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Just for a laugh
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John | Report | 8 Dec 2003 23:51 |
Could have been a lodging house. I found Dick Turpin and Sweeny Todd both living at 4 North E Passage, Middx. in 1881. No where near as imaginative as Robert Goodman though. Brenda |
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Dawn | Report | 5 Dec 2003 12:09 |
Wow!!!!! That is pretty funny. He must of been 12 when he had his first kid.....to a 57 year old woman....yeah right. The enumerator must of been making it up..... good on him i say he obviously had a good sense of humour. :-) Dawn |
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Chelly | Report | 4 Dec 2003 21:30 |
Geoff - Like it Shirley |
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Cleo | Report | 4 Dec 2003 21:05 |
Thanks Geoff, I have had a really awful day at work and just thought I'd log on to see what everyone was talking about tonight. That really couldn't have come at a better time. I wonder who decided to slip that one in - did international playboy's exist in 1881? Cleo |
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Irene | Report | 4 Dec 2003 19:11 |
Read it last night and I still have the giggles. Didn't find them in the 1901 either, but as you all say it good for a laugh and does brighten up a cold dull day. Irene |
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Lynda ~ | Report | 4 Dec 2003 11:55 |
Geoff That was great. Thanks for putting it on here. Love the sons occupation!! Lynda |
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Aileen | Report | 4 Dec 2003 11:32 |
This topic is so funny that it deserves to be a Christmas No. 1 !!!!! I have printed 16 Acacia Gardens on the 1881 to show the family! Geoff, how on earth did you come across this? Was it during your own research or did someone else tell you about it? Aileen |
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Yvette | Report | 3 Dec 2003 23:55 |
This is funny, but must be false as it shows John Gordon as born in Pakistan.....which didnt exist until after the Indian Independance in 1947-8. Someone obviously felt we were in need of a laugh whilst wading through the 1881, and it has been much appreciated! Are there any more???? Yvette |
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Robin | Report | 3 Dec 2003 23:26 |
Probably overdoing it? |
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Annie | Report | 3 Dec 2003 20:14 |
Made my day! And strangely enough I couldn't find him on the 1891! A |
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Alison | Report | 3 Dec 2003 17:16 |
Ho ho ho check the addresses either side, it does not appear to be a particularly posh area, and the either sides are not Acacia Gardens. It caused a big laugh at work today. |
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Debbie | Report | 3 Dec 2003 15:12 |
Lesley You dont need the disc, the 1881 census is online at familysearch(.)org take out the brackets, or you can get to it by going to the resource centre on the left and the onto the links page. Debbie |
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Jane | Report | 3 Dec 2003 14:47 |
Hi Geoff, Best laugh I've had in ages, even better than looking for famous people on a really boring day! Jane |
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Robin | Report | 2 Dec 2003 22:50 |
check it out |
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Jacqui | Report | 2 Dec 2003 21:32 |
I dont care if it is a wind up - it's made my day!!! Thank God someone has a sense of humour - I only wish my long lost relatives were half as interesting! Thanks for that! Jacqui |
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Unknown | Report | 2 Dec 2003 21:16 |
That is so funny....even gave my husband a laugh !!( hes not into this) Someone should look up other years and see where he is or where he was?! So so funny. Jo |
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Bren from Oldham | Report | 2 Dec 2003 21:03 |
It does state that Robert Goodmans handicap is Lunatic Perhaps 16 Acacia Gardens was his own his own private asylum And all the so called servants were really inmates Bren |
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Sharon | Report | 2 Dec 2003 20:57 |
Hi Thanks Geoff for brightening up my otherwise dull and boring day, i have only just stopped laughing after looking it up. Sharon |
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Victoria | Report | 2 Dec 2003 20:49 |
hahahahahahahahaha Sounds like a house of fun About time reading census's gave me a laugh Super!!! |
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Kathleen | Report | 2 Dec 2003 20:23 |
Must be somebody messing around on the LDS site - or one of the transcribers getting bored. Click on the File No. it is just a blank page. Gave me a laugh anyway. Kathleen |