I have a postcard from a bike shop  asking the customer to "come and collect the repaired bike this afternoon".  This was in the 1890s. Senders were obviously quite confident that letters posted in the morning would be delivered the same day.  At a time when we have to pay a hefty premium to guarantee next day delivery, it demonstrates how much better the service was then.  Jeff ----- Original Message ---- From: SHEILA REYNOLDS <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, 4 November, 2008 9:41:01 AM Subject: Re: [GLS] Postal System 1862 Hi Robert. In those days Slough was not very big. ( not like it is today, I live here) Also I believe, it went to the Post office, and someone from the house would go to see if there was any mail for the House, and of cause they knew everyone local.   Not like Today, were neighbour's don't know one another, you also may have to wait a week for a letter. Sheila.   "          ‹(•¿•)›             ~        --- On Tue, 4/11/08, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [GLS] Postal System 1862 To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, 4 November, 2008, 7:32 AM Hi Listers I have a letter an envelope posted from Garstang. Lancs in 1862. The address  reads; John Hardcastle Slough Bucks Thats how good it was. Robert Freeman March. Cambs _____________________________________________ Have you considered adding "postems" to "your" events on www.freebmd.org.uk , giving your contact details?  Other researchers will then be able to make contact. Click on the info button to add your postem. ------------------------------- 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 _____________________________________________ Have you considered adding "postems" to "your" events on www.freebmd.org.uk , giving your contact details?  Other researchers will then be able to make contact. Click on the info button to add your postem. ------------------------------- 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

Hi Catherine, According to a record I have found on Ancestry.com for the Ontario census of 1871 Josiah Blewett was born in about 1806. He is listed as being aged 65. There are quite a few records for him and the children you mention - some of them being in Canada and some in America - is that right? I also found a pedigree for Josiah Blewett on Family Search. His wife and children are all on there including the name and address of a submitter - but they have his date of birth as being 1806/13. I would go more by the Ontario record. Hope this helps you. Regards Diana Re: Listers: I'm calling once again for help to locate a birth of Josiah Blewett to John Blewett and Nancy Coleman (married 23 April 1804 at St. Michael) - as well as a sister Winifred b. June 27, 1812 at Longhope - many thanks to kind lister Jenny for this information. His death says he was from Mitcheldean. Various birth dates have been given: 1803, 1806, 1813. If it's any help Josiah named some of his children with very odd names: Jane, Coleman, Wellington, Nancy, Roseanna, Milson, Winifred, Webster & Mordecai I've done all I can on Forest of Dean site. Any help/suggestions are most welcome. Catherine

Listers: I'm calling once again for help to locate a birth of Josiah Blewett to John Blewett and Nancy Coleman (married 23 April 1804 at St. Michael) - as well as a sister Winifred b. June 27, 1812 at Longhope - many thanks to kind lister Jenny for this information. His death says he was from Mitcheldean. Various birth dates have been given: 1803, 1806, 1813. If it's any help Josiah named some of his children with very odd names: Jane, Coleman, Wellington, Nancy, Roseanna, Milson, Winifred, Webster & Mordecai I've done all I can on Forest of Dean site. Any help/suggestions are most welcome. Catherine

Hi Robert. In those days Slough was not very big. ( not like it is today, I live here) Also I believe, it went to the Post office, and someone from the house would go to see if there was any mail for the House, and of cause they knew everyone local.   Not like Today, were neighbour's don't know one another, you also may have to wait a week for a letter. Sheila.   "          ‹(•¿•)›             ~        --- On Tue, 4/11/08, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [GLS] Postal System 1862 To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, 4 November, 2008, 7:32 AM Hi Listers I have a letter an envelope posted from Garstang. Lancs in 1862. The address reads; John Hardcastle Slough Bucks Thats how good it was. Robert Freeman March. Cambs _____________________________________________ Have you considered adding "postems" to "your" events on www.freebmd.org.uk , giving your contact details? Other researchers will then be able to make contact. Click on the info button to add your postem. ------------------------------- 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

