Genealogy Chat

Looks like Cynthia is now worn out after a hectic day

Glad all went well in the end

Evelyn - enjoy the weekend visit with your daughter - it will cheer Ron up a bit as well.

Hope Mr Fixit hasn't buried anything under the laminate

Had to laugh - but it really wasn't that funny really

My friend had a new bathroom put in - the builder/plumber had to renew the flooring as well - so all the floorboards came up to get the pipes sorted and new flooring went down - very expensive flooring as well. Then the Tiles and painting followed by new shower unit, bath & washbasin. All sorted over a day or so.

They have two very pretty cats who sometimes go walkabout for a day or so - so nothing unusual for them to miss a meal - but not two.

When her mum was in the new bathroom she could hear a funny noise by the shower unit. Thought she had mice & mentioned it - they listened & heard a distant yowling as well - Meanwhile - cats had been missing for two days now. Urgent call to the builder - he arrived around 6 in the evening. He then had to find an area where he could get the flooring up & get to the floorboards. By 9pm they were through - he managed to get his head down with a torch & started calling them Puss puss etc - then my friend brought out the food - nothing, by 10:30 she was distraught.

Mum popped in to sooth nerves & plumber was getting frantic as wanted to go home. Mum said the sound is around the bath area - so plumber took off the side of the bath & out came two very disgruntled White cats. Meanwhile the plumber said stuff this I need to go home - I will be back on Monday to refit the flooring & the side of the bath - DON'T LET THE CATS IN HERE. and left.

She grabbed the cats put them in a basket & went to her mums for the weekend & mum offered to keep the cats for the week. Hubby due home the following weekend - Plumber charged extra for out of hours and the refit. Don't think she ever did tell her husband, she paid the extra out of her own savings.

Think she should have given the cats a holiday in the first place while the work was going on.

Well back tot he grindstone

take care all

Yes Cynthia, an Insurance Company on the other side of the street, on a corner (but not a street corner).

Who knows, I might even have seen you in the Bank!!

I have been meaning to pop in to say Hello but have felt a bit down and felt I would be too depressing for you - smiled at your story on the cats - just the sort of thing ours would have done so soon got the idea to shut them in somewhere safe. Two tiny Siamese kittens, birthday presents for my dear P (in 1961) disappeared one day - I had an old treadle Singer Sewing machine and they had crawled up into the cavity where the machine could be folded away and fallen fast asleep!

When you come back have a look on Chat at "The Facecloth" - I laughed out loud for the first time in a very long while. I know I'm definitely improving and going in the right direction now!

I have been so saddened to see and read the news of the earthquakes in NZ and send my heartfelt thoughts to everyone suffering there. I saw that an aftershock had been recorded near Wellington so hope Josie hasn't been badly affected. P and I loved our trip to NZ in 1992 and thought Christchurch a most delightful place, so I do feel very sad for their awful tragedy.

No more for now but hope to return soon.

All good wishes to you all.

Well, if you popped into the bank Robert, then I was in the background on the right hand site of the banking hall. Quite an impressive place when I think back but it didn't seem so at the time. There was a gentleman called George Sheldrake who was head porter and was always wandering around being pleasant to people. If you held securities, you may have met my OH as that's the section he worked on!!


Oh that poor woman with the cat story! She must have been frantic but it was rather funny from an outsider's viewpoint....oops.


Reece, how nice to see you back again and to hear that you are improving albeit slowly. I will have a look at the Facecloth thread in a moment as a good laugh is always welcome.


Do hope Josie is okay ...... and Frank of course. Maybe he is recovering from the shock of finding out that I am not the quiet and retiring person he thought I was when he read about the washing machine saga.....hahaha.


Have been to see my son today - he has a bad back and has been off work. He had an operation on his back a few years ago and we are just hoping that this isn't going to turn into a similar problem.

Also went to visit my poorly friend. She is still confused but showed some lucid moments - the staff say that they do not know what is causing it. Well, I think it's about time they found out!!

Going to find that facecloth now! Love to all Cx.

Hi all
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Lovely to see you, Reece. Please come back soon.

When were you in Christchurch? We visited there in early January 1993. Like you, we thought it was a lovely place.



Which reminds me, I meant to say that my other little group has heard again from the friend whose house was between Christchurch and Lyttelton. She is now with her daughter a couple of hundred km away...... she says she had forgotten what it was like to sleep the whole night without being shaken awake.


We forget that aspect don't we? The continual aftershocks for months afterwards.


must go and read The Facecloth.


take care everyone


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Reece - wonderful to have you back again - no matter what frame of mind - we love having you here with us - we all have our depression days - as well as the fun days - lovely to hear from you again.

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Sue - did the look up for you in Canterbury - spent an hour doing a bit of a trawl - but not a lot to report - wasn't sure to do a PM - but as you put the item on here - thought I will add the info.

I looked at the actual Parish Record (& Bishops Transcript) was most certainly down as Acock - I also looked at the Canterbury Marriage Licence register.

Parish Record for St Paul Canterbury
William Acock a minor of this parish and
Mary Page spinster also of this Parish
Married by licence 19 February 1793 by Thomas Foreman Vicar St Pauls

X mark of William Acock
Mary Page signed her name

Witnesses

Sarah Page and John Williamson both signed their names.

Licence details

William Acock of St Pauls aged 20 father William Acock a labourer
and
Mary Page of St Pauls aged 24
Applied for marriage licence 18 February 1793

I had a look in the baptisms as I was nosey but didn't find a William son of William. I did find;
William Acock son of Henry & Cathrine Accock 3 May 1771

Mary daughter of James and Mary Page 25 December 1767
John son of James and Mary Page 3 December 1769
Jesse child of James and Mary Page 17 May 1771
Susanna child of James and Mary Page 24 October 1773 (Born 18th)

if this is the same Mary she was 26 when she was married so told a little bit of a lie about her age.

I found Jesse son of William and Mary Haycock 2nd March 1794

All very interesting - if you need me to look at anywhere else let me know - we are not back there till Saturday 2nd April.

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Will pop back in later

Well I did & all quiet

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See you all tomorrow

Hi all


it's nice and sunny here!


and OH is painting the kitchen ........... I'm not too sure about the colour I've picked for the cabinet doors, so he has painted some of the framework, and one of the doors. AND he swears he won't moan if I don't like it!


J&M got a major fright yesterday evening

Their kitchen china cupboard fell off the wall!

They were making dinner, and for a moment thought one of the cats had been trapped under the fallen cupboard. Luckily not, she'd fled moments before it happened. They don't know where she hid, but it was several hours before they found here sitting beside a chair in the living room!

J had been standing near the cupboard just a minute before.

Everything in the cupboard was smashed ..... fortunately, only "every day" crockery, not their very expensive wedding set. And part of it hit the cook island and has dented the wood top of that.


Seems the cupboard had been attached to the wall only by one screw, near the bottom.


They have gradually been finding that the renovations done by a previous owner about 4 or 5 years ago were not of the highest quality ..... now it seems some of them were downright shoddy!

Those owners sold after 9 months ................. probably what we call "reno flippers" here.


M and his father had been concerned about the attachments of the upper cabinets when they moved in in 2009 ...... and had given this one a particularly hard pull after being able to see only one screw. It had seemed very firm, so they just thought the other screws were hidden.


She says they are not going to put in a claim on their house insurance .......... the cost of replacing their everyday crockery will be less than the deductible.



MJ slept through the whole thing!



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Hey Anne,

I've been busy all weekend in the bedroom.
Plastered all the cracks and repaired some poor work which was left by our previous owner, prepared the walls and woodwork for paint and paper.
Removed the door to rehang it to open to the wall rather than into the room.
That also entailed moving the light switch from the left side of the door to the right with all the plastering of the chanelled wiring, so a good weekend's work.

Cynthia, I would just have taken the washing machine in and installed it.......... easy peasy.
I turned our bathroom around with all the plumbing having to be shifted but simply a case of reading the book and doing it!!
You soon realise how tight to make the connections so that there are no leaks............

That's what I've done for all of my DIY exploits, just read the books, understand the dangers and get on with it. Can't afford to be getting people in anyway ! :)
Except for anything involving gas, I won't touch that.

My other problem was moving from Virgin broadband to BT Total Broadband, now the router etc all arrived on time and our service was moved across but my CD would not run the Setup so although I'm on broadband, I'm not sure if it's Virgin or BT and yes I called the helpline...........aarrgghhh!

Hello sir, can I be helping you....... Yes an overseas call center for BT so eventually I was told by this man that I was still on Virgin and would have to phone them?? I thought my MAC CODE would have meant everything was moved over.
I called again and got a lady who sounded as if she came from Sri Lanka.
She assured me I was now with BT and I did not need a set up cd but could not explain why I was still getting Virgin e-mails???

Oh well, I've sent them an e-mail to see if someone else can help.

Did you know that the Voyager space probe launched in 1977, when it had passed Pluto and was leaving our solar system,was turned around to take a last picture of "Home" and took a photograph of a tiny dot of light way out 5.7 billion kilometers distant................ Earth.

