Big Changes for Parishmouse

A long time ago, about 3 to 4 years ago, PM ran on some software called Drupal. It had all the new posts on the front page and everything was categorised by county and things were easy to find. Great. Then I moved house and had no broadband and so couldn’t maintain it, back it up and upgrade it, so things had to change. To date I have never found anything that runs PM as well as Drupal, till now! There is now a fully managed hosting service for Drupal which isn’t too expensive so I have started re-building PM on it. This will take quite a time as there are over 5,000 pages to put up, but a least it will mean that PM will be back to what it was.

If you want to take a look at it the new site is at parishmouse.drupalgardens.com

Once there is a reasonable amount of content on the new site I will transfer the domain name parishmouse.co.uk over to it so it will be easy to find. This site will keep running until the new site is fully set up so no-one misses out on the articles.

I’ll keep you all updated on progress … cross fingers!

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News from The Bromsgrove branch of the Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry (BMSGH)

An interesting bit of news passed my desk today and I thought I would pass it on as it may interest those of you researching Worcestershire and in particular Bromsgrove and Stourbridge areas. The message is as follows:

The Bromsgrove branch of the Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy
and Heraldry (BMSGH) are very pleased to announce two new sets of data,
which have now been added to their website.  They were transcribed by Chris
El-Amir.

Universal British Directory 1793-98
A transcription of the Principal Inhabitants of Worcester City
Pigot’s Directory of Worcestershire 1835
Listed by 18 different areas of the county

We hope they will add something to you tree and encourage you to check this
and other original source material.  There are other resources on our site
as well, e.g. the 1811 & 1821 census for Bromsgrove,  links to help you
trace your ancestors, and a downloadable list of websites suitable for
Beginners.

To be able to see these copyrighted resources you will need to subscribe to
our website, which is free. www.bromsgrovebmsgh.co.uk/

In addition, both the Bromsgrove branch and the Stourbridge branch of BMSGH
now share the same website.

The Worcestershire Forum board, open to non-members, is a common area.  As
is the events calender.  We are hoping the Stourbridge branch will be adding
things of there own soon. Members of BMSGH should additionally register with
their membership number.  You’ll see just that little bit more.

Kind regards

Mike Yegwart

Branch Chairman Bromsgrove BMSGH

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Gloucestershire Calendar of Wills 1791

Format = Name, Location, Page Reference

Archard, John, Ampney Crucis 153

Ady, Ralph, Gloucester            153

Alpass, Thomas, Berkeley 156

Alway, Hester, Hawkesbury 156

Ambrey, William, English Bicknor 158

Bower, Martha, Chipping Sodbury 151

Betterton, Charles, Ampney 153

Baylis, Mary, Dursley            153

Burrows, John, Miserdine            154

Baker, Robert, Berkeley            154

Birt, Samuel, Gloucester            155 Continue reading

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Hanley Castle Grammar School, Hanley Castle, Worcestershire

Hanley Castle Grammar School

Hanley Castle Grammar School

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St Mary, Hanley Castle, Worcestershire – Tablets and Memorials

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War Memorial at St Mary, Hanley Castle, Worcestershire

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St Mary, Hanley Castle, Worcestershire

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St. Mary, Hanley Castle, Worcestershire – Graves 4

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St. Mary, Hanley Castle, Worcestershire – Graves 3

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St. Mary, Hanley Castle, Worcestershire – Graves 2

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St. Mary, Hanley Castle, Worcestershire – Graves 1

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St. Mary, Deerhurst, Gloucestershire – Memorials and Graves

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Odda’s Chapel, Deerhurst, Gloucestershire

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St Mary’s, Deerhurst, Gloucestershire

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St Nicholas, Ashchurch, Gloucestershire – Graves

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St Nicholas, Ashchurch, Gloucestershire

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Sketch of Solihull (Birmingham) and its Environs 1840

I recently bought a Kindle and was looking on Amazon for interesting reads when I came across a digital copy of “Sketch of Solihull (Birmingham) and its Environs.”

I actually bought an original copy of this book sometime ago as a lot of my family, going back to 1700s, originate from that neck of the woods. It is only a short book but is a very interesting read if you have family from the area. It was written in 1840 by an anonymous author to raise funds for repairing the Organ, erecting a Gallery in Solihull Church, and building a School-room at Bentley Heath. If you have rellies from the Solihull or even Shirley area then grab yourself a copy because at £1 it is a lot cheaper than buying a traditional copy of the book, if you can find one, as I doubt many were originally printed and there certainly aren’t many copies around.

For those of you who don’t have a Kindle don’t miss out as you can read kindle books on your PC, Mac, IPad or phone by downloading one of the Kindle reading Apps.

For those of you in the US here is the link to the book on Amazon.com Sketch of Solihull (Birmingham) and its Environs.

I’m not sure if it is available in Australia etc. but if it is, it should show up if you do a search for Solihull.

Happy Christmas!

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