Roy It occurs to me that this might be a localised version of "I'm a broken-hearted milkman . . . " also commonly known by its chorus - "Pretty little Polly Perkins of Paddington Green" Dick Roy Stockdill wrote: > From: "Maggie Perkins" > > >> The following is available for a short trial period and will, I'm >> sure, be of interest to many of you. >> >> http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/palci07?id=trial&db=BNCN >> >> Maggie.> >> > > Thanks for posting that. I was aware that the British Newspaper Library > are digitising their collection, but I wasn't sure how far they'd got. > > It's extraordinary the things you can learn about your ancestors from old > newspapers, as I am always telling people when I lecture on the topic. > > I found on the website above an item about a great-uncle of mine, > Thomas Henry Stockdill, who entered a vocal contest at Bradford, Yorks, > in 1873 and was runner-up in the comic song section. The report even > gave the name of the song he sang - "The Milkman of Fairweather > Green", which sounds ever so slightly rude to me. I wonder if it was about > milkmen and local housewives? > > Now that is what I really call family history trivia! > > -- > Roy Stockdill > Professional genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer > Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: > www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html > > "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, > and that is not being talked about." > OSCAR WILDE > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >