.uk/ ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.502 / Virus Database: 300 - Release Date: 18/07/03 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.502 / Virus Database: 300 - Release Date: 18/07/03
Hello Listers, Naturally I have no clue about the UK but out here in Oz it was very common and probably still done today. I have quite a few such baptisms in my lot and in each case it was where a Catholic and a non-Catholic were to marry and the non-Catholic agreed to take on the catholic faith which required them to be baptised in the catholic faith beforehand. Probably not in Helen's case of a single ten year old but I have one family of a mother and seven children all originally baptised in the Church of England faith and when the mother decided to join the Catholic Church she and all the kids went round a second time. Good to have you back on line Helen. Hope all goes well from here on. John In beautiful Canberra. Capitol of OZ
Not quite Dorset but pretty close....I have been in correspondence with a lady researching my Hampshire Pragnells. Micheal Pragnell married a Selina Brockway from East Knoyle. My correspondents Mother says Selina spoke of playing near a large henge and scooping water out of a 'devils spoon' as a child. Stonehenge and Avebury were both a fair distance away from East Knoyle and Selina was born in 1845 so travelling would not be easy. Does anyone know of a henge in the East Knoyle area? Also if anyone is researching Brockways in the area, I can put you in touch. My correspondent thinks they may have been Quakers but is not sure. She lives in a remote part of the Scottish Highlands, miles and miles from any library or LDS centre so is grateful for any help she can so that she can make the most of her time when she does get there. Thanks Helen Helen Jones, Weymouth, Dorset http://www.melcombe.freeserve.co.uk List Admin Rootsweb Eng Dorset & Scammell Lists, and British Genealogy Eng-Dorset, Surnames & Forenames list
At 11:48 20/07/2003 +0800, Caroline Ingram wrote: >Hi > I know we have had a similar discussion on marriage with deceased >wife's sister previously. Can anyone confirm that you were also not >supposed to marry your deceased wife's sister's daughter (ie your >neice)? I have one of these in my tree in 1852. Although I dont know >exactly where they married it was in the Wareham registration district >so it was close to where they were living. > >regards >Caroline >Western Australia The theory was that when you were married you became one flesh so then marrying any member of your wife's immediate family was incest. The Forbidden partners as stated in the Book of Common Prayer 1662 lists 60 prohibted combinations. At number 30 is a man's wife's sister's daughter. This was not removed from the list until 1931. Thus it would have been illegal by Canon Law in 1852. This means that any children would have been illegitimate. "Marriage Laws, Rites, Records and Customs" by Colin Chapman has the whole list of prohibited marriage partners as Appendix 11. All the best Helen Helen Jones, Weymouth, Dorset http://www.melcombe.freeserve.co.uk List Admin Rootsweb Eng Dorset & Scammell Lists, and British Genealogy Eng-Dorset, Surnames & Forenames list
I am sending this to both the Eng Dorset Life and Eng Dorset Brit Gen List as it is of general interest. If, like me, you have ancestors who were millers you may will be pleased to learn of a new project. www.millarchive.com It is in its early days but within the next two months they hope to have online images and information on 1600 Dorset watermills, all gathered by volunteers. Launch date is not yet set but August/September is the target. You can subscribe to have regular progress updates sent to you by email. Half my Dorset lot were millers, married millers or worked in mills so I am awaiting this launch with great excitement! There will also be data about Nottinghamshire mills Helen Helen Jones, Weymouth, Dorset http://www.melcombe.freeserve.co.uk List Admin Rootsweb Eng Dorset & Scammell Lists, and British Genealogy Eng-Dorset, Surnames & Forenames list
