Posted with permission of the transcriber, Barb. Baker. Geo. ADVERTISEMENT To the NOBILITY, GENTRY, &c. THE famous MRS. BERNARD (from BERLIN in BRANDENBURGH) is possessed of an infallible secret for cleansing the teeth, and rendering them as white as alabaster, notwithstanding they may be as black as coal; remarkably done without the use of instrument; also fastens teeth by virtue of water, and causes the gums to grow up to the teeth, through ever so much decayed; likewise prevents teeth from rotting. She infalibbly eases the scurvy, and in a short time removes the most offensive breath; the toothach cured in half a minute, without damaging the teeth. MRS. BERNARD begs leave to mention a truth but too well known, that the frequent use of instruments and powders, particularly brushes, as the infection remains in the brush, entirely **** the teeth, whereas her liquid cleans them by using it only three times a week. The public may be satisfied of the efficacy of her remedies by most of the Nobility and Gentry, that use the German Sea, Bath, Bristol, Scarborough, and in much of the principal towns in Great Britain. She offers her assistance to those who may require it, and desires no pay except the cure proves to the satisfaction of her patients. ~~~To prevent counterfits, every bottle is sealed with her name. The way to use it; Put a teaspoonful in a cap, dip a cloth in it, and rub your teeth with it ~~~ By her appointment, her remedies are sold in bottles of 5s 3d and 10s 6d each by the Printers of this Paper, of whom may be had Celeivald's Bible, recommended by the Society for propagating Christian knowledge. Large folio 1 l. 5s on fine paper, with the Apocrypha: 1L. 1s second paper with the Apocrypha. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~

I'm really touched that you remembered. I really only use the computer to play patience but Paul has shown me your kind wishes. I got lots of garden plants from him - which was what I wanted. Love to you all Pauline ----- Original Message ----- From: "david cox" <bigdavecox@ntlworld.com> To: <GEN-TRIVIA-ENG-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 9:23 AM Subject: Happy belated Birthday Pauline > Pauline please forgive me! > 3 days ago young Pauline (Pauls wife) had a birthday and I forgot to remind you all. > Happy belated Birthday Pauline > > Dave,Pam and Nikki > as I sit here I am thrashing myself with a birch branch (actually its a twig about six inches) > > ______________________________

That is better reminder service !! lol Happy Birthday Heather have a great day Hugs DiDi http://photobucket.com/albums/d100/didi_45 -----Original Message----- From: david cox [mailto:bigdavecox@ntlworld.com] Sent: Friday, 21 July 2006 8:26 p.m. To: GEN-TRIVIA-ENG-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [TRIVVIES] Reminder for tomorrow Young Heather in the west is celebrating a Birthday tomorrow, Happy Birthday Heather Love and hugs Dave, Pam and Nikki ==== GEN-TRIVIA-ENG Mailing List ==== RANDOM TAGLINE - GEN-TRIVIA-ENG - MAILING LIST Comparison stories between Countries are always most welcome. These help to make the list interesting as well as educational.

Oh it is hard to find reliable staff these days!! Happy Belated Birthday Pauline.......sorry it is late ...it is Big Dave's fault :) DiDi http://photobucket.com/albums/d100/didi_45 Pauline please forgive me! 3 days ago young Pauline (Pauls wife) had a birthday and I forgot to remind you all. Happy belated Birthday Pauline Dave,Pam and Nikki as I sit here I am thrashing myself with a birch branch (actually its a twig about six inches) ==== GEN-TRIVIA-ENG Mailing List ==== RANDOM TAGLINE - GEN-TRIVIA-ENG - MAILING LIST If a subject has already been discussed - there is nothing wrong with refreshing our memories. Lest we forget. :-)

