Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

It's Sunnyday here!
I see a problem already!
And with our changeable climate, a day could change its name several times in its 24 hours!

Indeed - up here it was Cloudyday, then it changed to Partlysunnyday and now it's gone back to Cloudyday.

chris_m

A freind went to Iceland once. He said they had sun, rain, sun, hail, sun, snow - and then the airport bus arrived at the hotel

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

We have so little rubbish that we don't put the bins out every week!

Wondering if there is a business in hiring out empty bin space.

LOL... I think if people wanted bin space they'd pop out after dark and just go along the road lifting the lids of other people's bins until they found somewhere to shove their bag

I don't bother with the bins more than twice a year. I've so little it'd be daft to lug the bin up the garden and put it out, get it back in. Last week I took my rubbish to the tip when I took the grass clippings, it was one loaf bag's worth, so about 2 weeks' rubbish.

In the main, I'll take the bag out with me when I go out - and then just lob it into a random public bin that's convenient to park alongside. Or the supermarket bins at the entrance. Little and often keeps on top of it.

PasturesNew

Funny that. I'd thought earlier that I have to go out, so, while out, where else could I go to on a Wednesday

PasturesNew

Still tapping away at my "whole village", this morning took one family back to 1890 and discovered how they'd not had a lot of luck at all (until the final piece of bad luck that put this lot on my 'interested' radar) ...

That ended up in a surprise, of a Brit who went to Aus to work, signed up for WW1 over there, then ended up being shipped back "home" to England when he was blind, but then he got pleurisy and died. His mother was at the funeral (having lost her husband to gangrene just 4 years before) ... but she was there, seeing him off with his full military honours.... then a "strange twist". After the son's death a girl in Aus wrote to the military to ask where he was ... only to be told he'd died. Then she posted a 'haunting' little poem in the newspapers, it was clearly a "love interest". So I wondered if she ever knew that his mother was at his funeral as the poem hoped that somebody'd be around to care that he'd died and put flowers on his grave for her. I'm guessing that post-WW1 a girlfriend in Aus wouldn't know a soldier's parents' names etc in order to get in touch/whatever... to enquire of where he was buried or anything else.

I did wonder who she was and what happened to her next .... but it's Aus and so it'd take a lot of finding out.

Another strand's taken me to a consultant psychiatrist who specialises in criminal nutters and PTSD, which was a surprise as everybody else has been "normal/regular people who lived in the village and mostly still live there" ... but his folks weren't from round there to start with, and he was of the "going to Uni" classes, so off he went and probably never returned. He's "oop North" now.

oldandhappy

ok PN with your percyvereance please help me find more about Marie Ann Aumonier (Woollams) born 1785 died December 1860 Kensal Green supposed to be the sister of Jean(John) Aumonier born 1768 London died 1834 and then Piere b. 1766 but died at birth or soon after maybe...Piere b. 1772 David b.1773 Jacques b.1778


David b.1773 leaves money in his will to his sister Mary Ann Woollams(Aumonier) one hundred pounds stirling and many others items so that should confirm she is the sister of these above.


Mary Goley was born 1724 I need to look for more info on her....


You are sure managing to dig deep with your stories your following up on and very interesting they are..


its defo SUNday here today


BW Dianne

oldandhappy

Pierre, born 1702, married Judith Pigne in 1721.

They had the following children all baptised at La Patente, Spitalfields.

1722 Pierre
1724 Marie*
1728 Batelemy
1733 Pierre
1735 Abraham
1739 David


that must be Marie(Mary) Goley*

GDB2222

DW has a truly wonderful database in her head.

Me: "What's the name of the lady in XXX Road who dyed her hair a peculiar colour?"

DW (with no pause at all): "Do you mean J..... G......?"


And, yes, I did mean her.

Oh, and her hair has been a normal colour again for at least 5 years.


Not that we are in the least judgemental.

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote: »

DW has a truly wonderful database in her head.

Me: "What's the name of the lady in XXX Road who dyed her hair a peculiar colour?"

DW (with no pause at all): "Do you mean J..... G......?"


And, yes, I did mean her.

Oh, and her hair has been a normal colour again for at least 5 years.


Not that we are in the least judgemental.

That's the problem, do one thing slightly out of the ordinary and forever you are remembered for it.

PasturesNew

oldandhappy wrote: »

ok PN with your percyvereance please help me find more about Marie Ann Aumonier (Woollams) born 1785 died December 1860 Kensal Green supposed to be the sister of Jean(John) Aumonier born 1768 London died 1834 and then Piere b. 1766 but died at birth or soon after maybe...Piere b. 1772 David b.1773 Jacques b.1778


David b.1773 leaves money in his will to his sister Mary Ann Woollams(Aumonier) one hundred pounds stirling and many others items so that should confirm she is the sister of these above.


Mary Goley was born 1724 I need to look for more info on her....


You are sure managing to dig deep with your stories your following up on and very interesting they are..


its defo SUNday here today


BW Dianne

I tried that before, but couldn't understand the destructions of who was who

I'm sure you'll solve it..... without my help.


The dates you have need "proper parish records" and access to them.... and so it's out of my abilities, unless a stroke of luck occurs and I stumble across something newly published and the name rings a bell....

My top tips of the week are:
- avoid anybody called Mary
- avoid anybody in Wales with the names Davies, Evans or Williams.

Your Mary breaks the first rule

I'd probably be better with "Uncle Bob took his cat and disappeared in 1937 .... where did he go?" than "A Mary, 300 years ago ...."