Not sure which was the biggest blunder, FMP or Robert Green :-) -----Original Message----- Hope you did not have our probs with this! Tried to get in for ages then told by server could not connect us!

Hello John. I also. like so many, found it frustrating in trying to access the Findmypast during the "free" hours yesterday. Although I was one of the more fortunate ones to be able to sign in as I am already registered with them, I was continually "timed out" whilst waiting to be connected to various sections I had clicked onto. Then I had to re-sign in which was frustrating. Where I did manage to connect and obtain information (3 times in those 3 hours), I checked my credits and they did not get used. It was the free access, once registered, that drew a global response. Well, why not, I ask, it was lovely to have it free, especially if you have credits like me and therefore cannot get to all they have to offer IF one has a years subscription (£149) I think that is correct. Looking forward to the next match so that I can add to the bits I was able to get last night and hope Find my past will be more able to cope with the huge demand. It is a lovely offer which we all want to benifit from. Kind regards. April New Forest

Listers Hope you did not have our probs with this! Tried to get in for ages then told by server could not connect us! Obviously did eventually register - but everything was for "payment" and couldn't work out if they would charge us immense sums - but couldn't get anywhere with trying to research on account of server problems re-occurring constantly and agree with John & Alan - hopeless! They simply made it too difficult to get in and were not up to the offer they made once you accessed the site. When they offer something like it they should surely have a "key" or programme set to wipe out the charges symbols. Otherwise how would they know "when and what time" you did your research under this free access and research for 3 hours saga!!!! t 'was a complete flop. John _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/

Tried for nearly an hour without success to get onto the 'free'1911 search page. Alan

Pity the FMP servers are not up to the job :-( Suppose they didn't think we could watch the footy and research at the same time. Jon Baker -----Original Message----- From: isle-of-wight-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:isle-of-wight-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Vanessa Marshall Sent: 12 June 2010 13:42 To: Isle-of-Wight-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [IoW] Free 1911 Census & other records!! Hi All, Just to let everyone know that Find my Past are offering Free (YES FREE!!) searching of their records during any England World cup match. >From 1/2 an hour before kick-off, they are witholding charging, so you can search for free for 3 hours. All you have to do is register - see their site at www.findmypast.co.uk The first match is scheduled for this evening at 7:30pm BST. Enjoy finding those elusive ancestors. Best Wishes to everyone on the list. Vanessa Dorset ************************************** You can contact the Isle of Wight List Administrator by emailing: Isle-of-Wight-Admin@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ISLE-OF-WIGHT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi All, Just to let everyone know that Find my Past are offering Free (YES FREE!!) searching of their records during any England World cup match. >From 1/2 an hour before kick-off, they are witholding charging, so you can search for free for 3 hours. All you have to do is register - see their site at www.findmypast.co.uk The first match is scheduled for this evening at 7:30pm BST. Enjoy finding those elusive ancestors. Best Wishes to everyone on the list. Vanessa Dorset

Hi List For anyone who has an interest in Ernest Gordon Dunford born Abt 1895. In the Cowes district, son of David Dunford, and Annie Woods. I now believe he married a Margery Eliza Bascombe in the Falmouth district of Cornwall in the December quarter of 1926 and later died in the June quarter of 1940. Also in the Falmouth district. Anyone with any interest in this finding are welcome to contact me directly All the best John, FHS member 1802

I would like to unsubscribe from this nice list, as I've sort of finished the IOW section of what I was doing. Thank you for all your help and best luck to all. Stephen Shafer From: isle-of-wight-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:isle-of-wight-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of isle-of-wight-request@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2010 3:00 AM To: isle-of-wight@rootsweb.com Subject: ISLE-OF-WIGHT Digest, Vol 5, Issue 71

To All that replied to my request. Thank you Cavan Vince

Cavan, For Army Records after 1920 try ... http://www.veterans-uk.info/service_records/army.html Steve Baxter -----Original Message----- From: isle-of-wight-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:isle-of-wight-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Cavanv@aol.com Sent: 04 June 2010 21:44 To: Isle-of-Wight-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [IoW] Re Army Records. Hello List. I'm looking for some help with the above. On Feb 2 I wrote to the Army Records Office. Bourne Ave. Hayes Middlesex UR31RF. Today 4 June I received my letter back from the Royal Mail saying addressee gone away. Doe's anyone know of a new address or doe's one now have to go his regiment The Royal Army Veterinary.Corps Cavan B Vince Michigan USA ************************************** You can contact the Isle of Wight List Administrator by emailing: Isle-of-Wight-Admin@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ISLE-OF-WIGHT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

