<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Places @ myroots.blog-city.com</title><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/</link><description>(Places) </description><copyright>Copyright 2009 myroots.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:16:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Places @ myroots.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Some surviving family homes in Google Street View</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/some_surviving_family_homes_in_google_street_view.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/some_surviving_family_homes_in_google_street_view.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:25:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=some%5Fsurviving%5Ffamily%5Fhomes%5Fin%5Fgoogle%5Fstreet%5Fview</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Google&#39;s Street View feature has allowed me to walk along the street where I grew up and where my parents and grandparents once lived. I was able to see for the first time in more than 30 years the road in which my grandfather lived at the time o]]></description></item><item><title>Locating Gedling Street and Bermondsey Workhouse</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/locating_gedling_street_and_bermondsey_workhouse.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/locating_gedling_street_and_bermondsey_workhouse.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:57:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=locating%5Fgedling%5Fstreet%5Fand%5Fbermondsey%5Fworkhouse</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The long bank holiday weekend has given me a few hours to follow-up some of the leads that have come via MyRoots over the past few months. Geri, a Canadian who describes herself as a &#39;fellow family hunter&#39;, was kind enough to email me in Febr]]></description></item><item><title>Albert Victor Fage and Louie Cade: more confusing connections</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/albert_victor_fage_and_louie_cade_more_confusing_connection.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/albert_victor_fage_and_louie_cade_more_confusing_connection.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=albert%5Fvictor%5Ffage%5Fand%5Flouie%5Fcade%5Fmore%5Fconfusing%5Fconnection</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[One of the things I&#39;ve been doing over Christmas 2007 is seeing if I can find more information about my direct ancestors&#39; brothers and sisters and their descendents, as I like to build up a wider picture of how, where and with whom my grand-p]]></description></item><item><title>Frederick Ephgrave, Redbourn bakers and the London Colney mystery</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/frederick_ephgrave_redbourn_bakers_and_the_london_colney_my.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/frederick_ephgrave_redbourn_bakers_and_the_london_colney_my.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 17:46:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=frederick%5Fephgrave%5Fredbourn%5Fbakers%5Fand%5Fthe%5Flondon%5Fcolney%5Fmy</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It took me some time to track the birth and early life of my great-grandfather Frederick EPHGRAVE, born 1872, because he was illegitimate and registered under his mother&#39;s surname as Frederick Hipgrave SCRIVENER (the Hipgrave presumably a referen]]></description></item><item><title>Benjamin Brown b c1813 Benington, Herts</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/benjamin_brown_b_c1813_benington_herts.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/benjamin_brown_b_c1813_benington_herts.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2005 23:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=benjamin%5Fbrown%5Fb%5Fc1813%5Fbenington%5Fherts</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Benjamin was the father of Charles Brown, my great-great grandfather.  The IGI led to finding his marriage certificate from 1852.  A widower, he married Esther Miles at Hertingfordbury, his father named as William, a farmer.  In the 1871 census, the]]></description></item><item><title>Ephgraves in service in the late 1800s</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/ephgraves_in_service_in_the_late_1800s.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/ephgraves_in_service_in_the_late_1800s.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2005 20:16:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=ephgraves%5Fin%5Fservice%5Fin%5Fthe%5Flate%5F1800s</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Charles and Sarah Ephgrave's many children variously worked in domestic service.  Charles worked as a Carpenter (1871 census).  After he died in 1877, his widow Sarah nee Philpott must have needed to find a way of supporting herself.  In the 1881]]></description></item><item><title>William Ephgrave born c 1852 Wheathamsted</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/william_ephgrave_born_c_1852_wheathamsted.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/william_ephgrave_born_c_1852_wheathamsted.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2005 19:29:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=william%5Fephgrave%5Fborn%5Fc%5F1852%5Fwheathamsted</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[William appears and disappears from online records with a bit of a mystery and a touch of the military.  William's father Charles Ephgrave was son of Thomas Ephgrave, farmer.  Charles inherited a cottage from his parents when his mother Elizabeth d]]></description></item><item><title>Kilbys of Gustard&apos;s Wood, Hertfordshire</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/kilbys_of_gustards_wood_hertfordshire.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/kilbys_of_gustards_wood_hertfordshire.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:52:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=kilbys%5Fof%5Fgustards%5Fwood%5Fhertfordshire</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Kilby married Thomas Ephgrave in 1812 in Wheathamsted.  Born in 1780, she was the daughter of John Kilby and Ann nee Gregory, both of Wheathamsted.  Elizabeth had at least one sister, Mary, born in 1778.  Thomas was a farmer at Gustard's Wo]]></description></item><item><title>Occupations: Straw plaiters and associated trades</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/occupations_straw_plaiters_and_associated_trades.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/occupations_straw_plaiters_and_associated_trades.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:21:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=occupations%5Fstraw%5Fplaiters%5Fand%5Fassociated%5Ftrades</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Harriet Scrivener and her children worked in the straw plait industry in both Luton, Bedfordshire, and Redbourn, Hertfordshire.  Here are a few resources relating to the industry in the area (and now I know why Luton football club is called the hatte]]></description></item><item><title>Harriet Scrivener&apos;s story (part I)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/harriet_scriveners_story_part_i.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/harriet_scriveners_story_part_i.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2005 21:42:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=harriet%5Fscriveners%5Fstory%5Fpart%5Fi</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Harriet Scrivener was the daughter of William Scrivener and his wife Hannah, formerly Hawkes.  William and Hannah (possibly) married around 1840 and their daughter was born at Elizabeth Street, Luton, in 1851.  By the 1871 census, Harriet is living a]]></description></item><item><title>Who was Samuel Arnold?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://myroots.blog-city.com/who_was_samuel_arnold.htm</guid><link>http://myroots.blog-city.com/who_was_samuel_arnold.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2005 19:36:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://myroots.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=who%5Fwas%5Fsamuel%5Farnold</comments><dc:creator>Lesly Huxley</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[When tracing the Cades of Gamlingay, I found that the marriages of Jonathan Cade and Ann Head (in 1862) and of Jonathan's parents Reuben Cade and Susanna Baines (in 1839) were both witnessed, it would seem, by the same person, Samuel Arnold.  Cambri]]></description></item></channel></rss>