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#FamilyHistory researcher Trustee @cotswoldarch.bsky.social Editor @friendlesschurches.bsky.social OFHS advisor Singer, baker, occasional mudlarker Blogging at digupyourancestors.com

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Clare Kirk @digupyourancestors.bsky.social · Apr 21

Last week I toured the Half Moon Brewery in Bruges. In 2016 they installed a 2-mile-long beer pipeline beneath the streets of the medieval city!
My OH’s ancestor was using a subterraneous beer pipe system at Greenwich Naval Hospital 250 years earlier!
Find out more in my blog.

William Gunton Saword: Part 2 — Butler of Greenwich Hospital

William Saword was the Butler of Greenwich Hospital for naval pensioners from 1772 to 1812. He faced two government enquiries into corruption, a devastating fire and the loss of two wives, and he e…

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Clare Kirk @digupyourancestors.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks. The Hydes tended to marry within a small area (within about 8 miles) so I think that one is unlikely but you never know. John Parker was a mason. Stephen learned the blacksmith trade from his uncle Joseph. Stephen died in his early 30s and Joseph then took on Stephen’s oldest son as well.

Clare Kirk @digupyourancestors.bsky.social · 17h

Yes that’s correct, Dave. The Hydes were the original owners of my house. Elizabeth later married John PARKER - a possible name match? - but not until 2 years after John Hyde’s death.

Clare Kirk @digupyourancestors.bsky.social · 17h

Thank you Dave. It’s charming isn’t it? Do you think it is meant to be ‘Uncle’? For some reason I hadn’t thought about the name being a surname!I haven’t come across any Darkwells in the village and Stephen went on to learn a trade from his uncle Joseph Hyde. Mysterious!

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Clare Kirk @digupyourancestors.bsky.social · 22h

Thanks Rowena. It’s good to know it looks the same to you!

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Clare Kirk @digupyourancestors.bsky.social · 1d

Help please! This is a PCC copy of a handwritten codicil to a Will with lovely phonetic spellings. Unsure of 2 underlined words. Is it 'ankel/Oonkle [Uncle] Daniel'? (but looks like Dankel!) I don't have the original unfortunately. See Alt Text of 1st version for transcript & source. #palaeography

The codicil text says: 'I give all my wearer parroles ot my Son John I give my dauter Son Stephen twentey poundes to prentiss him if his ?onkel ?Daniel thenk well to larn him his on tread this my own hand Riten' ('I give all my wearing apparel to my Son John I give my daughter's Son Stephen twenty pounds to apprentice him if his ?Uncle ?Daniel thinks well to learn him his own trade this [in] my own hand written'.
The only uncles I know of for Stephen are John and Joseph Hyde.

source: Will of John Hyde of Drayton, Berkshire; TNA PROB 11 Piece: 1840

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Clare Kirk @digupyourancestors.bsky.social · 2d

Reading Abbey Quarter and Reading Museum which has a replica Bayeux tapestry (but with a little Victorian censorship)

Clare Kirk @digupyourancestors.bsky.social · 2d

No, they misspelled Daley and Clare too

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 3d

Given that the Orionid meteor shower is taking place at the moment I thought this my be appropriate. The Wold Cottage meteorite (also called the Wold Newton meteorite) fell near Wold Cottage farm on 13 December in 1795, a few miles away from the village of Wold Newton

The Wold Cottage meteorite (also called the Wold Newton meteorite) fell near Wold Cottage farm on 13 December in 1795, a few miles away from the village of Wold Newton

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the louvain dead ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 5d

#31daysofgraves • Social Group 🪦

The gravestones of paupers who died at Lampeter Workhouse 🪦

Each gravestone is inscribed with the initials and 'inmate' number of the person buried there.

📍St Peter's Church • Lampeter ⛪

#Wales #History

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Clare Kirk @digupyourancestors.bsky.social · 5d

Ha! This is exactly what I said today too!

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Clare Kirk @digupyourancestors.bsky.social · 7d

Meowvellous!

Clare Kirk @digupyourancestors.bsky.social · 8d

Sounds fascinating!

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Clare Kirk @digupyourancestors.bsky.social · 8d

Can I also recommend:

The Woman in Sliced White
Love in the Time of Challah
A la recherche du pain perdu
And the Gluten-berg Bible

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Clare Kirk @digupyourancestors.bsky.social · 8d

You’re wise not to take that risk, Steve. If we don’t keep up the standard of puns in this thread Bluesky might try to BAN JOkes from us altogether. And that really would be TUBAd.

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Clare Kirk @digupyourancestors.bsky.social · 9d

I would love to join in but I’m so late. It’s my own fault though — people are always telling me to hurry up and stop zithering.

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Clare Kirk @digupyourancestors.bsky.social · 9d

Two of my favourite things — gravestones and #fungi

at St Bartholemew’s, Nettlebed

Clare Kirk @digupyourancestors.bsky.social · 19d

Do you mean Cardington in Bedfordshire? That’s where the big airship hangers are. My dad managed them back in the 90s.

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Clare Kirk @digupyourancestors.bsky.social · 20d

Charming!

Clare Kirk @digupyourancestors.bsky.social · 20d

Later this month I will be performing with the ‘Scrumpets’ - a local burlesque troupe. 💃

Clare Kirk @digupyourancestors.bsky.social · 20d

😍 thank you!

Clare Kirk @digupyourancestors.bsky.social · 21d

Had a nice surprise today — I was relaxing to the Mindful Mix on BBC Sounds (26/9 episode) and heard my own choir! Track 10 is Song of Proserpine by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

It’s from an album that Excalibur Voices recorded in January, now on Spotify.

And the Blackbird Sang

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Clare Kirk @digupyourancestors.bsky.social · 28d

Thank you, Debbie

Clare Kirk @digupyourancestors.bsky.social · 28d

Today we had an interment service for my mum at St Dunstan’s, Monks Risborough, where she was married, did local history research (when registers were still in the parish chest), taught Sunday School & baptised her firstborn (me). It was a perfect spot — peaceful, historical and buzzing with nature.

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Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social · Sep 25

1934 Jeanie Dicks undertook 1st permanent electrification of Winchester Cathedral. Electrifying nave meant removing & reburying coffins except Jane Austen’s (moved gently to side). Press called her the "girl engineer" - she was 40! b. #OTD 25 Sept 1893 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanie_...

Jeanie Dicks in 1928 stood outside portico in Cheltenham Spa at outing of the Electrical Contractors Association. Photo taken by Mrs Ll. B. Atkinson, whose husband was big on 1920s electrical scene - they named a daughter Electra! #FavouriteFact #WomenInSTEM #JaneAusten #JaneAusten250

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Claire Bradley @cbgenealogy.ie · Sep 24

I've added a little countdown clock to the 1926 census release on my website.
cbgenealogy.ie #IrishGenealogy #AncestryHour #GenHour

A clock with 3 circles showing days hours and minutes which countdown to the release of the Irish 1926 census release

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