Night all.

Hi Everyone

It is a long weekend in Wa so we went off for a few days to Albany just to get away from the heat ...it was very nice and COOL down there.

The weather has changed a bit for now ..a but cooler and we think a bit of rain for tomorrow..

Anne thank you for that I think it is my William and Mary still can't be sure quite yet.

Frank I could do with you in my house ,we have so much painting to do just waiting for the winter to come ...that will keep us busy inside for a while.

I am still unpacking at present so will drop in again tonight.

Nice to see you back Reece, don't worry about depressing us if you need a friendly ear there is always one of us around only to happy to have a chat with you...no need to be alone.
Laughter is a wonderfull pick me up isn't it.


Suex

Susan - let me know if you need anything else or me to do a trawl around Canterbury for you - loads of different churches

Reece - any time you need to talk you know where we are.

Frank - You are such a wonderful husband - must get mine to read a few books - he won't touch Gas or water. He will have a go at most things.

Wonder how Evelyns weekend went with her daughter

Cynthia - hows the washing machine?

Silly story - it made me laugh.

We had a client booked for their first trip to OZ - they were going to Melbourn - a couple of days looking & drinking at the vineyards - 1 day in Sydney & then on to Daintree National Park for 4 nights - then it off to indonesia.

He arrived at Daintree - stayed 1 night only & moved on to Indonesia.

Daintree National Park is in the Rain forest & you go there to experience the rain forest & all the experiences there in. Looks georgeous.

http://www.silkyoakslodge.com.au/

His reason for leaving the National Park & luxury hotel 3 days early -
It was Too Wet - he didn't expect to get wet when doing a hike in the Rain Forest & he thought the Rainforest hotel would be on a beach somewhere & you got to view the rain forest on a walkway or something.

Very weird ideas

Well back to work -

Take care all

You beat me to it Sue! I was going to see if Frank was available for some DIY stuff too!


Oh dear Frank. Sounds like you are having similar probs to mine with your internet advisors! One of them phoned me today because I had put a complaint in. All she could handle was the fact that it was working now. Any further conversation was beyond her.


The washing machine is going fine thanks Anne. Still a bit of a new novelty so I am washing everything in sight.


Too wet in the rain forest! Love it. Wonder if he finds the beach a bit too sandy???


Take care all. Cx

Had a nice lunch with some friends today. Managed to get my ironing done before we went so that was good.

Hi all
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Anne ........... I love it!

It shows he didn't read any of the gumph you sent him!


Better not let him come to Vancouver or Vancouver Island then ...... we're in what is called Temperate Rain Forest!



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Good morning all, (another Sunny day),

Not had breakfast yet.......

Just had to reply Anne - well your traveller missed a unique experience! Yes, it was a pity about the rain and especially as the Daintree is a DRY rainforest - P and I had a wonderful week there in 1992, every day a sunny day and not too hot. Perhaps the calls of the bush (brush) turkeys at night frightened him or the fruit bats thudding down into the nearby trees to eat their fill.


At that time the owners were thinking of selling it and Silky Oaks lodge is probably a bit bigger now but not much I would guess and with the same relaxed atmosphere and the whole area a paradise for anyone interested in natural history.


I have sent friends there from the UK and they too, have fallen in love with the Daintree area, added to which our younger son changed his mind as to his future (biochemist to ecologist) while exploring there in 1986!


Anne, don't send your holidaymakers to the "big river country" (Northern NSW) either as my brother says it is still raining there!


Wonderful memories - we went on for another week to Hinchinbrook Island and then another at Heron before making our way south visiting the family and old friends.

Sylvia, we left for home from Vancouver,(a lovely city) the only other place we had rain apart from Canberra! My b-i-l in Sydney remembers experiencing an earthquake in Vancouver in 1946! He is from Vancouver Island.

2011 Census forms arrived yesterday to be filled in on 27th. Wonder what our descendants will make of it!

Love,

R

Glad my story prompted some memories Reece & got you back with us again. Check out the Silky Oaks website - Reece - you will see a lot of changes.

Our Census form arrived yesterday - what a load of old **** I doubt if it will be of any use to our descendants at all - do you work - how do you get to work - if you don't work - when was the last time you worked etc

What happened to how many children have you had - how many sill living etc - the juicy lifestyle choices etc - all long gone - its now all economic - surprised they didn't ask what was the size of your bank balance so they could tax us some more.

winge winge

Its a lovely sunny day here - my daffodils are beginning to apprear - still have loads of Snowdrops in flower - saw some fantastic displays of Crocus in Canterbury at the weekend. Spring is on the way - very little frost this morning - we may be turning a corner at last.

