I don't know where these figures come from but "90 for November"? I had 170 yesterday alone. Brian B Lancashire, UK. brian_bramhall@lineone.net http://website.lineone.net/~brian_bramhall/index.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marged" <marged@btinternet.com> To: <NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 5:26 PM Subject: Re: [NTH-ENG] It is certainly not Northern....lol > Lord only knows what they think of our statistics - they run into almost > THOUSANDS don't they - or am I exaggerating again? > > Marged > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <MagsB1942@aol.com> > To: <NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 5:05 PM > Subject: [NTH-ENG] It is certainly not Northern....lol > > > | I thought I would forward this on for fun - I am on the NWKFHS list - > | something different from ours but people get told off if they don't stick to > | genealogy and are asked to contact the person off list.....no soul that group > | > | Maggie > | > | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > | Hello everyone > | I have just looked at the List Archives and was surprised to find that > | since the first message was posted on the 5th May this year, we have > | had 447 messages posted. > | > | May 2000 28 messages > | June 2000 34 messages > | July 2000 34 messages > | August 2000 30 messages > | September 2000 144 messages > | October 2000 87 messages > | November 2000 90 messages > | > | Maggie --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free - checked by AVG anti-virus system . Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.215 / Virus Database: 101 - Release Date: 17/11/2000

My mam always cooked chips in dripping. Rather expensive now, though. Because it became so popular when the youngsters thought they had invented something new. Just like sex I suppose. Brian B Lancashire, UK. brian_bramhall@lineone.net http://website.lineone.net/~brian_bramhall/index.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: <RHALL451@aol.com> To: <NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 5:10 PM Subject: Re: [NTH-ENG] REAL ENGLISH MUSTARD > Hi Glenda! > Just saw your question about dripping. My Grandma used to fry > everything in drippings. This, to us, was fat rendered off bacon, or > sausage, or what's left in the pan after frying say a steak, etc. > > Becky > > > In a message dated 11/25/00 8:13:37 AM Eastern Standard Time, > wrwgrw@earthlink.net writes: > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free - checked by AVG anti-virus system . Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.215 / Virus Database: 101 - Release Date: 17/11/2000

It used to be like that on the STAFFORDSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com but they got rid of the organiser and now a smashing chap runs it. They're still not as potty as us though but nice people. That's how I met my cuz Pamela from Stoke. Hiya, Pam. Small world. Everyone complements me on my web pages but it was actually Pam who did most of the work and passed it on to me. Thanks Pam. Brian B Lancashire, UK. brian_bramhall@lineone.net http://website.lineone.net/~brian_bramhall/index.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: <MagsB1942@aol.com> To: <NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 5:05 PM Subject: [NTH-ENG] It is certainly not Northern....lol > I thought I would forward this on for fun - I am on the NWKFHS list - > something different from ours but people get told off if they don't stick to > genealogy and are asked to contact the person off list.....no soul that group > > Maggie > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Hello everyone > I have just looked at the List Archives and was surprised to find that > since the first message was posted on the 5th May this year, we have > had 447 messages posted. > > May 2000 28 messages > June 2000 34 messages > July 2000 34 messages > August 2000 30 messages > September 2000 144 messages > October 2000 87 messages > November 2000 90 messages > > Maggie > > Surname interests: > BICKER, MILLER, SPRATT, MARSH mainly in Kent > MATTHEWS, GRANT, COAFFEE, BERESFORD, SWEENEY > in Middx, Bucks, USA and elsewhere > > > ==== NORTHERN-ENGLAND Mailing List ==== > There is a map showing the areas and Counties which this list covers highlighted in red here, > http://www.genealogy45.fsnet.co.uk/ > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free - checked by AVG anti-virus system . Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.215 / Virus Database: 101 - Release Date: 17/11/2000

