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Montagu House, Bloomsbury, London, England= Montagu House (sometimes spelled "Montague") was a late 17th-century mansion in Great Russell Street in the Bloomsbury district of London, which became the first home of the British Museum.The house was actually built twice, both times for the same man, Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu. The late 17th century was Bloomsbury's most fashionable era, an...
Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) Pre Independence====== Image Right - Coat of arms of Northern Rhodesia (1939-1953) created by User: NikNaks - taken from Flag of Northern Rhodesia Public Domain, Wiki Commons Northern Rhodesia was a protectorate formed in 1911 by the amalgamation of the two earlier protectorates of Barotziland-North-Western Rhodesia and North-Eastern Rhodesia. It was administered at...
The Children's Friend Society =====Image right - Boy ploughing at Dr. Barnardo's Industrial Farm, Russell, Manitoba, 1900. In 2010, the photo was reproduced on a Canadian postage stamp commemorating Home Children emigration. ===== Image right - Collections Canada Public Domain, Wiki Commons The Children's Friend Society (CFS) was founded in London in 1830, as "The Society for the Suppression of...
Master South African List The Children's Friend Society (CFS) - Extra Notes=There is extra information relating to some of the children available in The Children's Friend Society - Juvenile Emigrants to Western Australia, South Africa and Canada 1834 - 1842 by Geoff Blackburn. The children involved are marked ▶ here and on the Master South African List . In due course this information will be a...
Panowie na Żółkwi * Stanisław Żółkiewski , hetman wielki koronny* Jan Żółkiewski , starosta hrubieszowski* Jan Daniłowicz , wojewoda ruski* Jakub Sobieski , kasztelan krakowski* Jan III Sobieski , król polski* Jakub Sobieski , królewicz polski, książę oławski* Maria Karolina Sobieska , królewiczówna, księżna de Bouillon
R-YP4535 Y DNA Haplogroup Project ==R-YP4535 Is a Y DNA Haplogroup that originated in Battle, East Sussex England c 1300AD. In includes the surname Baker. The full path on the current Y Tree is: R1a > R-M459 > R-M198/M512/M17 > R-M417 > R-CTS4385 > R-L664 > R-S2894 > R-YP285 > R-YP282 > R-YP441 > R-YP4535
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Aperçu ~ Overview =( carte ~ map )=Toponymie ~ Toponymy =* « Saint-Charles-de-la-Rivière-Boyer » : nom original donnée à la paroisse à sa fondation en 1749.* « Saint-Charles-sur-Rivière-Boyer » : autre ancien nom.* « Saint-Charles-Borromée, Rivière Boyer » : nom temporaire de la municipalité de paroisse entre 1845 et 1854 lors de la division du territoire du Québec en comtés.** Note : Ce nom ne...
This project looks at the passengers who came from England to Massachusetts in 1630.Name: "Lyon" [Ships] Given Name: "Lyon" Surname: [Ships] Nickname: Lyon Sex: M Birth: Bet 1630 and 1632 Event: Master: Captain William Peirce Fact Event: First Departure Event Mar 1630 Bristol, , Gloucestershire, England Event: First Arrival Event May 1630 Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony Event: Second Departure ...
A project to document the Donner party and their rescuers. Feel free to join in and help.The Donner Party, or Donner–Reed Party, was a group of American pioneers that set out for California in a wagon train in May 1846. Departing from Independence, Missouri, they were delayed by a series of mishaps and mistakes, and spent the winter of 1846–47 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada. Some of the pioneer...
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Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries and Graveyards of Westmorland Image right - Parkside Cemetery, Kendal The aim of this project is to gather together information regarding cemeteries and graveyards in the county which either have available transcriptions or have been photographed and transcribed. Please update the project by adding links to any available monumental inscriptions or pages where...