Posted with permission of the transcriber, Barb. Baker. Geo. THE CUMBERLAND PACQUET and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser, Tuesday,April 22, 1777 No. 132 3d. Week VOL. III 4th Quarter Price Three-pence Where Moderation dwells, the Soul admits Distinct Ideas, and Matur'd Debate; an Eye Impartial, and an Even Scale................Hence Wisdom found, and unrepenting Choice This Paper may be constantly seen in LONDON, at the Chapter, Peele's & New Lloyd's Coffee House, at MR. STAINTON's Blestom's Inn, Laurence-Lane, and at the Constitution Punch-House, Drury Lane. ====================================================================== TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY's POSTS From the LONDON GAZETTE L O N D O N April 12. Two men of war sailed from Brest, in November, their destination unknown. One ship of the line and two frigates from the same port, in January, full of troops; another, and three transports, the middle of February; and since that other single ships have failed. It is now known that they are all destined to the Isle of France, where a very considerable force is collecting. A new corps has been raised at Quebec, and another at Halifax, the former is called the Loyal Canadians, and the latter the Nova Scotia Volunteers. Last week was married, an ingenious ****er, aged 23, of Thornton in Leicestershire, to a maiden lady aged 93, with a fortune of Seventy thousand pounds. The following is said to be the royal expenditure from January 6th, 1776, to January 5th, 1777. THE QUEEN...........................................................£50,000 DUKE OF GLOUCESTER.........................................12,000 DUKE OF CUMBERLAND.........................................12,000 PRINCESS AMELIA..................................................12,000 THE SERVANTS OF THE LATE QUEEN, PRINCESS OF WALES, QUEEN OF DENMARK, &c.......................8,000 COSSETER OF THE HOUSHOLD.............................109,600 TREASURER OF THE CHAMBER...............................60,200 GREAT WARDROBE.................................................36,400 MASTER OF THE ROBES............................................8,800 MASTER OF THE HOUSE...........................................26,000 PAYMASTER OF THE WORKS...................................76,500 FOREIGN MINISTERS................................................98,600 GREAT OFFICERS, JUDGES FEES, SALARIES &c....130,000 PENSIONS AND ANNUITIES.....................................127,000 ROYAL BOUNTIES.....................................................11,500 GENTLEMEN PENSIONERS..........................................6,000 PRESENT TO FOREIGN MINISTERS.............................3,000 SECRET SERVICE.......................................................86,000 HIS MAJESTY'S PRIVY PURSE...................................48,000 GOLDSMITH.................................................................2,500 LAW CHARGES...........................................................60,000 ........................................................................................£984,100

Posted with permission of the transcriber, Laura J. Geo. Vicissitudes of a Slave Captive in Ethiopia --- The following narrative, by a native of the village of Suppa, in Enarea, detailing the history of his capture and subsequent vicissitudes, may be taken as a fair specimen of the usual circumstances attending the transfer of the kidnapped victim from one merciless dealer to another, in his progress to Abyssinia through the interior provinces which form the focus of slavery in the north-east: --- "When 20 years of age, being engaged in tending the flocks of Betta, my father, an armed band of the Ooma Galla, with whom my tribe had long been in enmity, swept suddenly down, and took myself with six other youths prisoners, killing four more who resisted. Having been kept bound hand and foot during five days, I was sold to the Toomee Galla, one of the nearest tribes for thirty amoles (about six shilling and threepence sterling.) The bargain was concluded in the Toomee market-place, which is called Sundaffo, where, in consequence of the dearness of salt, two male slaves are commonly bought for one dollar; and, after nightfall, the Mohammedan rover, by whom I had been purchased, came and took me away. Having been kept bound in his house another week, I was taken two days journey with a large slave caravan, and sold privately to the Nono Galla for a few ells of blue calico. My companions in captivity were assorted according to their age and size, and walked in double file, the stout and able-bodies only, whereof I was one, having their hands tied behind them. In Meegra, the market-place of the Nono, I was, after six week's confinement, sold by public auction to the Agumcho Galla for forty pieces of salt, value eight shillings and fourpence. Thence I was taken to the market-place, which is beyond Sequala, on the plain of Hawash, and sold for seventy pieces of salt to the Soddo Galla, and immediately afterwards taken to Roque, the slave mart in the Yerrur district,where I was sold for one hundred amoles, being £1 sterling. From Roque I was driven to Alio Amba, in Shoa, where a Mahommedan subject of Sahela Selassie purchased me in the market of Abdel Russool for twelve dollars; but, after three months, my master falling into disgrace, the whole of his property was confiscated, and I became the slave of the Negoos, which I still am, although permitted to reside with my family, and only called upon to plough, reap, and carry wood. Exclusive of halts, the journey from my native village occupied fifteen days. I was tolerably fed and not maltreated. All the merchants through whose hand I passed were Mohammedans; and until within a few stages of Alio Amba, I was invariably bound at night, and thus found no opportunity to escape. Prior to my own enslavement, I had been extensively engaged as a kidnapper, and to this capacity had been a party in three great slave hunts into the country of the Doko negroes beyond Caffa, in the course of which four thousand individuals of both sexes were secured.---Harris's Ethiopia ******