In a message dated 26/11/00 13:37:45 GMT Standard Time, brian_bramhall@LineOne.net writes: << I'll bet all those bloated bellies are reclining on the various settees and accompanied by the occassional snore or whatever. And don't blame the dog! >> Just signing off to get mine Brian.....decided on Cheese and Onion Quiche...though my recipe bears no resemblance to the real thing...merely lightly cooked onion (helps with the wind problem) three eggs with a little milk, lots of cheese on the bottom of the pastry case and more over the top of the mixture. mmmmmmmmm Maggie Surname interests: BICKER, MILLER, SPRATT, MARSH mainly in Kent MATTHEWS, COAFFEE, SWEENEY, GRANT, BERESFORD, RICHARDS in Middx, Bucks, USA and elsewhere

In a message dated 26/11/00 13:19:16 GMT Standard Time, brian_bramhall@LineOne.net writes: << Don't tell me you didn't hear of the War of the Roses. Karen is in Yorkshire [poor soul] and I am in Lancashire, Gods own country. In between is a hill, fortunately. Not over the hill.................. Oh, I give up. I notice you keep your whereabouts secret. Bet you're Yorkshire, too. >> It's OK - I was only jesting. No, I am in Essex :( A previous mailie will explain but I always hoped he came from Yorkshire.....oooooops :)) Maggie Surname interests: BICKER, MILLER, SPRATT, MARSH mainly in Kent MATTHEWS, COAFFEE, SWEENEY, GRANT, BERESFORD, RICHARDS in Middx, Bucks, USA and elsewhere

In a message dated 26/11/00 13:19:14 GMT Standard Time, brian_bramhall@LineOne.net writes: << I wouldn't mind if I could get half-an-hour :-(( >> Not saying a word...for once....mind you, others might :))) Maggie Surname interests: BICKER, MILLER, SPRATT, MARSH mainly in Kent MATTHEWS, COAFFEE, SWEENEY, GRANT, BERESFORD, RICHARDS in Middx, Bucks, USA and elsewhere

In a message dated 26/11/00 13:19:13 GMT Standard Time, brian_bramhall@LineOne.net writes: << Muffin the Mule!! They made that illegal, didn't they? >> Did they? And I only saw it the once :( Maggie Surname interests: BICKER, MILLER, SPRATT, MARSH mainly in Kent MATTHEWS, COAFFEE, SWEENEY, GRANT, BERESFORD, RICHARDS in Middx, Bucks, USA and elsewhere

One good way to dispose of a body is to throw it in the pig pen. Nothing left in a very short time. Not even a toe nail! Brian B Lancashire, UK. brian_bramhall@lineone.net http://website.lineone.net/~brian_bramhall/index.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marged" <marged@btinternet.com> To: <NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 4:42 PM Subject: [NTH-ENG] EATING MEAT > I don't know if I have said this before - hit the delete button if I have. > > I am a meat eater, but I would prefer to be a vegetarian. However, it is > something that I find too difficult to do. So I try to make sure that the meat > I eat is from a decent source. > > There are some meats that we are not supposed to eat (see Leviticus) and > examination of the types mentioned there will show that these, like lions etc., > are animals which eat meat themselves and have different digestive systems to > things like cows and sheep. > > I think there is some confusion over pigs - and I am sorry I eat them, because > yes, they are intelligent, and I think they would eat meat if it was given to > them. > > > > Marged > > Always looking for: > INGHAM, FISCHER, BENTLEY, > HUGHES, PEACOCK, MOUNIER, LATINIER > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.215 / Virus Database: 101 - Release Date: 16/11/00 > > > ==== NORTHERN-ENGLAND Mailing List ==== > Don't forget you can also post your surnames or any other messages you may want to share in our on line forum message board, > http://amazingforums.com/forum/NORTH/forum.html > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free - checked by AVG anti-virus system . Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.215 / Virus Database: 101 - Release Date: 17/11/2000

In a message dated 26/11/00 13:19:07 GMT Standard Time, brian_bramhall@LineOne.net writes: << SHHHH! You're not allowed to mention them. You might offend Mr Bones. >> Sorry, I don't judge people by religion, colour of skin etc.... Maggie Surname interests: BICKER, MILLER, SPRATT, MARSH mainly in Kent MATTHEWS, COAFFEE, SWEENEY, GRANT, BERESFORD, RICHARDS in Middx, Bucks, USA and elsewhere

