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Maggie Mahood’s French Connections

Marguerite “Maggie” MAHOOD was the first child of Eliza Ann BUCK & Sergeant John MAHOOD, Royal Artillery, stationed with the British Army in Ireland. Maggie was born in July 1856, shortly before the outbreak of hostilities in the Second Opium War. Her father shipped out to China before the year’s end and would not return for almost three years.

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Prohibition, what prohibition?

To avoid prohibition, entrepreneur, and great grandfather, James S MARCHETTI (1900-1965) partnered with his brother-in-law, Victor R Delu, to establish Vick’s Place in Tijuana, a restaurant, bar, dance and music hall.

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John Mahood & The Long Way Round

This article recounts the dramatic, traumatic, and tragic events leading to the first immigrant to California from the Gracia & Marchetti family. It is remarkable that one man’s life can be so thoroughly documented, placing him as, not only an eye witness, but a participant in historical events. John MAHOOD was born 1825, son of Adam MAHOOD, in Magherally Parish...

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John Henry Bainbridge 1892 1940 Featured Image

John Henry Bainbridge & The Grocers

John Henry, our Great Grandfather, was the youngest of five siblings, born 2 March 1892 in Tollerton, to Elizabeth Ann HEADLEY and Charles BAINBRIDGE, a platelayer for North Eastern Railways. John Henry was named after his great grandfather John BAINBRIDGE and grandfather Henry BAINBRIDGE. Unlike his elder siblings in domestic service, John Henry, took an apprenticeship with a clothing and...

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Elizabeth Ann Headley & Domestic Service

Our 3rd Great Grandmother, Elizabeth Ann HEADLEY, was born 1863 in Huby, Yorkshire, to parents Isabella MENNELL & John HEADLEY, an agricultural laborer. Elizabeth was the sixth of eight siblings, seven of whom survived to adulthood. All four brothers relocated to Shildon, County Durham, to work in the coal mines or railways and her two sisters moved out of the village...

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Charles Bainbridge & Railway Platelayers

Our Great Great Grandfather, Charles BAINBRIDGE, was born March 1861 at Sutton Grange, Sutton on the Forest, second child to parents Henry BAINBRIDGE of Tollerton and Jane SCOTT of Sutton on the Forest. There is no record of Charles’ baptism so if it occurred, it may have been in the newly built Methodist Chapel opened in 1861 or the later...

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Jane Scott & The Big C

Our 2nd Great Grandmother, Jane SCOTT, was born 1828 in Sutton on the Forest to parents Anne TAYLOR, originally from Oulston, and John SCOTT, an agricultural labourer, also from Sutton on the Forest, both in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Jane was the ninth of eleven children, all born in Sutton on the Forest, spanning the 17 years between 1813...

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Henry Bainbridge & Goodramgate Gentleman

Henry BAINBRIDGE, our 3rd Great Grandfather, was born 1831 in Tollerton, the sixth and youngest child of John BAINBRIDGE & Mary BAINBRIDGE. Raised in Tollerton, Henry followed in his father’s footsteps and aged 18, joined his elder brother Joseph as an agricultural labourer living with, and working for, the Sadler family, farmers in Tollerton.

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The Other Bainbridge Family

Complicating matters, there are at least two Bainbridge families in Oulston in the 18th & 19th century. Our family and the family of William Bainbridge (1752-1816), gamekeeper for Newburgh Estate, and father of nine children Most of his children shared names with our ancestors, including John, William, Jane, Charles, Henry, etc. Furthermore many remained in Oulston, Easingwold, or York, muddying...

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Mary Bainbridge & The Year Without Summer

Mary Bainbridge was born 16th January 1786 in Melmerby, in the parish of Wath Juxta Ripon, to parents Joseph Bainbridge & Ann, née Dresser. Mary was baptized in the Church of St Mary, Wath, February 1786. Mary married John Bainbridge, May 1816, in the same church 30 years later, in the Year without a Summer. It was caused by the...

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