Hi Jon Baker, Saw your posting re the border parishes etc. Noticed your research includes the surname KEEN from Gloucester. Are your Keen's related to Percy Keen and Aileen Martin mar abt 1929 in Bristol and who had three children, John, Victor and Christine? regards Veronica

A while ago someone was interested in STRIDE at Eling/Totton. If they contact us we have a photo of a grave at Eling though modern may be part of their family line. Rose Gwendoline STRIDE died 16 May 1999 aged 85 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: 6.0.476 / Virus Database: 273 - Release Date: 24/04/2003 --- 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: 6.0.476 / Virus Database: 273 - Release Date: 24/04/2003

All - had to find something to do to take my mind off the current drubbing the Saints are getting at Highbury :-( While not strictly on topic I hope Chris & Caroline will not mind a message from Dorset. The Dorset Online Parish Clerk (OPC) project has now been up and running for about a month, with a good number of parishes represented. For those whose ancestors may have crossed over from Dorset to Hampshire this may help you find some more information for your family history. Sadly not many of the border parishes are covered but given time hopefully some of these will be included. You can find the main site at: http://www.dorset-opc.com/ My own contribution is limited at present but I am the OPC for Buckland Newton and Wootton Glanville. Both can be accessed indirectly from the above site, or directly from my own site, which also includes lots of information on my Hampshire and Isle of Wight family connections. The link is below, and you will then find links to the 2 parish sites. Most of the censuses for WG are transcribed, just 1851 & 1841 to go, and there is a limited amount of BT data. For Buckland Newton only 1891 is transcribed so far, but more data will appear soon time permitting. Chris, perhaps some links from Southern Life to Dorset OPC could be arranged in the future. Jon Baker Calne, Wiltshire, UK Family History: www.vectis10w.freeserve.co.uk Researching: RYALL (Isle of Wight/South Africa), DOWNTON (Dorset/IOW/NZ), KEEN (Gloucs/IOW), WALKER (Oxford/Nova Scotia), JOHNSON (Gloucs), BAKER (London/Hampshire), HAYTER (Hampshire), HUGHES (Co Armagh), STEWART (Co Down)

Wont say my score, but, Logic was very good, followed by Memory..figures! Have passed it around NZ..see who is brainy!! Even at this time of the cold morning.....

Hi all, Is anyone researaching the LEIGHS family as below from Aldershot 1901. I know that they originated from Guildford Surrey, and before that, Alex's father came from Stafford, but I am trying to fill in the gap between 1881 and 1901. Whatever happened to the shop and glass and china business that had been going strong since at least 1839, and where was Alex and family (or any other of the LEIGHS) in 1891?? 1881 Name Relation Marital Status Gender Age Birthplace Occupation Disability Alex E. LEIGHS Head M Male 39 Guildford, Surrey, England China And Glass Dealer & Certified Drawing Master Ellen LEIGHS Wife M Female 38 Guildford, Surrey, England Arthur E. LEIGHS Son Male 11 Guildford, Surrey, England Scholar Alex. H. LEIGHS Son Male 8 Guildford, Surrey, England Scholar Clarence E. LEIGHS Son Male 5 Guildford, Surrey, England Scholar Alexina E. LEIGHS Daur Female 10 Guildford, Surrey, England Scholar Gertrude L. LEIGHS Daur Female 2 Guildford, Surrey, England Lucille M. LEIGHS Daur Female 4 Guildford, Surrey, England ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Source Information: Dwelling 74 High Street Census Place Guildford St Mary, Surrey, England Family History Library Film 1341182 Public Records Office Reference RG11 Piece / Folio 0777 / 56 Page Number 9 1901 RG13/610 149 page 28 sched171Could be 141) Aldershot Holy Trinity 64 Queens Road Alex Endon Leighs Head age 59 Sewing machine agent born Surrey Guildford Alexina E Leighs daur age 30 born Surrey Guildford Alex H Leighs son age 27(24) Circular Distributer born Surrey Guildford Gertrude L Leighs daur age 22 born Surrey Guildford Emma E Leighs daur age 18 Dressmaker Learner born Surrey Guildford Any pointers gratefully received. Vicki Turner

