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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

• Contemporary histories of areas when ancestors lived and relocated to
• Use a perpetual calendar to add names to days when events happened
• Local weather that season
• Pictures (esp. contemporary ones) of relevant buildings
• Photocopies of relevant documents, especially ones not in the public
  domain
• Relevant extracts from contemporary newspapers
• Local historical events that would have impacted family, even if details
  are not known
• Interesting extracts from relevant merchants' account books
• Sections of maps, especially contemporary ones
• Present day photographs of anything relevant
• Photos of tombstones
• Pictures, especially contemporary ones of the general area where
  ancestors originated
• Extracts from relevant family letters

HEMSWORTHS

 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 Hemsworth’s 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 

Alonzo married Mary Ann MYERS 25/12/1878. Her twin sister Sarah Ann Myers married Reuben (?)*****. They had three children Dolly, ***** (sister) and Charlie.

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 Ann’s sister who he married

SANBY’s

BIRTHS

 Arthur SANBY – 19^th 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.

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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