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In this part of the Virtual Attic I have stored miscellaneous documents relating to family history. Each link in the table below goes to one document, or set of related documents.
| Date | Person(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Mar. 11, 1821 | William Paddey | Will of my great4-grandfather (mother's mother's father's father's father's father). Second page here. |
| Mar. 10, 1827 | Andrew Paddey | Probate of William Paddey's will by his younger son Andrew, brother of my great3-grandfather Joseph Paddey. Affidavit here. |
| Oct. 3, 1841 | John Paddey | Birth certificate of my great-grandfather (mother's mother's father). |
| Apr. 17, 1848 | George Paddy | Record of a visit to George in Millbank Prison by his wife Charlotte, little John, and baby Charlotte. |
| Apr. 13, 1868 | John Paddey and Mary Ann Jones | Marriage certificate of John Paddey to his second wife (my great-grandmother). |
| May 31, 1875 | Esther Perry | Baptismal certificate for Esther Perry, my maternal grandmother. (Note that Granny's surname is written "Paddy." See here.) |
| Dec. 20, 1891 | Jack & Esther Knowles | Marriage lines of my maternal grandparents. |
| July 12, 1899 | J.R. Derbyshire | A copy of Dad's birth certificate. |
| Dec. 23, 1915 | Jack Knowles | Jack Knowles' discharge papers |
| July 2, 1917 | Jack & Esther Knowles | Letter from Jim Evans at the Western Front. |
| 1919 | J.R. Derbyshire | Dad's medal cards, from the War Office files. |
| 1922 | Tommy Derbyshire | Sunday school prize: a copy of Charles Dickens' Sketches by Boz. |
| Nov. 7, 1929 | J.R. Derbyshire | A page from Dad's New Zealand diary. "Jean" is Noel's mother. |
| Jan. 6, 1930 | Noel Derbyshire | Copy of my brother's birth certificate. |
| May 28, 1930 | Tommy Derbyshire | From Uncle Tommy's funeral. |
| Oct. 23, 1930 | J.R. Derbyshire | Dad's New Zealand passport. |
| Aug. 23, 1934 | J.R. Derbyshire | Dad's membership in the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes. |
| June 17, 1936 | J.R. Derbyshire | Letter to Dad from a vendor of fitness equipment. |
| April, 1944 | J.R. Derbyshire | Course-completion certificate from St. John's Ambulance Assoc. |
| Mar. 23, 1946 | J.R. Derbyshire | A railway ticket of Dad's. He was doing something or other for the Air Ministry in Carlisle, in the far north of England — it's the last town before Scotland. Dad seems to have had lodgings in Stanwix, north-central Carlisle (see his record of military service) and been commuting to Parkhouse Halt a couple of miles north, where there was a big RAF establishment. Mum was at home in Northampton with two squalling brats … |
| May 20, 1946 | J.R. Derbyshire | Record of Dad's military service. |
| 1950-1959 | Jack Knowles | Grandad Knowles' notebook. |
| 1955[?] | John Derbyshire | A letter I wrote to my mother when hospitalized after an appendectomy. |
| 1955-1956 | John Derbyshire | School reports, Far Cotton County Primary School. |
| 1956-1963 | John Derbyshire | School reports, Northampton Boys' School. |
| 1959-1960 | John Derbyshire | A school prize from Northampton Boys' School: a copy of Isaac Asimov's Only A Trillion. After the first year (i.e. from age 12 onwards) the school's "A" stream was divided into "AS" for the sciences, "AL" for the languages. |
| 1962-2002 | John Derbyshire | All my British passports. |
| Dec. 10, 1962 | John Derbyshire | The only record of my naval career. |
| Aug. 1, 1966 | John Derbyshire | My bachelor's degree. |
| Aug. 8, 1967 | John Derbyshire | My teaching certificate. |
| Jan. 22, 1969 | John Derbyshire | The suicide of Richard Strutt; a report in the Liverpool Echo. |
| July 1, 1980 | John Derbyshire | My Postgraduate Diploma in Chinese. |
| Nov. 15, 1984 | J.R. Derbyshire | Dad's death certificate. |
| 1983-1996 | E.A. Derbyshire | Mum's notebooks and diaries. |
| Aug. 10, 2008 | Nellie Derbyshire | Long Island Dance Consortium held a show in Hecksher Park. This is a page from the program. |
| Mar. 24, 2016 | R.N. Derbyshire | Noel's funeral service. |