Hi Listers My dear late mother use to say "Well love a duck and stab a blinking policeman" I have never heard anyone else use it and never thought of asking her what it meant. Regards Brian P Fair Oak

A few more that my parents used to use and which are still in use today are: "in the doghouse" "In the Pink" "In Queer Street" "In a nutshell" "Hang fire" which I later learned came from the navy when a spark took so long to reach the gunpowder! "get down to the nitty gritty!" "A cow with it's tail to the west, makes weather the best, A cow with it's tail to the east, makes weather the least. " "Going to visit the Quack" used to make me think of duckponds not doctors!! "Its enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey!" For some more sayings and there meanings go to http://www.briggs13.fsnet.co.uk/idioms%20list.htm Chris --- All of our Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. And attachments are also scanned before being added. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.491 / Virus Database: 290 - Release Date: 18/06/2003

"Up in Annies room behind the clock" was a favourite expression that my mother used as was "Bobs your Uncle" which puzzled me when I was small as I never had an Uncle Bob and could not understand what my mother meant. My father used to reply with "And Fannies your Aunt" which puzzled me even further. Another favourtie was "up the wooden hill" or "up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire" meaning go to bed. And my grandfather used to always say "He that is up is up and he that is down has to come up" which meant if you were feeling low the only way out was to "come up" out of it!! Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janice Lee Wood" <jleewood@bigpond.com> To: <HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 8:16 AM Subject: Re: [HantsLife] sayings Making a wigwam for a goose's bridle - is what you say to children, or any large adult, when they ask a silly question. The other good one is - person: 'where's my school uniform, my shoes, my ......thing'. Answer - it's in Annie's room up behind the clock Regards Janice Lee Wood ==== HAMPSHIRE-LIFE Mailing List ==== Please use common sense when sending or replying to messages on the list. What may not offend you may offend others. Please do not send virus warnings, or other matetial not relevant to Hampshire and its history. ============================== 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 --- All of our Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. And attachments are also scanned before being added. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.491 / Virus Database: 290 - Release Date: 18/06/2003

Making a wigwam for a goose's bridle - is what you say to children, or any large adult, when they ask a silly question. The other good one is - person: 'where's my school uniform, my shoes, my ......thing'. Answer - it's in Annie's room up behind the clock Regards Janice Lee Wood

--part1_3e.3162a582.2c25d67b_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_3e.3162a582.2c25d67b_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-yb01.mx.aol.com (rly-yb01.mail.aol.com [172.18.146.1]) by air-yb01.mail.aol.com (v94.29) with ESMTP id MAILINYB12-38a23ef46d9d23a; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 10:37:17 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [207.40.200.41]) by rly-yb01.mx.aol.com (v94.27) with ESMTP id MAILRELAYINYB12-1743ef46d9836b; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 10:37:13 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id h5LEajSa020655; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 08:36:45 -0600 Resent-Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 08:36:45 -0600 X-Original-Sender: branton_st@dsl.pipex.com Sat Jun 21 08:36:44 2003 From: "Branton Family Tree" <branton_st@dsl.pipex.com> Old-To: <ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND-L@rootsweb.com>, <ESSEX-UK-L@rootsweb.com>, <UK-NORTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 15:37:38 +0100 Message-ID: <MCBBJDNOONGIGEPFGJDHAEMGCMAA.branton_st@dsl.pipex.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal Sensitivity: Company-Confidential Subject: [SUNDERLAND] Resent-Message-ID: <MFRNeB.A.fCF.81G9-@lists5.rootsweb.com> To: ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/1689 X-Loop: ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND-L-request@rootsweb.com Hi All Received this from another message board and just had to pass it on. It is funny but there is also a link on the home page with a list containing old Occupations, so hopefully you will all view it as Genealogy related. http://www.highlandhearts.com/linda/giggles.html BYEEEEEEEEEEEE Sue Researching: POLLEY, OLD, RICHARDS, NEASHAM, AYRE, STEWART, TAYLOR, BRANTON, LINCOLN, GANLEY, HALL, ROWE, BOOTH, PESTELL, McINTYRE PLACES: ESSEX, DURHAM, SUNDERLAND, JESMOND, JARROW, IRELAND ==== ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from this list send a message to ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND-L-request@rootsweb.com that contains (in the body of the message) the command unsubscribe to unsubscribe from digest send the command unsubscribe to ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND-D-request@rootsweb.com --part1_3e.3162a582.2c25d67b_boundary--

It was very common in NZ when I was a boy. My mum used to say it all the time....usually it was said if you were asking what someone was doing.....answer...."Making a wigwam for a gooses bridle!" cheers Leo Making a wigwam for a goose's bridle. who has heard of this one please, they are asking in Tasmania! I have heard of it possibly in Northern Ireland.. many moons ago.. (dark ages!) Researching these families: (Isle of Wight) CHARLO(W) / KNAPP / HUMBER / CHESSELL / LIST / MEW SMALL / MATTHEWS / WHITE / WILLSHER / (Hampshire) WATERS / KNAPP / EAST / FRANCIS / LOVE / (Dorset) WARREN / DAVIS / HURT / KNOTLEY / CRUMPLER / (Yorkshire) CHARLO(W) / (Scotland) MACNAUGHTAN / BRODIE / McARTHUR / McCALLUM / McKAY --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mobile - Check & compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile.

