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The Common Room / Re: Vicars/Rectors in 1600's
« on: Friday 29 January 10 09:41 GMT (UK)  »
No problem, Lady Di!

Here's the person you want:

http://www.clare.cam.ac.uk/about/archives/index.html

    Ms. Elizabeth Stratton,

    Edgar Bowering Archivist,
    Clare College Archives,
    Queens Road,
    CAMBRIDGE
    CB3 9AJ
    Tel. 01223 765059 (answerphone available)

    E-mail: archives@clare.cam.ac.uk

Let me know if you find you need anything from the University archives as I am currently working in the building and may be able to help.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Signature on a aunction agreement
« on: Friday 15 January 10 09:40 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks everyone! Looks like the general consensus is that it is probably a J William Henry Hornby.

The reason I've been getting other opinions was because someone suggested to me that it might have been a JW Hornby buying it on behalf of a William Henry Hornby - but since I can't find a William Henry Hornby of Fen Ditton and I can find a Joseph William Hornby of Fen Ditton, I'll probably take the easy option and say that Joseph Hornby (possibly known as William Hornby) bought it.   

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: 1736 room description - COMPLETED
« on: Thursday 14 January 10 15:33 GMT (UK)  »
I had a quick look in the full OED, and couldn't find any mention of 'walck', 'welck' etc, just the word 'walk'

"In a church or other public building: a place where people can walk; an ambulatory, cloister, aisle, portico, or the like; esp. (in the Royal Exchange in London) each of the portions of the ambulatory formerly allotted to different classes of merchants and designated by special names, as East India, Virginia, Jamaica, Spanish walk, etc. (see diagram following the passage in quot. 1766)

e.g. 1766 J. ENTICK Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 102 In this area merchants..meet every day..and, for the more regular and readier dispatch of business, they dispose of themselves in separate walks, according to the following plan."

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Signature on a aunction agreement
« on: Thursday 14 January 10 12:45 GMT (UK)  »
Yes there definitely seems to be a J in the signature. But is that also a 'J' under the massive ink blotch where he gives his name?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help - identifying photograph - religious?
« on: Thursday 14 January 10 11:55 GMT (UK)  »
zooming in on the girl on the left, I think she does have the rosary beads hanging down

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Signature on a aunction agreement
« on: Thursday 14 January 10 11:51 GMT (UK)  »
Comparing the signature and the name, what would people say is the name of the person buying this property? 'J William Henry Hornby' ? 

From census data, it really should be Joseph William Hornby of Fen Ditton, but I can't decide if there genuinely is a 'J' at the start of his name, or if that's wishful thinking.

Thanks!

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Census Lookup and Resource Requests / Re: anyone have access to the times online archive?
« on: Monday 04 January 10 21:30 GMT (UK)  »
I think I may have full access from work - if you tell me what you want, I'll have a go tomorrow?

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The Common Room / Re: Vicars/Rectors in 1600's
« on: Sunday 03 January 10 17:45 GMT (UK)  »
Did you say he went to Cambridge University? Do you know which college? Many of the college archivists are very helpful about tracking people down and finding out if there is any extra information about them. However,  I had a look on Janus http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk but couldn't see any one who could be your John Turner.

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The Common Room / Re: Naming your child "King John"
« on: Sunday 03 January 10 17:38 GMT (UK)  »
You think King John got off lightly, then?  ;)

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