You need to contasct the PRO at Kew now Cavan. As all military records are held by them now. They will charge for this service, last time I had to get records (my own) it cost me around 44GBP Hope the info below helps as far as I know it is still current Chris History of the villages of Dorset, Hampshire and Isle of Wight http://southernlife.org.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Serving Officers and Soldiers and those whose regular or reserve service ended after 1997 Army Personnel Centre, Disclosures 1 Mailpoint 520 Kentigern House 65 Brown Street Glasgow, G2 8EX e-mail: apcsec@dial.pipex.com Telephone: 0141 224 2023 or 3303 Fax: 0141 224 3522 Officers and Soldiers whose regular or reserve service ended between 1921 and 1997 Army Personnel Centre, Historical Disclosures, Mailpoint 400, Kentigern House, 65 Brown Street, Glasgow G2 8EX For telephone enquiries, please use the number below that relates to the surname of the subject of the enquiry: A - CLAD: 0141 224 2743 CLAE - FE: 0141 224 2826 FI - KE: 0141 224 2544 KH - OL: 0141 224 3515 OM - SHEQ: 0141 224 2744 SHER - Z: 0141 224 2335 Fax: 0141 224 2144 The Ministry of Defence does not normally release information from a service record to persons other than the individual concerned or their next of kin and a non-refundable search fee may be charged. Officers and Soldiers pre 1914 Because of bombing in 1940 only about 25% to 30% of soldiers' records from the period 1914-1920 have survived) The Keeper of Public Records, Public Record Office, Ruskin Avenue, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU. Telephone: 020-8876 3444. Fax: 020-8878 8905. Website: http://www.pro.gov.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: <Cavanv@aol.com> To: <Isle-of-Wight-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 9:44 PM Subject: [IoW] Re Army Records. > Hello List. > I'm looking for some help with the above. On Feb 2 I > wrote to the > Army Records Office. > Bourne Ave. > Hayes > Middlesex UR31RF. > Today 4 June I received my letter back from the Royal Mail saying > addressee gone away. Doe's anyone know of a new address or doe's one now > have to > go his regiment The Royal Army Veterinary.Corps > Cavan B Vince > Michigan USA > > ************************************** > You can contact the Isle of Wight List Administrator by emailing: > Isle-of-Wight-Admin@rootsweb.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ISLE-OF-WIGHT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hello List. I'm looking for some help with the above. On Feb 2 I wrote to the Army Records Office. Bourne Ave. Hayes Middlesex UR31RF. Today 4 June I received my letter back from the Royal Mail saying addressee gone away. Doe's anyone know of a new address or doe's one now have to go his regiment The Royal Army Veterinary.Corps Cavan B Vince Michigan USA

Hello, I'm forwarding this list as it can be useful in tracing ancestors who have emigrated to the new world. Good hunting Best regards Charles Flawn > From: theshipslist-request@rootsweb.com > Subject: THESHIPSLIST Digest, Vol 5, Issue 105 > To: theshipslist@rootsweb.com > Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 01:01:26 -0600 > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. *new* for TheShipsList website (Sue Swiggum) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 18:47:03 -0300 > From: Sue Swiggum <swig@ns.sympatico.ca> > Subject: [TSL] *new* for TheShipsList website > To: TheShipsList@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <5.1.1.6.1.20100530182212.03a5d090@pop1.ns.sympatico.ca> > Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > *new* for TheShipsList website > http://www.theshipslist.com/ > > All the new and updated files and databases have been placed on their own > page(s) Find them on the front page in between the big arrows > --------------> <--------------- > > At the bottom of each of these pages I have placed links named " previous > month " and " next month " so you are able to navigate back and forth > between the monthly *new & updated* pages, as I only keep three months of > *new* page links on the Home page. New for May 2010 is . . . > > o Passengers: > o John Molson - 4th trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 25th May 1832 . . > nearly 800 passengers > o John Molson - 5th trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 1st June 1832 > o ... > o ship Grand Trianon, from Liverpool to Port Adelaide 23rd April 1860 > > Only three new passenger lists this week, but l o t s of passengers. The > JOHN MOLSON steamboat 4th trip with almost 800 passengers amd the 5th trip > with about 320. I really like this particular list compiler because you > can mostly read his handwriting and he usually adds first name of the > 'head' of the group. eg. The John Rowentree / Rowntree family on the 5th > trip with tickets from the Canada Company has quite a bit written about him > ... he ran saw-mills in York (Toronto). I'm sure many of the other > family's have their stories too. > ... > The GRAND TRIANON was the first emigrant vessel from UK to Adelaide for > 1860, with about 360 passengers ... quite a few Scots on this > voyage. There was two births aboard although we don't know who they were > and there was only one death, an adult ... all in all a good trip. As they > neared their destination, they barely avoided going ashore at Holdfast > Bay. They were distracted by what they thought was the "Lightship" (used > to guide them) but averted trouble when they realised they were in shallow > water. I found the reason mentioned later, in the newspaper. Seems the > lamp from the "St. Leonard's Inn" was the culprit, so the harbour master > arranged for that lamp to be darkened on the south and west sides. > > Please share this *new* for TheShipsList website email, with any other list > to which you belong if you think it might be of interest or value to those > list members (in other words, on-topic). > > Enjoy > > Sue > -- > TheShipsList Website > http://www.theshipslist.com/ > > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the THESHIPSLIST list administrator, send an email to > THESHIPSLIST-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the THESHIPSLIST mailing list, send an email to THESHIPSLIST@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to THESHIPSLIST-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of THESHIPSLIST Digest, Vol 5, Issue 105 > ******************************************** _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/ We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us now