Kim from the Blackmore Vale in Dorset, England kim@white.evesham.net I use Archive CD Books. All my incoming & outgoing mail is protected by Norton AntiVirus 2002. ----- Original Message ----- From: Adrian Voller To: Kim White Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 11:12 PM Subject: Re: [DOR-LIFE] elderberry wine Hi Kim, Until supermarkets came into being one used to be able to buy sugar in a 3 inch square by abt 10 inch package sealed into a greaseproof wrapper. We always used this, in preference to granulated, for wine or jam making. I don't know when the supply ceased, must have been about 1970 I should think. It was white sugar and you had to break it up! Thank you for your recipe. I shall try it when our supply is gone. Try a plastic dustbin as a working container. Mary (yaffles @ waitrose.com) Kim, due to a problem with my computer, I cannot post answers to the list. I can receive my messages. Please, if you think anyone else is interested, would you post my reply. Thank you. ----- Original Message ----- From: Kim White To: ENG-DORSET-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 9:59 PM Subject: Re: [DOR-LIFE] elderberry wine From my Grandmothers, handed down Mrs Beeton's Cookery Book........... (undated)
Hi I know we have had a similar discussion on marriage with deceased wife's sister previously. Can anyone confirm that you were also not supposed to marry your deceased wife's sister's daughter (ie your neice)? I have one of these in my tree in 1852. Although I dont know exactly where they married it was in the Wareham registration district so it was close to where they were living. regards Caroline Western Australia -- I use Archive CD Books to help with my research http://www.archivecdbooks.org
Well - I am back!!! At least my computer is now on line as we now have a new transformer. The rest of the family will have to wait for the new Router to arrive on Monday then Steve can network us again! Sometime ago on the main Dorset list we discussed whether or not someone could be baptised twice. Today I was extracting Davidge records from the Ashmore Baptism Register 1813-1999 (Mic R 1655, PE ASH/RE 2/1) DCRO. The register appeared to have been copied up or annotated at later date judging by the comments in the margins alongside some entries. Anyway I found: 28 Sept 1845 Ann Rideout Davidge, d/o Morris and Jane Davidge, Green Lane, Ashmore There was an asterisk in the margin with a note in a different hand telling you to look at page 125. On page 125 was this entry: 24th June 1855 Anne Rideout Davidge d/o Morris and Jane Davidge, Green Lane, Ashmore Underneath in a different hand (same handwriting as in note above) saying "This child has been baptised before and was at this time, 10 years old but had been neglected to be ? by the incumbent" I could not make out the word where the ? is. It could have been registered but I am not certain. Anyway just proof that some people did get baptised more than once! Helen Helen Jones, Weymouth, Dorset http://www.melcombe.freeserve.co.uk List Admin Rootsweb Eng Dorset & Scammell Lists, and British Genealogy Eng-Dorset, Surnames & Forenames list
From my Grandmothers, handed down Mrs Beeton's Cookery Book........... (undated) Elderberry Wine Ingredients - 7 lb. of elderberries, 3 gallons of water. To each gallon of liquid add 3 lb. of good loaf sugar, 1 lb. of raisins, 1/2 oz. of ground ginger, 6 cloves, 1/4 pint of brandy, 1/2 a teaspoonful of brewers' yeast. Method - Strip the berries from the stalks, pour the water, quite boiling, over them, let them stand for 24 hours, then bruise well and drain through a hair sieve or jelly-bag. Measure the juice obtained, put it into a preserving pan with sugar, raisins, ginger, and cloves in above-stated proportions, boil gently for about 1 hour, and skim when necessary. Let the liquid stand until milk-warm, then stir in the yeast and turn the whole into a clean, dry cask. Cover the bung-hole with a folded cloth, let the cask remain un-disturbed for 14 days, then stir in the brandy and bung tightly. In about 6 months the wine may be drawn off into bottles, tightly corked, and stored. Well, if you can achieve that to the letter today, I will be inpressed! Is Loaf Sugar, a block of raw sugar? Kim from the Blackmore Vale in Dorset, England kim@white.evesham.net I use Archive CD Books. All my incoming & outgoing mail is protected by Norton AntiVirus 2002. