tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79923812563868255872024-03-06T20:02:44.486+00:00Hertfordshire Genealogy NewsEditorial and news of updates for the Genealogy in Hertfordshire Web Site (www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk)Chris Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03180178794366214284noreply@blogger.comBlogger1446125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992381256386825587.post-40028687838561587922020-04-29T16:41:00.002+01:002020-04-29T16:41:25.048+01:00Isolated by the Computer - delays in answering emails, etc.Self-isolating from the virus is one thing - but within hours of posting my last message here I found myself being isolated from my genealogy activities on the web. I had two computers on the go - the old one which I use for all Geneological and local history activities, and a newer (but my no means new) laptop. Soon after posting the last message the home network started to fall apart and the problem was the old computer - which still works off-line - but is causing problems if it was connected to the router, OK I can still update the website offline but I can't (at the moment) update the online copy.<br />
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In addition I found I couldn't access the email from the laptop - except that after about a week it started to misbehave and when I typed my password all I got was a blank screen ... leaving me with no working computer. A friendly computer engineer has now downloaded the hard disc and may be able to get it running intermittently - but it is unlikely to be reliable in the long term. <br />
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Clearly being self-isolated as an at risk OAP - and at the same time being denied access to a computer would be hellish - except that I could get a bit of time on my wife's computer - except that for many accounts I found I no longer knew the passwords! However my son, whose family usually has the latest models, has kindly given my wife and iPhone and an iPad - while I have decided get myself an iMac - and am now busy learning a new system, transferring files across, etc.<br />
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For the rest of the self-isolation time (however long it proves to be for geriatrics like myself) I will be mainly working on preparing some old project records for Archive at Cambridge University - but I will also tidy up the Genealogy web site in the hope that I will later be able to update it - or at least deposit a copy of the updated version at HALS. When I regain access to my email at www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk I will reply to any relevant messages,<br />
Chris Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03180178794366214284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992381256386825587.post-25556869966450508352020-03-17T21:49:00.000+00:002020-03-17T22:00:33.734+00:00Don't be a prisoner in your own house? Why not do some more local and family history research<div style="text-align: justify;">
I may be 82 in a few days time and suffer from asthma (fortunately only mildly) but I have no intention of being bored over the coming months. I want to be sure my mind remains active - and you may find historical research is a good way of avoiding watching the news on TV.</div>
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I admit I have rather neglected my "<b><a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/">Genealogy in Hertfordshire</a></b>" web site over the last year and the current crisis gives me time to add updates based on pictures and documents in my office that has not yet made it online and which should be in the final archive. These will definitely include more information of Bernards Heath, St Albans, and information on the early marketing of "Lawes Patent Fertilizer" (developed at Harpenden about 180 years ago). I may add details of books that, until now, had not been reviewed and add more higher resolution pictures of Hertfordshire post cards. To lighten the blog I will also regularly include comic post cards linked to the Crown Publishing Company of St Albans.</div>
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In addition <b><span style="font-size: large;">you can help</span></b> by visiting my web site and providing information about existing pages which would add value to the web site to the surviving generations of family and local history researchers. </div>
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Two such updates are already in the pipeline - both relating to different Watford Photographers. Trevor has found the missing 1891 census return for Colville Dyke and as I result I have been able to provide detailed information as to what he was doing in Sittingbourne. Darren has provided some early views by Fred Downer and as a result I will be updating the information on Sopwell Priory, St Albans. If you can make similar contributions they will be gratefully received. In fact when I post further messages on this blog I will suggest where there a holes that need filling which you might like to explore.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">All significant updates to the web site will be reported on this blog.</span></b></div>
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Chris Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03180178794366214284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992381256386825587.post-71295373383882269012020-01-27T21:14:00.002+00:002020-01-27T21:14:58.864+00:00January Updates<span style="font-size: large;">Many pages have been updated (heading has a blue background) and new cards, or higher resolution images have been added. The more important changes have been described on <b><a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/projects/FS/FS-frame-update.htm">Latest Updates</a></b> - and include the following interesting cards:</span><br />
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This card, shows a mother with a pram, has no signature or publisher but is in "<b><a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/projects/FS/Series/309x%20Series.htm"><span style="background-color: yellow;">Series 3097</span></a></b>" along with other cards that are very probably by "F S."<br />
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This card was published by <b><a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/projects/FS/Publishers/Vertigen.htm"><span style="background-color: yellow;">Vertigen</span></a></b> and shows an aeroplane flying over the sea. It was posted in October 1910, a year after Louis Bleriot had flown across the English Channel<br />
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This card, by <b><span style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/projects/FS/Artists/Artists%20-%20Dauber.htm">Dauber</a></span></b>. replaces an earlier version where the image was partly obscured by a printed Christmas message</div>
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Chris Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03180178794366214284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992381256386825587.post-79715915108084704492019-12-24T20:02:00.001+00:002019-12-24T20:02:15.168+00:00A Merry Christmas from "Genealogy in Hertfordshire"<div align="justify">
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<span style="font-size: large;">"F S" produced several different sets of Xmas cards. In 1906 they were published by the <b><a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/projects/FS/Publishers/London%20View%20Company.htm">London View Co. Ltd</a></b>. and appeared with a <b><a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/projects/FS/Series/Xmas%20Cards%20-%20Holly%20borders.htm">holly border</a></b>. The series "<b><a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/projects/FS/Series/Kiss%20me.htm">Kiss me under the Mistletoe</a></b>" may have been published the same year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 1909 Spurgin Xmas cards were published by <a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/projects/FS/Publishers/Watkins-Kracke.htm"><b>Watkins & Krak</b>e</a> and were signed using the name </span><b style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/projects/FS/Artists/Artists%20-%20Dauber.htm">Dauber</a>.</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 1910 similar cards were produced to the previous year, but published by the <b><a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/projects/FS/Publishers/Avenue%20Publishing.htm">Avenue Publishing Co</a> </b>in the <b><a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/projects/FS/Series/Paternoster.htm">Paternoster</a> series.</b></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">After a rather disruptive year - when the <b><a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/index.htm">Genealogy in Hertfordshire site</a></b>, and this blog, got very neglected - I am now hoping, to get the "<b><a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/FS.htm">Catalogue of F S Post Cards</a></b>" (related to the <b><a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/projects/FS/Publishers/Crown%20Publishing.htm">Crown Publishing Company</a> of St Albans</b>) into a better long term structure (see latest <b><a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/projects/FS/FS-frame-update.htm">Updates</a></b>). In addition I hope to include some updates on other projects relating to Hertfordshire</span>.</i><br />
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Chris Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03180178794366214284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992381256386825587.post-18242807581867919942019-10-30T20:50:00.000+00:002019-10-30T20:50:31.146+00:00First World War Book - The London Gunners come to Town<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In 2014 many people contacted me trying to get a copy of my popular 1995 book, "The London Gunners come to Town," and I sadly had to say it was out of print. As a result some second hand copies were for sale online at £50 or more. A couple of weeks ago, while clearing some of the junk in my garage, I found an unopened box of new copies. As a result I have placed a number of signed copies with the brand new bookshop in Tring (<b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/OurBookshopTring/">Our Bookshop</a></b>) for sale at the original asking price of £9.99.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/projects/londongunners/gunners-frame.htm">Extensive Details of the Book</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/projects/londongunners/gunners-reviews.htm">Published Reviews</a></b></span></div>
Chris Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03180178794366214284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992381256386825587.post-51097623270351559972018-12-25T07:41:00.004+00:002018-12-25T07:41:56.070+00:00A Merry Christmas from "Genealogy in Hertfordshire"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hi All</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Enjoy your Christmas and keep up your own researches into family and local history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes I am still here even if my web site and blogs have been rather inactive during 2018 Other matters have meant that I have not been as active on line as I would like. My top priority has been to keep fit and over the year I have relaxed by doing more walking in the wonderful countryside around Tring - and have lost over 10 kg. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To remain mentally active I have been continuing to work on local history. I have been trying to identify the artist who published the "<a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/projects/FS/Artists/Artists%20-%20Karaktus.htm"><b>Karaktus</b></a>" comic cards in St Albans 110 years ago. The story involves a young and highly innovative artist who sometimes signed his cards "<b><a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/FS.htm">F S</a></b>" and a whole networks of mainly small short-lived companies (such as the <b><a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/projects/FS/Publishers/Crown%20Publishing.htm">Crown Publishing Company</a> </b>of St Albans). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Recently I came across firm evidence that "F S" also published some comic cards (such as the one above) under the pseudonym "<b><a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/projects/FS/Artists/Artists%20-%20Dauber.htm">Dauber</a></b>" and was also responsible for the <b><a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/projects/FS/Publishers/Watkins-Kracke.htm">Infantastic</a> </b>series of cards of round-faced children. Certain details make it virtually certain that "F S" is <b><a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/projects/FS/Artists/Artists%20-%20Spurgin.htm">Fred Spurgin</a></b>, who was one of the top comic card artists of the 1910s and 20s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Over the holiday period I will be actively updating (and correcting) the information I have on the "F S" related comic cards in the light of the latest discoveries. Of course you are welcome to enter the world of <a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/FS.htm"><b>Edwardian comic post cards by "F S"</b></a> at any time as long as you don't mind the occasional "work in progress" warnings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So relax and enjoy the Christmas break.</span></div>
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Chris Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03180178794366214284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992381256386825587.post-36457728078816563492018-12-01T00:00:00.000+00:002018-12-01T00:00:10.548+00:00Meeting HFHS - The (almost) Empty Index Card<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>The (almost) Empty Index Card</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>A lost ancestor who went to Van Dieman's Land voluntarily</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Janet Pearson</span></div>
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2.30pm on 8th December</div>
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Herts Family History Society</div>
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Woolmer Green Village Hall, SG3 6SZ</div>
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Hall opens 1.30pm</div>
Chris Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03180178794366214284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992381256386825587.post-74102167722498723382018-11-10T15:47:00.000+00:002018-11-10T15:49:09.635+00:00Lest We Forget<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.geograph.org.uk/snippet/11617">Click here for other pictures of Tring remembering its fallen heroes</a></b></span></td></tr>
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Chris Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03180178794366214284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992381256386825587.post-91588411791642298182018-11-10T00:00:00.000+00:002018-11-10T00:00:01.820+00:00Meeting HFHS - The Real Gunpowder Plot<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Strange story of the "Gowrie Conspiracy</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Gareth Hughes</span></div>
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2.30pm on 17th November</div>
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Herts Family History Society Meeting </div>
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Woolmer Green Village Hall, SG3 6SZ</div>
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Hall opens 1.30pm</div>
Chris Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03180178794366214284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992381256386825587.post-72437377344473774552018-10-29T17:29:00.000+00:002018-10-29T17:29:01.878+00:00The Good Old Days in Tring<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Chris Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03180178794366214284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992381256386825587.post-38671168842470419252018-10-20T00:00:00.000+01:002018-10-20T00:00:02.195+01:00HFHS Meeting - Finding George<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Finding George</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Tracing a 1st World War Soldier</i></span></div>
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2.30pm on 27th October</div>
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Herts Family History Society Meeting </div>
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Woolmer Green Village Hall, SG3 6SZ</div>
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Hall opens 1.30pm</div>
Chris Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03180178794366214284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992381256386825587.post-7448596848751951712018-10-07T08:00:00.000+01:002018-10-07T08:00:03.026+01:00<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Roy has kindly supplied an update on Balderson's Wharf, Hemel Hempstead. It appear that the person after whom the wharf was named was actually born with the surname Osbaldeston!</span></div>
Chris Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03180178794366214284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992381256386825587.post-1883544161511198172018-10-06T20:15:00.000+01:002018-10-06T20:15:10.277+01:00The Tring Earth Closet - Update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have been very busy recently but when I have time I sit and think about my <b style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/index.htm">genealogy web site</a></b>, and sometimes I am moved to deposit some new material in it.</div>
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Recently Allen pointed out there was a leak in the page on the <b style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/places/places-t/tring/tring-old-news-earth-closet-1872.htm">Tring Earth Closet</a></b> and I have removed the broken link and added a <b style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="https://homeviable.com/how-does-composting-toilet-work/">new link</a></b> for any environmentally friendly reader who want to make compost.</div>
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P.S. If you know where there is a surviving Victorian Tring-designed earth closet it might make a very practical addition to the <span style="background-color: yellow;"><b><a href="https://www.tringlocalhistorymuseum.org.uk/">local history museum</a></b></span>.</div>
Chris Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03180178794366214284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992381256386825587.post-81041126520680273032018-10-06T17:21:00.000+01:002018-10-06T17:28:02.321+01:00The War on the Western Front in 1914<div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmKeuEf84dJHTKcuv0TPpUkLGJOgzq4Lr6PNt8NDMIjleA4mMVmzbNI6LxqVwsMGJcDYN4JEEjlACXn5gJhMjc1wQQyEiBNEwuGhzS6hAD25WP4B_s_2FxB6W7Q_udCPeb4yN3-hg60w0/s1600/meeting-tiny.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="101" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmKeuEf84dJHTKcuv0TPpUkLGJOgzq4Lr6PNt8NDMIjleA4mMVmzbNI6LxqVwsMGJcDYN4JEEjlACXn5gJhMjc1wQQyEiBNEwuGhzS6hAD25WP4B_s_2FxB6W7Q_udCPeb4yN3-hg60w0/s1600/meeting-tiny.jpg" /></a><strong><span style="font-size: 24px;">Wednesday
17th October 2018 - Dr Jonathan Boff<br />Subject: 'The War on the Western Front
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Jonathan Boff is a Senior Lecturer in History
and War Studies at the University of Birmingham, where he teaches courses on
conflict from Homer to Helmand.<br />
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He specialises in the First World War and
his previous book, Winning and Losing on the Western Front: The British Third
Army and the Defeat of Germany in 1918 (CUP, 2012) was short-listed for the
Templer Medal and for the British Army Book of the Year award.<br />
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He was
educated at Merton College, Oxford and the Department of War Studies, King's
College London and spent twenty years working in finance before returning to
academia. He serves on the councils of the National Army Museum and Army Records
Society, has worked as a historical consultant with the British Army and the
BBC, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. <br />
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The talk takes
place in the Weston Auditorium, University of Hertfordshire, De Havilland
Campus, Herts, AL10 9EU and starts at at 7.30pm with doors open from 7pm. To
book your FREE ticket, car park pass and for further information, please
visit the link below:<br />
<a href="https://hertsatwar.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6149f19c64fd9f17830e0d006&id=ca842e475f&e=fc33a53300" style="color: #2baadf;" target="_blank">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/war-on-the-western-front-in-1918-dr-jonathan-boff-tickets-50642505096</a><br />
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For
directions and site map visit: <a href="https://hertsatwar.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6149f19c64fd9f17830e0d006&id=5c6bd594e4&e=fc33a53300" style="color: #2baadf;" target="_blank">www.hertsatwar.co.uk/talks-2017-2018 </a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: red;"><strong><em>* Note the car park pass will be email
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Chris Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03180178794366214284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992381256386825587.post-51164658907099878062018-09-21T16:08:00.001+01:002018-09-21T16:10:58.305+01:00What is happening to the "Genealogy in Hertfordshire" web site<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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I am still here but apart from a few minor behind the scenes updates to the main web site, and a few private emails, there has been no real action to report. The current situation is as follows.</div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;">On the computer side the old system which runs the ancient software to support the web site is showing further signs of old age and it only really being kept alive so that I can update the web site.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">On the domestic side, we may have to make some changes to our house for health-related reasons. If we install a lift the only possible location would require me to significantly downsize my Hertfordshire Library.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">As the main function of the library was to support the web site I may well decide to sell .off a significant number of Hertfordshire books on ebay over the winter, and will give details here when I do.</li>
<li style="text-align: justify;">Where there is unique material I will consider transferring it to a suitable archive.</li>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="http://evolution-human-intelligence.blogspot.com/"><img border="0" data-original-height="246" data-original-width="995" height="97" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwYQk23SxGaS-uuH_UHTKQaMu-kxXgyKDgd5JicseJYTL-7ar1vc12JwxMqPMtKNcIWK706AIiyJT-vJh1ADLwi3WyWqLoXd0hONEFH6n1N1BGo5gLWQewnvZzUpiB4FjGzcsf1-ToXD8/s400/evol+Intel.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://evolution-human-intelligence.blogspot.com/"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Blog: <i>An Evolutionary Model of Human Intelligence</i></span></b></a></td></tr>
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However 50 years ago I was put in charge of a project to design a human-friendly computer - only to be made redundant a couple of years later as the result of the government inspired merger to form the computer company ICL - which decided it was not interested. The subsequent story is long and complicated, but it now seems that my 1968 ideas were modelling how human short term memory works - and my ideas are now relevant to the way the brain works. As a result my top online priority in future will centre around an new blog </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"<b><i style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://evolution-human-intelligence.blogspot.com/">An Evolutionary Model of Human Intelligence.</a></i></b>" </span></div>
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Feel free to drop in to see a very different side of my interests.</div>
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Chris Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03180178794366214284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992381256386825587.post-43624622791346454892018-06-27T17:12:00.001+01:002018-06-27T17:12:21.746+01:00A sick computer and lost emails<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For various reasons I have not been able to spend much time on genealogy recently and the ancient computer I have been using to support the "Genealogy in Hertfordshire" web site has been having some serious problems including a faulty memory card.<br />
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While its can still be used to update the online web site it is not certain how long it will be working well enough to do so. Over the next few month I hope to be able to clear some back-log updates. As arrangements have been made for the site to be archived by the British Library everything online should be "safe".<br />
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When the old system finally collapses this blog will still continue.<br />
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Another fault has just lead to the "Outbox" folder (and possibly some other folders) of my email package being corrupted - before I had completed the move of all my email to a newer computer. My back up arrangement does not appear to have worked so if I has sent you an email from my hertfordshire-genealogy address in the last few years I may no longer have a copy!Chris Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03180178794366214284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992381256386825587.post-79882093975135097722018-06-07T00:02:00.000+01:002018-06-07T00:02:53.119+01:00Restrictions on the "Ask Chris" facility<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have just reworded the "Ask Chris" page on the main <b><a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/index.htm">Genealogy in Hertfordshire web site</a></b> to read:<br />
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<b><i><span><span style="background-color: white;">Ask Chris</span></span></i></b><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><u><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">Your Questions</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"> answered by the Resident Genealogist</span></span></b></u></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">Sorry </span>but <span style="color: red;">Ask Chris </span>is now</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700;"><i>to <u>new queries</u> as this <a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/index.htm">web site</a> is currently being put into <a href="https://hertfordshire-genealogy.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-genealogy-in-hertfordshire-site-is.html">archive mode</a>.</i></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: #ccffff;"><u><span style="color: green;">Messages are still welcomed</span></u></span><span style="background-color: white;"> if they help to correct errors or otherwise extend clearly identified web pages or relate to the source or reuse of material (including pictures) already on this web site.</span></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700;"><i>The </i></span><i><a href="http://hertfordshire-genealogy.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700;">Newsletter</span><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700;"> Blog</span></a></i><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700;"><i> is continuing and news </i></span></span><i><span style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white;">items for possible inclusion on it </span></span></span></i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700;">are very welcome.</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The instructions make it clear that all emails will be treated as spam unless either they clearly specify which page on the web site is relevant or include news items appropriate for Hertfordshire Genealogy News.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The reason is quite simple - the time I can spend on the web site is extremely limited (due to other matters which need attention) and priority has to be given to the fact that the site will, in the not too distant future, only be available as an archive. There is a backlog of material waiting to be added to the final archive and I would like to concentrate on transferring this online, and of course correcting any errors, before the old computer finally gives up the ghost.</span></div>
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Chris Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03180178794366214284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992381256386825587.post-56216529509806147762018-06-04T23:17:00.000+01:002018-06-04T23:17:21.833+01:00The origin of the Placename BetlowI was recently asked about the origin of the surname Betlow and whether it was associated with Betlow Farm, near Tring, in Hertfordshire. I replied:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Surnames only started in medieval times and
spellings only started to be standardised after the invention of printing and in
some cases current spellings (both surnames and place names) may be only a
