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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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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

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: 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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