Many thanks, June. The stonemason obituaries have just revealed two extremely likely but previously unrecorded children of my great-great-grandfather, George Brown of Hulme. Michael Green From: June Dowling via LANCSGEN <lancsgen@rootsweb.com> To: lancsgen <lancsgen@rootsweb.com> CC: June Dowling <june.dowling@yahoo.co.uk> Sent: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 11:13 Subject: [LAN] Interesting Websites Just thought I would mention a couple of websites -- one which is VERY interesting and another which may be useful for people who have stonemasons in their ancestry. 1. http://www.historyofwomen.org/wifebeating.html Just click into items on the left hand menu -- things like 'Wife Beating', 'Selling a Wife' - 'Divorce' etc. It is a site which demonstrates just how difficult it was for women in the past. 2. https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/explorefurther/subject_guides/ family_history/stone/obituaries/ This is a site listing people from the stonemasonry trade who joined one of the original 'Friendly Societies' - hence when they, or any of their family died - there are details in the alphabetical list. I think Warwick University (who owns the site) -- have done other similar Friendly Society Lists - but I haven't investigated those. I hope someone finds these or one of them of interest. Regards June ***************

This is great news Michael -- I am really pleased. Thank you for the feedback. Regards June From: Michael Green <michael.green@fountainhead.org.uk> To: lancsgen@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, 6 August 2018, 8:41 Subject: [LAN] Re: LANCSGEN Digest, Vol 13, Issue 142 Many thanks, June. The stonemason obituaries have just revealed two extremely likely but previously unrecorded children of my great-great-grandfather, George Brown of Hulme. Michael Green From: June Dowling via LANCSGEN <lancsgen@rootsweb.com> To: lancsgen <lancsgen@rootsweb.com> CC: June Dowling <june.dowling@yahoo.co.uk> Sent: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 11:13 Subject: [LAN] Interesting Websites Just thought I would mention a couple of websites -- one which is VERY interesting and another which may be useful for people who have stonemasons in their ancestry. 1. http://www.historyofwomen.org/wifebeating.html Just click into items on the left hand menu -- things like 'Wife Beating', 'Selling a Wife' - 'Divorce' etc. It is a site which demonstrates just how difficult it was for women in the past. 2. https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/explorefurther/subject_guides/ family_history/stone/obituaries/ This is a site listing people from the stonemasonry trade who joined one of the original 'Friendly Societies' - hence when they, or any of their family died - there are details in the alphabetical list. I think Warwick University (who owns the site) -- have done other similar Friendly Society Lists - but I haven't investigated those. I hope someone finds these or one of them of interest. Regards June *************** _______________________________________________ :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: GENUKI - a virtual reference library of genealogical information.  http://www.genuki.org.uk/ Contact the list administrator  at LancsGen-admin@rootsweb.com :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe and Archives https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/listindexes/search/lancsgen Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community