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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: DaleB on Thursday 27 March 14 19:31 GMT (UK)
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The attached image is from a 1914 passenger ship manifest, showing that an ancestor of mine was returning to New York City from a visit to the UK. The extract is from a column in which the passenger was supposed to indicate the relationship, name, and address of the nearest relative in the UK. I am interested in the reading of lines 3 and 4, which appear in slightly darker ink and appear to be in a different hand from the other entries. I think the lines read:
mother, K. Barton, 161 ? ?
Westbromwich
The reading of West Bromwich is a bit uncertain, but my ancestor and her mother were in fact born there, so I would expect the street address to be in West Bromwich. But I cannot make out the street address, even after trying to match it to a list of (modern) street names in W. B. I have not been able to find my ancestor in the 1911 census, so no help from that source. Can anybody decipher the address?
cheers,
Dale
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Could it be 161 Great Bridge Street, West Bromwich?
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I have to agree with Trishanne on 161 Great Bridge Street. Even though the spelling doesn't quite match - to me it looks like 'greit Brid(and then some little unreadable letters).
However, after entering the letters I think I see, Google Maps keeps taking me back to 161 Great Bridge Street, West Bromwich.
https://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=161+great+bridge+street+west+bromwich&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x48709830e30f97cf:0xdc70d0b8964d5e2b,161+Great+Bridge+St,+West+Bromwich+B70+0DE,+UK&gl=au&ei=ctg0U8DqPMnTkwW4i4HgCA&ved=0CCoQ8gEwAA (https://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=161+great+bridge+street+west+bromwich&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x48709830e30f97cf:0xdc70d0b8964d5e2b,161+Great+Bridge+St,+West+Bromwich+B70+0DE,+UK&gl=au&ei=ctg0U8DqPMnTkwW4i4HgCA&ved=0CCoQ8gEwAA)
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Thank you both for responding. "Great Bridge" was my guess, too, though I agree that the first word looks a lot like "greit" and I just can't see the "g" in the second word. I just confirmed that this address did exist in 1911 census and it was in fact a private dwelling. Unfortunately the occupants had the surname Lavender, not Barton. Oh well, I guess she wasn't at that address until 1914.