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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Met policeman date unknown
« on: Tuesday 16 September 25 16:52 BST (UK)  »
Old Bailey Online
Session Date: 10 February 1902
Case: James Sullivan, Robert Rogers. Theft; Simple Larceny

One of the arresting officers was recorded as Alfred Ross (61 G)

Possible candidate?

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Lincolnshire / Re: George Huckbody CORDLEY - 1831
« on: Sunday 07 September 25 13:49 BST (UK)  »
Rebecca seems to have remained in in Pinchbeck for the rest of her life. She can be easily spotted in the Census records up to and including 1871.
Also this burial record:
Rebecca Cole (age 76, abode West Pinchbeck)
Buried 27 May 1878

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Lincolnshire / Re: George Huckbody CORDLEY - 1831
« on: Sunday 07 September 25 13:45 BST (UK)  »

Thomas Cole (batchelor) and Rebecca Cordley (spinster)
married by licence
on 4 October 1824
in Pinchbeck, Lincoln

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Kent / Re: Where can I find and access Gravesend parish records?
« on: Monday 11 August 25 22:12 BST (UK)  »
Indeed. Here is another link to CityArk:
https://cityark.medway.gov.uk/

Clicking on "Parish Records" used to result in a list of PDF documents. Now you get nothing useful at all. Hmm

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The Common Room / Re: baptism registers
« on: Monday 11 August 25 17:55 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: LizzieL on Monday 11 August 25 17:47 BST (UK)
Yes, that's the one. Good point about the possibility of Rev Downing being a bit inexperienced in record keeping or asking the question clearly about father's occupation

.... and the 1851 Census says that Samuel P Downing was only 26 years old at the time. Maybe his first curacy?

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The Common Room / Re: baptism registers
« on: Monday 11 August 25 17:52 BST (UK)  »
Properly phrasing the question is indeed another important point. I have a couple of post-1837 marriage records where the groom's father was deceased but nevertheless was recorded with an occupation. That's bound to happen if the Curate simply asks ".... and your father's name and occupation?".

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The Common Room / Re: baptism registers
« on: Monday 11 August 25 17:43 BST (UK)  »
Hi

You are obviously referring to:

Cornelius, son of Samuel and Martha Ingate baptised on 29 June 1851 at Rumburgh by S P Downing, Curate.

The date might be significant. If you go back to very beginning of the register you will see that Revd. Samuel Penrose Downing didn't become the curate until 1851 and that Cornelius was one of his first few baptisms.

It's not impossible that Reverend Downing made a beginner's mistake when recording Cornelius's details! He merely misunderstood what was supposed to be recorded in the register in that particular situation.

Dave

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Isle of Man / Re: Purser with the Isle of Man Packet? Any additional records please?
« on: Friday 08 August 25 21:27 BST (UK)  »
He was recorded as Frederick Elliott Anstruster in the 1939 Register.
Occupation: Journalist.
DOB: 13 May 1872.
Single.
Living with many others at 58 Nelson Square, Southwark, London.

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The Common Room / Re: John Herbert Boden
« on: Thursday 07 August 25 16:06 BST (UK)  »
Hi

You've said that JHB was probably born in 1919 but you have a death registration that suggests 1914 instead.

Quite possibly different people because we have two birth registrations:

John H Boden - June qtr 1914, Rotherham - MMN Kay
John H Boden - June qtr 1919, Chorlton - MMN Birtwistle

or even:

John H H Boden - June qtr 1919, Ludlow - MMN Davies

but the following death registration shouldn't be discounted:

John Herbert H Boden - 1986, Shrewsbury - Born 2 May 1919.

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