I hope you are saving all these works of art in a special album for future generations - just to show them we have a sense of humour [even at our age]. Brian Staffordshire, UK List Admin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marged" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 7:05 PM Subject: [GEN-FRIENDS] Marged has sent you a digital photo! > Marged has sent you a digital photo! > > You may pick it up at the following address: > http://www.PhotoParade.com/pickup.asp?2237-8355-56333 > > Click on the link above to pick up your photo, or > copy and paste the link into your Internet browser. > ____________________________________________________________ > > Marged writes: > Will this be Don in Cyprus, I ask myself? Does Angela have one of these next to that outdoor oven? > > ____________________________________________________________ > > (Your photo will be available until Sunday, April 28, 2002) > There is no charge for this service! > ************************************************************ > > SPECIAL COUPON OFFER (offer expires Thursday, April 18, 2002) > Save $3.00 on PhotoParade E-Mailer! Just $9.99... click below: > http://www.PhotoParade.com/coupon.asp?code=EZ-EMAIL2 > > PhotoParade E-Mailer makes mailing digital photos easy. > * Send photos without messy e-mail attachments! > * Automatically resizes photos to fit on your screen. > * Photos can be seen in any web browser > > For more information about PhotoParade, visit us at > http://www.PhotoParade.com/ > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > Please delete unwanted taglines and signatures before > sending your message to avoid over-long messages. > > ============================== > 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: 6.0.350 / Virus Database: 196 - Release Date: 18/04/2002

Hi All, Does anyone have a copy of the 1851 Census index of Liverpool? I believe it is available on CD for £25 from the Liverpool FHS but before I go and buy it I thought I would ask if any of you kind souls have it. If so could someone extract the HALL families for me please? I realize I've got a big search on my hands and I shall have to order films in at the LDS Library but it has got to be done. So any help with this index would be appreciated. Thanks Pam. Researching the following BROWNSWORD, COLCLOUGH, GROCOTT, KINNERSLEY, COOK, ELSMORE, LIMER, MASON BRUNT, BARNETT, WALKER, WRIGHT, all in Staffordshire COURT, HYDE, MORRIS Warwickshire, POTTER, Worcestershire, BAUGH, Hereford HALL, THOMPSON, Liverpool SHACKLOCK,WILEY Notts and Yorkshire, PARSONS, Somerset and Newport, Monmouth. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.350 / Virus Database: 196 - Release Date: 17/04/2002

THAT FIRST KISS At the end of their first date, a young man takes his favorite girl home. Emboldened by the night, he decides to try for that important first kiss. With an air of confidence, he leans with his hand against the wall and, smiling, he says to her, "Darling, how 'bout a goodnight kiss?" Horrified, she replies, "Are you mad? My parents will see us!" "Oh come on! Who's gonna see us at this hour?" "No, please. Can you imagine if we get caught?" "Oh come on, there's nobody around, they're all sleeping!" "No way. It's just too risky!" "Oh please, please, I like you so much!!" "No, no, and no. I like you too, but I just can't!" "Oh yes you can. Please?" "NO, no. I just can't." "Pleeeeease?..." Out of the blue, the porch light goes on, and the girl's sister shows up in her pajamas, hair disheveled. In a sleepy voice the sister says: "Dad says to go ahead and give him a kiss. Or I can do it. Or if need be, he'll come down himself and do it. But for crying out loud tell him to take his hand off the intercom button!" --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.350 / Virus Database: 196 - Release Date: 17/04/2002

Very interesting. > I have just been passed a new web page. > > http://www.grocott-hall.co.uk > > Have you looked? > > Brian > Staffordshire, UK > List Admin > [email protected] > [email protected] > [email protected] > [email protected] > [email protected] > > > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.350 / Virus Database: 196 - Release Date: 18/04/2002 > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > If you are a blood donor please ask to go on the Bone Marrow > Register. You won't be told about it if you don't ask. > > ============================== > 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: 6.0.350 / Virus Database: 196 - Release Date: 17/04/2002