Yes, there certainly was an Old King Street Chapel in Bristol - both my parents went to it. It was a Baptist Chapel somewhere near the Old Market area of Bristol - now the new Broadmead/Cabot Shopping Centre! I think it replaced the Counterslip Baptist Church, which was near Bristol Bridge. Penny. ----- Original Message ----- From: "jim @frome" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 8:18 AM Subject: Re: [GLS] BRISTOL or BATH > Pat > > Most highly ranked Googlr searches of "old king st" show BATH. > > However, searching withing results for "bristol" I found these interesting > snippets: > > "Aspects of Bristol History and Genealogy - Bristol ... James Webber > Allpass at the Baptist Chapel in Old King St in Bristol in 1847. ..." > > "CHAPMAN, Nehemiah, jun, -, (partner), Old King St, Bristol, aft 1731, B+G > Arch Soc - Trans. vol.84. " - FROM SUGAR REFINERS DATABASE > > "He married ALICE WATKINS April 10, 1901 in Old King St. Chapel, Bristol, > England . She died April 03, 1952 in Victoria, BC. ..." > > Do a search on this page for "old king" > > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/GLS/Bristol/JOSEPHtoRINGER.html > > Jim Parsons > http://www.payman.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Pat Wade <[email protected]> > To: Gloucester <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, 4 November, 2008 5:05:41 > Subject: [GLS] BRISTOL or BATH > > Hello, > > I have some ancestors who according to BMD records > were from Bristol. In a BMD article in the > Bristol Mercury the death notice says of "Old-King > Street" of this city. > > Now I have been trying to "google" and check out > some "old maps" and I come up with Old King > Street, BATH. > > Now I did check a map and found Bath is not that > far from Bristol. > > What I am wondering is if there used to be an "Old > King Street" in Bristol in the mid 1850s or is it > more likely that we are actually talking Bath?? > > Thank you > > Regards, > Pat Wade (Nee King) > > > _____________________________________________ > > Have you considered adding "postems" to "your" events on > www.freebmd.org.uk , giving your contact details? Other researchers will > then be able to make contact. Click on the info button to add your postem. > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > > > _____________________________________________ > > Have you considered adding "postems" to "your" events on > www.freebmd.org.uk , giving your contact details? Other researchers will > then be able to make contact. Click on the info button to add your postem. > > ------------------------------- > 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

[email protected] wrote: > I have a letter an envelope posted from Garstang. Lancs in 1862. > > The address reads; > > John Hardcastle > Slough > Bucks > > Thats how good it was. And the letter would have been delivered the next day. It's possible nowadays to abbreviate the address to just the house number and postal code (eg 123/XY4 7BC), no street or town mentioned, and it will arrive but it takes 3 or 4 days to do so even from within the same town.

Members of the HEAVEN family in the Stroud area have also been described as both Maltsters and Bakers. Diana Robinson Now in Rochester, NY, USA -----Original Message----- From: Nancy [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 6:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [GLS] Stroud Brewery Hi, My ancestor George Mynett was a Baker & Malster in Stroud 1700s, so this has been interesting for me. I've also tried to find where he would have worked without success. Meeting Street is the most likely place he would have lived. It seemed to be a street of businesses, going by later members of the family who operated from there. I'm off to check out the links in the previous e-mails. Nancy Australia

