The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

The ramp got used in earnest today, and it worked!

That's good... if that'd gone wrong you'd have never heard the end of it!

PasturesNew

I think I'm super annoyed .... I've currently come to the conclusion that I won't ever find the marriage of the couple at the top of my tree because the parish registers are missing. I'm currently convinced that I've worked out where they married .... and possibly had an earlier child before moving house to another village.

But ... that parish register did used to exist as an antiquarian saw it. So who has it ... is it buried deep in a big box of "Misc papers" of somebody, deep in the bowels of the archives, not to be found for another 200 years? Or was it stolen/lost/destroyed?

So annoying ... I think that book could give me their marriage, first child and the marriage of the parents of the woman at the top of my tree. I'm sure I have the Will of the mother - and I have her name, but I've no marriage, so she must've married there too ... at a guess, but who to?

They're "well connected" and if I could just push back one more generation, with that one book, I'm sure I could prove a "direct link to ownership of half that big castle".

Oh well ... if the book's gone, it's gone ... marriages book and baptisms .... earliest date in the books is 1694 - and I am sure I can "see" the brother's second marriage there in 1695, which ties in with the named brother in the will 24 years later.

On the other hand .... it might be a coincidence of names a bit - and the "direct link to the castle" might have proven to be "and they had a 1st child, who they named after his father .... and he married a woman who had the same name as his mother ... whose family owned the big castle". So all a bit .... frustrating.

EDIT: I'm now convinced that the person who last had the book is a chap called Thomas. He was "the big cheese, of the big cheese family" and they "owned" the whole village where the missing book covers - and he seems to have spent his life going through heraldries and genealogies of hundreds of families... so I bet it's in the archives, caught up with other documents, in one of '000s of "Misc books of Thomas of the big house". And when he died, somebody packed up "all his boring old !!!!!!" as quickly as possible and dumped it at the archives.

PasturesNew

Shouldn't laugh .... but ..... funniest thing overheard from neighbour in the last 2 minutes.

"... you've locked the keys in the car ..."
".... I don't have a spare key ....."

And she's a visitor, so doesn't even have the luxury of being at home to sort it out

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

Shouldn't laugh .... but ..... funniest thing overheard from neighbour in the last 2 minutes.

"... you've locked the keys in the car ..."
".... I don't have a spare key ....."

And she's a visitor, so doesn't even have the luxury of being at home to sort it out

I've only ever done that once, in my first Austin Cambridge. I pulled up in the drive, gathered up all my stuff from the passenger seat and footwell, got out, pushed the door opening/locking lever forward and closed the door with my hip.

Got to the house door and thought "Hmm, where did I put the keys?". Put both armfuls of stuff down and ferreted through pockets, no luck. Went back to car to see the keys happily swinging from the ignition switch and thought "oh bother" or words to that effect :mad:

Luckily, I'd had to repair (OK, bodge) one of the quarterlight hinges only a week or so before so it was a relatively easy job to unbodge it again to give me enough room to get at the interior lever and unlock the door :rotfl:

PasturesNew

I don't know what sort of car it is, they all look the same these days.

It's a small 'un, possibly Fiat 500.

Just checked again, there's no "gaggle of perplexed people" round it at all... obviously leaving it as a problem for later on or in case somebody has a genius idea.... or googling it.

Jackmydad

I remember my dad telling me that he'd gone somewhere for lunch with a rep. The guy had locked the keys in the car.
AA guy came, read the number off the ignition key hole with a little telescope and had the right key there.
1960s that was.

vivatifosi

HDidn't want to quote your post Pastures in case there's part you want to delete, but I'd speak to the archives. I can only speak for the archives where I am, but there is absolutely no chance that they'd be given a random box of papers with a parish register in it without making a record, and pulling the parish records out.

Any luck with the corresponding Bishops Transcript?

If they are gentry , it's also worth checking Archive.org for old copies of Cockaynes and Burkes. You may also be able to trace the people through The Visitation of the Heralds, I've found all three of these useful for early records. Not all visitations are online, but there are quite a few on archive.org

GDB2222

From what you say of your neighbours, Pastures, this might be just the place to find somebody with the skill set to get into the car.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

From what you say of your neighbours, Pastures, this might be just the place to find somebody with the skill set to get into the car.

Strangely enough, I was just looking out of the window and she appears to have magicked up a key that works. I saw her going with a key to "try" it, I don't think she believed that key'd fit, but it did.

I managed to work out the car's a Citroen C1... not that it matters, but some people are interested in these things.

PasturesNew

It looks like "one of my lot" inherited a house/garden from his wife's father .... so started brewing beer.... as you do.

Instead of becoming a multi-millionaire brewery owner.... he just made enough beer to keep his head above water

"Only just enough effort" should be the family motto.