By Roz, on August 9th, 2010
Inglis Memorial Hall
It has recently been brought to my attention that the Inglis Memorial Library in Edzell has been closed by the local council and replaced by a 2-hour weekly mobile library service. The Library, as well as 5000 books (for what point is a library without books!), was gifted to the village of Edzell (in Angus, Scotland) in 1898 by Sir Robert William Inglis in memory of his parents and uncle. The gift was supported by a trust fund, and the opening ceremony was . . . → Read More: The Inglis Memorial Library: CLOSED
By Roz, on February 17th, 2010
Sadly, I have to report the death of my last remaining grandparent, Thomas Henry Brown Shaw (Harry to his friends), just a few weeks ago on 6th February 2010. I ummed and ahhed about posting about such an immensely personal event, but in today’s world, the Daily Telegraph Notice is online for all to see and I felt that I would be doing a disservice to grandad not to talk about him. Rather than write about him myself, however, I think it is best to let Harry’s own words do the talking.
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By Roz, on February 12th, 2010
My great grandfather Ernest Alfred Bird was born on 26 July 1888 in Lambeth, London, and died on 23 October 1944 in Bradford, West Yorkshire.
He was the youngest son of Alfred Bird and Emma Sharp and lived in the London borough of Lambeth. On 6 November 1915 he married my great grandmother Elsie Lena Moore at St John the Divine in Kennington. According to the marriage certificate the marriage was witnessed by Ernest’s brother Arthur and also by one of his sisters, Hilda. Elsie’s witness was her brother Edwin Musgrove Moore. On the certificate Ernest described himself as a Clerk, and was living at 98 Vassall Road, Brixton. The address explains the decision to marry at St John the Divine, which is an Anglican church on the distinctly “High Church” end of the worshipping scale. As Ernest was a Baptist it is unlikely that he was a regular worshipper at St John, but as the church was on Vassall Road it was probably the most convenient. It could also be that his bride was an Anglican, of that I am not sure.
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By Roz, on February 9th, 2010
Taking a break from the NLA website (on the advice of my optician) I began re-investigating the other Inglis family; namely the ancestors and siblings of Jessie Anne Inglis, who married Alexander Brand Inglis.
Wanting to be thorough I revisited the FIBIS website to add sources for the data I have collected so far. FIBIS (Families in British India) was my first port of call, as the Inglis family, both Jessie’s and Alexander’s in fact, seemed to be drawn to the Indian subcontinent during the 1800s.
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By Roz, on February 8th, 2010
I’ve spent the past couple of days hunched up in front of my laptop squinting at blurry text from the late 1800s. But it’s worth it.
The NLA Australian Newspaper Archive is a brilliant website (as is Papers Past, the New Zealand equivalent) that has simply offered up its entire historic archive (from 1803 to 1954) to view, free of charge.
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