John The whereabouts of Sherborne newspapers for that time are probably mentioned at: http://www.hants.gov.uk/library/newsplan/dors-glou.html and being as you are so close to Yeovil and the Somerset border suggest you also have a look at: http://www.hants.gov.uk/library/newsplan/oxon-wilts.html Regards Paul On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 18:58:44 +0100, "john Halliday" <john@norsey0.fsnet.co.uk> wrote: >i am interested in dorset life,particularly "cornhill" sherborne Dorset where my grandfather Charles Lewis Halliday worked in 1891(aged 26) with his wife Florence and baby william3 months.No trace has been found of Charles after this date (his wife and son appear in the 1901 Census and rumour has it he deseted them. Having reached a dead end in tracing him I am interested in what Newspapers might have existed at this time,how I could access them and what local Happenings might persuade a young man to leave his family eg Wars etc . I checked the names in Boer war with no luck 50.33.50N 02.26.70W http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval.html

i am interested in dorset life,particularly "cornhill" sherborne Dorset where my grandfather Charles Lewis Halliday worked in 1891(aged 26) with his wife Florence and baby william3 months.No trace has been found of Charles after this date (his wife and son appear in the 1901 Census and rumour has it he deseted them. Having reached a dead end in tracing him I am interested in what Newspapers might have existed at this time,how I could access them and what local Happenings might persuade a young man to leave his family eg Wars etc . I checked the names in Boer war with no luck

Hallo Carol, Was this the Edward Seymour, brother of Jane & Thomas, who became Lord Protector in the reign of Edward Vl ? I presume it was. I have been trying to find the whereabouts of his home "Wolf Hall". Do you have any idea ? Is there anything in the document ? My husband has been busy trying your recipes. Mary (please reply to yaffles@waitrose.com) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carole Dorran" <caroled@friarshayes.fsnet.co.uk> To: <ENG-DORSET-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 10:49 PM Subject: [DOR-LIFE] Wiltshire Record Office

BlankI know that many of you probably have interests in Wiltshire as well as Dorset, not least because the two counties border each other. Here is a snippet that I found in this week's Blackmore Vale Magazine, copied word for word: >>>A signed letter from Queen Elizabeth the First is one of the star attractions in a new exhibition highlighting recent acquisitions by the Wiltshire & Swindon Record Office. The letter-signed with the famous 'Elizabeth R' signature-summons Edward Seymour, a prominent Wiltshire and Devon aristocrat, to a meeting about Elizabeth's cousin, Mary Queen of Scots. The meeting took place at Nottingham Castle in 1562, and archivists believe it was to discuss the proposed marriage of Mary Queen of Scots, possibly into the Spanish Royal family. Mary and King Philip of Spain were both Catholics and Spain was the most powerful country in Europe at the time, so a royal marriage would have posed a grave threat to Elizabeth as a Protestant monarch. Mary-who had a rival claim to the English throne and was seen as a Catholic figurehead-was eventually deemed to be too great a danger to Elizabeth's reign. After being implicated in a plot to assassinate Elizabeth, Mary was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in February 1587. The exhibition of recent acquisitions runs until August at the Wiltshire & Swindon Record Office in Trowbridge. The letter was recently deposited with the office by Edward Seymour's descendant, the present Duke of Somerset. One of the exhibits on display was discovered during work on the Wiltshire Wills Project. The document records the expenses of Thomas RANDALL-who may have been a local landowner or businessman-for providing accommodation for Parliamentarian troops during the Civil War. The document, which dates from 1645, records expenses for providing quarters for troops at Fisherton Anger, Salisbury and for contributing to the garrison at Longford Castle, Britford, also near Salisbury. Archivists were delighted to make the discovery, as it is rare for such records to have survived from the Civil War period. The details of the expenses were written on the back of a probate inventory (a list valuing the goods and belongings of a deceased person) from 1626.<<< Perhaps someone subscribed to the Wiltshire List ( I am not) would care to pass this on? CaroleED, East Knoyle, Near Shaftesbury in Dorset. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.483 / Virus Database: 279 - Release Date: 19/05/2003

I saw your posting << SQUIBB. early 1800's Long Bredy and surrounds possibly Litton Cheney. >> I am researching the HOUNSELL family in this area and I have come across a marriage - William SQUIBB to Elizabeth HOUNSELL on 9 Mar 1807 at Long Bredy From 1851 census William was born in Kingston Russell c 1781 and could be the one baptised at Long Bredy in 1781. I know Elizabeth was baptised in Long Bredy in 1787. Any connection? Maureen Bowler Caerphilly, South Wales <Mmbowler1@aol.com