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Caroline Ingram" <cingram@iinet.net.au> To: <ENG-DORSET-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 10:39 AM Subject: [DOR-LIFE] cider and elderberry wine Hi In one of my old letters dated November 17th 1881 from Milborne St Andrews it says "We have been only this week making cider, 6 ½ hogsheads , a nice quantity was it not, they are anxious to have it tapped ". Is anybody able to tell me how cider was made in Dorset in those days? Also from the same collection of letters I have a reference to elderberry wine. Does anyone have a contemporary recipe for this? A facsimile of Mrs Beeton's cookbook might be good for this! many thanks Caroline Ingram Western Australia -- I use Archive CD Books to help with my research http://www.archivecdbooks.org ==== ENG-DORSET-LIFE Mailing List ==== For lots of useful Dorset information, see Brian Tomkins 'Dorset Page': http://www.thedorsetpage.com ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237
Just a note to let Listers know these "Snippets" and BMD Notices are from my own personal transcription work and are as they appear in the newspaper (except where I have used capitals for surnames in mid report). Also unless stated otherwise I have no further information - Saying that I hope there is still something amongst them that may help/interest someone. Heather Transcribed by Heather Carbis from- The Southern Times published Friday 20 February 1885 UPWEY ENTERTAINMENT- An entertainment was given on Thursday by the children of the National School. The Rev. W. R. F. BUCKLE presided. The principle feature of the programme were the amusing dialogues. The dialogue, "A Lesson For Grumblers" was well given by three little girls, Ada HILL, Lizzie BOWDITCH and Ellen HILL. Part II opened with a pianoforte solo ably given by Miss Marrianne SMITH; Then followed a humorous and instructive dialogue, "Wanted, A Servant," the parts being well taken by Lily HARVEY, Maud CONDRON, Harriet WEBBER, Emma GROVES, Emily BOWERING, Ada HILL, Emma PAYNE and Arthur GIBBS. Lizzie BOWDITCH, a little girl of ten, was very successful in a pianoforte solo, "Hampton Court," after which the boys gave an amusing dialogue, "The Coming Men," in which the characters were taken by the following boys:- Captain, Lewis STICKLAND, boy soldiers, A. GIBBS, C. HILL, P. ROGERS, H. GROVES, J. MACE, A. MILLER, A. WOODWARD, W. PAYNE, A. PALMER, F. PULLMAN and E. ROGERS.! Before the closing song, "Auld Lang Syne," was given, the master (Mr. W. T. PAGE) expressed the thanks of the children to those friends who had so kindly supported them, especially referring to the vicar (Ven. Archdeacon BUCKLE) and the Rev. W. F. R. BUCKLE. During the evening the chairman gave some sound advice to the parents of the school children, and asked them to support the managers and teachers in bringing up of the children in good habits of manners and language and the importance of consideration and respect for others. The proceeds will be awarded in prizes to the successful scholars in the Government examination. I transcribe for FreeCen. Interested? Check Out the Website - http://freecen.rootsweb.com __________________________________________________________________________ Join Freeserve http://www.freeserve.com/time/ Winner of the 2003 Internet Service Providers' Association awards for Best Unmetered ISP and Best Consumer Application.
