Could anybody please tell me where to find the parish records for St.John Lee. I am looking for the Stokoe family of Thomas and Frances 1760- 1820 . Maryann was ch.1815-1816 thanks Lynne

Hi Bruce and others on this list, I have made some progress with finding my cousins in Newcastle on Tyne recently. I have found that my mother's cousin Frederick H DODDS married Isabella LOGAN in 1947. They appear to have had a son Frederick M W DODDS in 1949 in Newcastle on Tyne. I'd like to hear from anyone who may know of this family (please keep privacy of living people in mind when replying via list). Thanks Colin colin@lambie.net.au -----Original Message----- From: northumbria-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:northumbria-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Bruce Dodd Sent: Thursday, 18 February 2010 12:46 PM To: northumbria@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NMB] Boer War Thanks, Delia. I understood the War Office turned over their Boer War records to Salt Lake City, which is why I was surprised at what I thought you said. I haven't visited their local centre for this subject yet. It's only a couple of miles away, but unfortunately it's on the way to the curling rink. Bruce Delia wrote: > Apologies if I have misled members by saying that I had got my grandfather's address at Parker's Cottages Willington Quay from his enlistment papers in the Boer War. I actually got it from the information on the Medal Roll for Kitchener's Horse which was presumably given on his enlistment. There were some enlistment papers at Kew but sadly not for him. > I was told that the 3 regiments he enlisted in (the others were the Peninsular Horse and Q Squadron Cape Colonial had little more at Kew than Medal Rolls and that most of the information was in South Africa. Apparently he enlisted out there. > Hope that is of some help > Delia > > > The NORTHUMBRIA FAQ page is located at http://www.bpears.org.uk/NorthumbriaFAQ/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORTHUMBRIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.435 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2693 - Release Date: 02/17/10 07:35:00 > > The NORTHUMBRIA FAQ page is located at http://www.bpears.org.uk/NorthumbriaFAQ/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORTHUMBRIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2692 - Release Date: 02/17/10 06:35:00

Hi Adrian Re your newspaper snippets It does look pretty unjust to us but, sadly, 15 yrs old wasn't as "young" in those days as it is now and I think there was still some sort of an idea, even this late in time, that somehow a rape was just about all of the woman's fault. I am surprised there was a conviction at all. Also with regard to the theft of a bonnet, commission of theft of property (however small)was just about the worst crime one could commit in those days. Many people are not aware that there was not actually a lot of prison space available then and one of the reasons for starting the Aus convict colonies in the first place was that there hadn't previously been many punishments except hanging. There was an increasing public high-level feeling against all this hanging but the prison hulks got too overcrowded. Another reason, by the way, was that the government thought that the prisoners could go over there and grow trees to use for the Royal Navy ships. Sadly, the trees in Aus proved to be no use for the purpose! Wonder where they could send us these days to reduce prison overcrowding!! Here endeth ...! Regards Glenda

Are you sure its 1760-1820 ? STOKOE, Jane Chr 1833 Engl Nthu Lee Fa: Thomas STOKOE Mo: Frances STOKOE, John Chr 1833 Engl Nthu Lee Fa: Thomas STOKOE Mo: Frances STOKOE, Elizabeth Chr 1835 Engl Nthu Lee Fa: Thomas STOKOE Mo: Frances STOKOE, Sarah Chr 1838 Engl Nthu Lee Fa: Thomas STOKOE Mo: Frances STOKOE, Thomas Chr 1841 Engl Nthu Lee Fa: Thomas STOKOE Mo: Frances STOKOE, William Chr 1844 Engl Nthu Lee Fa: Thomas STOKOE Mo: Frances STOKOE, Frances Chr 1846 Engl Nthu Lee Fa: Thomas STOKOE Mo: Frances STOKOE, George Chr 1848 Engl Nthu Lee Fa: Thomas STOKOE Mo: Frances audrey -----Original Message----- From: northumbria-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:northumbria-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Kevin & Lynne Hyde Sent: 18 February 2010 02:48 To: NORTHUMBRIA@rootsweb.com Subject: [NMB] st.john lee Could anybody please tell me where to find the parish records for St.John Lee. I am looking for the Stokoe family of Thomas and Frances 1760- 1820 . Maryann was ch.1815-1816 thanks Lynne The NORTHUMBRIA FAQ page is located at http://www.bpears.org.uk/NorthumbriaFAQ/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORTHUMBRIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Lynne I don't know where you are based but there are transcriptions of the parish records of St John Lee at the Society of Genealogists in London Also you will find transcriptions of wills in the name of Stokoe at www.willtranscriptions.co.uk in the Northumberland section Ros -----Original Message----- From: northumbria-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:northumbria-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Kevin & Lynne Hyde Sent: 18 February 2010 02:48 To: NORTHUMBRIA@rootsweb.com Subject: [NMB] st.john lee Could anybody please tell me where to find the parish records for St.John Lee. I am looking for the Stokoe family of Thomas and Frances 1760- 1820 . Maryann was ch.1815-1816 thanks Lynne The NORTHUMBRIA FAQ page is located at http://www.bpears.org.uk/NorthumbriaFAQ/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORTHUMBRIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hello Lynne For any NBL or DUR parish information, your first action is by googling "genuki" then the "name of the parish". http://www.bpears.org.uk/genuki/NBL/StJohnLee/ChurchRecords.html This will tell you the registers are at Woodhorn NBL, the home of the NBL archives. Gen in NBL > From: kevynne@xtra.co.nz > To: NORTHUMBRIA@rootsweb.com > Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:47:32 +1300 > Subject: [NMB] st.john lee > > Could anybody please tell me where to find the parish records for St.John Lee. I am looking for the Stokoe family of Thomas and Frances 1760- 1820 . Maryann was ch.1815-1816 > > thanks > Lynne > > > The NORTHUMBRIA FAQ page is located at http://www.bpears.org.uk/NorthumbriaFAQ/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORTHUMBRIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Got a cool Hotmail story? Tell us now http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/