Can't type for laughing here....perhaps I should describe them....they were a bit like the things Sir Walter Raleigh wore. I was supposed to pull the legs half way down my thighs... you know, like those sort of things that antique ladies used to wear...but I used to pull them up to the top of my legs....bit like girls rolling their skirts over to make them mini's. They were aweful, the elastic cut into my legs. Even worse were my mum's, I had to help her iron them....kept getting told of cos I had to help stretch the elastic so she could iron them and I kept letting go before she burnt my fingers!!! Perhaps I should mention that I was adopted and my adopted (adoptive??) parents were just coming up to 50 so there was a big age gap. They were childless as well. I am told I was a typical war baby adoption...private. None of the proceedures they have to go through now...but I am not complaining. I did trace my mum but she had died in 1970 but I now have a half brother and sister....great. My dad?? Don't know as not on the birth certificate but my birth mother told my adopted mother that he came from 'up north' but I can't remember where, was a carpenter in civvy life and he was in the army and shipped out before she could tell him about me. My brother reckons she must have waited or either his dad is mine as he wasn't born till 1956. My brother and I look so much alike and I am a dead ringer for my mum...he said he was afraid my sister would turn tail and run when she looked at me. She was only 8 when our mum died. My dad would probably be around 70 now but if the name Bicker, combined with the ATS rings any bells with anyone's father I would be interested to know. Maggie Surname interests: BICKER, MILLER, SPRATT, MARSH mainly in Kent MATTHEWS, COAFFEE, SWEENEY, GRANT, BERESFORD, RICHARDS in Middx, Bucks, USA and elsewhere

There now, you made me press "Send & Receive" instead of my "Address Book". And I've forgotten what I was going to say. Anyway, welcome Karen. Brian B Lancashire, UK. brian_bramhall@lineone.net http://website.lineone.net/~brian_bramhall/index.htm --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free - checked by AVG anti-virus system . Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.215 / Virus Database: 101 - Release Date: 17/11/2000

Hi Karen, Nice to have a new voice on the list, pity you're on the wrong side of the hill but never mind. Whereabouts in Yorkshire? BTW all. I'm poorly must be pneaumonia seeing as how we blikes never get a cold! Some clever person said that recently, probably 'er from the island who's always giving me grief. Brian B Lancashire, UK. brian_bramhall@lineone.net http://website.lineone.net/~brian_bramhall/index.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen" <karvic@btinternet.com> To: <NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 4:31 PM Subject: Re: [NTH-ENG] New subscriber - surname interests > Thanks for the welcome! > > Karen > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Bryan Douglas-Matthews <bemat@groes6.freeserve.co.uk> > To: <NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 3:51 PM > Subject: Re: [NTH-ENG] New subscriber - surname interests > > > > Hi Karen, > > > > Genealogy is great. Here on this list we are living it, enjoy. > > >From Bryan, > > The Wild Celt, > > Dum Spiro - Spero. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Karen <karvic@btinternet.com> > > To: <NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 3:38 PM > > Subject: [NTH-ENG] New subscriber - surname interests > > > > > > > Hi all > > > > > > Just joined this list and thought I would post my surname interests, all > > in > > > and around the Sunderland area: > > > > > > DOVE > > > HILL > > > MAWSON > > > TOMLINSON > > > > > > Be glad to hear from anyone researching these names. > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > Karen > > > North Yorkshire > > > > > > > > > ==== NORTHERN-ENGLAND Mailing List ==== > > > There is a map showing the areas and Counties which this list covers > > highlighted in red here, > > > http://www.genealogy45.fsnet.co.uk/ > > > > > > > > > > > > --- > > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > > Version: 6.0.215 / Virus Database: 101 - Release Date: 16/11/00 > > > > > > ==== NORTHERN-ENGLAND Mailing List ==== > > An alternative mailing list for genealogy research in > > Northern England, this list covers the whole of the North of England > > > > > > > ==== NORTHERN-ENGLAND Mailing List ==== > Don't forget you can also post your surnames or any other messages you may want to share in our on line forum message board, > http://amazingforums.com/forum/NORTH/forum.html > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free - checked by AVG anti-virus system . Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.215 / Virus Database: 101 - Release Date: 17/11/2000