hundred years old. As a result any analysis of the origins of a surname must
involve a large degree of uncertainty.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">Some surnames came into existance because someone
was named after the place where they came from. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">It is therefore possible possible that your surname "<em>Betlow</em>"
refers back to someone who lived at a place called
"<em>Betlow</em>."</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">The earliest known reference to the Hertfordshire
village/manor of "<em>Betelawe</em>"was in 1203 with other 13th century
references being to "<em>Betelowe</em>," " <em>Betelaue</em>" and
"<em>Bettelawe</em>." The village was abandoned in the Middle Ages (possibly due
to the Black Death) and for many centuries all that remained of the manor was a
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that the placename probably was a descriptive term meaning Beta's mound or
hill. The area around Betlow Farm is vey flat - so it clearly doesn't refer to
a hill. I haven't visited the Farm but I know much of the area would have been
very wet in the past - perhaps even marshy - although moden drainage has lowered
the water table. So it is possible that there was a slightly raised area which
was drained well enough to build a house. Not many miles away there are moated
sites (often with no surviving buildings, where the effect of the moat was
almost certainly to leave a dry area on which a wooden farm house could be
built. In the nearby Village of Long Marston the old church is on a mound
perhaps 3 feet higher that the surrounding fields - with the remains of a
waterfiled moat close by - possible for that reason.</span><br />
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Chris Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03180178794366214284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992381256386825587.post-82941234794438511192018-06-01T07:45:00.000+01:002018-06-01T07:45:02.515+01:00Fasting at Champneys, nr Tring, in 1926<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Chris Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03180178794366214284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992381256386825587.post-71486892238916468752018-05-23T22:22:00.002+01:002018-05-23T22:22:50.914+01:00Locating households mentioned in Census Returns<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH4OyRJDQ0qFWrA1zFUOT3x02oKPemsjfHNvFLDFeQiY49bN9FuuItzQbRL5lkVNcyR49AtBhtseoUuy3VbcayXvR_mjI7cZnWrI1pOz2fPr_7ChbfzpJuUI7qOoLdkpIFG0kb71xBdlM/s1600/Watford+1891+address+census.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH4OyRJDQ0qFWrA1zFUOT3x02oKPemsjfHNvFLDFeQiY49bN9FuuItzQbRL5lkVNcyR49AtBhtseoUuy3VbcayXvR_mjI7cZnWrI1pOz2fPr_7ChbfzpJuUI7qOoLdkpIFG0kb71xBdlM/s1600/Watford+1891+address+census.jpg" /></a><br />
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I have just had an inquiry about the location of a house described in the 1891 census as "8 Court No 10, Vicarage Cottages" in the parish of St Mary, Watford.</div>
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"Court 10" may also be a temporary name given for the enumerator's benefit to a court which was normally called "Vicarage Cottages." The courts were often little more than a collection of inhabited buildings in what had once been the back yard of a house or business facing onto the road. Most were what we would now called slums - and have long been demolished and the site reused in some way. Sometimes the court would be named after the owner - and I suspect this is the case with "Gregory's Yard." People using the census are often confused because a court may well be given a different name in different censuses.</div>
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The first thing to do when you are trying to locate a census property is to look at the front of the census book where you will find a description of the area covered by the particular enumeration book. In this case the description show that the enumeration area ends with "<i>... to Mr Upson No4 Church Street, the Vicarage, Free School and Courts No 10 and 12.</i>" This would suggest that "Vicarage Cottages" might well be a court associated with the Vicarage,</div>
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It is often possible to get the same information by simply looking at the pages on either side of the property you are interested in. In this case the situation is complicated because all that is shown between Mr Upson's house and Court 10 are three unoccupied houses where no-one was living on the night of the census. These unoccupied house may well have included the Vicarage and a house for the headmaster of the Free School.</div>
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11.20 A series of talks by local history societies about their work and projects (Lowewood Museum, Hoddesdon; Rickmansworth Historical Society; Tring Local History Society; Watford & District Industrial Society; Wheathampstead Pubs Research Project; Community Archives Project)</div>
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12.40 Readings from <a href="http://www.hrsociety.org.uk/volume_33.html" style="color: #638cce; outline: none;">John Carrington's Diaries</a> (vol. II)</div>
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13.00 Refreshments with the opportunity to visit <a href="https://www.tewinvillage.co.uk/village/the-church/" style="color: #638cce; outline: none;">St Peter's Church</a></div>
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14.15 The Lionel Munby Lecture: <em>The Concealed-Revealed Project</em>, Dr Ceri Houlbrook </div>
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<strong>The lecture seems most interesting as when people renovate old houses they sometimes find items what were hidden - perhaps under the floor boards or up a chimney breast. These could be an odd shoe, a horse's skull or even a mummified cat. Dr Houlbrook will talk about some of the finds and is interested in folklore and the reasons why such items were hidden away. He is working on "The Concealed-Revealed Project" and if something unusual hidden object was found during renovation work on your old house he would be delighted to have details. </strong></div>
