Dave Annal Lifelines Research

It’s on my ‘to read’ pile!

Preparing for the most local talk I've ever done! I'll be speaking this evening to the Friends of Bushey Museum at a venue just ten minutes drive away.

busheymuseum.org/fbmt-events-2/

No explanation. It's quite rare for there to be no birth registration in Scotland - particularly this late. His two younger siblings weren't registered either - and no, they weren't registered under a different surname...

National Library of Scotland 25" Map of Linlithgowshire (detail). 1914/15 https://maps.nls.uk/view/228782750 Drawing for Linlithgowshire nV.11 Revised: 1914, Published: 1915, on a blue of previous edition Size: sheet ca. 71 x 104 cm (ca. 28 x 41 inches)

My grandfather (my mum's dad) was born at East Craigie in the West Lothian parish of Dalmeny on 24 May 1898 (not that there's a record of his birth...).

This part of Dalmeny parish had formerly been part of Cramond parish but was transferred to Dalmeny in the early 1890s.

#MyFamily52Maps

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That’s the one!

Keyboards 🎹

Well, I was in band! But you wouldn’t have heard of us… 😀

Just me in the local paper 41 years ago…

Item wee amears Samewell Holly of Brainford End for not scourring the walter corse before his house acording to the former payne Isleworth Syon Manor Court Minutes, April 1630 The London Archives ACC/1379/087

This is your regular reminder that you should never neglect the water course in front of your house. It needs scouring and you know it.

Of course, should you fail to scour it you'll only end up being amerced by the Court Leet. And you wouldn't want that to happen now, would you?

#ManorialDocuments

Have you ever wondered if your ancestors could read? Have you ever wanted to know what they read? I'm joining the SoG on Saturday to talk about my journey of researching the literary interests of my ancestors! There'll be lots of methods for you to take away & try out for yourself! #Genealogy

It’s quite simple…

Use them or lose them!

#YourFamilyHistorySocietyNeedsYou

Thanks Rowena!

I was fascinated by the 1841 census entry that you mentioned. I'd be happy to take a look at it if you think it might help.

Thanks to Margaret and Janet @devonfhs.bsky.social for looking after me last night. A great audience with some perceptive, thought-provoking questions afterwards and some lovely comments in the chat...

They did!

It’s not something the British were proud of… 😬

Evacuation de Walcheren par les Anglais - 30 août 1809 - Composition de PHILIPPOTEAUX

By coincidence two men whose lives I'm currently researching were involved in the 1809 Walcheren campaign.* One was in the Royal Navy onboard HMS Lavinia, the other was a foot soldier in the 2nd Battalion, 63rd Regiment.

* is it possible to mention this event without using the word 'disastrous'?

I'm off to Devon this evening - in a virtual sense, that is - to speak to the good people of the @devonfhs.bsky.social

I'll be live via Zoom at 19.30 and we'll be looking at our ancestors' annoying tendency to lie - or at least, to be economic with the truth...

www.devonfhs.org.uk/event/virtua...

It looks brilliant and it should provide some excellent context for some research that I’m doing on Europeans in early C17th Virginia. Can’t wait to read it.

I want this!

National Library of Scotland. Ordnance Survey 25" Map (detail) https://maps.nls.uk/view/82877409 Edinburghshire III.8 Revised: 1893 to 1894, Published: 1896 Size: map 64.4 cm x 96.6 cm (25.344 x 38.016 inches), on sheet ca. 76 x 104 cm (ca. 30 x 41 inches)

My Granny was born on 1 February 1895 at 36 Milton Street, Edinburgh. The family's tenement flat was within spitting distance of Holyrood Palace where my Granny's grandfather worked as a porter.

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#8 Ordnance Survey 25" Map First Edition 1896

Congratulations! A great contest!

Damn… 🥌

Watching the #Curling

I haven’t. I will! It’s very relevant to some research I’m doing at the moment…

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A bit of recent client feedback.

“Thank you for the exceptional research on my ancestor’s military service. I am very grateful for the thorough and meticulous effort. You went above and beyond what I expected, and you completed everything in half the time I budgeted. A fantastic job all round.”

And you shouldn’t ever get to that point! I know I said that I just needed to write and not get distracted but writing it all up is really part of the research process. It’s only when you start to do this that you realise where the gaps are and you spot things that you’d missed before.

Extract from the Parish Register of All Saints, Feering, Essex. Essex Record Office reference D/P 231/1/3 Baptism (1794) August 10th James, son of Elizabeth Pease Her Husband was Transported about Three years Back

An interesting additional comment by the clerk here:

August 10th James, son of Elizabeth Pease. Her Husband was Transported about Three years Back

It would be nice to think that the clerk was thinking about future researchers but the reality is that it was probably more of a moral judgement...

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I'm beginning the process of writing what's going to be a lengthy client report today.

The aim: 100% writing, no researching, no just checking something else...

The reality:

Still catching up with #MyFamily52Maps

My grandfather, William Annal, was born in Wardlaw Place, Edinburgh (worryingly close to Tynecastle for my Hibs supporting family!) but when he was about 7 his parents moved to a flat on the seafront at Portobello - which must have suited their Orcadian blood!