Thanks, Delia. I understood the War Office turned over their Boer War records to Salt Lake City, which is why I was surprised at what I thought you said. I haven't visited their local centre for this subject yet. It's only a couple of miles away, but unfortunately it's on the way to the curling rink. Bruce Delia wrote: > Apologies if I have misled members by saying that I had got my grandfather's address at Parker's Cottages Willington Quay from his enlistment papers in the Boer War. I actually got it from the information on the Medal Roll for Kitchener's Horse which was presumably given on his enlistment. There were some enlistment papers at Kew but sadly not for him. > I was told that the 3 regiments he enlisted in (the others were the Peninsular Horse and Q Squadron Cape Colonial had little more at Kew than Medal Rolls and that most of the information was in South Africa. Apparently he enlisted out there. > Hope that is of some help > Delia > > > The NORTHUMBRIA FAQ page is located at http://www.bpears.org.uk/NorthumbriaFAQ/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORTHUMBRIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.435 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2693 - Release Date: 02/17/10 07:35:00 > >

While searching the 19th century Newspaper Archive (in vain) to find any trace of my g.g.grandfather William NiICHOLSON I found the following items adjacent to each other in the search results - it is possible, but I think unlikely, that the same man was involved in each. However comparison of the sentencing would nowadays cause justifiable outrage: August 1862: William George Nicholson (an agent for a benefit society) was charged with the attempted rape of a twelve-year-old girl in Newcastle. He was found guilty and sentenced to three months in prison. At the Durham Special Sessions in February 1863, William George Nicholson, a draper, was charged with the theft of several sums of money amounting to about one pound. He was sentenced to six months in prison. (The next case that day involved a spinster who stole a bonnet and a quantity of ribbon belonging to her master and received four years penal servitude.) Yes, I realise the bare newspaper reports don't give all the details leading to the decision of the courts, but even so..... Adrian

It may help you to know that although Christ Church was Tynemouth Parish church at the time the church building is in North Shields. Mildred Robson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Simms" <gang@simmsy.plus.com> To: <Northumbria@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 4:05 PM Subject: [NMB] FOSTER.PERCY MAIN, ST.JOHN I am looking for a baptism for above church for Elizabeth ROSE born c 1872, parents? Edward and Elizabeth ROSE. Same church Elizabeth (Lizzie) A Foster baptism c1891. Also Mary Foster c1893 (born Shiremoor). Would be gratefull for any help or advice of how i could find the information. Debbie (Surrey)

Apologies if I have misled members by saying that I had got my grandfather's address at Parker's Cottages Willington Quay from his enlistment papers in the Boer War. I actually got it from the information on the Medal Roll for Kitchener's Horse which was presumably given on his enlistment. There were some enlistment papers at Kew but sadly not for him. I was told that the 3 regiments he enlisted in (the others were the Peninsular Horse and Q Squadron Cape Colonial had little more at Kew than Medal Rolls and that most of the information was in South Africa. Apparently he enlisted out there. Hope that is of some help Delia

Hi Debbie Elizabeth ROSE was baptised at Christ Church Tynemouth 5 Sept 1872. Parents Edward and Elizabeth ROSE...IGI Lorraine (WA) ---- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Simms" <gang@simmsy.plus.com> To: <Northumbria@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:05 AM Subject: [NMB] FOSTER.PERCY MAIN, ST.JOHN >I am looking for a baptism for above church for Elizabeth ROSE born c >1872, parents? Edward and Elizabeth ROSE. > Same church Elizabeth (Lizzie) A Foster baptism c1891. Also Mary Foster > c1893 (born Shiremoor). > > Would be gratefull for any help or advice of how i could find the > information. > > Debbie (Surrey) > > > The NORTHUMBRIA FAQ page is located at > http://www.bpears.org.uk/NorthumbriaFAQ/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NORTHUMBRIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