Young Heather in the west is celebrating a Birthday tomorrow, Happy Birthday Heather Love and hugs Dave, Pam and Nikki

Pauline please forgive me! 3 days ago young Pauline (Pauls wife) had a birthday and I forgot to remind you all. Happy belated Birthday Pauline Dave,Pam and Nikki as I sit here I am thrashing myself with a birch branch (actually its a twig about six inches)

I am sorry to hear this Simon I do hope all turns out well for your niece DiDi http://photobucket.com/albums/d100/didi_45 ? I'm well but sadly my niece is critically ill in hospital after suffering a toxic reaction to medicaments taken a few weeks ago. It's all a bit worrying at the moment. Simon in Jormany Diane Kirby wrote: > Well I am as thick as you so can't help....but how are you by the way :) > > DiDi > http://photobucket.com/albums/d100/didi_45 > > > Or have I missed something? > > After ages of doing nowt, I finally made some progess in looking for my > Northumbria dead rellies and thought I'd re-enlist on the Northumbria > rootweb list. > > Only, I can't find it! > > What am I doing wrong? > > Regards from Jormany > > Simon > > > ==== GEN-TRIVIA-ENG Mailing List ==== > RANDOM TAGLINE - GEN-TRIVIA-ENG - MAILING LIST > Please use common sense when sending or replying to messages on the list. > What may not offend you may offend others. > > >

Well I am as thick as you so can't help....but how are you by the way :) DiDi http://photobucket.com/albums/d100/didi_45 Or have I missed something? After ages of doing nowt, I finally made some progess in looking for my Northumbria dead rellies and thought I'd re-enlist on the Northumbria rootweb list. Only, I can't find it! What am I doing wrong? Regards from Jormany Simon ==== GEN-TRIVIA-ENG Mailing List ==== RANDOM TAGLINE - GEN-TRIVIA-ENG - MAILING LIST Please use common sense when sending or replying to messages on the list. What may not offend you may offend others.

Well I quite like the name Issac.....sounds a strong name DiDi http://photobucket.com/albums/d100/didi_45 thanks everyone for all your good wishes for my new twiglet.... Just FYI, I asked Craig who had come up with Isaac for a name as its not one that I would have thought of for sure - I wondered if Pam had been the one. Craig said no, it was his choice - chosen because he thinks highly of a couple of people named Isaac - Isaac Asimov and Isaac Newton! When he told me that , it all made sense - its so typical Craig......he's a deep thinker, this one. mary there are storms brewing round here today..... its overcast, hot and getting humid... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/5qT_lB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LosersClub/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: LosersClub-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

