Anglo-Celtic Connections

Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.

Essex and Suffolk Interest
A shoutout to http://essexandsuffolksurnames.co.uk/
with parish register transcriptions and family history. Worth scanning if you have an area of interest. The most recent post is nearly 1,000 marriages from 1562-1667 for Barking, Suffolk, including Needham Market and Darmsden. No transcriptions for these marriages are available anywhere else.

Large trees are essential for healthy cities – IN THEIR PLACE
Alison Munson and Anaïs Paré of Laval University, writing in The Conversation Canada, seemingly never considered the disadvantages of urban trees.

• Nine people killed by falling trees in the storm of 21 May.
• Property damage in the tens of millions.
• Disruption to livelihood, businesses and remediation costs.
• Inconvenience due to leaves and other shedding from trees.
• Shading of roofs making photovoltaic solar panels uneconomic.
• Cost of tree maintenance.

Trees, especially large trees, belong in forests, woodlands and parks, away from vulnerable urban infrastructure.

Mighty (from Family Tree DNA)
Did you know typing at 200 letters per minute, it would take a human 29 years to type out the whole genetic code (without stopping for a break)?

OGS/Ontario Ancestors Conference 2022: what’s on the schedule?

24 June, 9 am: MyHeritage Day: a deep dive.
24 June, 7 pm: Opening Session, followed by “The Journey to Genealogy Services at Ādisōke” by Library & Archives Canada / Ottawa Public Library
25 & 26 June: 28 diverse, inclusive and educational presentations. At 1 pm on the 25th: Second World War British Migrants to Canada, by John D. Reid.

The cost is $79 for Conference and $25 for MyHeritage Day. Everyone who registers for Conference on or before June 1 will be entered into the Early Bird prize draw.

Thanks to this week’s contributors. Anonymous, Brenda Turner, Glenn Wright, Jane MacNamara, Randy Seaver, Teresa, Toni, Unknown.

Find over 720,000 entries, transcriptions and page images, from the following titles in this new Findmypast collection.

Bailey’s Northern Directory (York Section) – 200 entries, 1770s-1780s
Cook’s York & District Directory – 81,609 entries, 1893 – 1902
Holden’s London Directory (York Section) – 323 entries, 1803 – 1811
Johnson & Tesseyman’s City Of York Directory, 32,774 entries, 1872 – 1876
Kelly’s City of York Directory – 61,898 entries, 1861 – 1955
Kelly’s Directory (York Section) – 9,906 entries, 1905
Parsons & White’s Directory (York Section) – 446 entries, 1830
Pigot’s General Directory (York Section) – 1,637 entries, 1816 – 1829
Slater’s Commercial Directory of Yorkshire & Lincolnshire – 2,183 entries, 1849
Stevens’s City of York Directory – 36,854 entries, 1881 – 1885
Universal British Directory (York Section) – 300 entries, 1789
Watson’s York City Year Book – 448,203 entries, 1920 – 1951
Wells’s York & District Directory – 11,355 entries, 1889
White’s Directory of York – 13,968 entries, 1895
White’s General Directory of Kingston-Upon-Hull & York (York Section) – 9, 003 entries, 1851
William’s City of York Directory – 9,918, 1843 – 1844

 

The London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) quarterly newsletter includes news of a new interface and viewing process for maps on the London Picture Archive site.

Maps now have a dedicated page on the site at https://www.londonpicturearchive.org.uk/maps giving access to over 1,500 maps. 

Also published online to the London Picture Archive for the first time are the London County Council Bomb Damage Maps. LMA’s Digital Services team have digitally joined the 110 sheets to create a top-level index image, which users can zoom into for a detailed view of London’s streets.

Also added a selection of new maps, including Booth’s Descriptive Map of London Poverty, Jewish East London and created further index pages for key London maps including Horwood’s 1799 survey and Ogilby and Morgan’s 1676 survey  with more to come in the year ahead.

This is a new collection on Ancestry, just 3,374 records for the Napoleanic War era.

It’s sourced from the following holdings of the City of Westminster Archives Centre.