Neil Lucas, from Owemoigne to Winfrith to Bovington to the 'piddles. 1761 to date. Many registered in Wareham Regn District (prior to 1937), then Wareham became sub-district of Poole. Please contact me off-list. Did you see my post re Family Re-Union on 5th July? I have extracted all Wareham Reg Dist entries for Lucas from Free BMD and am building up a Data Base. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "neil stanton" <n.stanton1@ntlworld.com> To: <ENG-DORSET-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 5:29 PM Subject: [DOR-LIFE] SQUIBB / DOMINEY / LUCAS > A reposting of some of my name interests. If anyone has any connection to these I would be pleased to here from you. > > SQUIBB. early 1800's Long Bredy and surrounds possibly > Litton Cheney. > > DOMINEY. early 1800's Wareham. > > LUCAS. late 1700's early 1800's Wareham / East Lulworth. > > Thankyou, > Neil Stanton > Dorset. > > > ==== ENG-DORSET-LIFE Mailing List ==== > The Dorset Museum homepage can be found at: > http://home.clara.net/dorset.museum > > ============================== > 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 > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.483 / Virus Database: 279 - Release Date: 19/05/03

I have had to remove 3 people from the list today as their mail is bouncing. One reason for mail bouncing is spam filters. If you use a spam filter check your settings as some spam filters treat all rootsweb mail/mailing list mail as spam, perhaps because you have set it this way, perhaps not. Whatever, your mail will bounce and you will no longer be able to recieve or send mail to this list. Another reason is similar to the above except that it is ISPs who bounce the mail. Probably because they think it is spam. At the moment an AOL address is bouncing - not sure if this is a problem with AOL or because a spam filter has been fitted. I think the latter but am not sure. Sometimes of course an ISP has a more general problem and cannot accept mail from anywhere. The third reason for bouncing mail is the use of a work address.....if you go away or your work is closed for a few days, please unsub as mail boxes fill very quickly and it does not take long for messages sent to some work addresses to bounce. I don't know about the rest of the world, but this weekend is a holiday weekend in England and Wales and many people are away. This can also happen if you use your home PC for the list and forget to unsub when you go away for a fortnight, but the problem seems more common with work addresses, probably because there is either more email traffic or a smaller personal mail box allowance. In all three cases the bouncing address has been removed from the list. In every case I have been unable to contact the subscriber, so doubtless I will receive angry/upset/puzzled messages from these subscribers wondering why they are no longer subscribed to this list!! I know they won't see this message, but if you should suddenly find yourself removed from the list, the reason is probably one of the above! Contact me and I will send you a copy of the bounce notification so that you can see what the problem was. Happy Hunting Helen in Weymouth where the sun has shone and we have at last been able to carry on with the outside house painting that we started at Easter! 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

A reposting of some of my name interests. If anyone has any connection to these I would be pleased to here from you. SQUIBB. early 1800's Long Bredy and surrounds possibly Litton Cheney. DOMINEY. early 1800's Wareham. LUCAS. late 1700's early 1800's Wareham / East Lulworth. Thankyou, Neil Stanton Dorset.

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 will help/interest someone. Heather Transcribed by Heather Carbis from The Southern Times published Saturday 8 June 1889 THE EARTHQUAKE On the evening of Thursday (Ascension Day) distinct shocks were felt here, leading to the conclusion that they preceded from the subterranean disturbances which were mentioned in our issue of last week as have being felt at Poole, the Isle of Wight and other places. Although not severe, the second shock was of sufficient power to make crockery ware, glasses &c., jingle. Ascension Day 1889 was on Thursday 30 May. 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.

Just a note to let Listers know these "Snippets" are as they appear in the newspaper (except where I have capitalised surnames in mid report). Also unless stated otherwise I have no further information - Saying that I hope there is still something amongst them that will help, interest or even amuse someone. Heather Transcribed by Heather Carbis from The Southern Times published Saturday 12 May 1860 THE "BENICIA BOY" AT PORTLAND.- Considerable excitement was occasioned on Wednesday last, by the report that the redoubtable HEENAN had arrived in the island, and a large number of persons assembled at the Royal Breakwater Hotel, and other places where the illustrious American was to be seen, anxious to obtain a sight of the antagonist of the champion SAYERS, to the great benefit of the proprietors of the various houses. It appears that a person of Heenan's height and physiognomy had attracted attention on his arrival at Weymouth Railway Station by his resemblance to that hero, and a report was rapidly circulated that the "boy" himself was in the town. On is proceeding to Portland by the steamer the news as quickly spread here, and the innocent cause of the sensation was surrounded by admiring crowds who would not believe his earnest protestations that he was not the pugilist, or his name Heenan, but that he had come to join the Convict Establishment, as an assistant warde! r. Such afterwards proved to be the case. (You can read information on Heenan 'Benicia Boy' and Sayers 'Little Wonder' or 'Brighton Boy' here http://www.cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/heenan.htm) 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.

