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Hi List,
The 1901 census is on line for a trial run. The address is
http://www.census.pro.gov.uk/index.jsp
I have not had much success. I found one out of eleven names. I tried all
the ways I could but failed. If anyone tries it please let the list know how
you got on.
cheers.
Gladys
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Hi Blair
Thanks for your reply.
So far I have traced 282 people who died in the flood and, of these, there are 137 different surnames. As far as COGGAN is concerned, three small children : Alfred aged 13, Eliza aged 8 and William aged 6.
Their parents had gone to Wakefield to attend a relative’s funeral leaving the 3 children in the house, tended by a neighbour called Mrs Smith. They were sleeping in a low cellar portion of the house when the flood waters rushed into filling the room and far beyond. They had no chance of escape and were all found the following day still in their beds.
I have found the family on the 1861 census record in Sheffield as :
COGGIN William 33 YKS Stenton 3463 21F
COGGIN Elizth 31 YKS Wakefield 3463 21F
COGGIN Alfred 9 YKS Sheffield 3463 21F
COGGIN Eliza 5 YKS Sheffield 3463 21F
COGGIN Wm 3 YKS Sheffield 3463 21F
COGGIN James 11m YKS Sheffield 3463 21F
but note the difference with the spelling.
I can only guess that they had taken James with them to Wakefield? They were living in Infirmary Lane, Sheffield and William was a skinner. There was also a lodger called James Lambert, age 21, miner born Wakefield – wonder if this could be a relative with the Wakefield connection?
William lodged a claim for compensation for the loss of his children for £350 but was granted the meager sum of £25 on 29th May 1865, over a year after the flood.
Any chance you may be connection? I will keep my fingers crossed!!
Please feel free to contact either through this list or direct on KARENL823(a)AOL.COM.
Best Regards
Karen Lightowler
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Hi Blair
Thanks for your reply.
So far I have traced 282 people who died in the flood and, of these, there are 137 different surnames. As far as COGGAN is concerned, three small children : Alfred aged 13, Eliza aged 8 and William aged 6.
Their parents had gone to Wakefield to attend a relative’s funeral leaving the 3 children in the house, tended by a neighbour called Mrs Smith. They were sleeping in a low cellar portion of the house when the flood waters rushed into filling the room and far beyond. They had no chance of escape and were all found the following day still in their beds.
I have found the family on the 1861 census record in Sheffield as :
COGGIN William 33 YKS Stenton 3463 21F
COGGIN Elizth 31 YKS Wakefield 3463 21F
COGGIN Alfred 9 YKS Sheffield 3463 21F
COGGIN Eliza 5 YKS Sheffield 3463 21F
COGGIN Wm 3 YKS Sheffield 3463 21F
COGGIN James 11m YKS Sheffield 3463 21F
I can only guess that they had taken James with them to Wakefield? They were living in Infirmary Lane, Sheffield and William was a skinner. There was also a lodger called James Lambert, age 21, miner born Wakefield – wonder if this could be a relative with the Wakefield connection?
William lodged a claim for compensation for the loss of his children for £350 but was granted the meager sum of £25 on 29th May 1865, over a year after the flood.
Any chance you may be connection? I will keep my fingers crossed!!
Please feel free to contact either through this list or direct on KARENL823(a)AOL.COM.
Best Regards
Karen Lightowler
Hello Blair,
I have just received your message but it does not say to which posting you
refer. I have quite a bit of information on the Coggan/Coggon/Cogan lines in
the Isle of Axholme. If you let me have more details of your research area I
will compare and post anything which may help you.
Hope we can find a point of contact.
cheers.
Gladys
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I would be interested to see how you made out with your research on this. i have a family line "coggan", which traces back to this particular part of England.
Blair Coggan
Hi List,
I found this on another list which I sub to and thought you might be
interested.
The following has come courtesy of one our lister from 'Down Under' - maybe
some of you would like to give it a whirl while the list is in the doldrums.
Census website finally ready to roll
Sunday 18th August 2002
vnunet.com
"Better late than never
The 1901 census website, which contains searchable records for over 32
million people, is finally set to go back online after buckling under
the initial demand.
Launched in January, the site was expecting to receive 1.2 million
hits a day. It instead received more than one million hits an hour,
and was unable to cope.
The Public Record Office (PRO) has been redesigning and testing it
ever since.
Consultants QinetiQ, formerly part of the government-owned Defence and
Evaluation Research Agency, told vnunet.com that the site will be
ready to go live in the next "few weeks".
QinetiQ, which won the £7m contract in 1999, has shouldered the
undisclosed extra costs for the enhancements. Although searches will
remain free it plans to recoup money by charging for services such as
downloading pictures and documents.
"QinetiQ has spent a number of months increasing the robustness and
effectiveness with new hardware, software and functionality, and
testing the service to ensure resilience," said a spokesman.
Limited numbers of users are currently testing the site at the PRO in
Kew and the Family Records Centre in Farringdon so that usage
behaviour can be monitored before it is relaunched nationwide.
Load testing software has successfully simulated volumes in excess of
one million people an hour, and the site has coped with automated
concurrent database searches equivalent to the population of a small
town, according to QinetiQ.
Bandwidth has been increased by a factor of five, database capacity
has been doubled and there are now dedicated instead of shared
firewalls for the site.
QinetiQ admitted that user levels had been 30 times greater than the
site had been designed for in January, but said that it can now cope.
If the search engine becomes overloaded this time, load management
software will divert visitors to a static offline version of the site.
This should ensure that the main census site does not crash under the
demand."
Cheers,
Gladys
Another glitch at Rootsweb - message nicked from another list I sub to.
"Subject: [BKM] Lost postings
I have been informed by the Rootsweb administrators that there was a problem
with server yesterday and no postings got through. Please resubmit your
postings if you think they have got lost.
I notice also that there have been no Digests since 13th August. I have
asked what has happened to these and it seems that these, too, have been
'lost'. Again, if you feel that the response to your queries has been
unusually low, you can resubmit any postings sent in the last week, but
please indicate in your header that this is a repeat posting."
Cheers,
Hello List,
I have a copy of a birth certificate which I bought thinking it was one of
mine and it is not. If it is of any use to anyone I will willingly let you
have it.
The details are.
Reg. District Glanford Brigg sub district Barton County of Lincoln 1664
13th August 1884 at East Halton - Thomas John - Boy.
Father AMASA COGGON
Mother MARY COGGON formerly Dishman.
Fathers occupation Draper (Journeyman)
Registered 26th September 1884
If anyone is interested please contact me via the list. If more than one
then I will copy it.
I also have a number of certificates which are my family. If they are of use
to anyone else I will copy them. They are all for Coggons in the Isle of
Axholme. North Lincs.
cheers.
Gladys
Hi list,
I will be off line for a day or two for essential work on hard drive. Hope
to be back on Friday and hope there are lots of postings for me.
cheers,
Gladys