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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: ManchesterJohnson on Thursday 06 November 25 16:07 GMT (UK)
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Hi all, can you please help me with this name. I can't even think of suggestions!
Thank you.
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John ??????ridge
Need a larger clip with other names etc.
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John Wildsidye
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There are no other entries with this name. The rest of the family are just ditto (do)
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What year is it from? Can you look up births for the children or marriages somehow
How has it been transcribed just out of interest
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a ref would be fantastic.
SS
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There are no other entries with this name. The rest of the family are just ditto (do)
I believe this says Windridge
1901 census Piece 3740/ Folio 129/ page 11 (deduced from the file name of the snip)
Boo
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Just about to say Windridge.
;)
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Children from 1901 census.
WINDRIDGE, JOSEPH CROFT
GRO Reference: 1890 M Quarter in MANCHESTER Volume 08D Page 210
WINDRIDGE, MARTHA CROFT
GRO Reference: 1898 J Quarter in PRESTWICH Volume 08D Page 347
SS
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Even if there is no other instance of this surname on the page, the census reference is useful to get a feel for how the enumerator formed his letters
If I got the right census return then the full record can also be be used to work out leads such as the following:
Marriages Q4 1884 Manchester. 8d 359 (per freebmd)
John Windridge - Mary Ann Croft
Lancs BMD shows that this marrriage took place at Manchester St Philip - their local ref is 93/5/353
and the GRO site which gives MMN prior to 1911 is free to search to check out the childrens' births to cross ref the MMN, if you search though systematically from the marriage year, you can possibly find children born and died too soon in between census years.
Boo
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Thank you all. As you correctly guessed it was from the 1901 census. My great grandmother had this as her address when she married in 1895 (Mary Jane Smith) but in 1891 it was the White family and 1901 now the Windridge family. I’ll keep digging.
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If its of any help, the 1895 Slater's Manchester & Salford Directory has Richard White, a butcher, listed at 131 Jersey Street in both the alphabetical and street listings
https://leicester.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/152370/rec/3
https://leicester.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16445coll4/id/153024/rec/4
and if you, or your library, have access to Find My Past then they have electoral registers for Manchester which show that Richard White was listed at 131 Jersey Street in 1894-95, 1895-96 and 1896-97 which well covers the time frame your G Grandparents married.
I see that in 1891 the White Family had a lodger, it may be that your G Gran wanted to marry at a particular venue and either just gave that address or actually stayed there to fulfill the residence requirements for being in the parish?
Boo