Pat Most highly ranked Googlr searches of "old king st" show BATH. However, searching withing results for "bristol" I found these interesting snippets: "Aspects of Bristol History and Genealogy - Bristol ... James Webber Allpass at the Baptist Chapel in Old King St in Bristol in 1847. ..."   "CHAPMAN, Nehemiah, jun, -, (partner), Old King St, Bristol, aft 1731, B+G Arch Soc - Trans. vol.84. " - FROM SUGAR REFINERS DATABASE "He married ALICE WATKINS April 10, 1901 in Old King St. Chapel, Bristol, England . She died April 03, 1952 in Victoria, BC. ..."   Do a search on this page for "old king"   http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/GLS/Bristol/JOSEPHtoRINGER.html  Jim Parsons http://www.payman.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk ________________________________ From: Pat Wade <[email protected]> To: Gloucester <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, 4 November, 2008 5:05:41 Subject: [GLS] BRISTOL or BATH Hello, I have some ancestors who according to BMD records were from Bristol.  In a BMD article in the Bristol Mercury the death notice says of "Old-King Street" of this city. Now I have been trying to "google" and check out some "old maps" and I come up with Old King Street, BATH. Now I did check a map and found Bath is not that far from Bristol. What I am wondering is if there used to be an "Old King Street" in Bristol in the mid 1850s or is it more likely that we are actually talking Bath?? Thank you Regards, Pat Wade (Nee King) _____________________________________________ Have you considered adding "postems" to "your" events on www.freebmd.org.uk , giving your contact details?  Other researchers will then be able to make contact. Click on the info button to add your postem. ------------------------------- 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

Hi Listers I have a letter an envelope posted from Garstang. Lancs in 1862. The address reads; John Hardcastle Slough Bucks Thats how good it was. Robert Freeman March. Cambs

Hi Pat I can remember my grandfather talking about 'Old King Street' in Bristol - I'm not sure if the 'Old' bit may have been dropped now - but as far as I know it's a road near the City Centre, which runs between Queen's Square and Baldwin Street - towards the floating harbour near Bristol Bridge. Home of the old Theatre Royal - Bristol Old Vic. Penny. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Wade" <[email protected]> To: "Gloucester" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 5:05 AM Subject: [GLS] BRISTOL or BATH > Hello, > > I have some ancestors who according to BMD records > were from Bristol. In a BMD article in the > Bristol Mercury the death notice says of "Old-King > Street" of this city. > > Now I have been trying to "google" and check out > some "old maps" and I come up with Old King > Street, BATH. > > Now I did check a map and found Bath is not that > far from Bristol. > > What I am wondering is if there used to be an "Old > King Street" in Bristol in the mid 1850s or is it > more likely that we are actually talking Bath?? > > Thank you > > Regards, > Pat Wade (Nee King) > > > _____________________________________________ > > Have you considered adding "postems" to "your" events on > www.freebmd.org.uk , giving your contact details? Other researchers will > then be able to make contact. Click on the info button to add your postem. > > ------------------------------- > 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

Hi, I have seen postcards (in old postcard fairs) where the writer writes a brief message then says 'I will meet you at the station tonight at 7.00 p.m.' - and the postcard was obviously delivered the same day. And that wasn't local either! More like a telegram really. Regards Diana Regarding: Hi Robert. In those days Slough was not very big. ( not like it is today, I live here) Also I believe, it went to the Post office, and someone from the house would go to see if there was any mail for the House, and of cause they knew everyone local. Not like Today, were neighbour's don't know one another, you also may have to wait a week for a letter. Sheila. "

Hi, My ancestor George Mynett was a Baker & Malster in Stroud 1700s, so this has been interesting for me. I've also tried to find where he would have worked without success. Meeting Street is the most likely place he would have lived. It seemed to be a street of businesses, going by later members of the family who operated from there. I'm off to check out the links in the previous e-mails. Nancy Australia > > Yes, British-history.ac.uk/ reports that there were 8 malthouses in the > parish of Stroud in 1822. My ggg grandfather, John GAY, was a maltster in > Stroud between 1813 and 1829. He died in 1829, aged 37, leaving a widow and > seven sons. The family lived in Lower Street, Acres Hedge and Meeting > Street, Stroud, between John's marriage in 1813 and his death. Clearly there > were several possible places he might have worked in the Stroud area - but > it's good just to know that, so I'm very grateful for your help. Penny.

Thanks for that. Should have been g.g.grandfathers, not g.grandads. I have another g.g.grandad employed by GWR as a porter in Wiltshire 1851. Maybe the records will become easier to get from overseas at some stage. Good to know they are there anyway. Thanks. Nancy Australia > Nancy, Probably the Great Western Railway. The staff records for this company > are quite good and are at the Public Records Office at Kew.