Hi In one of my old letters dated November 17th 1881 from Milborne St Andrews it says "We have been only this week making cider, 6 ½ hogsheads , a nice quantity was it not, they are anxious to have it tapped ". Is anybody able to tell me how cider was made in Dorset in those days? Also from the same collection of letters I have a reference to elderberry wine. Does anyone have a contemporary recipe for this? A facsimile of Mrs Beeton's cookbook might be good for this! many thanks Caroline Ingram Western Australia -- I use Archive CD Books to help with my research http://www.archivecdbooks.org
I'm not sure when the following event took place, but a report appears in the [Sydney - yes the Oz one] Shipping Gazette on 20 May 1848, so an allowance of some 3 or 4 months should be made for the transmission of the newspaper report to the colonies by sea: and yes somewhere in the middle of the list of towns there is a mention of Dorchester: Transmission of the Queen's Speech by Electric Telegraph On Tuesday, the electric telegraph was brought into active operation on a grand scale, for the purpose of transmitting the Queen's speech to the various large towns and cities throughout England and Scotland. An early copy of the Queen's speech specially granted for the purpose, was expressed from Westminster to the central station in the Strand, and at Euston-square, both of which places it reached by about a quarter past one. The manipulators at these stations, having touched the wires communi-cating with every telegraphic station throughout the kingdom, thereby sounding a bell at each, and giving the note of preparation, commenced throwing off in a continuous stream along the wires, successive sentences of the speech. This operation occupied from a quarter past one to a quarter to three, on the principal lines of telegraph, but considerably less than this - owing to the greater proficiency of the manipulators - on the Eastern Counties and South Western. It was completed to Southampton, where a steamer was in readi-ness to express the speech to the continent, in about an hour. During the two hours the speech was transmitted over 1,300 miles, to 60 central towns or stations, where one or more manipu-lators were occupied in deciphering the trans-mitted symbols. Immediately on its arrival at Liverpool, Birmingham, Rotherham, Wolverhampton, Leeds, Wakefield, Halifax, Hull, Rochdale, Gosport, Southampton, Dorchester, Gloucester, Leicester, Manchester. Nottingham, Derby, Lincoln, Sheffield, York, Newcastle, Norwich, Edinburgh, and Glasgow, the speech was printed and generally distributed, and the local papers published special editions. It was telegraphed at the rate of 65 letters in a minute, or at the rate of 430 words in an hour ; several of the long words, such as " embarrassments," "infringements," and " manufacturing" taking longer time, no abbreviations being used, so that the 730 words (the exact number contained in the speech) were, including pauses and repetitions, disposed of in 120 minutes, or two hours. Owing to the old telegraph between Edinburgh and Glasgow having just been taken down, so as to allow of the substitution of the new one, the intelligence had to be transmitted from Edinburgh to Glasgow by train, though by this medium the speech would reach Glasgow at four, or within two hours after its delivery in London. The last Queen's speech, being but half the length of the present one, was transmitted is half the time, reaching Norwich, 120 miles, in less than an hour. Paul 50.33.50N 02.26.70W http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval.html
Just to let you know that Helen's computer problems have re-emerged and she will be off-line for a few days. Meanwhile if you have any problems please contact me on mail@ajbrown.eu.com Alan A J Brown Deputy List Administrator
My gg grandfather was a stone mason and I have been told that he worked for a Mr. Green. I have found Augustine Green in the 1881 census, a builder living at North Place, Blandford Forum (b, Spetisbury), occupation Builder Master employing 65 men & 4 boys. Has anyone on the list any knowledge of this firm or any experience of trying to trace records of Dorset firms of this kind? Ideally I would like evidence of whether my gggf was indeed an employee but an idea of the sort of jobs the firm did would be interesting. Any advice gratefully received. Janice Maule
Hello list, Does anybody have any ideas were i could see or obtain a copy of 'A View of the Low Moral and Physical Condition of the Agricultural Labourer' published in Blandford in 1844 by Sidney Godolphin Osborne then Rector of Brynston & Vicar of Durweston. The pamphlet apparantly is study of the earnings of agricultural labourer in 1843 the labourer concearned was a Francis HORLOCK who could well be my ancestor. That aside the extracts that i have found on the web are very interesting giving an insight to the earnings and way of life of the north Dorset ag.lab. TIA Gareth Howell Weymouth
A really appreciative 'Thank You' to all those kind Listers who replied to my enquiry. Regards...Genista...MONTREAL
> > Subject: [DOR-LIFE] ARSON in PARKSTONE > Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 21:05:31 +0100 > From: "Viv Pritchard" <vivpritchard@ntlworld.com> > To: "Dorset Life list" <ENG-DORSET-LIFE-D@rootsweb.com> > > Genista > > Type the Bournemouth Echo (it's a newspaper) into google.co.uk, and find > Their archives go back to 1900 I believe, but not online. > > > > Viv > vivpritchard@ntlworld.com > Rugby, Warks., England > Viv, Thank you for your useful suggestion. The relationship between Poole /Dorset and Bournemouth seems very complex. Shall certainly follow-up. Kind regards...Genista....MONTREAL