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Clare Kirk
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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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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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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.
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.
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!
Thanks Rowena. It’s good to know it looks the same to you!
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
Reading Abbey Quarter and Reading Museum which has a replica Bayeux tapestry (but with a little Victorian censorship)
No, they misspelled Daley and Clare too
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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
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#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
Ha! This is exactly what I said today too!
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
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.
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.
Two of my favourite things — gravestones and #fungi

at St Bartholemew’s, Nettlebed
Do you mean Cardington in Bedfordshire? That’s where the big airship hangers are. My dad managed them back in the 90s.
Later this month I will be performing with the ‘Scrumpets’ - a local burlesque troupe. 💃
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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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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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_...
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I've added a little countdown clock to the 1926 census release on my website.
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