Hi Janet, I can understand your problem with the names WALL and LAND.... I tried putting the surname, WINDOW, in to A2A and had references to all sorts of glassy things, people breaking them and falling out of them but no surname references. I then tried putting in 'blacksmith' and that was a little more productive. I wonder if there is a way round the problem of a surname that is also the name of an object or a place. On Google it can be overcome to some extent by entering the name plus genealogy but A2A asks for an exact phrase. One source that I would not have come across apart from A2A is the Sun Insurance Company records. William HESKINS, who must have come from Horsley in my reckoning [as a William was born there, travelled to London frequently according to the parish records, and was not buried in Horsley] appears several times as being in partnership in a lace warehouse establishment. From these records, 1820's and thereabouts, it is possible to gain information on his partnrers in the business, where he lived, his status and probably his year of death. The latter by finding out if the names of partners continues after his disappears from the records. I haven't done that yet as it has only occured to me as I write.... Cheers, Janet Heskins

<One source that I would not have come across apart from A2A is the Sun Insurance Company records> Janet, Are you saying that insurance records are to be found on A2A? Jeff (who would very much like to get at the records of the Provident Mutual)) On Sun, 11 March, 2007 5:30 pm, JANETHESKI@aol.com wrote: > Hi Janet, > I can understand your problem with the names WALL and LAND.... I > tried putting the surname, WINDOW, in to A2A and had references to all > sorts of glassy things, people breaking them and falling out of them but > no surname references. > > I then tried putting in 'blacksmith' and that was a little more > productive. I wonder if there is a way round the problem of a surname that > is also the name of an object or a place. On Google it can be overcome to > some extent by entering the name plus genealogy but A2A asks for an exact > phrase. > > One source that I would not have come across apart from A2A is the Sun > Insurance Company records. William HESKINS, who must have come from > Horsley in my > reckoning [as a William was born there, travelled to London frequently > according to the parish records, and was not buried in Horsley] appears > several times as being in partnership in a lace warehouse establishment. > From these records, > 1820's and thereabouts, it is possible to gain information on his > partnrers in the business, where he lived, his status and probably his > year of death. The latter by finding out if the names of partners > continues after his disappears from the records. I haven't done that yet > as it has only occured to me as I write.... > > Cheers, > Janet Heskins > _____________________________________________ > > > Browse the list archives at: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GLOUCESTER/ > > > Keyword search - any or all lists: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GLOUCESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >