Kindle Slices brings digestible essays and short stories to the UK

Kindles Slices bring digestible essays and short stories to the UK

After a relatively successful stint in the US, Amazon is bringing its "vast spectrum " of reports, memoirs and narratives to the British Isles. Former Penguin Press managing director, Andrew Rosenheim, has been drafted in to curate what appears in Kindle Slices and at the moment, there's plenty of 99p titles from notable authors and journalists, with subjects encompassing video games, Lincoln and short stories involving window cleaners -- hopefully, then, a suitable read in there for any UK readers unwrapping a new Kindle next week.

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Spectrum Pharma's blood cancer drug meets trial goal

(Reuters) - Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Inc said a mid-stage trial of its experimental blood cancer drug met the main goal of reducing the size of tumors.

The biotechnology company's shares, which have fallen about 22 percent over the past 12 months, were up about 3 percent at $11.60 in morning trade on the Nasdaq and touched a high of $11.75 .

The drug, belinostat, was tested in patients with relapsed or refractory peripheral T-Cell lymphoma (PTCL), and who had failed to respond to at least one therapy.

The company said it expects to file a marketing application with U.S. health regulators by mid-2013, and expects a review date in 2014.

The trial was conducted under a special protocol assessment that provides a company with a written agreement that the design of the study and analysis of the data are adequate to support a marketing application with the U.S. health regulator.

Spectrum markets another drug to treat PTCL, named Folotyn, which it obtained as part of its acquisition of cancer drugmaker Allos Therapeutics earlier this year.

MLV & Co analyst George Zavoico said Folotyn and belinostat have different mechanisms of action, and having two drugs for the same indication could be useful in cases of relapsed patients who develop resistance to one of them.

PTCL consists of a group of aggressive blood cancers that develop from T-cells, a class of white blood cells.

(Reporting By Vrinda Manocha in Bangalore; Editing by Don Sebastian and Sreejiraj Eluvangal)

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As Western Europe grays, the money in emerging markets' digital ...

blogWhen I do keynotes about my 2008 books on emerging markets, I start out explaining why I left Silicon Valley for two years? despite everyone?s advice? to find and write about entrepreneurs no one had ever heard of.

One of my arguments is a chart that shows Goldman Sachs? view of the world in 2050. It shows the seven largest economies in the world and only one? the United States? is a G7 nation. And we?re not the biggest. We?re roughly tied for number two with India.

It?s a dramatic representation of how little most of us are prepared to compete in the new world, because we don?t understand most of these places and the places we do understand are becoming more irrelevant by the decade.

To be sure, the journey to that graph?s reality is rocky and uncertain and filled with false starts. While the overall trend may be a sure thing, there?s no obvious, reliable way to profit from the trend. We?ve written before about how Groupon made serious missteps in going too aggressively internationally, too expensively, and too quickly. And we?ve also reported before that returns are pretty ugly in emerging markets right now? both for private and public markets.

Meanwhile, there are reports that China is clamping down on VPNs: The massive gaping hole in the Great Firewall that many a Western Internet company had been exploiting for years to reach a certain affluent and business audience, censor-free. (For more on how the Great Firewall works, see our epic music explainer video, set inexplicably to a circus theme.) And while China is the most known, its certainly not the only market that engages in control and Web censorship. It?s a continuing lesson in just how much you can count on reaching the largest global audiences.

But at the same time, you just can?t ignore these markets either.

A new study by a company called Translated.net puts that same Goldman Sachs chart in digital terms, ranking the countries with the most sales potential via the Web.?It measures this by looking at the Internet population of each country and its estimated GDP per person, determining a ?market share? of each place and language on the Web.

Clearly Translated.net ? as the name says? makes a business in helping people reach local customers around the world, so there?s an agenda here. Any Internet company will tell you that sheer size of people online and GDP growth doesn?t equal revenue you can actually get from them. There are a million cultural holes to fall into. Still, if you agree with Goldman Sachs on where the world is going, it?s a fascinating way to watch it happen digitally.

At a top level? as Goldman predicts? Western Europe is declining and the emerging world is surging.

The company forecasts that China will take over the United States? as the most lucrative online market in 2016. While it?s sort of a wonky thing to measure, there?s clear logic to it. China already has an Internet population 1.7 times the total population of the US, and there?s still huge upside as the Internet penetration in China is about 40%.

Less dicey than navigating China is Brazil, and the report showed a surge in the money making potential online in Brazil as well, predicting it could overtake the UK and France next year. By 2016, it could overtake Germany. Russia follows closely behind. Meanwhile, the research predicts that Mexico will edge out Italy in the ranking.

Western Europe struggles while the emerging world steals its global power position: It?s becoming a familiar story playing out in politics, macro-economics, age demographics, and, now, the Web?s spending power.

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Sarah Lacy is the founder and editor-in-chief of PandoDaily. She is an award winning journalist and author of two critically acclaimed books, "Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0" (Gotham Books, May 2008) and "Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos" (Wiley, February 2011). She has been covering technology news for over 15 years, most recently as a senior editor for TechCrunch.

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Ben Heck's Naughty or Nice Meter knows if you've been bad or good (so be good for Arduino's sake)

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Sometimes even Santa Claus needs help. Thankfully, the jolly fat guy's got one of our favorite modders on his side. We visited Ben Heck's Madison, Wisconsin workshop a few weeks ago for an Engadget Show segment and got to watch as the master put together a special holiday-themed project, the Naughty or Nice Meter, a big candy cane-accented box that'll help tired parents "keep the kids in line" this holiday season. The box itself is actually a mostly hollow shell, with an Arduino, TI LaunchPad and a few other select select components in the rear that communicate with a specialized app, letting the parent in question adjust the needle based on their kids' behavior. Nothing like a little manipulative fun in the spirit of the holidays! Check out our segment on Mr. Heckendorn just after the jump and click on through the source link to find out how to make a Naughty or Nice meter or your very own.

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Uses of IT Support to Your Business

Nowadays businesses depend on their computer network systems for proficient daily operation. The cash flow and inventory are only two of the aspects that require close management and this can be understood if the computer system is properly functioning. Additionally, most businesses provide their customers utilizing electronic system. Thus, any malfunction in the system can lead into business loss and a difficulty to the customers. The reason why IT support for business should not be ignored in the competitive industry where clients have the opportunity of selecting from lots of businesses in similar business environment.

IT consulting support and services improve efficiency and increase collaboration within the company. Therefore, allowing the business to save time and costs. The IT consulting company that offers backup to your Firewall products and data services will definitely help increase the overall proficiency of the business. Additionally, every business requires backup services to ensure the operation's continuity and also to prevent fire, viruses and other disasters that damage the hard disks of the computer. With the right backup data, your business can operate without being interrupted even if the hard disks are damaged. Your business can also have an improved proficiency by managing a reliable firewall security. The firewall can secure your computer systems from viruses that can affect the performance of your computers or worst, can affect your entire network. Thus, with a well-built firewall security provided by a reliable IT support company, you can attain the composure that your systems will be free of any viruses that can affect your business operations.

Also, firewall can prevent your business from waste of money. Businesses usually lose thousands of dollars yearly as an outcome of credit card data loss to fraudsters and hackers. These hackers install malicious codes that affect the databases of the business, to steal confidential financial data.

Cost is a primary concern to any business, either it is big or small. On the other hand, most businesses have a usual mistaken belief that making this fixed if a problem has occurred is more cost efficient than hiring an IT consulting company. However, you should realize that if you will spend money every time an issue arises, you will come up paying more than the fee every month. Also, you will waste a lot of time every your transactions close down due to an issue that can be prevented. By hiring a professional IT service support provider, you will be ensured that your computer networks will be updated and monitored regularly.

Source: http://www.readingprinters.co.uk/computer-hardware-articles/2677-uses-of-it-support-to-your-business

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A giant puzzle with billions of pieces

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Bielefeld's Center for Biotechnology and the Joint Genome Institute, US, decipher genetic information of microbes in biogas plants

This press release is available in German.

Day after day, legions of microorganisms work to produce energy from waste in biogas plants. Researchers from Bielefeld University's Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec) are taking a close look to find out which microbes do the best job. They are analysing the entire genetic information of the microbial communities in selected biogas plants up and down Germany. From the beginning of 2013, the Californian Joint Genome Institute will undertake the sequencing required. The biocomputational analysis will be performed at CeBiTec. Not an easy task, since the data will be supplied in billions of fragments stemming in turn from hundreds of organisms. Piecing together this huge jigsaw puzzle will be painstaking work.

In Germany, there are more than 7,000 biogas plants which can supply over six million households with power. The plants are filled mostly with plant biomass like maize silage but also with agricultural waste materials like liquid manure and chicken manure. One of the key research questions is how the production of biogas can be optimised. For this reason, Bielefeld scientists Dr Alexander Sczyrba, Dr Andreas Schlter, Dr Alexander Goesmann, Professor Dr Jens Stoye und Professor Dr Alfred Phler want to know what microbes are responsible for the decomposition of biomass - and which of them do it best. "We are interested in discovering the microbiology that is really behind the processes going on in a biogas plant; what microorganisms play which role at which stage," explains Andreas Schlter, whose research at CeBiTec is in the field of biogas production.

First genome deciphered

The researchers' work has already borne its first fruit. "At CeBiTec, we have managed to decipher the complete genome sequence of Methanoculleus bourgensis, a methane producer," reports Professor Phler. By doing so, Bielefeld has sequenced the first genome for a methane-producing archaeon from a biogas plant a single-celled primordial bacterium which plays an important role in certain biogas plants. Now, the researchers want to go even further.

Putting the puzzle together

The project is part of the Community Sequencing Program, a public sequencing programme financed at the Joint Genome Institute by the US Department of Energy. While previous biogas studies have concentrated primarily on certain marker genes, now the entire genetic information of the microorganisms is to be studied. The American institute will produce more than one terabyte of sequence data for this, which is equivalent in volume to approximately 300 human genomes. This data will be supplied in a countless number of fragments, however, since even the most modern technology is not capable of reading all at once the millions of bases of which a microbial DNA molecule consists. Instead, the sequencing technologies supply vast quantities of overlapping sections of about 150 bases. The DNA sequences will then be returned to Bielefeld in billions of fragments, which is where Alexander Sczyrba's Computa-tional Metagenomics team comes into play. They develop bioinformatic procedures for the reconstruction of genome sequences. Their task is to compare the data, recognise the overlaps and use them to reassemble the base sequence. "We are trying to complete a puzzle made up of billions of pieces, which also includes hundreds of different puzzles all mixed up," explains Sczyrba.

Single-cell genomics promises new insights

Quite incidentally, the Bielefeld researchers will be breaking new ground in genomics. An estimated 99 per cent of all microorganisms cannot be cultivated in the laboratory. A brand new technology, single-cell genomics, is to provide insights here by determining the genome sequence from single microbial cells. Knowledge of the identity and functions of hitherto completely unknown microorganisms is expected to be gained. During the joint project, the Joint Genome Institute will sequence approximately 100 single-cell genomes.

The researchers have scheduled roughly two years for their project, in which also Bielefeld doctoral students of the Graduate Cluster in Industrial Biotechnology (CLIB) are involved. At the end, they hope to have discovered the optimal microbial community for biogas plants - and thus be in a position to make this process of generating energy even more efficient.

Background

Biogas plants produce methane through the fermentation of plant biomass, which can be used to generate power and heat. The decomposition of plant biomass and the production of biogas in agricultural biogas plants are brought about by microbes. This process, which is similar to what goes on in the digestive tract of cattle, has a neutral carbon dioxide balance and does not therefore contribute to global warming. Unlike other renewable energies, for example weather-dependent power sources like wind and solar, methane can be produced constantly and stored. This allows it to be converted into power or heat as required.

For further information in the Internet, go to: www.cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de/grim/index.php/research/metagenomes

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asczyrba@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de
49-521-106-2910
University of Bielefeld

Bielefeld's Center for Biotechnology and the Joint Genome Institute, US, decipher genetic information of microbes in biogas plants

This press release is available in German.

Day after day, legions of microorganisms work to produce energy from waste in biogas plants. Researchers from Bielefeld University's Center for Biotechnology (CeBiTec) are taking a close look to find out which microbes do the best job. They are analysing the entire genetic information of the microbial communities in selected biogas plants up and down Germany. From the beginning of 2013, the Californian Joint Genome Institute will undertake the sequencing required. The biocomputational analysis will be performed at CeBiTec. Not an easy task, since the data will be supplied in billions of fragments stemming in turn from hundreds of organisms. Piecing together this huge jigsaw puzzle will be painstaking work.

In Germany, there are more than 7,000 biogas plants which can supply over six million households with power. The plants are filled mostly with plant biomass like maize silage but also with agricultural waste materials like liquid manure and chicken manure. One of the key research questions is how the production of biogas can be optimised. For this reason, Bielefeld scientists Dr Alexander Sczyrba, Dr Andreas Schlter, Dr Alexander Goesmann, Professor Dr Jens Stoye und Professor Dr Alfred Phler want to know what microbes are responsible for the decomposition of biomass - and which of them do it best. "We are interested in discovering the microbiology that is really behind the processes going on in a biogas plant; what microorganisms play which role at which stage," explains Andreas Schlter, whose research at CeBiTec is in the field of biogas production.

First genome deciphered

The researchers' work has already borne its first fruit. "At CeBiTec, we have managed to decipher the complete genome sequence of Methanoculleus bourgensis, a methane producer," reports Professor Phler. By doing so, Bielefeld has sequenced the first genome for a methane-producing archaeon from a biogas plant a single-celled primordial bacterium which plays an important role in certain biogas plants. Now, the researchers want to go even further.

Putting the puzzle together

The project is part of the Community Sequencing Program, a public sequencing programme financed at the Joint Genome Institute by the US Department of Energy. While previous biogas studies have concentrated primarily on certain marker genes, now the entire genetic information of the microorganisms is to be studied. The American institute will produce more than one terabyte of sequence data for this, which is equivalent in volume to approximately 300 human genomes. This data will be supplied in a countless number of fragments, however, since even the most modern technology is not capable of reading all at once the millions of bases of which a microbial DNA molecule consists. Instead, the sequencing technologies supply vast quantities of overlapping sections of about 150 bases. The DNA sequences will then be returned to Bielefeld in billions of fragments, which is where Alexander Sczyrba's Computa-tional Metagenomics team comes into play. They develop bioinformatic procedures for the reconstruction of genome sequences. Their task is to compare the data, recognise the overlaps and use them to reassemble the base sequence. "We are trying to complete a puzzle made up of billions of pieces, which also includes hundreds of different puzzles all mixed up," explains Sczyrba.

Single-cell genomics promises new insights

Quite incidentally, the Bielefeld researchers will be breaking new ground in genomics. An estimated 99 per cent of all microorganisms cannot be cultivated in the laboratory. A brand new technology, single-cell genomics, is to provide insights here by determining the genome sequence from single microbial cells. Knowledge of the identity and functions of hitherto completely unknown microorganisms is expected to be gained. During the joint project, the Joint Genome Institute will sequence approximately 100 single-cell genomes.

The researchers have scheduled roughly two years for their project, in which also Bielefeld doctoral students of the Graduate Cluster in Industrial Biotechnology (CLIB) are involved. At the end, they hope to have discovered the optimal microbial community for biogas plants - and thus be in a position to make this process of generating energy even more efficient.

Background

Biogas plants produce methane through the fermentation of plant biomass, which can be used to generate power and heat. The decomposition of plant biomass and the production of biogas in agricultural biogas plants are brought about by microbes. This process, which is similar to what goes on in the digestive tract of cattle, has a neutral carbon dioxide balance and does not therefore contribute to global warming. Unlike other renewable energies, for example weather-dependent power sources like wind and solar, methane can be produced constantly and stored. This allows it to be converted into power or heat as required.

For further information in the Internet, go to: www.cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de/grim/index.php/research/metagenomes

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Famous family trees: Tess Daly

Welcome to December?s ?famous family trees? blog! In this blog series, experienced family historian, Roy Stockdill, investigates the family histories of the famous, both living and dead. This month Roy explores the ancestry of Strictly Come Dancing presenter Tess Daly.

When I set out to research the ancestry of Tess Daly I thought it inevitable that, because of her surname, sooner or later I would run into the ?Irish problem?.

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Tess Daly (image courtesy of listal.com)

Sure enough, I was right! The glamorous TV presenter who co-hosts Strictly Come Dancing with Bruce Forsyth had an Irish great-great-grandfather who probably came over to England with his family some time in the 1870s.

Most family historians will be familiar with the difficulties associated with tracing Irish ancestry because of the large-scale destruction of records in a fire at Dublin?s Public Record Office in 1922.

I managed, however, to get Tess? family tree back to her great-great-grandfather who was born in Ireland about 1826 or 1827. Tess? ancestors settled first in Salford, Lancashire, then moved to the Stockport area of Cheshire. Her parents lived in the beautiful Derbyshire Peak District, where Tess was born and brought up.

She was born Helen Elizabeth Daly on 27 April 1969 to Vivian Daly and Sylvia Bradley, who were married at Chapel En Le Frith registration district in the July-September quarter of 1965. Tess? working class parents both worked lengthy shifts in factories to support the family while she was growing up and she spoke of her sorrow when her father, Vivian, died in 2003, of emphysema, just 18 days after her marriage to fellow TV presenter Vernon Kay.