Try these, Simon; DUR-NBL-L-request@rootsweb.com ENG-GEORDIES-L-request@rootsweb.com NORTHUMBRIA-L-request@rootsweb.com NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L-request@rootsweb.com Just put the single word Subscribe in the Subject field and message body. Ther are several other Rootsweb Lists for the general area. I trust you are keeping well? Geo. Or have I missed something? After ages of doing nowt, I finally made some progess in looking for my Northumbria dead rellies and thought I'd re-enlist on the Northumbria rootweb list. Only, I can't find it! What am I doing wrong? Regards from Jormany Simon

Thanks for that George. Obviously I am a bit thick. Simon in Jormany Geo. wrote: > Try these, Simon; > DUR-NBL-L-request@rootsweb.com <mailto:DUR-NBL-L-request@rootsweb.com> > ENG-GEORDIES-L-request@rootsweb.com > <mailto:ENG-GEORDIES-L-request@rootsweb.com> > NORTHUMBRIA-L-request@rootsweb.com > <mailto:NORTHUMBRIA-L-request@rootsweb.com> > NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L-request@rootsweb.com > <mailto:NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L-request@rootsweb.com> > Just put the single word Subscribe in the Subject field and message body. > Ther are several other Rootsweb Lists for the general area. > > I trust you are keeping well? > > Geo. > > Or have I missed something? > > After ages of doing nowt, I finally made some progess in looking > for my > Northumbria dead rellies and thought I'd re-enlist on the Northumbria > rootweb list. > > Only, I can't find it! > > What am I doing wrong? > > Regards from Jormany > > Simon >

I'm well but sadly my niece is critically ill in hospital after suffering a toxic reaction to medicaments taken a few weeks ago. It's all a bit worrying at the moment. Simon in Jormany Diane Kirby wrote: > Well I am as thick as you so can't help....but how are you by the way :) > > DiDi > http://photobucket.com/albums/d100/didi_45 > > > Or have I missed something? > > After ages of doing nowt, I finally made some progess in looking for my > Northumbria dead rellies and thought I'd re-enlist on the Northumbria > rootweb list. > > Only, I can't find it! > > What am I doing wrong? > > Regards from Jormany > > Simon > > > ==== GEN-TRIVIA-ENG Mailing List ==== > RANDOM TAGLINE - GEN-TRIVIA-ENG - MAILING LIST > Please use common sense when sending or replying to messages on the list. > What may not offend you may offend others. > > >

Or have I missed something? After ages of doing nowt, I finally made some progess in looking for my Northumbria dead rellies and thought I'd re-enlist on the Northumbria rootweb list. Only, I can't find it! What am I doing wrong? Regards from Jormany Simon

