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Bankrupt or Insolvent?

geneageek — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:24:25 +0000

The last time I looked into the financial woes of my ancestor George Wreford, I wanted a simple explanation into the change in bankruptcy laws in 1861. I’ve since learned…

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Rage Against the Thrashing Machine

geneageek — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 08:38:07 +0000

As part of my Ebbans One Name Study, I spent some time researching a man involved in the Agrarian Riots of the 1820s and 1830s. Imagine my excitement when while…

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Agrarian Riots

geneageek — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 16:45:36 +0000

In the 1820s and 1830s, desperate agricultural labourers in England began to revolt. There were a few factors involved in causing this unrest but Land Enclosure is considered to have…

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Persistent Cruelty

geneageek — Mon, 18 May 2020 10:51:56 +0000

In 1901, Thomas Henry WHEELEY and Ann ROGERS had been married for 23 years and had had 8 children together. They were living on Dalkeith Street in Walsall – a…

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The Hannah Chronicles: Obscene Language

geneageek — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 14:17:35 +0000

Newspapers are ‘da bomb‘ for finding out information about relatives but it’s important to widen searches for different spellings, variations and even other family members. This time, searching just the…

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The Hannah Chronicles: Enter William

geneageek — Thu, 30 May 2019 15:27:18 +0000

It wasn’t too long after the ‘shocking immorality‘ of 1881 that Hannah Bates/Rollett established a relationship with the significantly younger, William Henry Lamb. William’s family had lived in the West…

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Book ’em Once More, Danno

geneageek — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 21:02:59 +0000

I wrote in a previous post about pinpointing Thomas PALMER’s premises using a newspaper report of his being robbed. Living by a police station didn’t seem to give the security…

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Book ’em Again, Danno

geneageek — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 14:54:14 +0000

In my last post, I was trying to find a more exact address for Thomas Palmer, bookseller of Gosport. I had narrowed him down to ‘Upper South Street’ but not…

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The Hannah Chronicles – Murderous Attack

geneageek — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 15:59:20 +0000

At midnight on 21 October 1877, three police officers went to a house in Court No. 2, Rivett St and found a woman, Sarah Sharratt, bleeding from about ten wounds…

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Hannah in Excelsis

geneageek — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 13:12:32 +0000

Hannah was born Hannah Bates in 1856. Her father was James Bates, a general labourer, and her mother was most likely, Ann Tilbury, a millhand. Little is known so far…

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