Liberty of the Rolls: Certificates of Enrolment and Embodiment of Militia Men and Substitutes, 1779-1813

Liberty of the Rolls: Constable´s Return of Persons Liable to Serve in the Militia, 1806

Liberty of the Rolls: List of Persons Liable for Service in the Militia, 1783

Liberty of the Rolls: Names and Addresses of Principals and Substitutes, 1797

This new collection from TheGenealogist has almost 60,000 records from the 1851 Dublin City Census Index.

This index, compiled in 1915, before the mass destruction early census records, may be searched using name, address or keywords.

The heads of household index covers the parishes of
St. Andrew’s, St. Anne’s, St. Audeon’s, St. Bridget’s, St. Catherine’s, St. George’s, St. James’s, St. John’s, St. Luke’s, St. Mark’s, St. Mary’s, St. Michael’s, St. Michan’s, St. Nicholas Within, St. Nicholas Without, St. Patrick’s Deanery, St. Paul’s, St. Peter’s, St. Thomas’s, St. Werburgh’s and the civil parish of Grangegorman.

Ancestry’s new Scottish National War Memorial collection includes names and details of people killed during the First and Second World Wars. Information about each person may include:

First and last name
Military rank
Service number
Military awards and medals (decorations)
Birthplace
Date of death
Place of death
Cause of death
Unit name.

The Scottish National War Memorial, from which Ancestry’s collection is scraped, commemorates nearly 135,000 Scottish casualties in the First World War, 1914-18, more than 50,000 in the Second World War, 1939-45, and the campaigns since 1945, including the Malayan Emergency, the Korean War, Northern Ireland, the Falklands War and the Gulf War.

The ability to subscribe to this blog through Jetpack is working. The subscription box is in the right-hand column.
You will receive a confirmation email and a choice of receiving posts when made or on a daily or weekly basis.
As the previous service departed abruptly, it was impossible to automatically resubscribe those with existing mailpoet subscriptions.

Aircraftman 2nd Class Bert Aidan George
Service Number: 905114
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Born 5 Dec 1916, registered at Aston (Birmingham)
Died 07 December 1940, 23 years old
Son of Basil George and  Sarah Elizabeth (Trilloe) George, later Taylor, of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.

Aircraftman 2nd Class John Spencer Debenham
Service Number: 623688
Royal Air Force
Born 20 October 1919, registered at Alton, Hampshire
Died 07 December 1940, 21 years old
Son of Herbert Debenham and Hilda Annie (Spencer). Debenham.

Both accidentally drowned by falling through the ice  into Lake Huron

Over 100,000 family notices are included in an index abstracted from the local press, from 1800 until 1918, now online from Inverclyde Libraries, Museums and Archives. Sources include the Greenock Advertiser, Greenock Telegraph and other local papers.

The Intimations pdfs available are ordered by surname.

Thanks to advice from Jane MacNamara, the blog is now connected to another subscription service. You will need to resubscribe as it was not possible to carry over subscribers from the previous list. Please do. I hope it works as advertised — we always need to be prepared for issues with anything new.

One difference is that emails will arrive as the item is posted on the blog, not in a single daily email.

Jane’s blog, Where the story takes me…Tales of family and local history research and folk I meet along the way is well worth visiting.

Buried at Goderich (Maitland) Cemetery

Sergeant John Edward Bird 
Service Number: 1334377
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Born in the last quarter of 1922 in Brentford, Middlesex.
Died 25 March 1943, age 20 years
Son of John Wilfred Newboult Bird, a salesman, and Ruby (Johns) Bird.

LAC Geoffrey Herbert Hicks
Service Number: 1321921
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Born 28 July 1920 in Essex.
Died 25 March 1943, age 22 years
Son of Herbert W. Hicks, a shopkeeper,  and Dorothy (Hicks) Hicks, of Twyford, Hampshire, England.

They were killed in the crash of Anson R9720 flying out of 31 Air Navigation School, Port Albert.

A month from now the OGS/Ontario Ancestors conference will be underway. In this video Gloria Tubman, Program co-Chair, answers FAQs.