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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: 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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Sister Act

geneageek — Sat, 04 May 2019 12:23:11 +0000

After establishing that Sarah Jane BATES (aka Sally) was a daughter of Hannah Bates, I wanted to know more about her. The 1939 census gave her birth year as 1872…

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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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The Hannah Chronicles – Shocking Immorality

geneageek — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 15:17:33 +0000

In 1880, Hannah and her husband Alexander ROLLETT made the papers again with regards to their ‘shocking immorality’. According to the articles, Hannah had taken up with Henry Banks, who…

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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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The Slums of Derby

geneageek — Sun, 23 Oct 2016 21:34:22 +0000

If you lived in the West End of Derby in the 19th century, you were considered to live in the slums. It is here that the families I’ve researched lived…

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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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Saint vs Saints

geneageek — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 19:42:20 +0000

I have done a LOAD more research on the Lamb/Rollett family and found what I believe are answers to some of the questions I posed in my previous post (which I will…

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