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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: Charlie Bucket on Monday 03 June 24 07:22 BST (UK)
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Hello.
This is from the 1865 Post Office London Directory. The person is Ambrose Miller and his occupation looks like Dolly's coml.hot
You can perhaps imagine what sites were suggested when I googled this!
Ambrose was, around this time, a coal factor.
Charlie
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Commercial hotel
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I agree - Commercial Hotel
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An 1840 newspaper reference to DOLLY'S COMMERCIAL HOTEL, Queen's Head Passage, Paternoster Row, LONDON describes it as having a central and airy situation and as a desireable House for Professional as well as Commercial Gentlemen during their stay in London.
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This ad appeared in Durham newspapers from August 1865 until June 1866
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Ambrose was, around this time, a coal factor.
He was a hotel keeper in the 1861 census
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So were there two Ambrose Millers?
In the 1871 census there's the coal agent in Hackney, born Durham circa 1818, and there's the retired innkeeper in Monkseaton, born Durham circa 1820.
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Thank you everyone. That clears things up.
Ambrose, like his father, was a brewer as well as a hotel owner and coal factor (mainly in the 1870s).
Yes, there were two Ambroses, uncle and nephew, although the uncle died in 1828. There were other Ambrose Millers floating around some of whom would be related.
Charlie
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He ended up in Queanbeyan in Australia, dying there aged 91.
And no, I'd never heard of it, don't know how to pronounce it and don't know how he ended up there.
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Queen be in ;D says this Aussie
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Thank you from across the ditch, Rufous.
Charlie
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Just in case you don't have his obituary:
(no need to subscribe)
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-queanbeyan-leader-ambrose-miller/148677835/
Edited to add his wife (unless there were two Ambrose Millers in Queanbeyan)
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sydney-morning-herald-ambrose-miller/148677882/
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Queen be in ;D says this Aussie
This one says Queen bee an. :D Whilst actually in NSW, it's just next to Canberra.
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Queen be in ;D says this Aussie
This one says Queen bee an. :D Whilst actually in NSW, it's just next to Canberra.
So does this Aussie. :D ( But I bet either would get you there!)
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There is a very well kept train station in Queanbeyan. I was impressed.
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Spent the coldest night of my life in Queanbeyan, staying with friends on a June long weekend in about 1984. Brrr. :D
So does this Aussie. :D ( But I bet either would get you there!)
Thought the different pronunciation might be a Sydney/Melbourne thing, but perhaps not.
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I tried to find any other references to Ambrose MILLER in Australia. Not many - he's on the electoral roll in Queanbeyan in 1903/4, no occupaton recorded. Also a mention of Mr and Mrs A MILLER at a funeral in 1903:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/31095519
There is an Ambrose MILLER in the Sydney Sands Directory in 1893 at 38 Dick St (Chippendale, near the city - Sydney), not sure if this is the same chap.
His death and funeral were reported in the Queanbeyan Age, but also in a couple of Sydney newspapers.
His wife Mary Ann's death was also briefly mentioned in the Queanbeyan Age:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/265183129
Her probate granted to Katherine Marie DORNBUSCH and Dudley Ward HARCOURT, executors
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/246288495
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Thanks for the info on Ambrose and the musings on the pronunciation of Queanbeyan.