I initially had a tiny problem finding Vivian?s birth, though the General Register Office death indexes gave his birth date as 19 December 1932. I did eventually find him in the GRO birth indexes ? but his forenames were reversed. The death record named him as Vivian James F Daly but he was registered in the March quarter of 1933 at Stockport as Felix J V Daly, which was the name he also married in.

The mother?s maiden name in the birth indexes was given as Perry and I found the marriage at Stockport in the first quarter of 1915 of Tess? grandparents. Her grandfather was Felix M Daly and her grandmother was Ruth B Perry, whose middle name I subsequently discovered was Bailey, after her mother Clara.

I could find no other children for Felix and Ruth, so it seems that they waited some 18 years for a son, unless Ruth had lost children previously. The death indexes show that Ruth died in 1945, aged 51, and Felix in 1957, aged 70. It seems likely Felix married again after his wife?s death, for the GRO marriage indexes have the marriage at Manchester in the last quarter of 1945 of Felix M Daly to Mary Cunningham.

Tess? grandfather, Felix Matthew Daly, was born on 19 October 1886 at Salford, the son of William Joseph Daly and Elizabeth Mann. Tess? great-grandfather William Joseph is shown on the birth certificate as a hat manufacturer?s salesman. Felix?s middle name of Matthew subsequently turned out to be the name of his grandfather. In the 1911 census the family were living at 38 Heaton Road, Heaton Norris, Stockport:

The Dalys in the 1911 census

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William Daly was 50, described as a ?hat traveller?, and his birth place was given as Cavan, Ireland. Whether the name Cavan referred to County Cavan or the town which is its capital was not stated. William?s wife Elizabeth was also 50 and her birth place was given as Navestock, Essex.

With them were three sons and two daughters ranging in age from eight to 24, Felix being the eldest. Felix had been born in Manchester and the other children at Stockport. Also in the household were two boarders, Frank and Gertrude Quigley, aged 25 and 23, who were probably brother and sister since both were shown as single.

An entry in the column for married women revealed that William and Elizabeth had been married 25 years and had had six children, one of whom had died.

A small curiosity of the census entry was that the schedule was apparently completed and signed by Felix and not his father William.

Next I went to the 1901 census where I found the Daly family at 20 Parsonage Road, Stockport. In this census William and Elizabeth were both shown as 40, while William?s birth place was shown simply as Ireland and Elizabeth?s just as Essex:

The Dalys in the 1901 census

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Felix, the eldest child, was 14 and an office boy. Then came William 12, Elizabeth 10 and Katherine 2. Also living with the family was William?s brother, John Daly, a wood carter (or possibly carver), 37, also born in Ireland.

Ten years earlier, in 1891, the Dalys were at 36 Christ Church Terrace, Heaton Norris:

The Dalys in the 1891 census

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William, 30, was shown as a hatter?s salesman, birth place Ireland. There was a surprise, however, when the birth place of his wife Elizabeth was shown in this census as Camberwell, London! I am unable to explain this apparent error, since my researches indicate that she was definitely born at Navestock, Essex, which was given as her birth place in the census of 1911.

William and Elizabeth had three children with them in 1891: Felix aged 4, born at Salford and William, 2 and May Elsie, 4 months, both born at Heaton Norris.

To try and ascertain who William?s father was I obtained a copy of the marriage certificate of William Joseph Daly and Elizabeth Mann, which took place not at Stockport, Salford or Manchester, but on 24 August 1885 at St Catherine?s Roman Catholic Church, Sheffield ? across the county border in Yorkshire.

This revealed that both parties were aged 23 and William gave his occupation as a salesman. His address was 6 Ducie Place, Salford, while Elizabeth gave her address as 25 Montfort Street, Brightside Bierlow, Sheffield. The most important piece of information was that William?s father was Matthew Daly, a draper, who was deceased at the time of the marriage. Elizabeth?s father was James Mann, described as an engineer.

Now I was able to find the whole family in the 1881 census. They were living at 6 West Street, Broughton, Salford, with Matthew Daly being then aged 55 and not a draper but a rent collector. His wife Mary was 45 and they had five children: Catherine 21, a waitress; Felix 19, also a rent collector; William 17, a commercial clerk; John 16, an apprentice joiner; and Francis 14, an errand boy.

Also in the household was a niece called Rose A McCann, 16, a waitress. The entire family gave their birth place as Ireland:

The Dalys in the 1881 census

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I noted again the Christian name, Felix. Clearly this was a family name since he was William?s elder brother, then William had a son who was called Felix and he, in turn, named William?s grandson ? Tess Daly?s father ? Felix as well.