A re-union for anyone linked to the LUCAS and TOMS clans from Briantspiddle/Bere Regis area is being held on SATURDAY JULY 5th in Briantspiddle Village Hall. Associated names are as follows: ROBERTS - Winfrith mid 1800's PARSONS - South Down & Weymouth mid 1800's to 1900 ACKERMAN - Allington and Weymouth Late 1800's to early 1900's WHITTLE - West Knighton early to mid 1800's KELLAWAY Anna Louise - (married Lucas 1900 ish he born Winfrith) ROLLS - Bere Regis/'Puddles early 1900's WESTCOTT Emily - (married Lucas 1900 ish he born Affpuddle) TOMS - Bere Regis area married LUCAS 1903 Bere Regis Congregational Chapel GOLDSWORTHY n/k (married Lucas 1920 ish she born Affpuddle area) NORTHOVER Florence - (married Lucas 1920's he born Affpuddle area 1905 died 1929 in motor cycle accident) SAMPSON William (married Lucas 1910 ish) VACHER George (Bere Regis ?? married Lucas) BISHOP Harold or Henry - (married Amy Lucas 1910 ish) VINCENT - Dewlish 1700's onwards. BAGG Sarah - (Married Vincent in Dewlish 1798) BAGG Mary - Osmington (Married Lucas 1794 Osmington) TUCKER Dinah - (Married Vincent in Dewlish mid 1800's) VOSS Martha - (Married Lucas in Owermoigne 1761) There are many more names like SPICER and NOTLEY. Little is known, but if you think you may be connected please contact me. Jim Have a look at www.ukvillages.co.uk look for BRIANTSPUDDLE and Diary --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.481 / Virus Database: 277 - Release Date: 13/05/03

Good morning list Could SKS please look up a marriage for James Clare & Mary unknown re 1814? (Charles son born 1815 by BVRI ??first born). If I send away for Charles certificate according to Details in BVRI will I get any more details? Thanks for your help Leonie

Dear list I am new to this list. Charles Clare Christened June 1815 (BVRI) Melcombe Regis F: James M:Mary. I know a family list from 1841 census. I am wanting to know re James & Mary. Alive 1841 censu but nit listed 1851 census. James born 1797, Mary born re 1801. I am curious to find out about William clare born Abbotsbury re 1790 & Rebbecca born re 1795 Chickerell. I think ?? they were husband & wife. Where is abbotsbury? Plasterers/building trade was the main occupation. Can anyone help me to locate information re this group? Much appreciated. Thank you Leonie.

I should like to emphasise, if I may, what Helen says regarding wills for mariners - especially for the 18th century - which last time I looked wasn't yet complete - but a few random searches on names I'm researching produced a really surprisingly large (to me at least) number of wills for mariners - both RN and MN - and also a non-mariner's will for someone, who although not a blood relation, was someone from Bridport about whom I am interested - even if it was only to be nosy ;-) And for GBP3.00 for 3 or 4 pages I was quite pleased - I just wish the quality had been a little bit better and that it hadn't suffered the usual ravages of time and damp which so often affects these documents - but a couple of days with Paint Shop Pro spent cleaning it up produced a far more easily read version. Regards Paul On Wed, 14 May 2003 20:23:41 +0100, Helen Jones <hsj@melcombe.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: >The Public Record Office on line document site is now called >documentsonline (and the PRO is now the National Archives) >http://www.documentsonline.pro.gov.uk/ > >If you are not familiar with this site, give it a go. There are a range of >documents available to download though I have never found anything other >than wills for my names. The wills are the PCC wills proved at Canterbury, >not the local Ecclesiastical Courts. They are therefore mainly - but not >exclusively - those of the wealthier strata of society, those with property >or land in more than one church court, those not living in a church court >(mariners for example) , those with something to hide and those who were a >little bit snobby or those who didn't want others knowing their business! >You can search on a name or on a parish so useful for those of you doing >OPC projects. > >You get an index giving you bare details free of charge. If you want to >download the whole will or document in PDF format there is a charge of £3 >per item which you can pay on line using a major credit card or a debit >card. You have up to 7 days to download the document. You do need to stay >on line while you download your document and this can take a little while. >You will need acrobat reader to read the documents - downloadable free from >the internet. Version 5 seems to work nicely! > >Anyway this is something for you to play with if you get bored. Cross >posted to Eng-Dorset@britishgenealogy.com as this is a 'general interest >message' >Happy searching >Helen >genealogy > > >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 ==== >Look at the website for the Office of National Statistics for information about the census and ordering certificates >http://www.statistics.gov.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 50.33.50N 02.26.70W http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval.html

