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Crop Wilfred Hudson East Riding Of Yorkshire Fortress Company

Wilfrid Hudson & Fortress Engineers

Wilfrid Hudson was born and raised in Bridlington, by Jane and Joseph Henry HUDSON, who ran a construction business in the town. After studying civil engineering he joined the Bridlington Corporation as an assistant borough surveyor.

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Nobby Clark & The Searchlights

Albert Wear Clark aka Nobby Clark was born 1921 in Darlington, County Durham, the third of nine siblings born to a steel worker and worsted cotton spinner. Nobby followed in his father’s footsteps as a labourer in the steelworks. Why Nobby Clark? A clerk would deal with the common people but would be better educated, better paid and in a...

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Obituary: Joan Shirley Marchetti né Gracia

Joan Shirley (Gracia) Marchetti Oct. 19, 1929 – Oct. 29, 2021. Born in San Francisco, CA to Joseph E. Gracia and Claire K. (Grant) Gracia. Joan was preceded in death by her husband of over sixty years, Henry J. Marchetti. She leaves behind two sons and their wives, Mark and Pamela Marchetti and Gary and Amy Marchetti, six grandchildren: Mary M. Watt...

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Montreal House

1300 Stockton Street, San Francisco, California. Newlyweds, Francois & Marguerite GRACIA, initially lived at 13001/2 Stockton Ave, from 1877. Known as Montreal House, it was a three story lodgings and saloon at the north eastern corner of Stockton & Broadway. Francois aka Frank worked for the Hotel, providing furnished rooms by the night, week or month, and Marguerite, aka Maggie,...

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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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