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Chris Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03180178794366214284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992381256386825587.post-75017045983949488952018-05-05T09:21:00.004+01:002018-05-05T09:21:59.158+01:00Ask a silly Question ? - Some unusual First World War Comic Cards<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As part of my investigations into the short-lived <b style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/projects/FS/Publishers/Crown%20Publishing.htm">Crown Publishing Co</a></b>. of St Albans, and in particular the unusual cards by <b style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/projects/FS/Artists/Artists%20-%20Karaktus.htm">Karaktus</a></b> I have been checking up on other comic cards published at about the same time which used a crown logo and which might represent the same company (and perhaps artist) before or after the short period in St Albans.<br />
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My attention was drawn to an artist who signed cards "Spatz." His cards had a crown on the back, and first appeared about 4 months before the first "crown" cards appeared in St Albans. So it was clearly worth investigating.<br />
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In fact it proved a false lead, and "Spatz" turned out to be a bank clerk living in Yorkshire who was called Fred Gothard. Fred later produced many First World War comic cards for the publishers E. Mack and/or J. Salmon cards signed ""F G". He also did some WW1 cards for Tuck & Sons.<br />
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While these cards turn out to have nothing to do with Hertfordshire I know many who follow this blog are interested in the war - and might like to see some of the war work of a rather unconventional and less well-known comic artist.<br />
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Chris Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03180178794366214284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992381256386825587.post-33993511397372827052018-05-04T17:44:00.000+01:002018-05-04T17:44:10.827+01:00"Votes for Women" activity in Hertfordshire in 1911.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I was interested to see that the <a href="https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/"><b style="background-color: yellow;">British Newspaper Archive</b></a> has digitized the paper "Votes for Women" and decide to a have a quick peek at what was going on in Hertfordshire. The following comes from a report of the Christmas Fair reported in the paper of 22 December 1911.<br />
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<b>Lady Constance Lytton</b>, general organiser of the Hertfordshire Stall writes :- I wish to thank the many valiant workers who, as contributors of money or goods, as organisers, as sellers, or as patronesses, helped to make this scheme of a county stall so great a success. Our actual takings amounted to £72 10s.1d. Many goods are being returned to the various districts to be disposed of at local sales, and there are still some promised money contributions, to be paid in. The seven county branches, <b>St. Albans, Barnet, Chorley Wood, Hitchin, Knebworth</b> and <b>Kimpton. Letchworth</b>, and <b>Radlett</b>, vied with each other in zeal and unremitting labours. Our sign was an exceptionally beautiful one. We were all proud of it and of the admiration it received. We offer our united thanks to <b>Miss Woolnoth</b> who, with the help of the <b>St. Albans School of Art</b>, carried out with such artstic power the county crest of " Hart-in-ford" with the "Home-Makers" symbol on the other side. We owe a very special debt of gratitude to our non. sec., <b>Mrs. Impey</b>, and to <b>Miss Pam</b> of who organised the daily arrangement of the stall. From 8 o'clock on Monday morning till past 1 o'clock on Saturday night, they were in constant attendance throughout the week. Unsold goods will be returned to local branchesas soon as possible. A committee meeting will be held early in January, if not before, to wind up financial and other arrangements. The growth of the W.S.F.U. in the county has been little short of miraculous during the year. Now the our treasuries will be replenished and that we have gained in courage and solidarity from the intercourse afforded by our joint stall, we may hope to extend organisations and strengthen their powers of service with double energy in 1912. I feel it an honour, as well as a great pleasure, to have had a share in this county scheme. Finally, we offer our thanks to many kind friends outside the county who helped us in various ways. </div>
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<b><i><span style="color: purple; font-size: large;">Do you know of any stories which like the suffragette movement to Hertfordshire which would interest other readers?</span></i></b></div>
Chris Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03180178794366214284noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992381256386825587.post-31078837746299212562018-05-04T16:58:00.000+01:002018-05-05T06:41:03.847+01:00Update of Pictures on Westmill (near Buntingford)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Following a query about this small village I have now added two new post card images showing the village of <b style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/links/westmill.htm">Westmill</a></b> n the early part of the 20th century. In addition all post card images expand to 1024 pixels wide (or high) if you click on the small image on the village page.Chris Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03180178794366214284noreply@blogger.com0