Brian, The days of "proper" money ! David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 9:44 AM Subject: Fw: [GEN-FRIENDS] From Jean White > I forgot to explain to people not in the know, that 40s stood for 40 > shillings or £2. Before decimalisation, in the days of £.s.d, twenty > shillings = £1. > > Brian > Staffordshire, UK > List Admin > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brian" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 9:25 AM > Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] From Jean White > > > > > BENNETT said the quarrel was started by someone tapping at his window.- > > > Defendants were each bound over in 40s to keep the peace for three > months > > > > Don't times change? Breach of the Peace for tapping at a window. You > don't > > get that for throwing a bomb nowadays. > > > > Brian > > Staffordshire, UK > > List Admin > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.349 / Virus Database: 195 - Release Date: 15/04/2002 > > > ==== GEN-FRIENDS Mailing List ==== > Visit List General Archives at: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GEN-FRIENDS > > ============================== > 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 > >

I have cut my finger again - a different picture this time - left index. When Don came down from the bath he told me had just sharpened the knives! Marj Southport, England Help fight Cancer - put unused computer time to good use here: http://www.ud.com/home.htm --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.350 / Virus Database: 196 - Release Date: 17/04/02

Marged has sent you a digital photo! You may pick it up at the following address: http://www.PhotoParade.com/pickup.asp?2256-9588-62333 Click on the link above to pick up your photo, or copy and paste the link into your Internet browser. ____________________________________________________________ Marged writes: Sue's dresser - she will tell you all about it herself ____________________________________________________________ (Your photo will be available until Sunday, April 28, 2002) There is no charge for this service! ************************************************************ SPECIAL COUPON OFFER (offer expires Thursday, April 18, 2002) Save $3.00 on PhotoParade E-Mailer! Just $9.99... click below: http://www.PhotoParade.com/coupon.asp?code=EZ-EMAIL2 PhotoParade E-Mailer makes mailing digital photos easy. * Send photos without messy e-mail attachments! * Automatically resizes photos to fit on your screen. * Photos can be seen in any web browser For more information about PhotoParade, visit us at http://www.PhotoParade.com/

I have just been passed a new web page. http://www.grocott-hall.co.uk Have you looked? Brian Staffordshire, UK List Admin [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.350 / Virus Database: 196 - Release Date: 18/04/2002

It's been lovely chatting like this, all because I sent in a little picture of my Welsh Doll. Perhaps others could send little pictures of their homes. I have a program that will allow me to send pictures to Gen-Friends, so if anyone would like to take advantage of it, send your pictures to me and I will forward them for you. It's a grey day here in England, which is surprising after all the sunshine we've had recently, but as Don says, we do need it for the gardens. Marj --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.350 / Virus Database: 196 - Release Date: 17/04/02

Marged!!...that dusting you say 'you don't get around to'...ha ha ..join the club gal...You must now consider it to be 'a natural protective covering'..!! and...it also provides one with a quick way of writing..'I love you'...!! I agree with you about keeping things all about you...especially in your most used room...i.e.. the living room...otherwise, 'you forget about them'...Right on!...must be why someone else once wrote that old adage..'Out of sight..Out of mind'. Also...many years ago...a dear friend of mine... once said to me...after visiting another friend's home for lunch...'Oh Fran...so many things to.. "Make my eyes Happy"..!! That 'saying' of hers has stayed with me all these years....and it says so much in so few words!! Enjoying another day here in the 80's!! Back to normal come the week-end.... Frances __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

Marged! Enjoyed reading your note about La Rochelle..and I could just see you 'settling down there' as I know how very much you have enjoyed ALL your visits to France over the years. You are right about the King sending the young girls over to 'New France'...Quebec/Canada...in order to quickly increase the population so that 'further income' from this 'new land' would eventually go back to France. I have found quite a bit about this from the internet...and compiled same for my 'Family Tree' notes of interest. Frances __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com

Marged has sent you a digital photo! You may pick it up at the following address: http://www.PhotoParade.com/pickup.asp?2237-8355-56333 Click on the link above to pick up your photo, or copy and paste the link into your Internet browser. ____________________________________________________________ Marged writes: Will this be Don in Cyprus, I ask myself? Does Angela have one of these next to that outdoor oven? ____________________________________________________________ (Your photo will be available until Sunday, April 28, 2002) There is no charge for this service! ************************************************************ SPECIAL COUPON OFFER (offer expires Thursday, April 18, 2002) Save $3.00 on PhotoParade E-Mailer! Just $9.99... click below: http://www.PhotoParade.com/coupon.asp?code=EZ-EMAIL2 PhotoParade E-Mailer makes mailing digital photos easy. * Send photos without messy e-mail attachments! * Automatically resizes photos to fit on your screen. * Photos can be seen in any web browser For more information about PhotoParade, visit us at http://www.PhotoParade.com/