Making a wigwam for a goose's bridle. who has heard of this one please, they are asking in Tasmania! I have heard of it possibly in Northern Ireland.. many moons ago.. (dark ages!)

Hey,those were great! Really interesting for us "out-of-towners" to see places mentioned on the lists, etc. More please! Dorothy M Whakatane, NZ http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Check & compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile.

I have found the following record on the IGI Fanny EMMETT baptised Bishops Waltham 9.2.1858 Parents George and Edith EMMETT I can't find anything to tie it to on FREEBMD yet, but keep looking. If SKS has the Bishops Waltham records for that period could they do a look up for me. Alternatively if there is SKS with access to the 1861 or 1871 Census for Bishops Waltham could they have a look for the family. Thanks Bev

Those with roots in Southampton may be interested in the BBC South webpage at http://www.bbc.co.uk/southampton/features/360/index.shtml Click on the webcams and panoramas to see some of the changes in the city!! Chris and Caroline --- All of our Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. And attachments are also scanned before being added. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.489 / Virus Database: 288 - Release Date: 10/06/2003

Thank you so much for posting the photos and info on Basing. The family I am researching were all born and lived there, so now I can imagine them walking those streets. Wonderful! Regards Dorothy M Whakatane, NZ http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Check & compose your email via SMS on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile.

Hi Listers could anyone please suggest where I may be able to get information as to some at least 3 members of family may have obtained their medical qualifications from. They were all born in Andover. William Poore (in his will dated 1760) refers to a shop in Andover, he was a surgeon, apothocary, and male widwife. In the Unviersal British Directory there is a listing for Philip Poore Physic. Not sure yet who this Philip is as William's Son Phillip Henry wasn't christened until 1764, but did become a doctor, surgeon, apothocary, male midwife. There is also a listing in the "Historical Directories - from Pigot & C0's Royal National & Commercial Directory of 1844 a Phillip H Poore m.d. of New Street Andover. George Vivian Poore F.R.C.P. born Sept 1843 Grandson to Phillip Henry, I have found details of some 24 papers he wrote for medical journals. On the 1881 census he was at 30 Wimpole Street, London. I would like to try and find out where they may have studied. Does anyone know if back then certifcates as such were awarded to state that a person had qualified in these fields, and if so where may I be able to obtain a copy from. Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated. Many thanks Sheila South Australia --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.483 / Virus Database: 279 - Release Date: 19/05/2003

The following updates have now been added to SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages And can be accessed from the MAIN INDEX or by clicking on the county concerned on the front page. UPDATES: Newnham - new and detailed history added http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages/newnham.htm St Nicholas Church - Newnham - history added http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages/newnhamchurch.htm SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) is not a commercial website and is to give a brief insight into the villages where your forefathers may have lived. We are constantly on the lookout for new information or old and new photographs to add. If contributing please check with us before you send this is due to virus activity etc. A credit will go alongside the photographs or articles that are submitted so please give us your name and hometown. We would also like to thank all of our subscribers to Hampshire Life, visitors etc for all the support they have given us in the past two years, without your help we would not have such a popular website!! ------------------------------------------- Chris and Caroline See where your ancestors lived.....visit.... SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) WEBSITE Featuring the history of the villages of: Hampshire, Berkshire, Surrey, Dorset, Isle of Wight, West Sussex & Wiltshire http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages --- All of our Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. And attachments are also scanned before being added. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.489 / Virus Database: 288 - Release Date: 10/06/2003

Hi David It is http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/HAMPSHIRE-Life/ for the archives The one we posted up was http://www.nationalarchivist.co.uk/ Chris and Caroline ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Guillaume" <dguillaume@ihug.com.au> To: <chris@chayles.freeserve.co.uk> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 4:34 AM Subject: Hampshire Life Hello Chris, Is there an archive of all the e-mails on the Hampshire-Life list?? The reason that I ask is that within the last week someone (and it may have been you) posted the URL of a site in the UK about genealogy to the list. The webpage had a very smart, stylish page layout (which I was going to copy). Pastel colours, three across the page with white boarders. ( it wasn't http://www.british- genealogy.com/resources/registers/indexf.htm). However I thought that I had book marked it but I hadn't and I've deleted the e-mail. So if there is an archive... Kind regards, David Guillaume. Balgownie NSW. --- All of our Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. And attachments are also scanned before being added. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.489 / Virus Database: 288 - Release Date: 10/06/2003

The following updates have now been added to SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages And can be accessed from the MAIN INDEX or by clicking on the county concerned on the front page. UPDATES: Old Basing- Hampshire, a collection of photographs of the village and church http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages/basing.htm Newnham - Hampshire, a collection of photographs of the village and church (more text to follow shortly) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages/newnham.htm SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) is not a commercial website and is to give a brief insight into the villages where your forefathers may have lived. We are constantly on the lookout for new information or old and new photographs to add. If contributing please check with us before you send this is due to virus activity etc. A credit will go alongside the photographs or articles that are submitted so please give us your name and hometown. We would also like to thank all of our subscribers to Hampshire Life, visitors etc for all the support they have given us in the past two years, without your help we would not have such a popular website!! ------------------------------------------- Chris and Caroline See where your ancestors lived.....visit.... SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) WEBSITE Featuring the history of the villages of: Hampshire, Berkshire, Surrey, Dorset, Isle of Wight, West Sussex & Wiltshire http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages --- All of our Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. And attachments are also scanned before being added. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.489 / Virus Database: 288 - Release Date: 10/06/2003

Hello Adele, Using Google search engine I found a newspaper article saying that H M Gilbert closed down on 19 October 2002 - see: http://www.thisishampshire.net/hampshire/archive/2002/10/10/SOTON_NEWS _NEWS03ZM.html Above Bar gets a mention in the article. (You will probably have to cut and paste the web address as it is so long) Regards, David. Balgownie NSW Oz. > IS this business still in existance, if not, when did it close down > please.. important!! (as per usual!!) > > > HENRY MARCH GILBERT & SON > > > Ye olde Boke Shope > 24 Above Bar > Southampton. > > Reason being, have an old book, cant find out when printed, but was > sold by this business. its called Picturesque Surrey.. wonderful > book.. by Duncan Moul and Gibson Thompson... someone is trying to > obtain a copy, but there is only Chiswick Press. Charles Whittingham & > Co. Tooks Court. Chancery Lane. London. inside.. no date... wonder if > they are still in existence!! > > I purchased it in a secondhand shop here in NZ. Thank you. Adele > > ______________________________

Hi everyone, I need your help once again this time in trying to find if there was ever a solicitors in Odiham or Basingstoke around 1905 upwards called Mellish and Lovelace. or a Lawyer called Freeman in the Basingstoke/Yateley/Odiham areas possibly around 1974. Any ideas of where to start looking as i really have not a clue where to start Thank you all, Suzanne

IS this business still in existance, if not, when did it close down please.. important!! (as per usual!!) HENRY MARCH GILBERT & SON Ye olde Boke Shope 24 Above Bar Southampton. Reason being, have an old book, cant find out when printed, but was sold by this business. its called Picturesque Surrey.. wonderful book.. by Duncan Moul and Gibson Thompson... someone is trying to obtain a copy, but there is only Chiswick Press. Charles Whittingham & Co. Tooks Court. Chancery Lane. London. inside.. no date... wonder if they are still in existence!! I purchased it in a secondhand shop here in NZ. Thank you. Adele

Adele, Sorry about my previous message - I forgot Rootsweb do not allow HTML. This message should be more understandable!! In lieu of Gilberts bookshops, try a search for what you want on this wonderful site: http://www.usedbooksearch.co.uk/ Go to the site and add the details of the book you are looking for. I found one such copy of the book you want; it was originally published in 1902. Details of the bookshop selling a copy of the reprint are as follows: BOOKSELLER: M. D. Hawkes ADDRESS: The Coppice, Jordans Lane, Jordans, Bucks. HP9 2SW, UK The book costs £12.00 plus postage to anywhere in the world. I hope you manage to get the book Moya Page (nee Banting) researching BANTING and PERREN in Hampshire

May I extend my grateful thanks to Alan, Kath & Beki for all their kind help, useful information & wise advice re my Rownhams/Nursling query. This is greatly appreciated. Thankyou also to Chris for 'our' websites latest pix. Wonderful. I hated Winchester (apart from King Alfred's statue & the rushing water at the city mill) as a child but came to love it & value it immensely on my trips back to the UK in 1988 & 1992. Now I have wonderful memories of it & am proud that both my grandmothers were associated with it. Many thanks also to Alan for telling the list a few weeks ago about the following website which I'm sure will be an excellent asset to us all when up & running fully - http://www.british-genealogy.com/resources/registers/indexf.htm Maureen, NZ