Hi Margaret I seem to recall her surname was Cook, can't remember the first name. One of my great-great etc etc Grandads lived with her - he, as with that entire direct line, was somewhat imaginatively called John Martin.. He was a young lad and it looked like his parents had died. When he was living with her she was a teacher but I vaguely remember finding her earlier running what I *think* is now the Midland pub. I think it was then called the Railway? Unfortunately i've not got access to the censuses etc any more to double check my info and I hadn't finished researching that bit properly so it's not in my GenesReunited tree. Really must get an external hard drive and collate all my research! Emma On 16 February 2012 08:11, fabis <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting Emma, what was they name? > > Margaret > > > On 15/02/2012 18:57, Emma Faulkner wrote: > > Margaret, by coincidence one of my ancestors ran/worked in the Midland > pub in Syston :-) > > > > Sent from my mobile device, please excuse lack of formatting. > > > > On 15 Feb 2012, at 18:54, fabis<[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I have connections with Syston too with the North side of my family, If > >> I remember correctly David North ran a pub in the village. Pubs seem to > >> run in the family on both my mum's side and also my dad's > >> > >> > >> Margaret > >> > >> > >> On 15/02/2012 17:48, [email protected] wrote: > >>> There seems to be strong Queniborough lobby on the list. Anyone from > Syston > >>> still subscribing? I spent the first, very impressionable half of my > >>> childhood there, and the second half in Newtown Linford. Chalk and > cheese, > >>> those two villages. > >>> > >>> Syston sounds (and smells) : - > >>> > >>> A Sunday morning 'procession'. You could hear the band heading with its > >>> banners and bigwigs down High Street towards the Church in good enough > time > >>> to dash out and march beside it along with Coco, the ginger mongrel > from > >>> Bath Street, and his piebald chum, Jacko, who'd jump up and bite the > large > >>> wholemeal I'd been sent to collect from Barnacles on the Green. > >>> > >>> The Church clock striking backwards, or so we were told. (And its > Vicar, the > >>> Reverend Haddlesey, who hatched, matched and despatched so many of us, > would > >>> sit backwards on his bike and ride it just like that all the way to > the top > >>> of Bath Street.) > >>> > >>> The moan of the stink lorry as it headed for the houses with outside > lavvies > >>> in the back yards (only the Very Prim called them 'toilets' in those > days) > >>> to empty the buckets; and the snap of windows closing on its malodorous > >>> approach. > >>> > >>> The clop of hooves and the shout : "Rag Bone ...... Any old Rag > Bone....?" > >>> > >>> The sluggish shunting of steam engines on hot summer evenings and the > >>> wondrous smell of hot pennies that we'd left on the line to be > squashed by > >>> the down train. > >>> > >>> Six-pennourth of chips in newspaper from Dodwells. What heaven ! > >>> > >>> Jill > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> ------------------------------- > >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >>> > >>> > >>> ----- > >>> No virus found in this message. > >>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > >>> Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2112/4810 - Release Date: > 02/14/12 > >>> > >>> > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ----- > > No virus found in this message. > > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > > Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2112/4811 - Release Date: 02/15/12 > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >