Anglo-Celtic Connections

Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.

Mapsaws – Jigsaws Made from Maps

Worldometer
Pause to watch the numbers climb — contemplate society and humanity.

Event – Accessing Historic Records on Intelligence and International Affairs
At LAC, Friday 5 May $

Who Benefited from the British Empire?

What are the odds of a man reaching 100 in reasonably good health?

Why democratic countries around the world are not prepared to support Ukraine – and some are shifting closer to Russia.

Neutral powers during World War II.

This collection of 48 annual Calendars from the library of The National Archives includes lists of all the official departments of state and branches of public service, the law, the church, and national institutions.

While not full-test searchable, there is usually a high-level subject index towards the front of each calendar, which shows the first page number for each featured government department, institution, society etc. Towards the back of the book there will be an alphabetised surname index, with later years giving a page number for the individual. That should tell you where in the organization the person worked and at what grade.

 

Did someone in your family hold the office of mayor or sheriff of London? Did someone with your surname hold office? Find out with the help of a database from the University of Toronto, hardly a likely source for information on those officials who governed the city from medieval times to the present day.

The mayor (later Lord Mayor of London) was the city’s chief magistrate, while the sheriffs were responsible for collecting taxes, enforcing the law and attending the courts. The mayors and sheriffs also had jurisdiction over the neighbouring county of Middlesex until 1889. They were elected by the liverymen of the city livery companies.

The earliest record of a mayor of London dates back to 1189, when Henry Fitz-Ailwin was appointed by King Richard I. The first sheriffs of London were Henry de Cornhill and Richard Fitz-Reyner, who were elected in 1188.

Find out more about the mayors and sheriffs of London by searching the database at https://masl.library.utoronto.ca/search by surname. It  includes their names, years of office and companies or occupations from 1190 to the present.  A person may have filled both mayor and sheriff roles at different times.  For more recent entries click on the name for further sources.

 

Just completed, Ancestry’s scanning of these two East of England county’s parish records.

For Cambridgeshire 2,395 registers scanned have resulted in 245,731 images. For Huntingdonshire 1,111 registers and 114,984 images.

As it will be a while until the scans are processed and online, in the meantime, be aware that both Findmypast and FamilySearch have various parish records for those counties.

This Saturday, 15 April, at 1:00 pm EDT,  attend in person or online.

Canadian Forays into the Genealogical Resources of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)

Speaker: Sue Morrison, Regent, & Stephanie Enns-Coulter, First Vice-Regent, Bytown Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.

Canadians may be surprised to learn that if they had ancestors in North America by the early 1800s, there may be genealogical information about their families available to them from the DAR’s online databases and the DAR’s library in Washington, DC. This presentation will briefly describe today’s DAR as an organization, the kinds of genealogical information that may be available from the DAR, and; how to access this information. Some Canadian examples will be used illustratively.

Live in the City of Ottawa Archives, 100 Tallwood Drive (Room 115)

OR

Zoom to  https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrdOmhrT8rEtTmldHbbaFCc9OUQSRAz_SA

 

 

Researching a branch of my family tree this week, an online trade directory revealed a proprietor of a fancy repositories shop in Birmingham in 1932.

What are fancy repositories? Google showed the shop would have offered “knick-knacks and toys which fed the market for cheap consumerism, including that of children.”

An Internet Archive full-text search showed no hits after 1889. The Ngram Viewer for British English found it to be a very much Victorian term.

In Kelly’s directory of Hampshire, Wiltshire, Dorsetshire and the Isle of Wight for 1889, there were 100 businesses listed under the Fancy Repositories category with a mix of men and women proprietors, the women a mix of Miss and Mrs.

If you’d like to know more check out the February 2021 article Fancy repositories: a mixed bag from News from the Past, which has many articles relating to Victorian Bournmouth.

 

Here, as I’ve not yet read more than a couple of articles, is editor Ed Zapletal’s summary of the latest IG issue.

Welcome to our Spring 2023 issue!
We have a great line-up to offer, and we hope you enjoy it! Our cover feature in this issue is Irish Research by frequent contributor Joe Grandinetti. Ireland is rich in history, and Joe delves into the research of his Kielty ancestors in Ireland by including census, civil registration, church records, tithes, taxes, and tenancy, highlighting key Irish website resources along the way.
If you are researching your ancestors’ marriages pre-1850 in the U.S,, as well as Great Britain and many former British colonies, David A. Norris suggests you might encounter references to marriage banns and marriage bonds. David sheds light on what these are and why they were required.
Lisa A. Alzo is back and reviews We Are […], a new site for collating and showcasing shared family history.
In Walking Between the Worlds, Robb Gorr returns with a look at the challenges of Métis  genealogy.
In Like Pulling Teeth, Sue Lisk returns and investigates what dentistry was like for our ancestors. (Remember the belt-driven dentist drill!) In Sue’s second article, Beyond the “Goldilocks Zone™: Strategies for Seekers, she offers some guidelines to consider if you are not getting the search results you are expecting.
In On The Beat, Steve Ward looks at his own family and the contribution made to modern policing in the United Kingdom. Stephen L.W. Green is back with The Value of Including Friends with Family in Your Genealogy, a brief article discussing why it is important to include friends with family when doing your genealogy.

