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    Quote Originally Posted by ChrisGeorge View Post
    By the way, Sloyne do you have any information or thoughts about the fact that there are black squirrels in Canada -- I have seen them on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls -- while most at least mid-Atlantic east coast squirrels are gray squirrels?
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    The attached web site is quite informative on the eastern grey squirrel. http://www.hww.ca/hww2.asp?id=89

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    Here are some cellphone photographs of the light snow covering we received yesterday in Washington, D.C., the first snow of the year in the Baltimore-Washingon metro region. My Samsung camera is out for the count... maybe needs a new memory card - I change batteries and it just seems dead, and i don't have a power cord (got the cam second hand). If anybody has any ideas, let me know.

    All the pics are at Union Station after I was dropped off by the red cab driven by Eddie the Baseball Umpire.

    We begin with a shot of pansies in a flowerbox covered by the snow through shots of the front of the station and forecourt with taxis and buses and the Columbus monument in the distance, ending with a shot of one of the three large Christmas wreaths hung on the station facade before I ran for my train to Baltimore!

















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    Thanks for showing us the pictures Chris, it's always nice to see another place.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lindylou View Post
    Thanks for showing us the pictures Chris, it's always nice to see another place.
    Thanks, Lindy. Not the greatest pics but at least they give you an idea of what the place is like.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ChrisGeorge View Post
    By the way, Sloyne do you have any information or thoughts about the fact that there are black squirrels in Canada -- I have seen them on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls -- while most at least mid-Atlantic east coast squirrels are gray squirrels? I have though seen black squirrels in the grounds of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, outside of Washington, DC.

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    Last summer, we saw lots of black squirrels way across the other side of Canada on Cortes Island, near Vancouver Island. They're beautiful, just like English red squirrels in appearance, not at all like the Greys that are now everywhere here and have seen off the reds apart from in protected reserves such as that at Formby.

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    Great to see where you live by the way, Chris. My daughter and family are in Fairfax VA, also near Washington DC.
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    Thanks, Steve. Yes indeed Fairfax, Virginia, is just down the road from here. Let me know sometime when you are in the area and maybe we can get together. The following pic of pink dogwood was taken by me last year. You probably know that Spring is a lovely time of year here.

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    Hi all

    I have been learning some fascinating details about my father's side of the family. Some of you may recall that in an article that appeared in Ripperologist about Southwest Lancashire coroner Sir Samuel Brighouse, who oversaw the inquests on the body of James Maybrick (May 1889) and the wife and children of Frederick Deeming (March 1892), I mentioned that Brighouse also was in charge of the inquest on my father's brother Edward Pointon George, who was killed at age 24 when his motorcycle collided with a motorized wagon in Warrington, Lancashire, in January 1933. Brighouse was one of the longest-serving English coroners of all time, appointed 1884 and serving until his death at age 90 years on January 15, 1940.

    Now, having received a CD with much more family history on it compiled by my cousin Rex and sent to me through the kindness of another cousin, Haydn, I now know that my great great grandfather Edward Leech George lived on Turner Street, Mile End Old Town, Stepney, London, in the 1830's and 1840's. Turner Street runs alongside the west side of London Hospital and thus is just a short walk from Buck's Row (now Winthrop Street) where Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols was killed in the early morning hours of August 31, 1888. Edward Leech George was born in Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk, in 1810. He would become a "tidewaiter" (curious term!) while he and his wife Sarah and family lived in London, and thereafter he was employed as a tidal surveyor in Plymouth and Liverpool, working for the Customs Service (vide Robert D'Onston Stephenson).

    My great grandfather Edward George, born in London in 1838, was a secretary to a hospital and later assistant overseer of the township of Toxteth Park, Liverpool. In the later nineteenth century, he his wife and family would live in Admiral Street, Dingle, Liverpool, close to where Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) would later grow up. Edward George died at 20 Admiral Street, Dingle, on August 17, 1888.

    My paternal grandfather, Albert Edward George, a bank clerk, born December 22, 1876, would marry my grandmother, Birtles Pointon (born Douglas, Isle of Man, on August 26, 1876), at St. Silas Church, High Park Street, Dingle, Liverpool, on September 16, 1907. This church was located near the Empress Pub where the below photograph of Donna and my friend Gerard Fleming was taken. I was unaware of all this information when I took the photo in May 2007. This is the pub on the cover of Ringo's 1970 album, "Sentimental Journal." The church was damaged in an air raid during World War II and demolished in the 1950's. A granddaughter of Edward George had the wonderfully delicious name of Lulu L'Strange!

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    Speaks for itself. One of the things I did during the recent whirlwind trip that Donna and I made to the England and Northern Ireland.

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    Nice one Chris, fascinating.

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    Thanks, Pablo. After I gave the talk referred to in St. Bronagh's Social Hall in Rostrevor, the BBC Northern Ireland guy on hand asked myself and two Ross descendants to go back to the monument for interviews. It was absolutely blowing a gale but not raining. In the end though the tapes did not get used and they used about a minute and a half of my friend Dr McCavitt talking about the White House scorch marks!

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    Excellent Chris.Well done
    Where do you find the time ?

    By the way, what is a "tidewaiter" ? I've never heard of it before.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ItsaZappathing View Post
    Excellent Chris.Well done
    Where do you find the time ?

    By the way, what is a "tidewaiter" ? I've never heard of it before.
    Thanks, John.

    The answer is I don't find the time. It's very difficult but I somehow manage it. I imagine Mrs Z is in a similar position with her activities, yes?

    As for "tidewaiter" here's a definition kindly provided by Bernie here at Yo Liverpool:

    Tidewaiter, n. A customs officer who boards incoming ships at a harbor

    and Eric Lester on a poetry site I frequent provided this definition from Webster's 1913:

    Tidewaiter, n. A customhouse officer who watches the landing of goods from merchant vessels, in order to secure payment of duties.

    Thanks for your interest and support, John.

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    Loved reading your story Chris. Imagine who terrified your poor Mum must have been, taking on that long, long journey with kids, from everything she had known. I hope she, and your siblings, were all happy . Nice to hear about Baltimore and the comparisions with Liverpool. I know "The Wire" represents a small part of Baltimore, which has obviously suffered the sort of decline Liverpool did, but do you recognise that representation of that part as accurate? It would be good to hear from someone who lives there. I know Baltimore used to be very posh in Victorian times and obviously still have some lovely buildings. Where would be a good place to stay within the City for a tourist thingy

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    Quote Originally Posted by ChrisGeorge View Post
    Thanks, John.

    The answer is I don't find the time. It's very difficult but I somehow manage it. I imagine Mrs Z is in a similar position with her activities, yes?

    As for "tidewaiter" here's a definition kindly provided by Bernie here at Yo Liverpool:

    Tidewaiter, n. A customs officer who boards incoming ships at a harbor

    Thanks for your interest and support, John.

    C
    It keeps Mrs Z quiet which is a good thing
    Thanks Bernie
    Nice one Chris

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