LLM
I for one must thank you for hanging on and getting extracts that you did.
Items 1 and 2 refer to my Tree (Stevan of Normanton) and am interested in
Item 3 because last year I found a Rev Tim Cattley listed for the 1840's and
think this may be one and the same with one T dropped off and I have not
come across many Catleys who were Ordained yet.
Item 4 is also interesting as I do not yet think that we have much info by
way of Cat*ley/India connections although I note that Erica has done work on
BMD's reported from there.
Regards
Timcatt
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From: <landairwater(a)xnet.co.nz>
To: <CATLEY-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 6:17 PM
Subject: [CAT...] Archives of The Scotsman
For general information:
I tried subscribing to the archives of The Scotsman newspaper which go
back to around 1850. They are at
http://archive.scotsman.com
Findings:
Lists of headlines and opening words are free but it costs about 9
pounds stg for one day to see the whole item, advertisement or story,
so it is expensive.
It turned out to be too slow for me, and the information yield was low.
I tried several search strings. I thought the best was (boolean)
"Catley or Cattley not Gwen" (just too many stories about concerts etc
mentioning her).
About a third of the items yielded nothing (after taking a long time to
load). There were some mistakes in the recognition of words after
scanning, more pronounced with the early copies of the newspaper
because of blurry typefaces. There were also repetitions of
information that could not be predicted by the headline and opening.
But the worst feature for me was slowness. I have poor computer
speed (about 28 KBps dial-up is the fastest our telecoms people will
usually allow me, though next door they have approx 500 KBps because
they are allowed broadband, grumble grumble). Even 500 is slow by
international standards, where several MB is possible, so you might be
better placed, and find the archive more workable than I did. (There
is a lack of investment into IT by New Zealand's telecoms giant, which
prefers to spend its depreciating assets on silly salaries and keep us
stupid. This latter is so we can be sold as ignorant guinea pigs to
the global pharmaceutical and agrichemical research labs. You see New
Zealand has a law saying nobody can litigate for being injured in a
medical way, you just have to put up with it and suffer, which
experimenters on human beings just love.)
A few bits I managed to glean from The Scotsman archive, therefore, but
you might do much better if you have better computer speeds:
1. On 22 October 1845, John Cattley Esq of Moorgate Street was on the
Provisional Committee and also the Committee of Management of the
proposed Regent's Canal Railway, which was then publishing a
prospectus. Apparently they had bought all the property between
Paddington and Limehouse (London) of the defunct Regent's Canal
Company, and proposed to use the site to build a railway.
2. On 24 March 1847, it reported that John G Cattley Esq was a
Director of Royal Exchange Assurance Company of 29 Pall Mall.
3. The Rev T R Catley,who was the Lord Mayor of London's chaplain,
said grace at a 160-person banquet for visiting Edinburgh Town Council
members on 15 October 1849.
4. On 20 August 1851, it reported Mr G Catley was in the Chair when
the East India Railway had its fourth half-yearly meeting.
LLM
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