Thanks so much Lynne. Lots of useful information in this wonderful book. I especially like the diagram of the whole malting process in the early 19th Century. That gives me a really good idea of the whole set-up in the early days before mechanisation. Penny. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynne Cleaver" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 4:09 PM Subject: Re: [GLS] Stroud Brewery > Google books came up with the following volume which may answer some > questions > The British malting industry since 1830 > By Christine Clark > The link is very long.... > http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FP3ESHC10OMC&pg=PA175&lpg=PA175&dq=maltsters+history&source=web&ots=-oOE_s7D5o&sig=fIZwkOqkgCRqCFKJk-CuCFxDDos&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPP1,M1 > > Lynne > _____________________________________________ > > Have you considered adding "postems" to "your" events on > www.freebmd.org.uk , giving your contact details? Other researchers will > then be able to make contact. Click on the info button to add your postem. > > ------------------------------- > 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

Google books came up with the following volume which may answer some questions The British malting industry since 1830 By Christine Clark The link is very long.... http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FP3ESHC10OMC&pg=PA175&lpg=PA175&dq=maltsters+history&source=web&ots=-oOE_s7D5o&sig=fIZwkOqkgCRqCFKJk-CuCFxDDos&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPP1,M1 Lynne

Hello Ppnny, As you say the earliest Directories on line are for 1847 ish onwards. It is only for Tetbury, but I printed off the Tetbury part of an earlier directory that covered Gloucestershire and I think that was more like the turn of the century from 1700s to 1800s, i.e. about 1792 to 1802. It was on, I think, one of the Archive CD Books offerings. If I find it, I'll attach the Stroud entry to a private email to you. Regarding maltsters, I am not totally sure, but I presume that they must have done their malting or whatever in their back yard or even, perhaps, in a room set aside for that. In that earlier 1847ish entry for Stroud, there were 4 in Stroud, only one part of the Stroud Brewery. Best wishes, Phil At 14:55 03/11/2008, penny gay wrote: >I had also been wondering about the feasibility of making malt at home, >which you mention - would this have been possible, given the right >equipment? And I think I have read that some pubs had their own malt-houses. >There were certainly plenty of those in Stroud. Penny. Phil Warn ô¿ô Genealogists do it backwards Family Historians take all steps "The Warn family in Tetbury from 1722" <http://homepage.ntlworld.com/philwarn/FamHist1/index.htm>

Phil Many thanks for the reference to the Directory website. I had been wondering if any of these were available on line. There's certainly quite a bit of information about Stroud in the late 19th Century - but I have found nothing for Gloucestershire before 1850. My ancestors had left Gloucestershire by 1850 - four to America, one to Australia! However, my great great grandfather and his son were both carpenters in Bristol in the late 19th Century so I may find some trace of them. Thank you! I had also been wondering about the feasibility of making malt at home, which you mention - would this have been possible, given the right equipment? And I think I have read that some pubs had their own malt-houses. There were certainly plenty of those in Stroud. Penny. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Warn" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 1:16 PM Subject: Re: [GLS] Stroud Brewery Penny, In addition to Geoff Sandles' Gls Breweries site, there is also the digital Directories site hosted at the Leicester University. It has bnot a few directories for most counties and in many decades, too. It is located here <http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/index.asp> It will assist any family historian searching for members of the gentry and also for trades and professions. To take my own Gls interest for an example, notably because the Stroud Brewery Company bought out the Warn Brewery, when the latter went into liquidation. Some would say that breweries dealt in liquids any way! In addition to there being three or four breweries in Tetbury, there were in addition, several maltsters working, one assumes, out of their own homes. Mashing applies to beer as well as to teat! HTH Phil At 17:31 02/11/2008, penny gay wrote: >Does anyone know if a maltster living in Stroud >in the early 1800s would be most likely to have >worked at a malthouse actually sited within the >Stroud Brewery buildings, which I believe were >in Rowcroft. Although I have found plenty of >information about the process of making malt, I >haven't been able to find where there might have >been a malthouse in Stroud - the Brewery seems >the obvious place - but confirmation would be >good. Grateful for any help or suggestions. Penny G. Phil Warn ô¿ô Genealogists do it backwards Family Historians take all steps "The Warn family in Tetbury from 1722" <http://homepage.ntlworld.com/philwarn/FamHist1/index.htm> _____________________________________________ Have you considered adding "postems" to "your" events on www.freebmd.org.uk , giving your contact details? Other researchers will then be able to make contact. Click on the info button to add your postem. ------------------------------- 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

