Re: [lace-chat] Question - London Marriages

2008-01-20 Thread Sue Duckles
Hi Helen Is it possible they were 'in service'? (working for the gentry...) They would have met their partners and got married there, but then had to go back home as a lot of big houses did not support servants and their partners. You can always look on the census after 1841 to see if

[lace-chat] Rare pillow?

2008-01-20 Thread harlequin lace
Hi spiders I have just found this item on ebay 160199405704. The description says that it is a rare pillow . I have mailed the seller to ask what makes it rare, as I see them for sale at most lace fairs Sue Southampton UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:

Re: [lace-chat] Question - London Marriages

2008-01-20 Thread Hazel Smith
I can confirm the likelihood of this as it is just what happened to my maternal grandmother's parents. Hazel Smith (in Oude Wetering, Holland) --- Sue Duckles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Helen Is it possible they were 'in service'? (working for the gentry...) They would have met their

Re: [lace-chat] Rare pillow?

2008-01-20 Thread Sue Duckles
Hi Sue I've been watching this too I've got 2 upstairs, one bigger than the other!! In fact I told Ash Firth only yesterday that his was described as rare and he found it hilarious!!! Maybe this one is made of straw instead of polystyrene but I'm sure Churchmeadow, SMP

[lace-chat] rare pillow

2008-01-20 Thread harlequin lace
The seller of this pillow says that it is rare as there are no thers for sale on ebay. If this is the criteria for a rare item then I have many rare items in my lace equipment.Including a block pillow. Sue Southampton UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line:

Re: [lace-chat] rare pillow

2008-01-20 Thread Sue Duckles
Heavens We're all Very Rich!!! How many things have I. must be sitting on a goldmine Sue in East Yorkshire On 20 Jan 2008, at 13:29, harlequin lace wrote: The seller of this pillow says that it is rare as there are no thers for sale on ebay. If this is the criteria for a rare

Re: [lace-chat] Question - London Marriages

2008-01-20 Thread Sue Babbs
We were married by Archbishop's license - it's a fun document! You needed one to be married in an Oxford college chapel - Merton, in our case Sue To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [lace-chat] Question - London Marriages

2008-01-20 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Hello Helen From one family, 30+ is a *LOT* of couples to choose to marry in London. I have just one instance where the groom from Kent married in London, but his bride was from Hampshire so I only assume that they went to the capital in search of work. He, like his father before him, was

Re: [lace-chat] Question - London Marriages

2008-01-20 Thread Brenda Paternoster
Hi Sue Yes, I think that marriage in a college chapel is the usual reason for obtaining an Archbishop's licence, though what a lot of people refer to as a special licence is in fact an ordinary (bishop's or Superintendent Registrar's) licence. Brenda On 20 Jan 2008, at 23:20, Sue Babbs

[lace-chat] Re: Question - London Marriages

2008-01-20 Thread Joy Beeson
On 1/19/08 7:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . , there are a significant numbers (over 30) of marriages in London and I am wondering why this would have been? Your description reminded me of the Senior Trip -- in the early twentieth century, children in central Indiana would spend a year