Ages ago I said I had won a free night in a country hotel - well i have just managed to get another one (different hotel but quite close tot he first one) and i have managed to link them together.

So we go from one to the other and its going to be a nice little break for us for our getting together anniversary - can't beleive its 19 years next month - also means its 19 years since I lost mum - only a week in between.

So we have 2 nights free accommodation in two very different country house hotels, free three course dinner (not wine) & breakfast to cheer us up next month. Really looking for ward to it.

Well off for a wonder around the boards

Take care all

Just saw this on the General/chat board - had to copy over to ours as it really made me smile

Family Tree

A little girl asked her mother,
"How did the human race start?"
The mother answered,
"God made Adam and Eve and they had children,
and so all mankind was made."
Two days later the girl asked her father the same question. The father answered,
"Many years ago there were monkeys from which the human race evolved."
The confused girl returned to her mother and said,
"Mom, how is it possible that you told me the human race
was created by God, and Dad said they developed from monkeys?"
The mother answered,
"Well, dear, it is very simple.
I told you about my side of the family and your father told you about his."

lol!!!!


Lucky you, Anne .. winning 2 free ngiths in hotels, and how well-timed!

Reece ............ we do get the odd earthquake here. My niece was shaken out of bed by one back in about 1976.

We are on the same Pacific Ring of Fire as NZ and California


It was raining here early this morning, but it has eased off. So I have made an appointment to get my hair cut early this afternoon.


I need a new passport, so OH took me to the photographers yesterday afternoon to get the new photos


uh oh

he wouldn't take the piccies


I was wearing an ivory-coloured sweater, a very pale ivory.

He said "white tops are not allowed. They will only refuse it. It's because we have to use a white or very pale background".


I knew we weren't to wear glasses, not smile or grimace, mouth closed, eyes open, looking to a point about 3' above the camera, not wear head coverings ................... but not about restrictions on colour of clothes.


Came home, checked the regulations and instructions on the application form.

NO mention of any colour restrictions :((

BUT ......... glasses can now be worn so long as the eyes are completely visible

Headgear cannot be worn, unless it is of a religious nature BUT in that case the full face must be visible ........... I guess some religions will still have a problem.


I thought this was good of Passport Canada though ................ Passport Canada is, however, lenient about the expression of a newborn (mouth open or smile).



ah well, will try again another day!




This morning, I was once again reminded why we do not live elsewhere in Canada



75 cm of snow fell in 24 hours on Monday in Sherbrooke, Quebec



That's 15" or so!




and they can blame the US, the storm came up from the south :))))



they usually blame us!!!!



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Oh dear I have always wanted to visit Quebec - didn't realise they had so much snow - Ever since i heard about General Woolf and the Heights of Abraham - I have wanted to visit - but not in that much snow.

Loved the Passport info - my friend just got one for her 6 year old - he looks so grumpy - mummy was there saying - sit up straight - don't smile - look at the camera - don't blink - don't wiggle about - don't fidget - don't open your mouth - don't grin - hold it - no wonder he looked miserable.

Saw the most grumpy baby passport the other day - real little pudding he was - he has now been nicknamed Queen Victoria - "We are not amused"
he was around 4 months when the photo was taken.

Well all quiet on the travel front at the moment - taking a break for a change - and i am working Saturday as wll this week.

Quite excited about the hotel visits - two 5 star country properties too.

Take care all

Hi all
xxx


MJ is 1 year old today


has a very bad cold, and kept mummy & daddy awake all night


J sounded awful tired when I tlaked to her this morning ...... and was about to go off for a nap as MJ had just gone down.


Not happy campers!



Both J&M are coming down with it ..... and M HAS to go to work tomorrow as it is his first day back after leave.





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Yes, loved the Family Tree story Anne - and looking forward to hearing about those two 5 star country hotels.

Think I need some advice.

Does anyone use an Apple Mac please?

I have just tried to upload an old photo sent to me and now in my pictures (has something nasty arrived with it? I wonder) and got a horrible fright - a red masked face appeared on the screenwith the spinning beachball, and could I shift it? No I could not! Do not panic I told myself!

Got hold of my "Macs for Dummies" and found out how to Force Quit, did that and it has disappeared but I am afraid to look at the pictures in case it reappears. Sons are both out so I will have to be patient and wait for advice or help. Just when I thought I was beginning to be the mistress of my Mac!

Will have a read of other boards - cheer myself up.

All good wishes.

R