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Fine Fellows

geneageek — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 13:56:12 +0000

I just LOVE finding connections within families. In part 4 of ‘The Hannah Chronicles’, Hannah was involved an incident with a man named Samuel Steele. One of the newspapers reporting…

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Christ Church, Blakenall Heath

geneageek — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 16:44:45 +0000

Christ Church on Ingram Road, Blakenall Heath was opened for service on 3 December 1870. It cost about £3000 to build and able to seat more than 500 people. An…

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A Tragic Tale

geneageek — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 16:15:09 +0000

In a previous post, I included a message from Rose Richards which ended casually with: Cathy had a sister – Nellie Cash. She had a baby and hid it in…

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Bigamy Blues – Part 3

geneageek — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 12:00:21 +0000

Featured Image: Long Bridge over the River Derwent in the 1930s via Derbyshire Live (Continued from previous posts Bigamy Blues and Bigamy Blues Part 2) Records show that Reuben and…

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Bigamy Blues – Part 2

geneageek — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 13:42:24 +0000

(Continued from previous post – Bigamy Blues) Tragic Story The revelation that her new husband was actually a bigamist must have been very upsetting for Reuben Lamb’s new bride, Mary.…

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Bigamy Blues

geneageek — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 16:52:23 +0000

A while ago, while researching the Lamb family, I stumbled across a few newspaper articles regarding the trial and conviction of a family member for bigamy in 1947. Obviously I…

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The Hannah Chronicles: A Disorderly House

geneageek — Sun, 21 Jul 2019 15:03:07 +0000

Hannah Bates/Rollett and William Henry Lamb were not ones to live life quietly it seems. In January of 1886, they were subjects of a raid where it was found…

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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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Aunt Sally

geneageek — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 12:51:04 +0000

Before Rose Richards [nee LAMB] died, we were chatting about her family history via facebook messenger and she wrote: “… my Dad had a sister we called Sally. She married…

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Certified Muddle

geneageek — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 14:45:07 +0000

Came across something interesting today… Leah Yeomans birth date on the 1939 register is listed as 5 Jan 1896. However, on her official birth certificate, the year of birth is…

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