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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: Nicola Norton on Tuesday 30 November 10 18:31 GMT (UK)
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Hi,
I can't read the actual town or village for the Somerset address. It has been transcribed as Worth Laron, but I can't find this on a list of Somerset Parishes. If you want to see the actual census record it is:
HO107/1507/126 p 66.
Her name is Mary Wood - married to Christopher Wood (carpenter).
Thanks,
Nicola
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Hi Nicola
It looks to me like something FARM. North Farm?
dazey
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Hi Nicola
It looks to me like something FARM. North Farm?
dazey
yes its first letter is exactly the same letter as first letter of the line above.
So if you can read that - home and dry!
Is it an M?
esdel
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Midgtroy farms...midgloy farms...wroth farm...nrath farm
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Think the line above is probably Middx St James's?
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Hi
I'm reading 1st line as:
???, Nr. James'
Second entry- something like:
Somerset
Wrath Farm
Not sure which Census year you have got the info from, but is it worth looking at any previous (or subsequent) Census records of these people to see what this place has been transcribed as in other years?
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Not sure which Census year you have got the info from, but is it worth looking at any previous (or subsequent) Census records of these people to see what this place has been transcribed as in other years?
This is 1851. In 1861 and 1871 her place of birth is given as Somerset.
On her marriage certificate (1846) she is Mary Reid, daughter of Samuel, farmer.
Richard
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The first line is definitely "Middx, St James" so that's no help :-\
I agree that it's "something" Farm. North was the first thing I thought of, but I'm not convinced of that.
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There is a village of Worth near Wells in Somerset.
George.
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Think it is Somerset
Smith Farm
Joan
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Thanks for all the help. I will try and find her father - Samuel and see if I can find what "farm" she was born at!
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Could be Somerset, South Farm.
Liz
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This London marriage caught my eye:
1845
John Tansley, carpenter, m Ezett Elizabeth Read d Samuel Read, farmer
1851 census
HO 107/2000/498/16
John Jones Tansley, 29, lic. victualler and carpenter
Ezett Tansley, 30, b Cucklington, Somerset
She died in 1858 so he has re-married by the 1861 census.
The co-incidences seem too high to ignore.
IGI
Children of Samuel and Hannah (nee Follett m 1810)
Mary 1811 Cucklington
George 1813 Cucklington
Sarah 1816 Milverton
Eliza 1819 Milverton
Lots of Cucklington Reads in the censuses. Certainly worth following up I would have thought.
Richard
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Could the first line, be a phonetic spelling of 'Middlezoy' in Somerset?
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Nicola is it possible to post an image with some more of the place names on for comparison.
George.
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Thanks to all for more information. I will follow up the marriage lead, as it does seem to be a good link.
Here is a copy of the original image:
* Moderator Comment: image cropped...only a portion of such images can be posted, due to copyright restrictions on the images *
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Although the second word appears to say 'Farm', it may be a mishearing of another word, so I wouldn't put too much weight by what you see. There is, for instance, the hamlet of Clapton-Forms in Cucklington - I don't think that is what it says, but it gives an indication of the sort of word that may have been transribed incorrectly as 'Farm', particularly if Mary gave the information and retained a West Country accent. It would also be unusual (but not unique) to name the farm, but not the village or town in Somerset, when so far away in London.
There are also countless possibilities for the first word. The end appears to be 'th' but actually it is almost identical to the end of 'little' a few lines higher up, so could well end in 'tle'.
If you haven't found it already, this 1841 entry looks the most likely:
Milverton
HO107/951/8
Samuel Reed, 60+, ag lab, Y
Hannah Reed, 45+, Y
Sarah Reed, 20+, Y
Eliza Reed, 20+, Y
Richard
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There IS a place called Worth Matravers in Somerset
So any farm near there could be "Worth Farm" ::)
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If South Farm, Somerset.
If you google "Axbridge Registration District, 1891 Census Street Index S-T", you will see the web page which will take you to National Archives wiki. Listed under the Index is a South Farm. (Axbridge is in Somerset.)
Also there is a 19th century former farm house in Axbridge called South View Farm. Google "History of South View Farm, Somerset", and then go into Somerset Real Estate Property Listings, there you will find detailed information on this farm.
Neither may be right but worth a look just in case.
Liz