The Public Record Office on line document site is now called documentsonline (and the PRO is now the National Archives) http://www.documentsonline.pro.gov.uk/ If you are not familiar with this site, give it a go. There are a range of documents available to download though I have never found anything other than wills for my names. The wills are the PCC wills proved at Canterbury, not the local Ecclesiastical Courts. They are therefore mainly - but not exclusively - those of the wealthier strata of society, those with property or land in more than one church court, those not living in a church court (mariners for example) , those with something to hide and those who were a little bit snobby or those who didn't want others knowing their business! You can search on a name or on a parish so useful for those of you doing OPC projects. You get an index giving you bare details free of charge. If you want to download the whole will or document in PDF format there is a charge of £3 per item which you can pay on line using a major credit card or a debit card. You have up to 7 days to download the document. You do need to stay on line while you download your document and this can take a little while. You will need acrobat reader to read the documents - downloadable free from the internet. Version 5 seems to work nicely! Anyway this is something for you to play with if you get bored. Cross posted to Eng-Dorset@britishgenealogy.com as this is a 'general interest message' Happy searching Helen genealogy 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

Hi Folks For me it just has to be the idyllic Bredy valley, with the beautiful Churches of Long and Little Bredy in their peaceful surroundings. This is closely followed by nearby Swyre, which has the added benefit of a good lunch stop next to the church. As you have probably gathered this is one of the places where much of my research has been carried out and many visits have been made to the area, and probably many more in the future. Regards Pat W Bruton Somerset Researching Somerset -BEALE-KEEN-BRISTER-WILLIAMS-STOCK-HAWKEY Dorset - KEECH-DUNHAM-ACKERMAN-IRONSIDE-LEA-WALLIS-HOUNSELL-SAINT-RUSSELL-WOODSFO RD Durham - WARDELL-CHAPMAN-METHLEY Yorkshire - JEFFREY-DOBSON-DOYLE-MAUGHAN-CLIFFORD-BARKER-WADE-SWALE-ENGLAND-BECK-WAR DMAN -CARMALT

Just a note to let Listers know these "Snippets" are as they appear in the newspaper (except where I have capitalised surnames in mid report). Also, unless stated otherwise, I have no further information -Saying that I hope there is still something amongst them that will help/interest someone. Heather Transcribed by Heather Carbis from The Southern Times published Saturday 22 June 1889 WIMBORNE Lord ALINGTON's Kingcote won the grand prize at Epsom on Thursday. THE REV. H. GOOD.- On Sunday, being the 90th anniversary of his birthday the Rev. H. Good, the late vicar of the Minster and Chaplain of the Workhouse, sent the old people living in the latter place a present of tea, tobacco, &c., in commemoration of his natal day. MEDICAL SUCCESS. At the recent examination Mr. C. H. WATTS PARKINSON, medical officer of health for the Wimborne and Cranborne union, successfully passed in Sanitary Sciences and Public Health, and obtained a diploma of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. FIRE.- On Saturday evening the premises of Mr. F. J. NEWMAN, draper, had a narrow escape of being destroyed. It would appear that in the absence of the servants from the kitchen a heavily laden "clothes horse" fell against the fire place. The clothes ignited and in a short time most of the things in the kitchen were destroyed. The fire was most fortunately got under before spreading to any other part of the house. 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.

G'Day Seeking a copy for the recipe for Sherborne Stodger resurrected after 80 years. I understand that the old recipe was relocated after having been missing for 80 years and can be found in a copy of "Sherborne Camera" by Catherine Barker. If anyone has a copy of the book or access to one I would appreciate details of the recipe. regards Michael Cheeseman Descendant of the Bunter, Chant, Noakes, Nossieter and Rogers families of Sherborne. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.478 / Virus Database: 275 - Release Date: 6/05/03

>Hi Paul and all, >I had no idea that vessels of that size could be built there. I wonder what >her subsequent history was. > >I also wonder when the harbour walls, as we know them now, were built or >whether the harbour was just in the pool at the seaward end of the river >Brit. It used to be quite big and I can remember waterpolo matches being >played there in the early 50's up river from the bridge. >Does anyone have any photographs of Bridport/West Bay in abt 1900 or before >? > > >Mary (yaffles@waitrose.com) > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Paul Benyon" <pbenyon@btinternet.com> >To: <ENG-DORSET-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 11:47 AM >Subject: [DOR-LIFE] Clipper "Speedy" built Bridport > > > > >--- >Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >Version: 6.0.478 / Virus Database: 275 - Release Date: 06/05/2003 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

Hi I am writing to apologise for this hoax that I sent in good faith. Also thank you to all of you that were so kind and understanding, I don't think that I had any rude messages (unlike a couple of my addressees) and I do sincerely regret sending them. However the advice some of you gave me has put me straight for the future. Ann