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I find walkie talkies easier to deal with and easier on my ears... That's what my crew and I use to keep things going. :) Just another soggy Seattle Sysop. -----Original Message----- From: Bubbles [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 10:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [GEN-FRIENDS] OK GUYS! You need one of those big gongs that the masters used on the galley ships - then the parade can all walk in time Bubbles from Robin Hood Country ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Elting" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 10:56 PM Subject: RE: [GEN-FRIENDS] OK GUYS! > I'm on the Independence Day Parade Committee for my city and since the > parade is on July 4th, we have very little time for other things right now. > I'm second in command of staging and primary pacer. My job is to get the > parade organized and once it starts out, my job it to keep it at an even > pace and not allow it to bunch up or to get gaps... Not an easy job when the > parade is over 1.5 miles long goes up and down hills and around corners... I > usually have a crew of 6 to 8 or more helpers. :)

Hi Sue Yes, it is a long drive to La Rochelle, whichever ferry you take. One year we were meant to sail to St Malo, and we took the whole day to drive down, stopping off for lunch and tea with Don's brother in Windsor. We arrived at the ferry port just in time to see our ship set sail - we had misunderstood the 24 hour clock. Don't ask me how - we have always known it. Thought we had to be there for a 10 pm sailing, and it was an 8 pm sailing (20.00 hours) They put us on the next sailing to Caen, at midnight, which was a shorter route to La Rochelle. We have done the same route again since then, but it is a long way, especially with children. Whenever we arrive at La Rochelle, it seems as though the skies clear and the sun comes out, even though it has been raining all the way en route. It is a MAGICAL place for me. Marj --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.350 / Virus Database: 196 - Release Date: 17/04/02

You could be right about them sailing from La Rochelle Frances, as there is a waxworks museum there giving the full story of how girls were sent from La Rochelle at the time of the Revolution, in order for them to marry soldiers serving in Canada and possibly America too. They were given one golden Louis, probably worth quite a lot of money, to set themselves up for their new lives. I probably have lots of pictures of La Rochelle, as we have spent quite a few holidays there. It's a city really, probably the same size as Southport where I live (which is NOT a city, it's a town). The same size population, about 100,000. I can visualise myself living there as it is a REAL place and not like a lot of the nice little villages in Brittany where people only come for the summer months. I know people will have sailed from La Rochelle during the whole of the 18th century. Marj > > Would you have any pictures of there..?? The > reason for my curiosity is that I 'feel' that my > maternal ancestors would have left France from > there when they came to Canada in l7l2...It would > be nice to have pics of what it is like now... > Thanks a bunch if you can help me out here. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.350 / Virus Database: 196 - Release Date: 17/04/02

There's one built-in in the front bedroom upstairs, which was once my mother's room. I will try and remember to take a picture of that. It's only narrow, but it is from ceiling to floor books. Again, they are nice volumes. In the back bedroom there is a big bookcase full of mainly paperbacks, novels etc., and on the landing a small one with paperbacks and videos we don't use very often. It's a wonder the floors don't collapse. MY music CDs are consigned to the hall downstairs, with all the videos I keep for the children. Don's CDs take pride of place in the front room next to the CD player! And sitting on top of the big collection of vinyls, for which we recently bought a new turntable to go with the CD player. Marj > > > > > Are your other bookcases that you mentioned in > > each room...also 'built-in' as this > > one...or..are > > they free-standing?? My four are free-standing > > ...and moving the one from the bedroom will > > give > > that bedroom a more balanced look.... > > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.350 / Virus Database: 196 - Release Date: 17/04/02

I think you are right Frances and these things should be treated as furniture. I like to keep everything to hand, otherwise I forget about them! In my picture, there is a little bureau just peeping in from the left. Don made that when he was in college in 1958. I keep most of my "collectors" books in there - some first editions, and stuff which is definitely not to be loaned out in case it doesn't come back. Marj > Jim...why would you be feeling 'guilty' about > having what sounds to me like a wonderful and > carefully chosen collection of books and C/D's, > which you obviously enjoy, in a room where you > probably spend a lot of pleasurable time with > them??? > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.350 / Virus Database: 196 - Release Date: 17/04/02

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Probably got that in B & Q quite a few years ago. It is the sort of non-descript stuff we go for - not much colour and a dauby pattern. We are about to colour wash it. Marj > where did you get the wallpaper from please? --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.350 / Virus Database: 196 - Release Date: 17/04/02