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From: "A. Day" <>
Subject: Re: [YKS] Re: Blue Blood at last ..possibly
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:06:52 -0000
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Thank you ,Jean .Colin ,Lesley,Judy,& Marie Lou for your ideas where to look
.I found my gt gt grandfather's wife's father's brother was in 1881
Trasurer To Board Of Overseers (Munic) in Leeds
Ann
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean and Terry" <>
To: "A. Day" <>; <>
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: [YKS] Re: Blue Blood at last ..possibly


> Hi, I didn't mean to imply no one died from vehicle accidents. But when
> the majority walked or used whatever public transport, it would have been
> much different to large numbers of deaths and injuries we get from motor
> vehicles, planes and buses. I am glad I didn't have to ride a horse or
in
> a horse and buggy, they always look dangerous to me. I have tried one in
an
> outdoor museum pioneer village and it wasn't all that comfortable, bends
> looked rather frightening and it was a very quiet horse and wonderfully
> slow.
>
> My Dad had an uncle killed in a Mill accident in Lindley. I think
> Industrial accidents per head of population are less today than they would
> have been for those living in Industrial Yorkshire 150 years ago.
>
> The point I was trying to make was we are shaped by the times we live in.
I
> often look at my grandchildren and wonder what is like for them being born
> in the world they see as normal. Our grandson has always lived with
> telephone, mobile phones, TV, computer, motor car, electronic games.
>
> I have always lived with electricity and gas but that wasn't the case for
my
> grandmother. I've lived in a world so much of the material possessions I
> now take for granted was only available to me as a teenager or later in my
> marriage. My grandchildren can't begin to understand growing up during a
> war in the shadow of a Depression and I can't begin to understand what it
> would be like to be born into our affluence or the social pressures they
> face which are so different.
>
> Jean in s. Australia.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "A. Day" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 7:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [YKS] Re: Blue Blood at last ..possibly
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>
> > My gt grandfather was killed by an accident with horse & cart
> > Ann
> > ----- Original Message -----
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> > Subject: Re: [YKS] Re: Blue Blood at last ..possibly
> >
> >
> >>
> >> In a message dated 19/03/2006 23:58:16 GMT Standard Time,
> >> writes:
> >>
> >> But then it was rare
> >> to lose ones life in vehicle accidents (although
> >
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