Nice to think my efforts were of some value! Incidentally the report
on the banquet was a few days later. The date given is the actual
banquet date.
Best,
LLM
Quoting Tim Cattley <timjhcat(a)tiscali.co.uk>:
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
----- Original Message -----
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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