Tony

You could go for multitasking with a robot cleaner for the house work while you get on with the research. The downside is the floor cannot be used for a litter of notes & books. The robot’s AI abilities only goes as far as chant of “Cleaning makes me happy” as the bot trundles along.

Could also be effective against AI harvesting (stealing) the information for their system.

I think Wing is not far from the road.

Working this Wednesday on another place Little Brickhill, also on a major road - Watling Street. Ancient place of assizes & denoted with burials marked “suffered death and were buried” #BucksFHS Register transcripts to be published soon.

There are many trying to see if London’s streets are paved with gold, or trying to escape agricultural poverty. I only find out about those who stop long enough to leave a record. Colnbrook was the last stop before London. I could claim Royalty as Elizabeth I stopped at the George Inn #OnePlaceStudy

With a transient population in Colnbrook, it is always an aim to find some. I’m also getting surnames that appear to have strongholds in Cornwall & Devon like Penrose. #OnePlaceWednesday

#OnePlaceWednesday Reporting on the discovery of Charlotte Heady born in #Wing Bucks and married into the strict Baptist Holderness family in Colnbrook The surname Heady is in the #Wing-OPS. Website #OnePlaceStudies

#GenHour I have used WikiTree and can produce good trees. Their use of referencing has problems as it is cumbersome.

#GenHour My #One-PlaceStudy Colnbrook was originally spelt Colebrooke which is also village in Devon. Many 17th century tokens were attributed to the wrong place. Great fun! Slapton (Bucks) is quite small it shouldn't be a problem... 😀

Must be something you said! 😱 #GenHour

#GenHour I'm leaving Electoral Registers alone for the moment. Too many side projects need sorting out first.

#GenHour The other thing to report for those with a Buckinghamshire #One-PlaceStudy is the appearance on Ancestry of Bucks Electoral Registers.

It's the whole murky world where there is no money to give proper relief and the income generated for the overseers by allowing this woollen manufacturer use cheap unwilling labour. Work like cleaning fleeces and carding wool could be the work involved.

#GenHour Now a project for Bucks FHS is done, I'm getting back to Colnbrook #One-PlaceStudy. Getting involved in the murky history of farming the poor. One person paid £450 per annum to supply work for Datchet workhouse in 1794. That is a lot of money.

Just what a One-Place Study needs. Residents who help fill the years between censuses, even if they are in court.

When the case was called on one of the magistrates exclaimed “Colnbrook again!” and well he might say so for the “neighbours” of that town, some of them at least, have several times figured before the bench for their “neighbouring" feuds. Windsor & Eton Express 18 Jul 1840 #Colnbrook #One-PlaceStudy

Parish Register of St Andrews, Hillingdon catalogued under St Peter Bethnal Green.

#One-PlaceStudies Ancestry. Oh Dear, what were you thinking! Always look at the film. I had to go to London Archives Catalogue to get the proper reference (DRO/106/A/01/001) The front cover of the register is missing from the film, probably in a half hearted attempt to hide their mistake.

There are not many choices as I'm looking about 1740 to 1830 - just before the first useful UK census. I have quite a number of associations through who was witnessing wills and the licensing records.

An interesting thought. I will think it over. I was going tackle the problem with associations like that. The events could be tackled by a unified timeline to confirm the date ranges the people were active. Hopefully leaving a short overlap period. These people were not moving about much.

The Surname Page is standard in site. The Statistics/Surnames is an add on module. I wish I had known about the module earlier as the occupations need categories. If I only need statistics on occupations in a place I need to create an occupation event for people outside the #One-PlaceStudy.

#GenHour Now Colnbrook-OPS website is open www.colnbrook-ops.co.uk, I need to get the William Hammond Bailey's sorted out in who did what. There were three of them, Father, Son & Grandson. Which one ran the inn, Who became a lodging house keeper. And who lost another beer licence? #One-PlaceStudy

Barbra, I should warn you that TNG tngsitebuilding.com is not for the faint hearted. There are so many ways the package can be adapted. It has taken me about a year to get to an interesting state good enough to go public. My site contains about 16 modules making changes.

Colnbrook OPS website home page. High Street Colnbrook looking East Plumber / Funeral Directors on the left with the proprietor outside. pony cart going away from the viewer with a child. Other children standing around looking at the camera. White building on right is the Ostrich Hotel. In far distance Town Clock on wall of building in village square.

#Colnbrook #One-PlaceStudies After a quiet time on social media, I'm here to report that the Colnbrook OPS website www.colnbrook-ops.co.uk website is now an Open Site, not requiring a login to view the contents. There is still a lot of content to be created.

We, the British, may not want to admit that we have fought many over the centuries since 1066. 😀 Al Murray (The Pub Landlord) has a sketch about the British beating everybody. 😀.

The swan being a symbol for Buckinghamshire. Was the event linked to a particular branch of the Red Cross?

Back in @bucksarchives.bsky.social looking for the felons, rouges & vagabonds of #Colnbrook in Quarter Session records. Recently also confirmed compensation payments to my Gr Uncle when his pub was closed in 1908, the temperance movement have a lot to answer for. 🍻

You are a master of all aspects of research 👍

The next challenge would be discovering any estate agent photographs of the interior!

#GenHour The marriages I have seen are later - some in the 1900s and to be all sorts of occupations. Also the way names are written changes in the 20th C. signatures appear like writing cheques & letters, earlier it was forename - surname only. The later marriages are harder to transcribe.

#GenHour After a quick look at the records, there are 1775 marriages in Buckinghamshire with 5 or more witnesses. In 235,000 records. Seen to be all walks of life. Perhaps they didn't want the groom to get away. Quaker marriages are different. Everybody at the meeting(s) is a witness!