Oh Liz, it sounds a lovely service. I know what you mean by "the curtains!" I do hope your Mum and your familycan now, remember the good times. Hugs Val xx I have been blessed with some wonderful friends, not only did three of my friends from the Mothers Union at my Church come to be there for me at Dad's funeral, but also Sue and Andy came all the way down from Nottingham. The journey was not without incident (but that's another story, another day) but they overcame it and made the Church on time. It was very hot outside but the Church was reasonably cool inside at that time in the morning and Mum was touched to see how many people had come. My knowledge of funerals in recent years is somewhat limited to either just singing at the ones at our Church, and so obviously we only see the Church service and not the Crem; or to the few family services. My grandmothers was very similar to our Church service followed by Cremation, about which I remember little; both Peter's parents just had a service at the Crem. The only other one recently was for Lizzie's Neil up in Taddington. I thought people might be interested to compare this particular service to their own experience or perhaps ponder what might have happened to their ancestors. My parents are High Anglican - they belong to a Forward in Faith Church (some interesting Google results for this) - which is very close to Catholicism and so the service(s) were very different for me. The coffin was taken to the Church the evening before at 5pm for a service of Vespers (Order of Service before a Funeral Service). The coffin was then draped with a pall (in this case blue velvet) and a crucifix laid on it for the night. The family and an y other congregation then lit votive candles that were on a stand at the head of the coffin. This was Sunday evening and the next service was on Monday morning just gone, at 10.15. We all arrived at the Church before the Service - no need to wait to follow the coffin in, of course, and the undertakers merely brought in the flowers from the family and the votive candles had been removed. We then had a Requiem Mass with much swinging of incense and ringing of bells (not alien to me as I had been a Catholic in my teens). We had two priests concelebrating the service - two long standing family friends. Towards the end of the service there were the usual prayers said over the coffin and Mum, my sister and I and our husbands stood around the coffin too whilst it was blessed and then we followed it down the aisle to the hearse. We then had a little while so that we could mill around and greet people before we left for the Crem at Eastbourne. Dad had always been a country man born and brought up in Sussex and even in his working life he never had a desk job, but could be out and about. What he would have loved was that the hearse followed along the promenade, in front of their flat, and then it went along the narrow winding lane on the edge of the shingle beach all the way towards Norman's Bay, along the south of the Pevensey Levels. Along the way we passed a lone piper - now I am sure this had not been arranged but it seemed appropriate, the more so since Dad has a Scottish father!!! Then we went inland to Pevensey and then to Eastbourne Crem. At the Crem there were just the 12 of us and the two priests - the Committal just took a few minutes; but oh, those curtains ......... Afterwards we had a small family lunch as Dad would have hated a "wake". We have decided that the ashes will be interred at another parish church in Bexhill (where one of the priests is the incumbent) as Dad did not want his ashes interred in a town centre church, but we also wanted somewhere where Mum could get to fairly easily. And so the finale - 15.12.1918 to 03.07.2006 and of those 59 years 353 days wed. Liz ==== GEN-TRIVIA-ENG Mailing List ==== RANDOM TAGLINE - GEN-TRIVIA-ENG - MAILING LIST Remember - this list is only as good as you, the Lister, make it. If you don't post, then it's no fun at all. :-) -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.1/390 - Release Date: 17/07/2006

Congrats Mary Val xx Our 5th little twig duly arrived around 11.30, July 18 - weighing 3.7kg, and mother & son are both doing well. No problems at all - Pam says this labour was easier than her first one... His name is to be either Isaac James, or Isaac Douglas - I forgot to ask which was the final choice... And now its almost 2 and I still cannot get back to sleep!! mary ==== GEN-TRIVIA-ENG Mailing List ==== RANDOM TAGLINE - GEN-TRIVIA-ENG - MAILING LIST Remember - Our "todays" ups & downs of life, are "tomorrows" Ancestral Trivia. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.1/390 - Release Date: 17/07/2006

thanks everyone for all your good wishes for my new twiglet.... Just FYI, I asked Craig who had come up with Isaac for a name as its not one that I would have thought of for sure - I wondered if Pam had been the one. Craig said no, it was his choice - chosen because he thinks highly of a couple of people named Isaac - Isaac Asimov and Isaac Newton! When he told me that , it all made sense - its so typical Craig......he's a deep thinker, this one. mary there are storms brewing round here today..... its overcast, hot and getting humid...

From another List. I pass it on for information. Whether it works would depend on how far away the car was and what large metal objects - such as a garage door - might block the signal. Geo. I thought this was pretty clever so I wanted to pass it on. Next time you come home for the night and you go to put your keys away, think of this: It's a security alarm system that you probably already have and requires no installation. Start keeping your car keys next to your bed on the night stand when you go to bed at night. If you think someone is trying to get into your house, or if you hear a noise outside your house, just press he panic alarm on your car key chain. Test it, it will go off from most everywhere inside your house and will keep honking until your battery runs down or until you reset it with the button on the key fob chain. It works if you park in your driveway or garage. If your car alarm goes off when someone is trying to break in your house, odds are the burglar or rapist won't stick around.....after a few seconds all the neighbors will be looking out their windows to see who is out there and sure enough the criminal won't want that. Try yours to make sure it works before you rely on it. Just know that you must press the alarm button again to turn it off. And remember to carry your key while walking to your car in a parking lot. The alarm can work the same way there..... This is something that should really be shared with everyone. Maybe it could save a life or a sexual abuse crime.

