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In reply to <a href="https://blog.wp.paladyn.org/2019/11/28/the-box-family-of-marhamchurch-foundry/#comment-102">William Thomas box jr</a>. John I’m new to this thread and have a home near Marhamchurch , Langford Hill, Titson .Recently acquired a large quantity of wooden molds from a Bude aluminum foundry. Researching its history I came upon this information and can’t help but wonder Box foundry workers and defendants hadn't gone on to crafting the wooden molds for the Bude smelter. Seeing that you live in Marin Co it’s too bad I didn’t see your post here before I left Sausalito . Lived on a Geo Kneass wooden cruiser in the downtown yacht harbor for many years. Loved visiting Sebastopol , especially earlier in the 90s before the urban sprawl in 101 corridor. Did you find clock for your kids?
21.1.2025 18:51Comment on The Box Family of Marhamchurch Foundry by Alan VennIn reply to <a href="https://blog.wp.paladyn.org/2020/06/22/margaret-box-nursing-dramatis-personae/#comment-14412">Karen Shaw</a>. Although I have not researched all of Margaret Box's associates in detail, they all led interesting lives in their own ways. Louise Sinclair - from Aberdeen, is an example. I am glad you too are finding their stories inspirational.
8.1.2025 17:57Comment on Margaret Box Nursing – Dramatis Personae by johnThis is fascinating reading, thank you so much for taking the time to research and blog about your ancestor. The detail in the correspondence and then the maps and historical data that you have added, make for a brilliant step back in time. I am researching quite a few of these folk who lived in and around Aberdeen that are mentioned here and the blog gave a brilliant insight on their lives during this time, sometimes it's just a silly wee insight but it helps to build a picture of who they were - strong, courageous, adventurous and caring women.
7.1.2025 19:42Comment on Margaret Box Nursing – Dramatis Personae by Karen ShawIn reply to <a href="https://blog.wp.paladyn.org/2017/06/09/robert-bryson-and-sons-of-edinburgh/#comment-13317">William Walkington</a>. You are very welcome to use the image under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">Creative Commons Non-commercial Share-Alike license</a> - nice to encounter someone who considers such things. I am pretty sure the medallion is not lying close by, so may have been vandalised, but I suspect stolen.
21.12.2024 18:20Comment on Robert Bryson and Sons of Edinburgh by johnHi John, Your page is very well presented and full of useful information! Wishing to replace link towards a factual, but rather impersonal Wikipedia biography, I am at present writing a blog biography of my great grandfather, Thomas Stuart Burnett, who sculpted the medallion that has disappeared from the Bryson tombstone. It's a real disgrace if it was stolen or vandalised - unless it fell off for another reason and is lying somewhere close by. Whatever, I would like to obtain your permission for a non-commercial reuse of your photograph of the monument. Should you agree, please note that I use a creative commons licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) for my blog, but I can always state exceptions such as copyright, or a different licence, and mention the name of the author and the source of the image with a corresponding link. I know this looks terribly formal, but I like to fully respect intellectual property. By the way, William Brodie, the sculptor of the marble bust of Robert Bryson junior, was Thomas Stuart Burnett's employer during his apprenticeship, and in that period they worked together https://batch.artuk.org/discover/artworks/greyfriars-bobby-297113 on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyfriars_Bobby_Fountain" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">Greyfriars Bobby</a>! Best wishes, William
21.12.2024 10:54Comment on Robert Bryson and Sons of Edinburgh by William WalkingtonFrom every kind of manObedience I expect;I’m the Emperor of Japan —” The Mikado, Act II During fighting at Armentières on 9th February 1916 my Grandfather, George Edward Lines, was wounded in the leg and sent back to England to recover. By April he was in Keynsham, staying with the Stevens family, where a local… Continue reading Grandpa – The Mikado
20.11.2024 18:50Grandpa – The MikadoA while ago my credit card was cloned, or hacked in some way, and their computer systems correctly identified a fraudulent transaction. That part of the system worked very well, however the next part of their process was almost a textbook example of what not to do. I was alerted by a text message, from… Continue reading Trust me, I am your bank
16.11.2024 15:35Trust me, I am your bankSuppose someone (say <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">Mallory</a>), employed at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">Bank.example.com</a> wanted access to Angela Zoe's medical records, for example suspecting Angela was having an affair or some such. If they had access to the unwatermarked passport scan they could use this to set up an online patient record access account, using mallory@mail.example.net as the email address, but Angela Zoe's passport scan as the proof of identity. The person verifying the account at the doctor's surgery would have no reason not to trust the document and would set up the account. Mallory would be taking quite a big risk anyway in presenting an image watermarked 'bank.example.com' to try access medical records, as not only should the administrator at the doctors be suspicious of it, but investigating the identity fraud would start with 'who at bank.example.com has access to this record?'