This was sent to us by Margaret in the US and we thought it may encourage a few of you to take up cooking!! Chris and Caroline This was taken from the newspaper of the day in 1862. It is called every soldier's medical book. Guess you had to march with lots of vinegar. My husband swears by pickle juice for nausea. Editor Enquirer:--Horrified at the rabidity [sic?] with which our soldiers die in camp, we are tempted to give them the following recipes, the result of some experience, in hopes that some may be saved by using remedies simple, safe, and generally sure cures: To Prevent Sickness.-Have a jug of salted vinegar, seasoned with pepper, and take a mouthful just before going to bed. The salt and vinegar make a near approach to the digestive gastric juice of the stomach, and are besides antidotes to many of the vegetable and miasmatic poisons. For Pneumonia, Colds, and Coughs.-Take half a cup or less of salted pepper vinegar, fill the cup nearly full of warm water and then stir in a raw well beaten egg slowly. Take a mouthful every 15 or 20 minutes; in the intervals slowly suck on a piece of alum. If the attack is violent, dip a cloth in halt salted pepper vinegar and apply it round the throat, covering with dry cloths to get up a steam, and do the same to the chest. For Chills.-Put a tablespoonful of salted pepper vinegar in a cup of warm water, go to bed and drink; in two hours drink a cup of strong water-willow bark tea; in two hours more another tablespoonful of the vinegar and warm water, and so on, alternating, until the fever is broken up. After sweating, and before going into the out-door air, the body ought always to be wiped off with a cloth dipped in cold water. Dogwood will do if water-willow cannot be obtained. For Measles.-Put a small piece yeast in a tumbler of warm sweetened water, let it draw, and drink a mouthful every 15 or 20 minutes, and drink plentifully of cold or hot catnip, balson [sic], hoarhound [sic], or alder tea; and use in place of oil or salts, one tablespoonful salted pepper vinegar, melted together and taken warm. Take once a day, if necessary-keep out of the wet and out-door air. For Diarrhoea.-A teaspoonful of the salted pepper vinegar every one or two hours. Take teaspoonful of the puffs that grow round oak twigs, powdered fine; take twice a day in one tablespoonful of brandy, wine or cordial. If these yellow puffs cannot be found, suck frequently on a piece of alum. The quantity of alum depends upon the severity of the attack; take slowly and little at a time. For Camp Fevers.-One tablespoonful of salted pepper vinegar, slightly seasoned, and put into a cup of warm water-drink and often, from 4 to 8 cupfuls a day, with fever or without fever. Pour a cupful more or less of the salted pepper vinegar into cold water, and keep the body, particularly the stomach and head, well bathed with a cloth dipped in it. Give enemas of cold water, and for oil use a tablespoonful molasses, a teaspoonful of lard, and a teaspoonful pepper vinegar, melted together and taken warm. If the pepper is too exciting for delicate patients, leave it out in drinks and bathings, and use simply the salt and vinegar in water, and very little salt. Antidote for Drunkenness: For the Benefit of Officers.-One cup of strong black black [sic?] coffee without milk or sugar, and twenty drops of laudanum. Repeat the dose if necessary. Or take one teaspoonful of tincture lobelia in a tumbler of milk; if taken every ten or fifteen minutes it will act as an emetic; taken in longer intervals, say thirty minutes, it will act as an antidote. The Yankees declared that poisoned liquor was put on the counters to poison their soldiers. No body doubts liquor being poisoned, but it was made of poisons to sell to our own Southern boys; and it is horrifying to think of the liquors now being made down in cellars, of sulphuric acid, strychnine, buckeye, tobacco leaves, coloring matter and rainwater. For this poisoned liquor, the best antidote is an emetic, say lobelia and warm salt and water, and then drink freely of sugared vinegar water. For Snake Bites.-The best thing is one teaspoonful of Lobelia and ten drops of Ammonia, taken every few minutes, and a bottle filled with Lobelia and Ammonia, will answer without the other. Tobacco, Nightshade, or Kurtle Barr [Bark?], or Deer-tongue, (a rough-leafed herb, in flower and appearance like to bog artichoke) stewed in milk; drink the milk, using the rest as a poultice. The last is an Indian remedy, and will cure in the agonies of death. For the Chicken Cholera now Devastating Fowldom.-Put one or two Jamestown weed leaves, properly called Stramonium, into the water trough every day-fresh leaves and fresh water. This is one of the triumphs of Homeopathy, for we were just from a perusal of one of their works, and finding that the chickens died and made no sign of sickness, except holding the head down, we concluded the head must be the seat of the plague, and reading that Stramonium affected the brain with mania and stupor, we tried it, and have not lost a chicken since we have used it. If other papers will copy these recipes, they will save many lives, now sacrificed to the negligence of salaried physicians. The Eastern monarch's plan ought to be adopted, to strike off a certain per cent. of a Doctor's salary every time he loses a patient-that would soon stop the feast of Death. --- All of our Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. And attachments are also scanned before being added. 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And so say all of us. Carol, who feels like a Hampshire girl in Oz. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Pmc248@cs.com> To: <HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 7:57 PM Subject: Re: [HantsLife] We won a prize > Congratulations to you both. Have a wonderful Summer !! > You have a great list and We could never have done it without YOU !! > > Regards, Pam, an Aldershot, Hants. gal in Arizona. >