I was wondering if someone could help with some divorce records I recently requested from Her Majesty's Courts Service (UK) and received in the post today. I requested the divorce records for one of my ancestors. The date of the divorce was 1953 and I received the 'Certificate of making Decree Nisi Absolute (Divorce) and another one page document that listed the parties to the divorce and the reason for the divorce (in this case adultery). I have two questions: Is there likely to be additional papers that I can request - the documents mention that evidence was taken in support of the petition? I am particularly interested in the division of the property and what provision was made for the child of the marriage. The paragraph relating to the children of the marriage is crossed out and there is not another paragraph substituted. Were divorces in the 1950s notified in the newspapers? Thanks Claire (Canberra, Australia)

Hello Everyone. As the list seems to have gone rather quiet this past week or so (unless I'm not getting the mailings) I thought I would share this discovery from my research made this week. My GGGgrandmother was a certain Ann Billimore, originally from Newmarket. She married my GGGgrandfather, John Harrison, a race-horse trainer originally from Derbyshire. They then lived in Chantilly, France and later Epsom, Surrey. Because my GGgrandfather was born in France I hit a brick wall which stayed unsolved until a few weeks ago. I have now discovered that one of Ann Billimore's sisters married a chap called Osman from the Isle of Wight. She was his second wife. His first wife was Jemima HOLLIS, also from the IOW. I always thought that my family came from the Sussex and Somerset areas (Paternal two generations and maternal many generations). I was born in Portsmouth and worked for many years in Gloucestershire where I met my wife, Lynn. In 1988 Lynn and I married. Her maiden name was HOLLIS and her family come from the IOW. Coincidence or what?? Kind Regards to All. Steve Harrison

Hi all I am new to this list I am trying to find out information on the > Jolliffe family in the parish of Brading I have the following names. > Joseph Jolliffe Born 1799 His wife may be Ann Newman 1798 Children Charles Robert Jolliffe 1827 Alfred 1831 Eliza 1836 William 1843 Cheers Peter Rushworth

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Hi All In regards to my recent enquiry on the Occupation of a Charles Gawn the majority of replies state Leading Stoker 1st Class. Many thanks to all those who answered via and list and directly (you know who you are). Another bit of learning achieved. Kind regards, Denise Brown Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia - denise@lighthouseelectrical.com

Leading Stoker First Class I think is the correct title Chris History of the villages of Dorset, Hampshire and Isle of Wight http://southernlife.org.uk ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----- Original Message ----- From: "SBS Engineers Genealogy" <research@sbse.net.au> To: "Denise Brown" <denise@lighthouseelectrical.com>; <ISLE-OF-WIGHT@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 9:06 AM Subject: [IoW] Help reading Occupation > HI > I think its Engine Stoker 1 - maybe as in 1st engineer or 1st > eng.stoker. But it being abbreviated makes it harder to read. > Regards > > Ann Spiro > Perth, Western Australia > research@sbse.net.au > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~blacksmiths/ > The surnames BASKETT and Nutty are registered with GOONS > http://www.one-name.org/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------ > > > ************************************** > You can contact the Isle of Wight List Administrator by emailing: > Isle-of-Wight-Admin@rootsweb.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ISLE-OF-WIGHT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hello Denise, it is likely to be Leading Stoker. Regards, Anne in Wales ======================================== Message Received: May 11 2010, 07:16 AM From: "Denise Brown" To: ISLE-OF-WIGHT@rootsweb.com Cc: Subject: [IoW] Help reading Occupation Hi All I am attempting to read correctly the occupation of a Charles Gawn in the 1901 Census born 1867 Ref RG13/5326 Folio 101 Page 15 second last from the bottom. He is on the Vessel Juno for RNavy ships and am not too sure but the occupation appears to LgStoI - does this translate as ? Large (ok not sure) Stoker Class 1. I am sure there is someone out there with greater knowlege than mine and am giving thanks in advance for any assistance. Kind regards, Denise Brown Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia - denise@lighthouseelectrical.com ************************************** You can contact the Isle of Wight List Administrator by emailing: Isle-of-Wight-Admin@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ISLE-OF-WIGHT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message