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Hobbs Family History News and Notes (2)
This section of the site is one that I am using to collect my thoughts on the path forward so to speak and add the notes prior to them being incorporated in the narrative
For the Family History to mean something and not just be a collection of names and dates a researcher must at least cover some of the following areas
DEATHS
William HEMSWORTH (79) Gainsborough 7a 413 September 1873 (born 1794)
William George HEMSWORTH Sheffield 1
William HEMSWORTH (73) Ecclesall Bierlow 9c 244 June 1893 (born 1820)
MARRIAGES
Margaret WEBSTER Willliam HEMSWORTH - 9c 507 September 1880
William (1820) and Ann Hemsworths son ALONZO and daughter ANNIE
ANNIE married Thomas HOLDING in Hull 9d 270 March 1867 and had a son William HOLDING born Gainsborough 1868
From
Mary Milner to my mother April 2002
Sarah was married before Mary (circa 18 years of age)
Dolly married a Dutch Investment banker and lived at Stonepound House, Hassocks,West Sussex (tel 01273 845782). The house is now (2002) a Nursing Home that offers specialist care to geriatric patients who have Alzeihmers disease/Dementia. The gardens may now form part of a plant nursery
Her sister ***** was mistress to the Prince of Wales (future Edward V111) and committed suicide by gassing herself
Reuben Milner married a Sarah Myers Leeds 9b 538 - June 1875 but it was not Mary Anns sister who he married
BIRTHS
Arthur SANBY 19th June 1875 Cobden View
MARRIAGE
Joseph SANBY Sheffield - March 1868 - 9c 333 Mary Ann Cowen or Hannah Hedley
George Henry SANBY Ecclesall Bierlow 9c 418
NAMING PATTERNS
ENGLISH
This is just a general guide and of course would be deviated from. For instance if someone had recently died the next child of the same sex would be called after that person. But even this can be qualified for it is assuming that no other child in the family didn't already have the name.
| First Son | Father's father |
| First Daughter | Mother's mother. |
| Second Son | Mother's father |
| Second Daughter | Father's mother |
| Third Son | Father |
| Third Daughter | Mother |
| Fourth Son | Father's oldest brother |
| Fourth Daughter | Mother's oldest sister |
The naming pattern was different in Scotland
EDUCATION - SCHOOL LEAVING AGE
Compulsory schooling ages in the UK were
1876-1893 5-10
1893-1899 5-11
1899-1918 5-12
1918-1944 5-14
1944-1970 5-15
1970- 5-16
The change in school-leaving age was introduced in the 1944 Education Act From 1944, the school-leaving age was 15, even if it didn't affect those due to leave in 44, 45 or 46. it might be better to say that the school leaving age went up to 15 in 1947. What isn't generally known is that the school leaving age was due to go up to 15 in 1939 (as per the 1936 Education Act), but this was suspended due to the onset of the 1939 - 1945 War.
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