So where did the name Vivian, which Tess? father was presumably mostly known by, come from? I found the possible solution when I returned to the 1911 census and found Tess? grandmother, Ruth Bailey Perry, with her parents John Thomas and Clara Perry (nee Bailey) at 220 London Road, Hazel Grove, Stockport:

The Perrys in the 1911 census

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John and Clara were both 42 and John Perry was in the hatting business, like William Daly, being an overlooker. Their children were: Ruth Bailey Perry, 17, a felt hat trimmer; John Thomas Perry, 15, a cotton warehouse worker; and Wilfred Vivian Perry, 13. So it seems likely that Ruth bestowed the middle name of her younger brother upon her son.

Despite much searching, I couldn?t find the Daly family in the 1871 census, so I came to the conclusion that they must have come to England some time in the decade up to 1881.

Searching various online sources, I found a Matthew Daly and Mary Smith who baptised three children in the 1860s at a town called Cootehill in County Cavan, but they didn?t include a William, so I cannot say whether they were the family who migrated to Salford or not without more detailed research.

Matthew?s age in the 1881 census, and his given age of 57 when he died at Salford in 1884, suggests he must have been born about 1826-7. Though I cannot be 100 per cent certain, his son William?s death may have occurred in Manchester because the death indexes have a William J Daly who died there in 1941, aged 79, which accords with his birth year of about 1861/2 and his age of 50 in the 1911 census.

Being unable to get any further with the Dalys, I looked to research William?s wife, Elizabeth Mann. I found her in the 1871 census as Lizzie Mann, aged 10, living with her parents James and Ellen Mann at Navestock, Essex, which was given as her birth place in the 1911 census. Navestock is a village and parish north-west of Brentwood. They were living at Pratt?s Cottage, Navestock, in Ongar registration district:

The Pratts in the 1871 census

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James Mann was aged 41, born at Navestock about 1830. His wife was Ellen, also 41, born in Ireland ? which meant that Tess Daly had a second Irish great-great-grandmother on another line. Their children were: Mary 13; Lizzie 10; Ellen 7; Daniel 5; and George 1. All the children were born at Navestock.

The only thing which didn?t quite fit was that on her marriage certificate Elizabeth Mann said her father James was an engineer, whereas in the censuses he is shown as an agricultural labourer. It is, however, well known that people did often embellish details to enhance their social status!

In the GRO marriage indexes I found the marriage at Ongar registration district in the third quarter of 1855 of James Mann and Ellen Driscoll, while Elizabeth?s birth is recorded also at Ongar in the last quarter of 1860. The family also appear in the 1861 census at Mewtherin Lane, Navestock:

The Manns in the 1861 census

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James was then 32 and an ?ag lab?, while Ellen?s age was shown as 25, which doesn?t accord with her age in 1871 ? but we all know how ages can vary in the censuses. I feel sure it was the same woman because her birth place was again shown as Ireland.

Their children were: Esther 6; Mary 2; and Elizabeth, six months. Also in the household was a 16-year-old agricultural labourer called John Haggar, a lodger. Immediately close by the Mann home was a 140-acre farm employing five men and two boys and it seems likely James was working for the farmer.

I managed to get Tess Daly?s ancestry on this line back another generation to her great-great-great-grandparents who were called William and Rachel Mann. They are found in the 1851 census with their son James ? then aged 20 and unmarried ? and five other sons at a place called Water Hales, White Horse Side, Navestock:

The Manns in the 1851 census

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William was also an ?ag lab?, aged 48, while his wife Rachel was 46. Both, then, were born almost at the beginning of the 19th century. Their sons were: William 22; James 20; David 13; Isaac 11; George 8; and Steven 6.

In 1841 the family were at Navestock Heath, Navestock, with four of their sons, William, James, David and Isaac, and a daughter of 15, Elizabeth:

The Manns in the 1841 census

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So as well as having Irish ancestors, plus kin from Lancashire, Cheshire and Derbyshire, it seems Tess Daly might just about qualify as an Essex girl as well!

Roy Stockdill

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Roy Stockdill has been a family historian for almost 40 years. A former national newspaper journalist, he edited the Journal of One-Name Studies (for the Guild of One-Name Studies) for 10 years. He is on the Board of Trustees of the Society of Genealogists and is commissioning editor of the ?My Ancestors?? series of books. He writes regularly for Family Tree magazine.

Source: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/2012/12/famous-family-trees-tess-daly/

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