Selling the Family Silver

Selling the Family Silver?
With  the introduction of online access in the reading rooms at Kew, The National Archive finds that it has a certain number of redundant microfilms and is offering these free on a first-come, first-served basis.  The batch is of the Women's (later Queen Mary's) Army Auxiliary Corps: Service Records, First World War 1917-1920 and to be found listed in CatRef WO 398.  There are 240 reels and it is a single organisation that gets the batch.  If you know of a deserving home for these then get them on line to the National Archives before October 2nd, and if you feel the need to take a look at WO398 before making a request for the film then the easiest way to get to Kew Gardens is with Pam and the  Grimsby Family History Group  coach trip.  You do not need to be a Family History enthusiast to use this bus.  All the genealogists have reserved their seats so the group is throwing the final few seats open to those who might like to visit Kew Gardens. They will be starting from Immingham at 4.15 am then  Grimsby - Caistor - Caenby - Lincoln getting to Gt Gonerby for 6.30 a.m. Contact Pam  for details on 01469 560152.
While at the Kew you might like to look at the photographs of the Victorian Prisoners.  On the website there is a link to one of Julia Ann CRUMPLING aged seven.  She was given a weeks hard labour in 1870 in an adult prison  for  stealing a baby carriage.  Ah the Good Old Days.  I can’t find mention of the CRUMPLING surname in the dictionary.  There are too few of them for a mention in the Surname Profiler as well.  Both of the names CRUMP and CRAMP mean curved or hooked so one assumes that one of their children would be the diminutive adding - LING on the end.  The curved or hooked item might have been a physical item as with King Richard Crookback.  The only link I find in the search engine is the one to the National Archives and there certainly weren’t  any   in Lincolnshire in 1881.  They all seem to have lived in Hampshire.
Still with Kew I found a link that took me to the 1871 census for Albert Square., East End at St Paul’s Shadwell.  It is no laughing matter but one has to smile when one reads that the head of the household is a brothel owner and the majority of the female occupants living in the square are listed as having ‘fallen’ as an occupation and most of the males are down as ‘sailors’.  One of the occupants is Thomas FLINN who was a costermonger from Ireland. Being Irish but living in England means that the ‘O’ is dropped from O’FLINN and back in Ireland  anyone could have told you that the should be the descendant of FLANN.  Coming from the  Irish O FLOINN this was a nickname meaning red.
Bits and Bobs
Boothby Graffoe General Register – Jun 6th 1736 – Mary daughter of Lydia saunders, a travelling woman was baptised, whose husband died at Halifax.  Peter, the father of Mary saunders and Lydia Carter were married at White Chappel, London and legally settled at Norwich but in which particular Parish the said Lydia did not remember.