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Debbie Hearn @debbiehearnuk.bsky.social · 3h

I hope to catch it another time, Dave - goodness knows, I have enough ancestors hiding there! 😂

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Debbie Hearn @debbiehearnuk.bsky.social · 13h

Not too many miles from my ancestors' stomping ground, I guess. 😁

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Debbie Hearn @debbiehearnuk.bsky.social · 13h

Thanks for the tips. I'm relatively inexperienced, so I don't always know where to look. The surname is Drew.

Debbie Hearn @debbiehearnuk.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, and the parish registers helpfully name the streets where people lived. Since posting earlier, I've found this very useful webpage on the parish. www.londonlives.org/static/StBot...

Background - St Botolph Aldgate - London Lives

www.londonlives.org

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Debbie Hearn @debbiehearnuk.bsky.social · 1d

As so very often happens, Action for Happiness and I are in synch. 🙌 😊

Action for Happiness @actionhappiness.bsky.social · 1d

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Debbie Hearn @debbiehearnuk.bsky.social · 1d

Can you help, kind Bluesky genealogist? If my ancestor lived in "Eastsmithfield", St Botolph's, Aldgate, City of London, does this tend to imply that s/he lived at the workhouse? I'm thinking 1770-1800. Are there workhouse records from which I could check? #genealogy

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Debbie Hearn @debbiehearnuk.bsky.social · 2d

I'll take a picture with next time, if I remember. I don't think it has all the information this once does. It certainly makes me think, when I see it there.

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Debbie Hearn @debbiehearnuk.bsky.social · 2d

I see this plaque regularly when visiting Bideford (in fact, I was there today). I almost always notice it and it sets me thinking.

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Debbie Hearn @debbiehearnuk.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you very much! It's been a constant irritation when I've been looking for proper historical sources.

Debbie Hearn @debbiehearnuk.bsky.social · 4d

Not least as an excuse for a road trip! 🤣 Maybe if I use DNA research to solve my 'Did the lord of the manor impregnate my 4 x great grandma?' family myth/mystery, I will find that clarity for myself.

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Debbie Hearn @debbiehearnuk.bsky.social · 4d

This looks brilliant fun and if my grandchildren and I were in the area, we'd definitely be calling in. Have a great day!

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Debbie Hearn @debbiehearnuk.bsky.social · 4d

I'd always wondered about Scottish ethnicity on my Ancestry DNA test. Now it's gone & I have Northern Wales & North West England, which ties in my research (for this branch I've used DNA cousins for the first time). Denmark has largely gone. I would love more clarity on my NW Europe heritage.

Screenshot from Ancestry app of my updated DNA test with map of five geographical regions in British Isles and mainland Europe.

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Debbie Hearn @debbiehearnuk.bsky.social · 4d

Dare I mention this to my Yorkshire-born husband? Possibly not.

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Debbie Hearn @debbiehearnuk.bsky.social · 4d

A very apt post. You're not selfish to want quiet. That's where peace or the movement towards it, begins: when our nervous systems begin to settle, we can get perspective on events and rediscover our human bonds with each other.

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Debbie Hearn @debbiehearnuk.bsky.social · 5d

Wonderful! 😊

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Debbie Hearn @debbiehearnuk.bsky.social · 5d

I've sent you an email. 👍

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Debbie Hearn @debbiehearnuk.bsky.social · 5d

I've literally just thought of your podcast - right after spotting two hilarious names in someone's family tree. 😁

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Debbie Hearn @debbiehearnuk.bsky.social · 6d

I love the last one, she's positively voluptuous. 😁

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Debbie Hearn @debbiehearnuk.bsky.social · 6d

I meant 'tail', of course. That's what happens when you post things before you've had your breakfast! 😁

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Debbie Hearn @debbiehearnuk.bsky.social · 6d

Another south-western mermaid. The very shape of the peninsula is a mermaid's tale! @willsmanonename.bsky.social

Rosemary Griggs @ragriggsauthor.bsky.social · 6d

I spy mermaids playing harps. Chair in Totnes museum.

#woodcarvingwednesday #woodensday

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Debbie Hearn @debbiehearnuk.bsky.social · 7d

An exciting development for genealogists and local historians:

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7d

'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time.

The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.

National project launched to rediscover Henry VIII’s long-forgotten ‘Tudor Domesday Book’

A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time. The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesi...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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Debbie Hearn @debbiehearnuk.bsky.social · 8d

We spent no more than a couple of hours there, having first visited Saltram, a bit further up the road. (Although a part of me really wanted to be poking around in Devonport, looking for ancestor hang-outs. 😁)

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Debbie Hearn @debbiehearnuk.bsky.social · 8d

You've had quite a week. 😄 I hadn't been to Antony, unlike most National Trust properties in Devon and Cornwall. Really enjoyed it.

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Debbie Hearn @debbiehearnuk.bsky.social · 11d

I'll do my level best! 👍😁

Debbie Hearn @debbiehearnuk.bsky.social · 11d

I was going to mention that I'd seen actual costumes from Wolf Hall and then I read your final sentence and rethought.