Hi Chris & Caroline, just had a look at your Warsash photos. Thought I might see my Mom skulking around the streets as she lives that way! In case anyone is interested The Warsash Local History Society is holding another local history exhibition in the Victory Hall over the weekend of May 24/25/26 from 10am to 6pm each day. I saw the advert in one of the freebies that comes throught the door. Jo Martin

I have software that stops those pop-up adds as well as separating the SPAM from wanted mail. OK it's not 100% and I still get some SPAM but not nearly as much as I used to. As for pop-up ads, I have not seen one since I installed it. You can have a trial download, which I originally did and then purchased it. Being a List owner I follow the rules and do not promote commercial sites freely. If anyone is interested please email me off line. Marie

Hi Chris & Caroline BBC News 24 has today been highlighting the problem of Junk mail. Go to www.bbc.co.uk/news Click on Technology then go to Experts Target Junk e-mail and click on. I hope will help everyone one Regards Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris & Caroline" <chris@chayles.freeserve.co.uk> To: <HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 11:54 PM Subject: [HantsLife] LIST ADMIN NOTE - reply from Rootsweb > We asked Rootsweb about the pop up ads and spam that has been steadily > increasing, especially as a couple of subscribers had commented on this, > below is their reply > Chris and Caroline

Hello everybody, Even if we do not really like these adverts, it is better to have the service with adverts than no service at all, especially when it seems that whatever question is asked somebody always to know the answer. Well done Chris and Caroline, keep it going. Rod in Andover.

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: Photographs of Warsash added http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages/warsash.htm#Warsash And check out "Hong Kong" on the Southampton page!! (Last photos on the page) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages/soton.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: 6.0.476 / Virus Database: 273 - Release Date: 25/04/2003

Afraid we were out at the time of this years Moya Busy taking photos of Warsash!! And did not get back till late C & C ----- Original Message ----- From: "marp" <marp@ntlworld.com> To: <HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 11:08 PM Subject: [HantsLife] Test the Nation Well again this year the South of England came out with the highest overall score in the "Test the Nation " IQ test that has just finished on UK television. So Hampshire produces some of the brainiest folk in the country!!! For those who do not have access to UK TV, you can go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/testthenation/takethetest/ and test yourself. Last year Chris and I achieved roughly the same score - I wonder how we did this year? Moya Page (nee Banting) researching BANTING and PERREN in Hampshire ==== HAMPSHIRE-LIFE Mailing List ==== "GENEALOGISTS DO IT IN TREES!" ============================== 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: 6.0.476 / Virus Database: 273 - Release Date: 24/04/2003