Historic Buildings of County Leitrim ==Republic of Ireland ===== Historic Buildings Ireland - Main Page Image right - Parkes Castle
The Albany, Piccadilly, London, Middlesex,England= The Albany, or simply Albany , is an apartment complex in Piccadilly, London.===Building===The Albany was built in 1770–74 by Sir William Chambers for Viscount Melbourne ' as Melbourne House. It is a three-storey mansion, seven bays (windows) wide, with a pair of service wings flanking a front courtyard. In 1791, Prince Frederick, Duke of York ...
MacAlpin's Treason Image Right - From Scottish National Portrait Gallery Frieze Detail can be seen at Kenneth MacAlpin Wiki >===== By William Hole (1846-1917) - original source unknown, Public Domain, Wiki Commons MacAlpin's treason is a medieval legend which explains the replacement of the Pictish language by Gaelic in the 9th and 10th centuries.* Date AD 841In AD 841 Kenneth MacAlpin united ...
Scope of Project ==This project identifies the tragic and terrifying spirits who haunt locations in Great Britain.== Ghostly Spirits == Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury , Tower of London , London, UK Ann Boleyn , Hampton Court Palace , Tower of London, UK Dame Lilias Drummond , "The Green Lady" of Fyvie Castle , Turriff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK Janet Douglas , Lady Glamis, "The Grey ...
Back to the main page of Village Koštamuksa, Porosozero project Please write introduction of your family here!= Families from Koštamuksa village =
People Buried in County Roscommon==Republic of Ireland> Image Right Taughmaconnell Parish Cemetery If you know where in County Roscommon a person was buried please link their profile to this project. Noteworthy people can be listed under the cemetery name below. Related Project >* County Roscommon, Ireland - Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries and Graveyards for information regarding cemeteries...
This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Yazlovets, Ukraine, also known as Jazłowiec, Yazlivitz, Yablunovka, Yablunivka, Yablonevka, Jaslowiec. Gesher Galicia - Yazlovets Yazlovets on Wikipedia First written mention comes from the 15th century, naming Yazlovets, or Jazłowiec, as the town was called at that time, as the property of the Jazłowiecki noble family, a...
In April 1897, a group of 20 Jewish men and women traveled on a Thomas Cook-organized tour of the Holy Land. The project was to normalize tourism in Palestine/Israel for Jewish travelers who wished to visit Biblical sites and the emerging colonial system. Kosher food was provided. The trip's organizers were Herbert Bentwich and Israel Zangwill. The project was controversial in England and exten...
Marlborough House, London, England= Marlborough House is a Grade I listed mansion in the City of Westminster, central London, in The Mall, London, east of St James's Palace. It was built for Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough , the favourite and confidante of Queen Anne . The Duchess wanted her new house to be "strong, plain and convenient and good". The architect Christopher Wren and his ...
Pooley Hall, Warwickshire, England= Pooley Hall is a Manor house built in 1509 on the outskirts of Polesworth, Warwickshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building and a private residence.===The Cockayne Family===The present Hall was built in 1509 by Sir Thomas Cockayne "The Magnificent", who was knighted at the Battle of Tournai by King Henry VII. It was built on the site of an earlier Hal...
Colyn / Colijn Surname Project of South Africa== Bastiaan Jansz Colijn, SV/PROG Colyns to be connected to the Colyn tree: Mina Colyn Hendrik Jacobus Colyn Josina Elizabeth Burger (Colyn)
Chapel House, Montpelier Row, Twickenham, London, Middlesex, England= Chapel House, now No. 15, Montpelier Row, Twickenham, is a house in Greater London, England. The house has also been called Tennyson House and Holyrood House.[1] It was occupied at one time by Alfred Lord Tennyson , and poet Walter de la Mare lived in the same row nearly a hundred years later. The house was owned for many yea...
The Canadian Volunteer Service Medal for Korea (French: Médaille canadienne de service volontaire en Corée ) was a campaign medal created in 1991 by the Canadian monarch-in-Council to recognize former members of the Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Navy, and Royal Canadian Air Force who had volunteered to participate in the Korean War, either on the Korean Peninsula itself or in surrounding areas....