And don’’t forget to check out our regular columns: Genealogy
Questions, Photos & Genealogy, and Dave Obee’s Back Page (where Dave mentions he’s compiled information on the 1931 census, which will be released on 1 June, at CanGenealogy.com.)

Just 17,819 records in this early survey conducted by the government of Ireland to determine the religious affiliations of the population. Only a fraction survived the destruction of 1922. Records typically include the name of the individual, place of residence, and religion.

The census recorded the number of individuals affiliated with each of the major religious groups in Ireland, including the Church of Ireland (Anglican), the Roman Catholic Church, and the Presbyterian Church. It also recorded the number of individuals who were not affiliated with any particular religious group.

There’s more detail at https://virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/1766-religious-census/.

I occasionally get comments that this kind of database is deplicating what’s available elsewhere, particularly if that elsewhere does not require a subscription.

Perhaps you remember the days when there were no supermarkets. Shopping required stops at the butcher, baker, grocer, greengrocer, fishmonger, cheesemonger, and perhaps the chemist, each with a queue until you could be served. And there was the queue at the bank, during banker’s hours, to get the cash you needed to pay. Supermarkets provide a one-stop for all those, and it’s the same with the major genealogy websites.

An article in the 4 March 1952 issue of the Suffolk Free Press includes:

Mr John Vaughan Lambert of Foxearth is making a claim in accordance to a right of a 700-year-old deed of service, he has the right to make and bake and serve wafers at the Queen’s coronation banquet, the right came into the family Lambert when they purchased Lyston Hall several centuries ago but little remains of that lovely Elizabethan mansion as it is being pulled down, the last member of the Lambert family, Mr Lambert’s grandfather left the Hall in 1913, the family are of Irish descent, the present Lord of the Manor was born in 1905, he was educated abroad and went into farming when he left school on the land his father owned, apart from Foxearth Hall he owns Lyston Place farm in all 1500 acres, he has a dairy farm at Lyston Place , he also has a flock of pedigree Suffolk sheep.

John Vaughan Campbell Lambert died in 1986. His son, John Rambaut Vaughan Campbell Lambert, who was born on 2 March 1940, would appear to have inherited that right.

Plans for the coronation period in 2023 make no mention of a banquet. There will be a Coronation Big Lunch, at which neighbours and communities are invited to share food and fun together, will take place across the country on the same date. Similar street parties were held in 1952. Did you or an ancestor attend one?

LAC warns of services partially or fully disrupted as of mid-April. Most people probably won’t notice for a while, given existing delays owing to the backlog of orders.

• Ordering Archival Material
  • Expect delays in retrieving and circulating material
• Ordering Published Material
  • Expect delays in retrieving and circulating material
• Requesting Copies
  • Expect delays in processing requests for copies
• Ask us a Reference Question and Ask us a Genealogy Question
  • Expect delays in processing requests and appointments for reference or genealogy help
• Making an ATIP request
  • All ATIP services will be affected as the vast majority of our employees fall under the collective agreement under negotiation. In this context, the following types of requests will be prioritized: urgent requests for health reasons for Canadian Armed Forces veterans and requests made in the context of litigations and class actions that have time sensitive deadlines.
• Services to Publishers
  • Possible delays in processing requests
• Making licensing or copyright requests
  • Expect delays in responses

The April – June 2023 programme of 14 online talks from the UK National Archives is detailed at https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/visit-us/whats-on/online-events/.

Scroll down on the page for a preview of some of the talks through March 2024.

Choose from selected free online events in the next five days. All times are ET except as noted. Those in red are Canadian, bolded if local to Ottawa or recommended. Assume registration in advance is required; check so you’re not disappointed. Additional mainly US events are listed at https://conferencekeeper.org/virtual.

Tuesday 11 April
2 pm: DeepStory – Your Visual Storytelling Tool, by Janna Helshtein for Legacy Family Tree Webinars and MyHeritage.
https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/a-myheritage-webinar-9/

Wednesday 12 April
7:15 pm: Unusual Sources in York Region, by Ruth Burkholder for OGS York Region. 
https://york.ogs.on.ca/meetings-events/

Thursday 13 April
5pm: Solving Unknown Parentage Mysteries with MyHeritage DNA, by Michelle Leonard. 
This is the first presentation in Legacy Family Tree Webinars/MyHeritage 24-Hour Genealogy Webinar Marathon. Full details at https://familytreewebinars.com/24-marathon/

Friday 14 April
12 midnight: Legacy Family Tree Webinars/MyHeritage 24-Hour Genealogy Webinar Marathon continues. Full details at https://familytreewebinars.com/24-marathon/

Saturday 15 April:
10:00 am: Self-Publishing on Amazon, by Johanne Gervais for OGS Kingston Branch.
https://kingston.ogs.on.ca/

1 pm: You Found What Where! by Linda Corupe for OGS Quinte Branch.
https://quinte.ogs.on.ca/2023/03/30/april-15-you-found-what-where/