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Thanks for confirming that there was no such marriage (at least in England anyway.)  Yes, not knowing the birth name is a big obstacle.  I was hoping that the relative obscurity of the two parts of the name (i.e. Gochen / Linnus) might compensate for that to a degree, but I appreciate there are limiits.

I don't mind putting more effort in; to be honest it interests me more than researching my own family history (which is something that has never particularly interested me, although I fear that might be an odd opinion to voice here.)  I suppose you could argue though that maybe doing research into my own family history first might be a better way to master the skills involved, since at least with that I have some known starting points to work backwards from unlike this particular search.

I fear getting the death cert might be something of a challenge since it would involve Polish archives and I don't speak the language.  (Also 1918 was something of a complicated year in Polish history to say the least, I'm not sure how that would affect what is held and where...) But it's certainly something for me to consider, especially if it would help unlock other angles.  Thanks again 

Hi, I hope this is the right section for this.  Please let me know if it isn't.

I am trying to find out more about Mary Eleonora Gochen-Linnus (name at time of death), born 1834 in London and died in Warsaw, Poland on 20th September 1918. Unfortunately I only have the birth year and not the exact date, which is going to make things more difficult I realise.  Depending on the circumstances of her marriage – assuming she did marry – then she could potentially have been born a “Gochen-Linnus”, a “Gochen” or a “Linnus” just to make things even more difficult.

I don't know when she left the UK but my assumption is that she emigrated to Poland at some point. So it may be well be that anything related to her later life will be found in records held outside of the UK.

In case anyone is curious, this relates to a grave marker I'm trying to find more information about.  I was in Warsaw a couple of months ago with my partner to visit the grave of her grandmother who died last year.  But it's quite an old cemetery and it so happens that nearby was a grave that stood out to me, partly because it was large and distinctive in style but also because it was quite overgrown with ivy. I ended up clearing away as much of the ivy as I could to get a better look at it. 

The inscription on it reads:
"D.O.M.
Mary Eleonora Gochen-Linnus
Born in London 1834 bested [sic] in the lord at Warsaw 20-IX-1918
To his best and truest life-friend lays this memorial stone
Joseph Glisczynski"

Anyway I found myself wanting to know more about who Mary Eleonaora Gochen-Linnus was, how she ended up in Warsaw and also what her relationship with Joseph Glisczynski was (it seems fairly unusual for a grave stone to be dedicated to the deceased by a friend - as opposed to a relative - in this way?)  I doubt I'll ever know all of that but it would be nice to find out a bit oof her life story at least

That's great again, I suppose thinking about it that the death was quite possibly at a hospital so may not therefore be particularly local.  And if so then it's not inconsistent with the possibility of him still living in Yardley up till then as it's a suburb of Birmingham anyway.

Will see what exists on Facebook for Yardley

Sorry if this is in the wrong section, but it's a bit of a strange one... I picked up recently a bunch of old paintings in an auction, one of which was an old tapestry of the Last Supper; there's a handwritten label on the back that reads:

"Done by Phoebe Grainger aged 15, born 1853 died 1916, m. [married I assume] Joseph Martin (1849-1935), begat 8 children... this picture MUST stay with Martin descendant" (NB the "MUST" is their capitals not mine.)

I don't have any use for the tapestry and it would have next-to-no value as an antique so I thought it might be a nice idea to try to pass it on to a descendant as stipulated in the note.  Of course there may not be any still living and even if there are they may not have any interest in it, but it feels like it's worth a try.  Now I realise tracing living people is not allowed by RootsChat so I just want to make it clear that that's *not* the purpose of this post.  My plan is to use a local Facebook group for the relevant area (if there even is one) to see if I can find any relatives that way.  But to do that I would need some kind of locality information for either of these two people and I have none at all currently.  (The picture was bought in Herefordshire, but I don't know if that's any meaningful clue to where this family lived.  Possibly not...)

Any help appreciated!  I realise it's a long shot with such limited info, and I imagine "Joseph Martin" would be a very common name back then.

Not a request for help really (so apologies if this is in the wrong section), but just sharing something I came across recently - in a job lot of old paintings -  in case it's of use to anyone here.  Basically it's a framed legal document to cover the settling of accounts for the deceased Daniel Allen, with the proceeds split between twelve descendants.  The document seems undated, which is a bit surprising to me for a legal document, but anyway the penny lilac stamps used should date it to the period 1881 - 1901.

I'm posting it in the Gloucestershire section as it makes mention of a Tewkesbury bank account for Daniel, although the solicitor named is from Evesham.  So it's possible that it could be Worcestershire-related instead.

I doubt it contains anything of great importance genealogy- wise, but there's a nice amount of detail on it so it might be of interest to someone researching this particular family.

https://ibb.co/RTx1H5L
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