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... the local regiment were sailing for South Africa to fight Boers More than 500 Reservists been called up and only seven had failed to report for duty said Dover Express Winston Churchill a Boer prisoner escaped said an enemy source Gaol Lane lavatories ...
... Morecraft writing from Heathlands Leeds Road Langley Nr Maidstone Kent ME17 3 JG says: “My grandfather was the sixth child of Thomas Morecraft born in Herne Bay and Harriet Julia Dowle born in Dover “On the 1891 census he was listed with his parents living ...
... Carroll, G. Wilson, G. Galbraith, M. Stokes, stk; Dundalk, G. Millar, J.D. Backhouse, William Patterson, Watson, stk. Mr. Thomas H. Simsocks got the boat off at an even start opposite Stameen. Owing to the Dundalk men pulling very rapid stroke they were ...
... century by Thomas Bir-tles who had studios in both Warrington and Northwich Winnington’s Court consisted of a group of 22 cottages 12 of which were owned by William Minshull and the rest were owned by George Slater The date was December 1881 Obviously ...
... at the 1881 census there is only one Beatrice (aged 3) in Donington She lives with her parents in Spalding Road Her father Henry is a miller and baker I assumed that if this is the Beatrice we want then at the date they married the husband Thomas CLARKSON ...
... to ‘Black Country Bugle’ i Malvern reader’s Dudley hometown We have received correspondence from Mrs Joan M Colbourne (nee Thomas) a former Dudley Girls High School pupil who now lives at 56 Meadow Road Malvern Joan has been interested to read about a ...
... Cheltenham College Rupert Alcock 10 Edward Barber 9 Thomas Barfield 10 Matthew Barker 11 Benjamin Boviil 10 Russell Bowman 11 Robert Brighton 10 Jonathan Brunt 9 Thomas Burch 10 Luke Busbridge 10 Thomas Carter 11 Jonathan Clough 10 Dominic Cooke 9 Alexander ...
... US yacht America and the trophy became known as the America’s Cup 1881: Cecil B De Mille producer and director of epic films like The 10 Commandments was born in Ashfield Mass 1887: Thomas Edison made the first sound recording when he recited Mary Had A ...
... structure supporting gas bags 1 897: Swedish aeronaut Salomon Andrew tried to balloon to the North Pole He didn’t make it 1 899:The Boer War - balloons were used for observation 1 900: Count Von Zeppelin founded the Company for the Promotion of Airships the Zeppelin ...
... respectively and died within three hours of each other aged 62. 8. Liverpool Football Club's Spion Kop stand was named after a Boer War battle in which Merseyside troops fought. 9. French stage legend Sarah Bernhardt had a leg amputated in 1915 and was back ...
... born 1876 aged 15 years Harden Cooksey Jnr born 1878 aged 14 years It would appear that Thomas North is the same Thomas that appears in the 1881 Census as Thomas Cooksey aged 6 years He was in fact bom to Matilda in 1859 when she was 18 years of age and ...
... who ‘heat the Wrights into air’ Dundonian was first man to conquer flight - from a bank of the Tay in 1903, say family By Thomas Peterkin THEY have gone down in history as the brothers who achieved mankind's dream of centuries - conquering the air. Orville ...