Genealogy Chat

I have transcriptions of parish records for about 25 churches all situated in the East End of London on CDR, mostly baptisms but a few burials as well. The dates vary from mid 1700 to 1940. It cost me £50 from Docklands Ancestry. As all of my family are from the area it has been a good buy.

marian a good site to look at is www.oldmerseytimes .co.uk. some very sad things on it, makes you glad to have been born in the 20thcentury

what are the docklands ancestry subscriptions please they sound interesting if sad

we dont know how lucky we are, and nor do our kids. we moan about how hard we have to work,how much tax we have to pay,how bad the n,h,s is(i do and i work for them) we dont know were born,weve got everything and we still moan, just think what it would be like to live in a hut ,working 18hrs a day, not enough to eat and surrounded by illness. my g ,g,grandmother died in the workhouse from consumption, poor diet and living conditions.and she came from ireland to liverpool for a better life.

I have the Docklands Ancestry transcriptions, and when you read where some of the babies are found it could make you cry for days.

yes underneath the railway arches with tramps and beggers

nudge

There was a post on soc[.]genealogy[.]britain recently where someone had come across a reference in the 1930s to a family living in a van. The consensus of opinion was that they were probably what we'd today call travellers.

It just shows how intrepid some enumerators were at rooting out and recording every possible person. I suppose there must be someone somewhere recorded as 'in the gutter outside the Pig and Whistle'.

as a matter of fact yes, i found one of my ancestors living in a swat shop,, what ever that is??? Also another simular to yours, their occupation was servant and living in a hut!

i was looking through the 1881 census the other night, and came upon my ancesters whos address was down as HUT IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIELD, (poor things there where eight of them) has anyone else come across unusual abodes.?