Under Construction - Warner Middle School

It looks like the old bleachers are coming down at Warner Middle School in Westminster, CA!

Here is 'Live' link to the construction site webpage: http://www.wsd.k12.ca.us/Measure_O_construction.aspx

Warner
Wildcats!

Occupation: Costermonger

Costermonger: 
A seller of fruits & vegetables; also referred to as a Coster

A common sight in mid-Victorian England, these street vendors would use a loud sing-song chant to attract attention. Their cart could be a stationary market stall, mobile wheelbarrel, or horse-drawn cart.

Wordless Wednesday: Remembering Julia

Julia (McWillaims) Child

(August 15, 1912 – August 13, 2004)

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The Newsworthy 1846 Marriage of Thomas Cassingham to Eliza Amos

Thomas Cassingham  -  age 65

&

Eliza Amos  - age 14yrs

Married in Challock, Ashford, Kent England

  21 March 1846

Carlisle Journal

Free Digital Library of Historical Directories

      
Historical Directories is a digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales, from 1750 to 1919. It is a free website produced by the University of Leicester and is very user friendly being searchable by location, decades, or keywords.
      
Using this site I was able to locate our ancestor, Odian Cassingham, listed  in the History, Gazetteer & Directory of Kent, Vol. II, 1847  under Folkstone Hundred as a Farmer: 
                                                

In reading the descriptive of his parish, I also came across the name of his home, Copperhust, where he resided on Knoll Hill in Aldington, Ashford, Kent:

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Brides Dressed in Blue

Marriage of Dale Casteel,

son of Robert & Lucy Casteel,

to 

Myrtle McDevitt

Thursday, 21 Aug 1919
Daily Illinois State Journal
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Restoring pride in the SS United States

SS United States is a luxury passenger ship built in 1952 for the United States Lines and was designed, amoung other things, to capture the trans-Atlantic speed record - which she did.  SS United States is the largest ocean liner constructed entirely in the United States and is the fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic in either direction.  She proveded transatlantic passenger service until 1969, and is currently docked at Pier 82 on the Delaware River in Philadelphia.

In July, 2012, the SS United States Conservancy launched an online campaign called "Save the United States" that allows donors to sponsor square inches of a virtual ship for redevelopment, while allowing them to upload photos and story content about their experience with the ship. Donors to the virtual ship will be featured in an interactive "Wall of Honor" aboard the future SS United States museum.

Read the full article: Restoring pride in the SS United States - Washington Times

Visit their website: http://www.ssunitedstatesconservancy.org/

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Wednesday's Child: Ruby Casteel (1902-1911)

Ruby Casteel 

Daughter of Robert & Lucy A. Casteel

11 April 1911

15 April 1911

19 April 1911
Daily Illinois State Register

Charity Cemetery

Macoupin county, Illinois

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Elsie (Skeen) Casteel of Macoupin Co., IL

Elsie L. (Skeen) Casteel

wife of Samuel J. Casteel 

September 11, 1945

Alton Evening Telegraph

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Friday, September 21, 1945

Alton Evening Telegraph

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This Date in History: The Nine Days' Queen is Deposed

      

 (1536/1537 – 12 February 1554)

On this date in 1553, Lady Jane Grey, the great-granddaughter of King Henry VII, is deposed in favor of her cousin Mary after only nine days as the monarch of England.
In May 1553, she married  Lord Guildford Dudley, the son of John Dudley, the duke of Northumberland.  In the beginning of 1554, Jane's father, Henry Grey, joined Sir Thomas Wyatt’s revolt against Mary that broke out after her announcement of her intention to marry Philip II of Spain. While suppressing this insurrection, Mary decided it was also necessary to eliminate her political opponents, and on February 7 she signed the death warrants of Jane and her husband, Guildford.  On the morning of February 12, at the age of 16, Jane was executed in the Tower Green within the Tower of London.
 

A Hogshead of Tobacco

A receipt for one Hogshead of Tobacco 

sold by Stephen Nance

                 

A tobacco hogshead was a wooden barrel into which farmers packed cured tobacco leaves and was used in American colonial times to transport and store tobacco. Since the average hogshead weighed over one thousand pounds, animal power was used to transport the hogheads over the rural roads to warehouses.  Because of the challenges involved, warehouse operators sought river and port locations so farmers could float hogsheads on flat boats. Similarly, buyers could use boats to send out hogsheads they had purchased.  A very large wooden barrel, the standardized hogshead measured 48 inches (1,219 mm) long and 30 inches (762 mm) in diameter at the head. Fully packed with tobacco, it weighed about 1,000 pounds (500 kg).
                                            

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Estate Record of Douglas A. Casteel of Macoupin Co., Illinois

Douglas A. Casteel

Son of Joseph M. & Myra A. Casteel

1860-1893

33y 4m 25d

Charity Baptist Cemetery

Macoupin Co. Illinois

(Source: RootsWeb Charity Cemetery)

Court record regarding the Estate of Douglas Casteel

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