Penny, In addition to Geoff Sandles' Gls Breweries site, there is also the digital Directories site hosted at the Leicester University. It has bnot a few directories for most counties and in many decades, too. It is located here <http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/index.asp> It will assist any family historian searching for members of the gentry and also for trades and professions. To take my own Gls interest for an example, notably because the Stroud Brewery Company bought out the Warn Brewery, when the latter went into liquidation. Some would say that breweries dealt in liquids any way! In addition to there being three or four breweries in Tetbury, there were in addition, several maltsters working, one assumes, out of their own homes. Mashing applies to beer as well as to teat! HTH Phil At 17:31 02/11/2008, penny gay wrote: >Does anyone know if a maltster living in Stroud >in the early 1800s would be most likely to have >worked at a malthouse actually sited within the >Stroud Brewery buildings, which I believe were >in Rowcroft. Although I have found plenty of >information about the process of making malt, I >haven't been able to find where there might have >been a malthouse in Stroud - the Brewery seems >the obvious place - but confirmation would be >good. Grateful for any help or suggestions. Penny G. Phil Warn ô¿ô Genealogists do it backwards Family Historians take all steps "The Warn family in Tetbury from 1722" <http://homepage.ntlworld.com/philwarn/FamHist1/index.htm>

Hi Nancy Good to hear from you. Apparently making malt was a seasonal job - mainly from October to May. which may explain why your ancestor was also a baker. I'll let you know if I find out any more about malt-houses in Stroud! Penny. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nancy" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [GLS] Stroud Brewery > Hi, > > My ancestor George Mynett was a Baker & Malster in Stroud 1700s, so > this has been interesting for me. > I've also tried to find where he would have worked without success. > Meeting Street is the most likely place he would have lived. It seemed > to be a street of businesses, > going by later members of the family who operated from there. > I'm off to check out the links in the previous e-mails. > Nancy > Australia > > > >> >> Yes, British-history.ac.uk/ reports that there were 8 malthouses in the >> parish of Stroud in 1822. My ggg grandfather, John GAY, was a maltster >> in >> Stroud between 1813 and 1829. He died in 1829, aged 37, leaving a widow >> and >> seven sons. The family lived in Lower Street, Acres Hedge and Meeting >> Street, Stroud, between John's marriage in 1813 and his death. Clearly >> there >> were several possible places he might have worked in the Stroud area - >> but >> it's good just to know that, so I'm very grateful for your help. Penny. > _____________________________________________ > > Have you considered adding "postems" to "your" events on > www.freebmd.org.uk , giving your contact details? Other researchers will > then be able to make contact. Click on the info button to add your postem. > > ------------------------------- > 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

Gary, >From Phillimore's Marriage Index of Minchinhampton: 27 July 1703 Thomas GAY of Stroud married Margret ALDRIDG There are some ALDRIDGE wills on Gloucestershire Archives searchable database, but unfortunately not one for Thomas. The ones that are on there from Minchinhampton seem to be connected with weaving and perhaps they may give you a clue as to your Thomas and his family. There is also an extracted baptism on the IGI for a Thomas ALDRIG on 21 January 1633 at Minchinhampton, father Francis which could be relevant to you. Janet > Does anyone have information on Thomas ALDRIDGE? Thomas had a daughter > Margaret who was born 6 April 1682 at Minchampton, Gloucester, but that is > all I know about Thomas & his family. Is anyone else researching this > family?