What a great resource! I followed your very clear instructions with ease. Thanks for the work you put into the search and into describing how to get there myself. I am very grateful Cheers ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 5:00 PM Subject: ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS Digest, Vol 3, Issue 280 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: JOHN BATES (Michael J Hulme) > 2. Matthew Washington ([email protected]) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:47:08 +0100 > From: Michael J Hulme <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ENG-SHROP] JOHN BATES > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hello Greg > > Since my message of yesterday I have found confirmation that my theory > was correct. > > If you go the Historical Directories web site at > http://www.historicaldirectories.org/ then click on the 'Find by > Keywords' button at the next screen you can select Staffordshire (or > elsewhere) in the top drop down list. I would then just enter your own > Keyword(s) "Standon" (without the quotes) in the appropriate box, > leaving Decade and Key Name as 'All'. Then just click the 'Find > Directories' button and see what comes up. > > When the list of Directories comes up on screen click on the word > 'Directory' alongside whichever one(s) interest you, the first one > called 'History, Gazetteer & Directory of Staffordshire, 1834' in your > case and then I usually click on the 'Next Hit' button to go from one > hit to the next. Do this about six times until you reach page 669 which > describes Standon and then if you look further down on the right under > Farmers you will find Wm Blagg listed. > > This confirms my assumption and allows you to continue your research > knowing it is going in the correct direction. > > Mike > Shropshire, UK > ______________________________________________________ > > > > Greg Bugden wrote: >> Hello Graham >> Thanks for the welcome and reply. The trial was held at the Staffordshire >> Assizes. So the Stanton you mentioned in Staffordshire could be a likely >> candidate for the Blagg residence. But if the crime had been committed in >> Shropshire then I guess the trial would have been held in that county, >> unless all assizes in the region were held at Stafford. Do you know? >> >> However, the article tracks the movements of the prisoner before his >> capture: he went to a draper in "Drayton" (could that be Market >> Drayton??) and to a woman in "Ashley" (though the type is not very >> legible, could be "Astly"). These must have been nearby villages, within >> walking distance of Stanton. Additionally the money stolen was in notes >> from the Market Drayton Bank. >> >> As for his birth in Market Drayton, The IGI lists only one JOHN BATES >> born in Shropshire (his native place according to the Convict Indent) in >> the year 1807 (he was 18 at the time of the trial, hence this date), >> Market Drayton. >> Cheers >> Greg >> >> REMEMBER - The question you are asking may have already been answered. >> Threaded Archives at - >> http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS/Archives >> >> Searchable Archives at - >> http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS/ >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> >> >> > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:39:15 +0200 (CEST) > From: [email protected] > Subject: [ENG-SHROP] Matthew Washington > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi, I am tryng to trace the marriage of Matthew WASHINGTON to a Mary about > 1700. Matthew lived at Weston under lizard all his married life but where > he was born I have also been unable to trace. I have paid for a search in > the staffordshire marriage index to no avail. Is there a marriage index > for Shropshire I can try? > Thanks > Sue > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS list administrator, send an email to > [email protected] > > To post a message to the ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS mailing list, send an email > to [email protected] > > __________________________________________________________ > 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 > email with no additional text. > > > End of ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS Digest, Vol 3, Issue 280 > *************************************************** >