16.11.2024 07:02Comment on The Proof of Identity Problem by johnHi- thanks. I don't understand, I'm sorry, why should a second organisation know to reject a watermarked image?
16.11.2024 00:10Comment on The Proof of Identity Problem by LauraMore and more organisations are requiring ‘Proof of real identity’ by asking their users, members or customers for a scanned image of their passport of similar official document. At first sight this may seen a reasonable thing – why should your doctor, or your bank, or Google not know who you really are? The problem… Continue reading The Proof of Identity Problem
14.11.2024 18:07The Proof of Identity ProblemThis is a work in progress – which is not even complete on what I know of Frederick Lines, and there are many gaps, and areas I have not investigated. Some areas of doubt or uncertainty are noted inline, and at present it only covers his time in England, and only makes a start on… Continue reading The Story of Frederick Lines
31.5.2024 15:36The Story of Frederick LinesThe Box family connection with the area may go back further than I realised. <a href="https://archive.org/details/historiesoflaunc00pete/page/106/mode/2up?q=box" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">The histories of Launceston and Dunheved, in the county of Cornwall</a> (published in 1885) states on page 106 that <blockquote>In 1384 Thomas Smyth, of the New Street of Lanceton, granted to Alan Craneforde all the grantor's right in 8d. yearly issuing out of the tenement of John Digard, which was situate in the free borough of Downhevyd, in a street which is called Bastehaye, between the tenement lately of Luke le Donker on the one part, and a tenement lately of Ivo on the other part. The witnesses are John Page, Mayor, <strong>Henry Box</strong> and Robert Peyk. Dated on the day of March next before the feast of St. Catherine the Virgin and Martyr, 7 Rich. 11.</blockquote> I have no other information on the Henry Box referred to above, though both John Page and Robert Pyke were <a href="https://launcestonthen.co.uk/index.php/home/governance-of-launceston/launceston-boroughtown-council/list-of-launceston-mayors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">Mayors of Launceston</a>.
1.4.2024 11:24Comment on The Box Family of Marhamchurch Foundry by johnAs well as in interest in family history, I like to read. The American Boy, by Andrew Taylor is one of the books I am currently reading. This historical drama is set around 1818 in Stoke Newington. This is a work in progress. Some sections are merely skeletons The American Boy The main character of… Continue reading Stoke Newington – where family history and literature meet.
27.3.2024 17:09Stoke Newington – where family history and literature meet.In reply to <a href="https://blog.wp.paladyn.org/2024/03/04/good-decoys-sexual-dimorphism-and-differential-predation/#comment-1633">Chris Lines</a>. Similar certainly, the point which <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">Dawkins</a> makes it that evolution selects for the good of the species (or more specifically a set of genes), rather than the individual.
5.3.2024 08:18Comment on ‘Good Decoys’ Sexual dimorphism and differential predation by johnSo is this the same principle as the male praying mantis, just cutting out the predator bit?
4.3.2024 21:20Comment on ‘Good Decoys’ Sexual dimorphism and differential predation by Chris LinesWe have two female common pheasants in our garden at the moment. I can tell they are female as they are brown and, for such large birds in this context, surprisingly inconspicuous. The male pheasant is larger and more conspicuous, and plays no part in the raising of the young. I read The Selfish Gene… Continue reading ‘Good Decoys’ Sexual dimorphism and differential predation
4.3.2024 11:52‘Good Decoys’ Sexual dimorphism and differential predationThis is a work in progress – posted before it is complete to share some of the information I have. Robert Harden Champion, my Great-great-grandfather, was born at Berrow in January 1845, eldest son of James Harden Champion (1821-1895) and Jane Hawkings (1820-1884). He married Ellen Horseman (1845-1926) at St Barnabas, Bristol in 1868, and… Continue reading Robert Harden Champion – Sweet success
9.2.2024 16:09Robert Harden Champion – Sweet successThere are several cases in my family history of siblings from one family marrying into their in-law’s families. In the days of large families, and no Internet Dating it made sense, and presumably the elders of both families approved. In some cases it might throw some light on how some of the couples met. This… Continue reading Dynastic Unions
14.1.2024 16:10Dynastic UnionsMargaret Box, my Great-aunt, trained as a nurse, and joined the Scottish Women’s Hospitals, towards the end of the First World War, working primary in what was at the time Serbia. By March 1919 she and other nurses and doctors were working in a hospital in Sarajevo, which had been converted from a school to… Continue reading A visit from Parson Pobjoy
7.1.2024 19:07A visit from Parson PobjoyMargaret Box, my Great Aunt went to Serbia with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals during the First World War. By March 1919 the doctors and nurses, who had been running a hospital in Sarajevo were winding down the hospital and preparing to return home. Miss Willis, secretary of the London Unit, wrote to Margaret’s father to… Continue reading Winding up Sarajevo Scottish Women’s Hospital
24.12.2023 19:16Winding up Sarajevo Scottish Women’s Hospital