I am looking for a baptism for above church for Elizabeth ROSE born c 1872, parents? Edward and Elizabeth ROSE. Same church Elizabeth (Lizzie) A Foster baptism c1891. Also Mary Foster c1893 (born Shiremoor). Would be gratefull for any help or advice of how i could find the information. Debbie (Surrey)

On 16/02/2010 00:35, Maureen Doherty wrote: > Hi - do you happen to have a link to old maps for Amble, Northumberland as the street where my grandmotherl ived has been demolished. Maureen The same URL covers Amble too. http://gis.durham.gov.uk/website/interMAP/viewer.htm Brian -- Brian Pears (Gateshead, UK) http://www.bpears.org.uk/ Joint List Admin NORTHUMBRIA Genealogy Mailing List GENUKI Northumberland Maintainer

Hi - do you happen to have a link to old maps for Amble, Northumberland as the street where my grandmotherl ived has been demolished. Thank-you > Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:21:54 +0000 > From: bp@bpears.org.uk > To: northumbria@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [NMB] Old maps > > On 13/02/2010 22:07, Delia wrote: > > Could someone please give me a link to see an online map of Willington Quay/Willington/Howdon around 1900. > > I am looking for Parker's Cottages (my grandfather Thomas SNOWDON's address given on his Boer War enlistment details) and Willington House (where my grandmother Catherine SNOWDON was living in the 1901 census). Does anyone know anything about these addresses? > > I know that they later lived in Nelson Street until they moved to Benjamin Rd Rosehill when Nelson St was demolished. Also does anyone know the date these houses in Nelson St were pulled down? > > Delia > > Use: http://gis.durham.gov.uk/website/interMAP/viewer.htm > > Navigate up to Willington/Howdon, set the scale to, say, > 1:5000 and the date to "Circa 1894-1899". > > Brian > -- > Brian Pears (Gateshead, UK) http://www.bpears.org.uk/ > Joint List Admin NORTHUMBRIA Genealogy Mailing List > GENUKI Northumberland Maintainer > > > The NORTHUMBRIA FAQ page is located at http://www.bpears.org.uk/NorthumbriaFAQ/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORTHUMBRIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Tell us your greatest, weirdest and funniest Hotmail stories http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/

Like Bruce, I to would be interested in the whereabouts' of the Boer War enlistment documents. Anne-Marie Bainbridge New Zealand ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Dodd" <bmdodd@rogers.com> To: <northumbria@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 9:51 AM Subject: [NMB] Old Maps obliquely off topic >I would like very much to know where Delia found her grandfather's Boer > War enlistment documents, because I can't get to first base trying to > find my father's from the Northumberland Hussars. > > Bruce Dodd > Ottawa, ON > > > The NORTHUMBRIA FAQ page is located at > http://www.bpears.org.uk/NorthumbriaFAQ/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NORTHUMBRIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On 15/02/2010 15:00, Patrick Corner-Walker wrote: > Hi can anyone tell me where the Lowick parish records are held as there > seems to be a gap from 1826 to 1837 on the IGI Pat They are held at Northumberland Collections Service, Woodhorn near Ashington with additional copies at Berwick upon Tweed Record Office. Brian -- Brian Pears (Gateshead, UK) http://www.bpears.org.uk/ Joint List Admin NORTHUMBRIA Genealogy Mailing List GENUKI Northumberland Maintainer

Hi can anyone tell me where the Lowick parish records are held as there seems to be a gap from 1826 to 1837 on the IGI Pat Walker

Delia I found Nelson St and Willington House on an Alan Godfrey Map, Willington Quay 1895, listed as Tyneside Sheet 7. These should be available in your local library or from Gateshead, where Alan Godfrey maps are available to buy George

I would like very much to know where Delia found her grandfather's Boer War enlistment documents, because I can't get to first base trying to find my father's from the Northumberland Hussars. Bruce Dodd Ottawa, ON

I am not expert in UK apprenticeships, but I've done one. I came from Canada to do what was called a grad apprenticeship in the heavy machinery shops of British Thomson-Houston in the early fifties. A very smooth move! To my surprise, the school-leaving age was then 14, and there were many young craft apprentices who had come straight from school. As far as I know, their five years began then. The BTH scheme was written up in the Times Educational Supplement as a "Great Social Experiment", observing that in the Rugby apprentice hostel, a former stately home of England, each race-horse had been replaced by six apprentices. The Times also mentioned that "the level of luxury...was not such as to rot the moral fibre". Bruce Dodd Ottawa, ON