Posted with permission of Ann. Geo. The West Cumberland Times, Saturday, Oct. 18, 1884 - SERIOUS FIRE ON BOARD AN ATLANTIC MAIL STEAMER ______ GREAT EXCITEMENT ON BOARD THE BURNING VESSEL. DEATH FROM FRIGHT. ______ Our Queenstown correspondent telegraphs that great excitement prevailed in Queenstown, yesterday morning when, at eleven o'clock the tender arrived at the landing stage from the Guion mail steamer, Nevada, homeward bound from New York, and reported that the vessel was on fire and that her crew were in an exhausted condition, owing to their efforts to subdue the flames. The agents of the Guion company at once engaged a number of stokers and laborers, and sent them out, with other assistance to the steamer. It was discovered, however, that, thanks to the strenuous efforts of the crew and the assistance of some passengers, the fire had been subdued, and at half past two the tender returned to Queenstown and landed a number of passengers who had booked for Ireland. Narratives furnished by passengers gave the following account of the voyage. The Nevada left New York on Tuesday the 7th inst., with 30 saloon, ten intermediate, and 25 steerage passengers. The voyage was an uneventful one until Wednesday the 15th, when about noon, just before dinner time, an alarm of fire was heard, and smoke was seen to be issuing from the fore part of the hold forward of the engine room. A hasty examination showed that some bales of cotton and hops stored in a compartment by themselves, were well alight. Great excitement at once prevailed amongst the passengers and a number of women rushed about the deck with their children in their arms imploring the officers to save them, and they were pacified with difficulty, and in the meantime the crew, ably and coolly directed by the captain and officers, worked with a will on the flaming hold. The captain and some of the officers gallantly made their way into the hold itself, with the object of ascertaining the! exact dimensions of the fire; but were half suffocated and compelled to retreat by the dense and pungent smoke emitted by the burning cotton. Huge quantities of water were, however, poured down the hold; but for some time it apparently had no effect, for the fire managed to spread to the other side of the engine-room, and burned so fiercely that some of the outside plates of the vessel became red hot. Ultimately, however, the enormous volume of water began to tell, and at length the fire had been so far subdued that some of the crew, accompanied by several passenger volunteers, penetrated to the hold, previously taking the precaution to tie handkerchiefs round their mouths and nostrils, and commenced to get out some of the smoldering bales, which, as they were passed on deck, were promptly jettisoned. The removal of the upper bales unfortunately caused a draught, which caused the lower bales to burn more furiously. The hose was then again brought into requisition, and continued to play. Still there were ten feet of water in the hold, causing the vessel to settle perfectly, and necessitating the employment of a steam pump which thenceforward had to be kept going day and night. On Thursday morning the cotton was still smoldering, and thirty bales were jettisoned. In the evening another fifteen bales were thrown overboard, together with a large quantity of bacon. The crew and the volunteers continued to work with the hose until the arrival of the vessel at Queenstown yesterday morning, by which time, thanks to their labours and the effective use of the steam extinguisher, the fire was practically extinguished. It was, however, discovered that the vessel had a dangerous list to starboard; but this was removed by pumping out the flooded hold, and in the afternoon the vessel continued her voyage to Liverpool. All the passengers speak in terms of the most enthusiastic praise of the conduct of the officers and the crew, whose courage and coolness contributed more than anything else to allay the natural excitement of the passengers. None of the passengers sustained even the slightest injury, bit Bridget McEUCE, a consumptive steerage passenger, bound for Ireland, died of fright and excitement. Two saloon passengers, Mr. James OGG, of London, and Rev. James DAVIES, landed at Queenstown. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~