Isn't it suprising how many times organisers or helpers win prizes. I never win, but then I never help. :-)) Was it fixed, Marj? :-)) BTW I suppose you have no connection with HUGHES of Bolton do you? The son [Frank] went into the ministry in about 1950. Parents George and Marion. Brian B Lancashire, UK. brian_bramhall@lineone.net http://website.lineone.net/~brian_bramhall/index.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marged" <marged@btinternet.com> To: <NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 4:31 PM Subject: [NTH-ENG] HOME NOW > We had a successful Christmas Fair, and Don won a basket with a bottle of Irish > Whiskey, bottle of Port, Bottle of red wine, and very large bottle of something > fizzy which will suit me. > > > Marged > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free - checked by AVG anti-virus system . Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.215 / Virus Database: 101 - Release Date: 17/11/2000

I remember it well. Brian B Lancashire, UK. brian_bramhall@lineone.net http://website.lineone.net/~brian_bramhall/index.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Allen" <dave@cdcatalogues.co.uk> To: <NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 2:04 PM Subject: Re: [NTH-ENG] Let it snow! > Hi all, > > Wasn't it Sid Lawrence who used to play all the Glen Miller tunes with his > orchestra ? Sure I used to have an LP somewhere in the days when sound came > out of flat bits of black plastic ..... > > Nostalgia - Jimmy Stewart played Glen Miller in an old black and white film > ...... called "The Glen Miller Story" was it ? > > Dave > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free - checked by AVG anti-virus system . Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.215 / Virus Database: 101 - Release Date: 17/11/2000

Thanks, Jim. Is that alongside Heaton Park? Brian B Lancashire, UK. brian_bramhall@lineone.net http://website.lineone.net/~brian_bramhall/index.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "James SHARPE" <sharpe@britishlibrary.net> To: <NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 1:21 PM Subject: Re: [NTH-ENG] CHRISTMAS SHOPPING > Hello again Brian I've found a PC shop near the junction of Middleton Rd and > Victoria Avenue East. Which isn't a million miles from you if I'm correct. > He seems to have a £55 fixation because I bought a very good Compaq 151FS > monitor at that price and he quoted the same for a scanner which I'm not > convinced I really need. > So I would presume that his price for a printer would similarly be £55. > Jim Sharpe > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free - checked by AVG anti-virus system . Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.215 / Virus Database: 101 - Release Date: 17/11/2000

We used to call him "Little Jimmy from Pegrams" Marged | Our Co-op had a little man on a bike with a boxed frame at the front and a | whicker basket for the goods.. David Jason reminded me of him in "Open All | Hours". Our little man even had a "fair-isle" v-neck sleeveless pullover. | Do you remember them? | | Mine matched my swimming cossy cos it was the only bits of wool me mam had, | except the pullover didn't fall down when wet. | | Brian B | Lancashire, UK. | | brian_bramhall@lineone.net | http://website.lineone.net/~brian_bramhall/index.htm | | ----- Original Message ----- | From: <MagsB1942@aol.com> | To: <NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L@rootsweb.com> | Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 12:39 PM | Subject: Re: [NTH-ENG] Re:CO-OP | | | > Up until the 80s the local shop delivered. They also delivered the milk | and | > would pick the book up on a Tuesday and Friday and then deliver the same | > afternoon, in a box, on my kitchen table so all I had to do what put it | away. | > Now that was services. The Coop van also used to go round once a week | and | > there was a shop in the next village. Some change from pushing a trolley | > with a mind of its own, putting it on the checkout, taking off, packing | into | > bags and back into the trolley...out to the car ...whichever way the | trolley | > wants to go but usually sidewards, and then into the boot....drive home, | > unpack into the kitchen and then into the cupboards....Life is certainly | > harder now. | > Maggie | > | > Surname interests: | > BICKER, MILLER, SPRATT, MARSH mainly in Kent | > MATTHEWS, GRANT, COAFFEE, BERESFORD, SWEENEY | > in Middx, Bucks, USA and elsewhere | > | > | > ==== NORTHERN-ENGLAND Mailing List ==== | > Add a link to your website here, | > http://pub23.bravenet.com/freelink/show.php?usernum=1926973379&cpv=1 | > | > | | | --- | Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free - checked by AVG anti-virus system . | Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). | Version: 6.0.215 / Virus Database: 101 - Release Date: 17/11/2000 | | | ==== NORTHERN-ENGLAND Mailing List ==== | Don't forget you can also post your surnames or any other messages you may want to share in our on line forum message board, | http://amazingforums.com/forum/NORTH/forum.html | | --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.215 / Virus Database: 101 - Release Date: 16/11/00

