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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: Gotcha on Wednesday 28 November 12 07:01 GMT (UK)
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Hi...i'm sorry...i don't know how to post just an image that i need to have deciphered...so i hope this works...i'm going to post the link instead...if that's ok...
http://data2.collectionscanada.gc.ca/e/e143/e003555538.jpg
it is a passenger list...from the ship Gallia...year 1899..
the name...3 from the bottom of this page...Mary G....?????
if anyone can decipher that surname i would appreciate it...
Thanks
Gotcha
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Hello Gotcha
Might it be Gillies or Gibbes ??? :)
Sure to be plenty of other Rootschatters along to help.....
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I note that there are a Kenny Gibbons and a Fred Gibbons, their surnames being very close looking to Mary's. They are 14 and 11, and I wonder if Mary is related, mother perhaps.
Regards
Malky
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Except that she is listed as Spinster - (ditto from the entry above) - With so many children and three spinsters linked with them - I wonder if this is one of those ships taking children to Canada for migration of children!
I've just been reading 'Oranges and Sunshine' about the shipping of 180,000 children from UK to the 'colonies' for about 100 years until 1967 - all these children accompanied by three older women - Hmmmm Just wondering!
Possible do you think?
Wiggy :)
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It looks to be a letter short to be Gibbons when you compare it to the others - I think it looks like Gilles. The tails of the "g's" from the line above make it harder to decipher.
Just my twopence worth. ;D
Jules
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My initial reaction is that it says Gilkes.
Jen :)
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My initial reading of it was Gibbes - before I saw anyone else's ideas that was.
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Yes, I can see that as well Wiggy, though I'm not convinced that those two letters in the middle, are the same as each other.
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Here's that same group of people on the Gallia in 1899, but from a different list.
The name is definitely Mary Gilkes.
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:D :D :D
Hooray! Just for once, I've got it right! :D :D
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Certainly looks like it there doesn't it!! Good get Jen
Wiggy
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I would say Gilkes too.
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Hi there...WOW...thank you...i don't know how you did that...lighten it up like that...GENIUS...pure and simple...thank you so much...all of you...
Gotcha
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Hi...I have taken time to look for a Mary Gilkes on the Canadian census, both 1901 and 1911...and there are a few...but none with the age...or the arrival date into Canada...which was May 13, 1899. She and the Huggetts were headed for Stratford Ontario and I do know that Marth Huggett ended up in Weston, York County where she died. I was thinking that maybe Mary "Gilkes" was a sister to Martha, but not found any as yet. I have tried all different spellings possible or at least quite a few to no avail.
Thank you for your input.
Gotcha
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Looking at the image JenB has posted could it be Gelkes? If you look at the second letter it could possibly be an "e" which has faded slightly at the top (when comparing it to other "e's) on the page. What looks like the dot on an "i" looks like the tail of the "g" from the line above.
On the image which is linked it definitely looks like an "i" but not on the second one.
Hope I'm making sense here but I'm beginning to doubt it!
Jules