Antony Marr
@chalfontr.bsky.social
Ex Met Police, former deputy registrar, and now retired professional genealogist and family history researcher with a special interest in the records of civil registration in England/Wales.
Fellow of AGRA
Fellow of AGRA
Ready for today's game, with my new #Rovers coffee mug from @brfcs.bsky.social , and great design by @gailmyerscough.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Ready for today's game, with my new #Rovers coffee mug from @brfcs.bsky.social , and great design by @gailmyerscough.co.uk
Sloe gin this year ?
October 31, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Sloe gin this year ?
My wife is away visiting family, so tomorrow I'm moving in my new girlfriend .....Pippa
#Greyhound
#Genealogy will be off my radar for a while...
#Greyhound
#Genealogy will be off my radar for a while...
October 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
My wife is away visiting family, so tomorrow I'm moving in my new girlfriend .....Pippa
#Greyhound
#Genealogy will be off my radar for a while...
#Greyhound
#Genealogy will be off my radar for a while...
A family grave at Wauchope, #Langholm in #Scotland. Contains details of my family from 1786 to 1930 #priceless. Hope it is still standing, it's quite few years since I visited.
#31DaysOfGraves
#Genealogy
#31DaysOfGraves
#Genealogy
October 2, 2025 at 10:09 AM
A family grave at Wauchope, #Langholm in #Scotland. Contains details of my family from 1786 to 1930 #priceless. Hope it is still standing, it's quite few years since I visited.
#31DaysOfGraves
#Genealogy
#31DaysOfGraves
#Genealogy
It's almost like the enumerator is taunting us .... today I'm trying to sort out a complicated family in the 1851 census and so very helpfully the key person in the household is just noted as a "Relative".
Still - who wants #Genealogy to be easy ..
#FamilyHistory
#Census
Still - who wants #Genealogy to be easy ..
#FamilyHistory
#Census
September 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
It's almost like the enumerator is taunting us .... today I'm trying to sort out a complicated family in the 1851 census and so very helpfully the key person in the household is just noted as a "Relative".
Still - who wants #Genealogy to be easy ..
#FamilyHistory
#Census
Still - who wants #Genealogy to be easy ..
#FamilyHistory
#Census
Nice to see one of my relatives and their unusual combination of occupations get a mention from @chiddickstree.bsky.social.
@familytreeplus.bsky.social
#FamilyHistory
#Lancashire
@familytreeplus.bsky.social
#FamilyHistory
#Lancashire
September 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Nice to see one of my relatives and their unusual combination of occupations get a mention from @chiddickstree.bsky.social.
@familytreeplus.bsky.social
#FamilyHistory
#Lancashire
@familytreeplus.bsky.social
#FamilyHistory
#Lancashire
Released 50 years ago today, and still one of the best ever... had to listen to my #vinyl copy today.
#Springsteen
#BorntoRun
#Springsteen
#BorntoRun
August 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Released 50 years ago today, and still one of the best ever... had to listen to my #vinyl copy today.
#Springsteen
#BorntoRun
#Springsteen
#BorntoRun
Very happy with my new coffee mug from @gailmyerscough.co.uk ..
You need to be from #Blackburn to understand.
You need to be from #Blackburn to understand.
July 19, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Very happy with my new coffee mug from @gailmyerscough.co.uk ..
You need to be from #Blackburn to understand.
You need to be from #Blackburn to understand.
July 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
July 6, 2025 at 12:52 PM
June 1, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Top tip: (In England/Wales) Until 1969 birth register entries show no surname for the child - only their forename(s). Entries are INDEXED under the surname of one, or both, parent(s) depending on their marital status.
Understand that, and searching the indexes becomes so much easier.
#Genealogy
Understand that, and searching the indexes becomes so much easier.
#Genealogy
May 31, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Top tip: (In England/Wales) Until 1969 birth register entries show no surname for the child - only their forename(s). Entries are INDEXED under the surname of one, or both, parent(s) depending on their marital status.
Understand that, and searching the indexes becomes so much easier.
#Genealogy
Understand that, and searching the indexes becomes so much easier.
#Genealogy
FreeBMD is a wonderful resource, but they do need to stop saying that things are a "late entry" when in almost every case they are actually re-registrations and there is another, often vital, entry to find - causes so much confusion (and incorrect research)
#Genealogy #CivilRegistration
#RantOver
#Genealogy #CivilRegistration
#RantOver
May 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
FreeBMD is a wonderful resource, but they do need to stop saying that things are a "late entry" when in almost every case they are actually re-registrations and there is another, often vital, entry to find - causes so much confusion (and incorrect research)
#Genealogy #CivilRegistration
#RantOver
#Genealogy #CivilRegistration
#RantOver
And found a sad entry already from May 1917 - John Eccles married my grandmother's sister whilst on leave in 1915, and they had just a few days together before he travelled to France. A son he never got to see, born in 1916, was my godfather.
#WW1 #Blackburn #Genealogy
#WW1 #Blackburn #Genealogy
May 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
And found a sad entry already from May 1917 - John Eccles married my grandmother's sister whilst on leave in 1915, and they had just a few days together before he travelled to France. A son he never got to see, born in 1916, was my godfather.
#WW1 #Blackburn #Genealogy
#WW1 #Blackburn #Genealogy
Doesn't sound like much of a house to visit .... #Blackburn very close to where I grew up (1840s).
May 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Doesn't sound like much of a house to visit .... #Blackburn very close to where I grew up (1840s).
Interesting antique shop find whilst browsing today. A 3 lock parish chest, claimed to be from St Cuthbert's #BurtonUponTrent, but I think may possibly be from #BurtonFleming in #Yorkshire. Only £445 ( I didn't buy it).
#Genealogy
#Genealogy
March 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Interesting antique shop find whilst browsing today. A 3 lock parish chest, claimed to be from St Cuthbert's #BurtonUponTrent, but I think may possibly be from #BurtonFleming in #Yorkshire. Only £445 ( I didn't buy it).
#Genealogy
#Genealogy
That's how to write a memorial.....
#Genealogy
#Genealogy
March 2, 2025 at 12:47 PM
That's how to write a memorial.....
#Genealogy
#Genealogy
Something new every day ..... don't think I've seen someone's religion included as part of their occupation on an English census before ( 1861 #Preston #Lancashire)
#Genealogy
#Genealogy
February 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Something new every day ..... don't think I've seen someone's religion included as part of their occupation on an English census before ( 1861 #Preston #Lancashire)
#Genealogy
#Genealogy
I recently got asked what is meant by "Parish Chest" records and were they really kept in a chest.....so here is a proper parish chest from one of my ancestral churches ( All Hallows, Mitton, #Lancashire)
#Genealogy
#Genealogy
February 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I recently got asked what is meant by "Parish Chest" records and were they really kept in a chest.....so here is a proper parish chest from one of my ancestral churches ( All Hallows, Mitton, #Lancashire)
#Genealogy
#Genealogy
February 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
An interesting day out today and saw the tomb of a King, and that of a first born Prince ( if he had become King England may had a very different history.
#WhereAmI ?
#WhereAmI ?
February 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
An interesting day out today and saw the tomb of a King, and that of a first born Prince ( if he had become King England may had a very different history.
#WhereAmI ?
#WhereAmI ?
My grandfather Herbert Leach, born 138 years ago today (1/1/1887)....sadly never knew him.
#Genealogy
#FamilyHistory
#Genealogy
#FamilyHistory
January 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
My grandfather Herbert Leach, born 138 years ago today (1/1/1887)....sadly never knew him.
#Genealogy
#FamilyHistory
#Genealogy
#FamilyHistory
Things do get smaller as you get older!
In 1986 ....2.18kg, in 2024, 600g.
#Christmas #QualityStreet
#Shrinkage
In 1986 ....2.18kg, in 2024, 600g.
#Christmas #QualityStreet
#Shrinkage
December 22, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Things do get smaller as you get older!
In 1986 ....2.18kg, in 2024, 600g.
#Christmas #QualityStreet
#Shrinkage
In 1986 ....2.18kg, in 2024, 600g.
#Christmas #QualityStreet
#Shrinkage