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records of marriages in Channel Isles 1906

Re: Mackenzie Deaths in Channel Islands - probably Guernsey

Posted: 17 Sep 2014 10:25PM GMT
Classification: Query
Announcement in The Star (St Peter Port) July 6th 1871:
Died: at 3 Emma Place, Victoria Road on the 5th instant, Harriet, the beloved wife of Roderick Mackenzie Esq. Deeply regretted.

I also found this notice in the Star:
I hereby notify that I will not be responsible for any debts incurred by my wife Laura Louisa Mackenzie signed Roderick James Mackenzie, Guernsey 26th July, 1886.

If you are in the UK you may be able to access 19th Century British Newspapers through your local Library website. You can access the collection from home using your Library ticket barcode number.

Joy

Re: Mackenzie Deaths in Channel Islands - probably Guernsey

Posted: 18 Sep 2014 7:02AM GMT
Classification: Query
Wow Joy,

That's a nice welcome to the computer in the morning.

You are truly wonderful and I thank you so much for your help and knowledge of how to research the Channel Islands. When I posted my first message then I hoped I would find a fellow researcher perhaps following the same family or their spouses. You are a gem.

I always try to help people researching families from my neck of the woods namely Shropshire and its surrounds as it is better if you know the area and its customs, names and history to locate families etc.

I am a member of Ancestry and Findmypast and love following the many branches of families as you build up a full picture of them and their lives. I have checked papers through their websites but never via the public library's. Never had much luck with that though as it seems to break up the names and show too many wrong associations.

I sadly dispensed with my library card some years ago and now read via a Kindle or books bought by family as at my age (71) there is little else you really need at Christmas or birthdays and my main hobby is following family history research.

I will try a look via Ancestry as there should be announcements or reports of marriages etc. in the local press on Guernsey as it would be good to find the two marriages of Roderick and his son Roderick too. Now that poses a really interesting question as to what had happened between Roderick Jnr. and Laura to cause him to not honour her debts. He was a banker in the 1881 census aged 32 and she was aged 33 and born in Guernsey and they were living in Surrey Lodge, Camberwell at some sort of apartments. cannot find him in 1891 as I said. So he must be in the Channel Islands. I think his death certificate might reveal something - at least the informant which could lead to finding out more.

Well some more lines to try now following your help so down to it.

Thanks again

Michael

Re: records of marriages in Channel Isles 1906

Posted: 6 Nov 2014 5:53AM GMT
Classification: Query
according to the Grantham Journal 22 Sept 1906 the names of those killed in the Grantham Crash are as follows:
Mrs H Baguley, 63, Sheffield England
Miss Jessie Briggs, 23, Nottingham
Mr C.E Eldon, 48 Mount Pleasant, mail sorter
Mr Fred Fleetwood, 45, Engine driver, Doncaster, England, widower
Mr A H Kimpton, Great Shelford, Cambridge
Miss Rachel MacDonald, 31, Fraserburgh, Scotland
Mr James Miller, 63, Rochester, England
Mr Roland Philipson, Little Mill Northumberland, Railway Director and Philanthropist
Sgt J Robertson, of the Scottish Rifles, just released from hospital
Ivy and Teddy Roberston, children of the above, mother survived the crash
Ralph Talbot, steam man on the train


Re: records of marriages in Channel Isles 1906

Posted: 6 Nov 2014 6:23AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: PULLEN MACKENZIE MCKENZIE
Thank you very much for this information. I had search before I put up my query, but could find no list of names at that time.

I now have to wonder if the date I was given is wrong!

Thanks again.

Carol
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