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20 -THE BUGLE 13th MAY 1999 The ongoing search for the family of a Boer War soldier from Brierley Hill

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 13 May 1999
Newspaper: Black Country Bugle
County: West Midlands, England
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THE Revised Version of the New Testament was issued on this day in 1881. The first regular weekly comic paper,

... THE Revised Version of the New Testament was issued on this day in 1881. The first regular weekly comic paper, ‘‘Comic Cuts’’, was issued in 1890. Mascagni's opera CHEMISTS open today until 6.30 pm, except where shown: Boothtown: D. Fern, 23 Boothtown ...

Published: Monday 17 May 1993
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 695 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Scot who ‘heat the Wrights into air’ Dundonian was first man to conquer flight – from a bank of the Tay in 1903 ..

... 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 ...

Published: Sunday 28 March 1999
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 476 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Dates in the life of Ralph Hedley to Ann (nee Johnson) and Rich- wt Aram, Gling Wert Yorkshire, home Ann's

... work, at Elswick. 1861; enrols at local School of Art, run by William Bell Scott, and later becomes apprentice to wood carver Thomas business at 40 Dean Street with 1870: Sets up wood carving 1871: Wishart dies and Hedley moves to 11 New Bridge Street. 1874; ...

Published: Tuesday 20 November 1990
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 285 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Tel Lincoln 525252 Echo-Ads 532 12 Saturday January 6 1996 LINCOLNSHIRE ECHO It Was THIS week we take a look

... telegraph wires as they went The Boer President Paul Kruger demanded an explanation from the British Government but Her Majesty’s Government was unaware of the incident At 3pm on January 2 Jameson’s force met up with a Boer force near Krugersdorp and after ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1996
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 1040 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

1 6 Tuesday November 9 1 999 Lincolnshire Echo Post Office history A weekly look at your family tree BY

... 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 ...

Published: Tuesday 09 November 1999
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 1530 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

20 SUNDAY MERCURY OCTOBER 6 1991 AND PRESENT GLORIES the 80th Staffords in action (above still-commemorated ..

... as usual while they waited In the desert Just before Christmas 1990 At Cawnpore during the Indian Mutiny in 1857 Drummer Thomas Flinn won the first of the Regiment’s 13 Victoria Crosses In the Zulu Wars the Staffords formed the front of the British square ...

Published: Sunday 06 October 1991
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
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Now and then 10 October

... politics.” 1839: The first Bradshaw’s . Railway Timetable was issued. It continued publication until 10 March, 1961. - : = . - 1881: The Savoy Theatre, London, first public building to be lit by electricity, openied with a performance of Gilbert and ...

Published: Thursday 10 October 1996
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 652 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Peter Rabbit to Billy the kid

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 23 June 1999
Newspaper: Northampton Chronicle and Echo
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 719 | Page: 55 | Tags: none

di Nothing new for Silverton

... Durban. South Africa. She gave birth to twin sons in Birmingham on July 5. 1907. Frank Thomas (my grandfather) and William John. My great-grandfather was also in the Boer War 1899-1902 and the First World War in South West Africa. 1914-1918. and was wounded ...

Published: Friday 26 April 1996
Newspaper: Lennox Herald
County: Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 932 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Lincoln 525252 Echo Ads 532333 Lincolnshire Echo It AR1 55 Saturday April 12 1997 row A council confirmed that ..

... Victoria The remarks had angered Britain which retained the Suzerainty (control of South Africa’s foreign affairs) after the 1881 Boer War Football Walsall 5 Lincoln City 0 Burton 4 Gainsborough 1 LINCOLN CITY concluded their fixtures finishing bottom of the ...

Published: Saturday 12 April 1997
Newspaper: Lincolnshire Echo
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: | Words: 1215 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

4 -THE BUGLE 16th SEPTEMBER 1999 ADVERTISEMENT MAGNOTHERAPY BRINGS RELIEF FROM “ACHES AND PAINS” Some time ago ..

... 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 ...

Published: Thursday 16 September 1999
Newspaper: Black Country Bugle
County: West Midlands, England
Type: | Words: 1518 | Page: 4 | Tags: none