We asked Rootsweb about the pop up ads and spam that has been steadily increasing, especially as a couple of subscribers had commented on this, below is their reply Chris and Caroline Hi Chris, Neither RootsWeb nor Ancestry sells our subscriber lists. We recognize that pop-under ads may seem more intrusive than the ads we have had on Freepages in the past. Unfortunately, as the costs of maintaining free hosting on RootsWeb continues to rise, and the revenue generated by less intrusive ads keeps declining, we had to implement the pop-under ads to continue to finance this service. --- 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: 6.0.476 / Virus Database: 273 - Release Date: 24/04/2003

I always knew I got my brains from Hampshire ....... Sue Well again this year the South of England came out with the highest overall score in the "Test the Nation " IQ test that has just finished on UK television. So Hampshire produces some of the brainiest folk in the country!!! For those who do not have access to UK TV, you can go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/testthenation/takethetest/ and test yourself. Last year Chris and I achieved roughly the same score - I wonder how we did this year? Moya Page (nee Banting) researching BANTING and PERREN in Hampshire

Well again this year the South of England came out with the highest overall score in the "Test the Nation " IQ test that has just finished on UK television. So Hampshire produces some of the brainiest folk in the country!!! For those who do not have access to UK TV, you can go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/testthenation/takethetest/ and test yourself. Last year Chris and I achieved roughly the same score - I wonder how we did this year? Moya Page (nee Banting) researching BANTING and PERREN in Hampshire

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Congratulations, you two. Enjoy!! Kind regards Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris & Caroline" <chris@chayles.freeserve.co.uk> To: <HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 10:45 AM Subject: [HantsLife] We won a prize As some of you may know we have won a quarterly draw with the National Grid for Learning website sponsored by the government and about Heritage. They asked us to submit our website SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages which we did about three months ago, and were quite pleased by the number of people being directed to us due to that link. Now we have won two free passes to visit any or all of the 400 English Heritage sites plus: A welcome pack with full-colour guide to all properties and map. Members' quarterly magazine, 'Heritage Today'. Free or reduced price admission to events. Half-price admission to historic properties in Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Man (free after your first year of membership). Reduced price entry to many other historic sites in England. The opportunity to participate in a diverse range of heritage related activities from lectures and behind-the-scene tours to short breaks and world cruises. BUT we would like to say thank you to all the list subscribers and visitors that have contributed articles and photos for us to put up on our website. Without your support we could not have achieved this. WELL DONE EVERYBODY All we need now is a warm sunny summer to get out and about and visit them all!! Chris and Caroline List Administrators --- 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: 6.0.476 / Virus Database: 273 - Release Date: 24/04/2003 ==== HAMPSHIRE-LIFE Mailing List ==== "GENEALOGISTS DO IT IN TREES!" ============================== 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: 6.0.476 / Virus Database: 273 - Release Date: 24/04/2003

As some of you may know we have won a quarterly draw with the National Grid for Learning website sponsored by the government and about Heritage. They asked us to submit our website SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~villages which we did about three months ago, and were quite pleased by the number of people being directed to us due to that link. Now we have won two free passes to visit any or all of the 400 English Heritage sites plus: A welcome pack with full-colour guide to all properties and map. Members' quarterly magazine, 'Heritage Today'. Free or reduced price admission to events. Half-price admission to historic properties in Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Man (free after your first year of membership). Reduced price entry to many other historic sites in England. The opportunity to participate in a diverse range of heritage related activities from lectures and behind-the-scene tours to short breaks and world cruises. BUT we would like to say thank you to all the list subscribers and visitors that have contributed articles and photos for us to put up on our website. Without your support we could not have achieved this. WELL DONE EVERYBODY All we need now is a warm sunny summer to get out and about and visit them all!! Chris and Caroline List Administrators --- 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: 6.0.476 / Virus Database: 273 - Release Date: 24/04/2003

Congratulations to you both. Have a wonderful Summer !! You have a great list and We could never have done it without YOU !! Regards, Pam, an Aldershot, Hants. gal in Arizona.