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News about the 1921 census and how it might impact my academic plans
Some of the historians I follow on Twitter are complaining about the recently revealed starting prices for the Find My Past (FMP) release of the 1921 census from 6 January next year. As usual when new...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Blog! How have things changed in the last nine years?
It's my blog's birthday today. I wrote my first post on 16 October 2012. Happy 9th birthday blog!I just had a look at the original post and some things have improved.I applied for, and eventually got,...
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Why is Herbert Bethell, lost at Jutland in 1916, not on a War Memorial in...
I have several reasons for writing this post:Herbert Bethell was born in Cudworth, which is not only in Barnsley, but also the village (?town) where I actually live.He is not in the 'Lest Cudworth...
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Child and Female Pallbearers in England: A Barnsley example following Jane...
A year ago I wrote about the funeral of a seven year old girl, whose ten bearers were described in the newspaper as girl friends of the deceased. That was in 1902 in Mexborough. At the time I was quite...
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Public Engagement - Reactions to First World War Local History Posts on Facebook
Today I was very happy when a couple of posts I made on Facebook produced information useful for my research. As part of the research for my PhD I have been searching through the local newspapers on...
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One Year On - Still a Student In Lockdown, but Finding More Diocesan...
This morning I changed the date for our proposed holiday again. We had been booked on a Leger Beer and Battlefields tour, something for the OH, the beer, and something for me, the FWW history. It...
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The Return of my First Draft Chapter for my PhD on Barnsley's War Memorials
Last night I got my first draft chapter back from my supervisor, Prof Laura Ugolini, at the University of Wolverhampton. As expected there were lots of useful comments, and some which made it apparent...
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George Kay - Manager of Barnsley Co-op's First Shop
Completed Tuesday 20 April 2021 at 2.43pm.This post is not completely random - I already had an inking that George Kay was related to my OH in some way. But it was after reading an article in the most...
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Finding Smithies Working Men's Club - a great 'Rabbit Hole' to research
Eons ago I wrote a post about war memorials in Monk Bretton. I had only been researching war memorials for a year or so and my only resources were the newspapers in Barnsley Archives. It was about a...
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Two Members of the Same Family both named Irving Killed in Action a...
There are at least 154 war memorial gravestones in Barnsley Cemetery, Barnsley, South Yorkshire. These grave markers commemorate a man who has been lost in a conflict, be it the Boer War, the First...
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Frustrated by Technology: Trying to get a Pension Forecast
A few days ago I received my annual statement from the Local Government Pension Scheme. As I only worked for Sheffield Hallan University for nine years this does not amount to much! I was curious as to...
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The Sad State of Some War Memorial Gravestones in Barnsley Cemetery
Since March this year a kind Barnsley volunteer named Wayne Bywater has been walking around Ardsley and Barnsley Cemeteries photographing war memorial gravestones. He submits these to the Barnsley War...
View ArticleLack of Support for Blue Badge Applications
This is the letter I sent to my MP Stephanie Peacock, the Barnsley MP Dan Jarvis, and the Cudworth councillors Steve Houghton, Joe Hayward and Charlie Wraith today.Dear Sirs and Ms Peacock,I have a...
View ArticleWW1 Soldiers' Stories - the Cox Brothers of Barnsley and Sheffield
I was recently asked via Twitter whether I knew of the whereabouts of the war memorial for St Peter's church on Doncaster Road in Barnsley. Well, follow the link and you'll be as wise as me! Sadly the...
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Child Bride? James Crabtree and Mary Senior who married 27 May 1804 All...
In recent months I have been noticing the surname Senior in the Barnsley area. It crops up in my husband's (the OH) tree, in the tree of his friend that I researched over the Christmas break, and the...
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First World War Soldier's Story: Riley Willerton from Willingham by Stow
Over the Christmas and New Year period I have myself two weeks off from my PhD studies - however as my main hobby is family history it was inevitable that I would come across some First World War (FWW)...
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Just One Street - Waltham Street off Sheffield Road in 1891
My interest in history began back in 1991 when a family friend asked me about names in my family - she started me on the path of a 30 year journey investigating my own and the OH's family trees (and I...
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Our Ancestors Didn't Have It Easy - what with Pit Disasters and the First...
About five years ago I wrote the story of one Barnsley born man, William Malkin, who emigrated to Australia in 1909. He left behind his wife and child behind (I don't know why) and made a new life for...
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Did Barnsley men who served in the First World War know what the war might be...
In the book I have been reading for the past week historian David Cannadine quotes A. J. P. Taylor in 1966 who said that in 1914 'no man in the prime of life knew what war was like. All imagined that...
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In Memoriam Notices in Local Newspapers
Today I have been reading a book, Pat Jalland's Death in War and Peace, for my next PhD literature review. At 10 pages a day, reading and note taking, it will take another week to complete the section...
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