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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help deciphering signature
« on: Monday 08 September 25 14:19 BST (UK) »
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The Lighter Side / Re: Ancestry Club 1890. A bargain if never there was one.
« on: Sunday 31 August 25 16:28 BST (UK) »
Give ‘em their due, they’ve sent me some wonderfully accurate hints. Invariably from one of my own trees!
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The Common Room / Re: John Herbert Boden
« on: Friday 08 August 25 12:13 BST (UK) »
Great, thanks willsy. That's him, confirms two (rather than three) children - have yet to find the third although he appears in MFB's obit.
I see it's on FindMyPast - why couldn't I find it?! Pity my cousin never caught up with him - he was in the Coldstream Guards!
I see it's on FindMyPast - why couldn't I find it?! Pity my cousin never caught up with him - he was in the Coldstream Guards!
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The Common Room / Re: John Herbert Boden
« on: Friday 08 August 25 09:40 BST (UK) »
Thanks for the replies. Looking at them individually -
Carole - yes, I’ve seen that one. I’m also aware of MFB’s death.
Dave - the Chorlton birth ties in with the 1939 and the 1939 address is only a couple of miles from where MFB/P and family were living. (Reddish and Levenshulme) so far more likely than Rotherham, Ludlow or Shrewsbury.
Willsy - yes please. I’ve looked but could only find the 1952 reference.
Thanks again
R
Carole - yes, I’ve seen that one. I’m also aware of MFB’s death.
Dave - the Chorlton birth ties in with the 1939 and the 1939 address is only a couple of miles from where MFB/P and family were living. (Reddish and Levenshulme) so far more likely than Rotherham, Ludlow or Shrewsbury.
Willsy - yes please. I’ve looked but could only find the 1952 reference.
Thanks again
R
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The Common Room / John Herbert Boden
« on: Thursday 07 August 25 12:00 BST (UK) »
Here's one to interest the Rootschat sleuths!
A cousin of mine appears to have got together with a Frances May (or May Frances) Boden (Nee. Pearson) (1921-2012 - Stockport) in the mid 1950s but they never married - I assume because she was still married to John Herbert Boden (a one time milkman from South Manchester).
I've been trying to work out what happened to her first husband and I possibly have the answer but, due to limited evidence, I'd like other people's opinion.
JHB was probably born 14/6/1919 - I have him on the 1939 but haven't found him in '21. He married FindMyPast in Q2 1940 and they had 2 or possibly 3 children between then and c.1950. FindMyPast had her first child with my cousin in 1957 so we're looking at a time period of 1950-1957.
It looks like JHB re-married, to a Gladys Eileen Perry in Q4 1955 - Wycombe, Buckinghamshire - and died in Q2 1974 - Portsmouth. I can't be 100% sure of the death as it has the wrong year of birth (1914) but I'm assuming this is a typo as the name, day and month match.
I was wondering why JHB left and then turned up a report in the 15/12/1952 edition of the Manchester Evening News of him failing to answer bail for 5 charges of theft from a Stockport shop.
I've not found any further press reports about his crime so my assumption is that he was charged, scarpered, re-married, bigamously, in Bucks., and never came back to face the music. What do others think?
(These are just the bones - I have researched what is available so please ask before delving in too deeply!)
A cousin of mine appears to have got together with a Frances May (or May Frances) Boden (Nee. Pearson) (1921-2012 - Stockport) in the mid 1950s but they never married - I assume because she was still married to John Herbert Boden (a one time milkman from South Manchester).
I've been trying to work out what happened to her first husband and I possibly have the answer but, due to limited evidence, I'd like other people's opinion.
JHB was probably born 14/6/1919 - I have him on the 1939 but haven't found him in '21. He married FindMyPast in Q2 1940 and they had 2 or possibly 3 children between then and c.1950. FindMyPast had her first child with my cousin in 1957 so we're looking at a time period of 1950-1957.
It looks like JHB re-married, to a Gladys Eileen Perry in Q4 1955 - Wycombe, Buckinghamshire - and died in Q2 1974 - Portsmouth. I can't be 100% sure of the death as it has the wrong year of birth (1914) but I'm assuming this is a typo as the name, day and month match.
I was wondering why JHB left and then turned up a report in the 15/12/1952 edition of the Manchester Evening News of him failing to answer bail for 5 charges of theft from a Stockport shop.
I've not found any further press reports about his crime so my assumption is that he was charged, scarpered, re-married, bigamously, in Bucks., and never came back to face the music. What do others think?
(These are just the bones - I have researched what is available so please ask before delving in too deeply!)
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Using modern techniques and filters in restoration
« on: Thursday 31 July 25 10:23 BST (UK) »
I, too, think that the poll asks the wrong question. Taken in isolation, the answer must surely be “yes”; modern techniques are invaluable in photo restoration, but it is the extent to which they are used which gives me a problem.
I have used modern techniques myself e.g. to stitch together a photograph which was ripped in half many years ago and to make viewable badly faded, poorly exposed, damaged or mis-coloured images, but things such as colourisation and trying to make grandma look like she was photographed yesterday is, in my mind a step too far.
Old photographs have their character and, when restoring, it is essential to know when to stop.
I have used modern techniques myself e.g. to stitch together a photograph which was ripped in half many years ago and to make viewable badly faded, poorly exposed, damaged or mis-coloured images, but things such as colourisation and trying to make grandma look like she was photographed yesterday is, in my mind a step too far.
Old photographs have their character and, when restoring, it is essential to know when to stop.
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The Common Room / Re: Do you have suggestions for improving ancestry.com?
« on: Sunday 06 July 25 19:13 BST (UK) »
Me also - always thought DNA stood for something else!
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The Common Room / Re: Do you have suggestions for improving ancestry.com?
« on: Sunday 06 July 25 09:29 BST (UK) »Trying to pick an alternative to Ancestry is like trying to choose a toilet at Glastonbury.
Glen, that's a brilliant analogy - really made me laugh.
Or to quote an ex-colleague, after putting down the ‘phone to somebody - “Talking to him is like talking to a bag of sprouts.”
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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Fred Jones
« on: Thursday 03 July 25 22:35 BST (UK) »
Crowther Street is famous; although what’s there now isn’t what was there then.
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/crowther-street-stockport-cheshire-89605
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/crowther-street-stockport-cheshire-89605