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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: Anihana on Sunday 14 November 10 07:54 GMT (UK)
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Hi
What I can read is:
Sarah Rutherford
? ? Robert & Elizabeth Gillies ??
A native of ? Tyrone (The record doc said "Daruteright" Tyrone but I can't find any such place)
Calling Farm Servant ?
Age 21
None certifying
William Patterson ?
?
presbyterian (? ? Before marriage)
Can read & write a little no complaint
NEXT PAGE
Robert ? months
??
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v57/KiwiMR2/sarahgilliesjpg.jpg
Cheers
Andy
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Sarah Rutherford
Dr (daughter) of Robert & Elizabeth Gillies both alive
A native of ? Tyrone (The record doc said "Daruteright" Tyrone but I can't find any such place)
Calling Farm Servant dairymaid?
Age 21
None certifying
William Patterson ?
?
presbyterian (Episcopalian Before marriage)
Can read & write a little no complaint
NEXT PAGE
Robert 14 months
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Hi Andy :)
The missing bits:
Dr [daughter] of … both alive
Darnteright is what it looks like to me...
…dairywoman
…episcopalian before marriage
14 months [as at] 31st [of] last month
Can't get it large enough to see what is written after William Patterson.
Hope that helps :)
Cheers
Prue
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Very much so - thanks :-)
episcopalian - so she would have married a presbyterian then, what does that maybe mean? - In ireland does that mean maybe a scottish background? Gillies is quite a common scottish name yeah?
Cheers
Andy
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v57/KiwiMR2/William.jpg
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Hi Andy,
I still can't work out what it says - looks like "tothers" or "to thus", neither of which make sense!
Episcopalians are Anglican protestants; Presbyterianism is Scottish.
Cheers
Prue
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Thanks again for your help.
So here is her husband James Rutherford - he may have been of scottish heritage do you think based on the surname (common scottish name) and his religion?
Can you tell he he was "brought out by" ?
Calling is carpenter yeah?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v57/KiwiMR2/1204_70140.jpg
Cheers
Andy
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Yes, Carpenter.
Brought out by A B Smith & Co.
Is the name William Patterson Collins?
This is clearer than the other in parts, and suggests that Sarah's health was also recorded as 'very good'.
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Hi
Re the place Sarah Rutherford is native of - could it be Desertcreat which is relatively near Cookstown where her husband is from? I know it doesn't look like that, but realise that this information is being given to an English or even an Australian official, by someone with probably a strong Irish accent - say it phonetically and you'll see what I mean.
Presume you know that 'no complaint' after the R&W bit means she had no complaint about the voyage out, not that she had no complaint as in disease?
Do we know the date of this? or the ship?
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Hi
Re the place Sarah Rutherford is native of - could it be Desertcreat which is relatively near Cookstown where her husband is from? I know it doesn't look like that, but realise that this information is being given to an English or even an Australian official, by someone with probably a strong Irish accent - say it phonetically and you'll see what I mean.
Presume you know that 'no complaint' after the R&W bit means she had no complaint about the voyage out, not that she had no complaint as in disease?
Do we know the date of this? or the ship?
Heya
I think your probably right - it was a ship called the "Elizabeth" and the date was August 1841 arriving in New South Wales , Australia - into Sydney I believe.
They were in NZ a year or two after that I believe.
Cheers
Andy