Some fresher crazy, perhaps…?
I’ve spent a delightful evening paddling around Britain’s National Archives looking for records of Badger House*. Brits do their censuseses on the year one, and I have managed to find Badger House in two of them. In 1901, it was listed as Badger Cottage and uninhabited. In 1911, it was listed as Old Badger (the name it has today). For more detail, I’ll have to give the Queen a few bob.
Earlier censuxices are online — back to 1841 — but it’s all still in beta. I haven’t gotten any hits before 1901, which either means the information hasn’t been fed into the database yet, or the house had a different name. Either. Both. Take your pick.
For the very besteses information — the proper parish records — this little weasel is going to have to hop a train for the county seat in Lewes. All in good time, my pretties. All in good time.
Anyhow, the stuff the British government has gotten online so far is impossibly cool. I posted about the proceedings of the Old Bailey database this Spring (couldn’t find any significant criminal records for the Weasel *or* Badger families, which probably just means we got away with it). As a devoted British true-crimophile, this stuff blows my mind. Britons make fabulous criminals.
And for all you UFOlogists: the UFO files. I’m not much into it myself, but I did check to see if anything weird is on record buzzing Badger House.
No. For once.
*name has been changed to protect the mustelids. I hate to be cute about it, but the real name of this house is enough of a true and legal address to track us down like dogs. Like dogs!
Posted: January 13th, 2009 under badger house, blogging, britain.
Comments: 11
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Comment from scubafreak
Time: January 14, 2009, 1:41 am
LOL…… Kind of like a bit from MST3K. “The following story is true. None of the names has been changed because noone was innocent…..” 😉
Stay safe in Ye Old Badger Brew Pub…..
Comment from Scott Jacobs
Time: January 14, 2009, 4:08 am
I hate to be cute about it, but the real name of this house is enough of a true and legal address to track us down like dogs.
So much for sending you stuff… 🙂
Comment from dfbaskwill
Time: January 14, 2009, 10:41 am
As student council president in 1977, I uttered the phrase “And now for something completely different” in my introductions of everyone every time. No one ever knew what the heck I was referring to. Such was the state of American humor in the late seventies. Long live Monty Python.
Comment from memomachine
Time: January 14, 2009, 11:15 am
Hmmm.
“So much for sending you stuff…”
That’s the dangerous part! 🙂
Comment from Scott
Time: January 14, 2009, 12:33 pm
Hey, only SOME of it would be ticking…
Comment from Nicholas the Slide
Time: January 14, 2009, 1:12 pm
As student council president in 1977, I uttered the phrase “And now for something completely different” in my introductions of everyone every time. No one ever knew what the heck I was referring to. Such was the state of American humor in the late seventies. Long live Monty Python.
Heck, I do it now. Sometimes even at work. Makes an excellent “Okay you’re weirding me out let’s change the subject” tagline.
I’m also prone to outbursts of “Can we burn him/her/it?”, “Bring out yer dead”, and “No one expects (insert object of discussion here)!!”.
Comment from JuliaM
Time: January 14, 2009, 1:21 pm
“I haven’t gotten any hits before 1901, which either means the information hasn’t been fed into the database yet, or the house had a different name.”
Or the third option, which is that someone in the civil service screwed up. Either on inputting the data, or on contracting for the system holding it in the first place.
I know! What are the odds…?
Comment from Sarah D.
Time: January 14, 2009, 3:46 pm
A few Bob’s? Small Roberts? Bobsey twins?
Comment from Steamboat McGoo
Time: January 14, 2009, 8:03 pm
Sarah –
Bob = British slang for money = one Pound Sterling, I think.
Think “bucks”.
Comment from Scott Jacobs
Time: January 15, 2009, 1:47 am
Or else they pay for things with haircuts…
Comment from Nicholas the Slide
Time: January 16, 2009, 12:08 pm
Hey, I’m all for barter system if you can make it work.
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