I certainly didn't pay £20 or even 20p Jim. Did you have any luck with Trancens? Brian B Lancashire, UK. brian_bramhall@lineone.net http://website.lineone.net/~brian_bramhall/index.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "James SHARPE" <sharpe@britishlibrary.net> To: <NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 12:54 PM Subject: Re: [NTH-ENG] Bacon butties > Hi all might I suggest that the certification signature of AVG is not > available until you register and subscribe £20. > Jim Sharpe --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free - checked by AVG anti-virus system . Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.215 / Virus Database: 101 - Release Date: 17/11/2000

I thought it was a telephone number - not necessarily a real one? Marged | Good morning all, | | The question has been puzzling me as I can hear the words and sound of it in | my head very clearly but cant recall what it exactly was & meant! | | However I hazard the guess that it was the "Call Sign" | of the 'Radio Station' that hosted "Big Band Swing": | | "Pennsylvania 65000" Can you hear it! | | In America, "The Golden Age of Swing" the 30's. | | Regards, | | Mikey. | | | ==== NORTHERN-ENGLAND Mailing List ==== | The aims of this list are to create a comradeship of Northerners and those descendent from Northerners which can be beneficial to tracing the family history of the region. | | --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.215 / Virus Database: 101 - Release Date: 16/11/00

Our Co-op had a little man on a bike with a boxed frame at the front and a whicker basket for the goods.. David Jason reminded me of him in "Open All Hours". Our little man even had a "fair-isle" v-neck sleeveless pullover. Do you remember them? Mine matched my swimming cossy cos it was the only bits of wool me mam had, except the pullover didn't fall down when wet. Brian B Lancashire, UK. brian_bramhall@lineone.net http://website.lineone.net/~brian_bramhall/index.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: <MagsB1942@aol.com> To: <NORTHERN-ENGLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2000 12:39 PM Subject: Re: [NTH-ENG] Re:CO-OP > Up until the 80s the local shop delivered. They also delivered the milk and > would pick the book up on a Tuesday and Friday and then deliver the same > afternoon, in a box, on my kitchen table so all I had to do what put it away. > Now that was services. The Coop van also used to go round once a week and > there was a shop in the next village. Some change from pushing a trolley > with a mind of its own, putting it on the checkout, taking off, packing into > bags and back into the trolley...out to the car ...whichever way the trolley > wants to go but usually sidewards, and then into the boot....drive home, > unpack into the kitchen and then into the cupboards....Life is certainly > harder now. > Maggie > > Surname interests: > BICKER, MILLER, SPRATT, MARSH mainly in Kent > MATTHEWS, GRANT, COAFFEE, BERESFORD, SWEENEY > in Middx, Bucks, USA and elsewhere > > > ==== NORTHERN-ENGLAND Mailing List ==== > Add a link to your website here, > http://pub23.bravenet.com/freelink/show.php?usernum=1926973379&cpv=1 > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free - checked by AVG anti-virus system . Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.215 / Virus Database: 101 - Release Date: 17/11/2000

In a message dated 26/11/00 13:04:03 GMT Standard Time, brian_bramhall@LineOne.net writes: << Were you so big, even then? A parachute, indeed! Did she use all the material? >> Cheeky!!!! No, just a little bit of it more's the pity...I seem to remember she kept on making them for me to wear every day till I was quite big !!!! That was the era of 'make-do and mend'. Maggie Surname interests: BICKER, MILLER, SPRATT, MARSH mainly in Kent MATTHEWS, COAFFEE, SWEENEY, GRANT, BERESFORD, RICHARDS in Middx, Bucks, USA and elsewhere