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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: CDV photographer ID from partial rear image
« on: Tuesday 12 April 22 15:20 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for your response. No particular reason for knowing the studio - just curiosity and to possibly identify location. I attach the front though I don't think it will help much. The sitter is possibly one of my great great uncles Allan Stevenson, a master mariner from Liverpool - born Scotland 1853, died at sea off India in 1897

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / CDV photographer ID from partial rear image
« on: Tuesday 12 April 22 08:12 BST (UK)  »
Greetings
I have a cut down carte de visite (CDV) photo of a ?x great uncle possibly Stevenson, possibly Liverpool. Does anyone recognise the partial design from the back and is able to tell me which photographic studio it may be from. Any other hints as to date etc would be very helpful. Thanks.

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Devon / Re: Paris Street, Exeter
« on: Friday 06 March 20 20:28 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Alex

Sadly after about 40 years of searching I am no closer to finding out who Sir Chas' parents were. I'm still hoping for a break through somewhere ...

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Other Countries / Re: Day family, Antigua and Sierre Leone
« on: Sunday 28 April 19 21:38 BST (UK)  »
Hello Nichola - thanks for your information - I continue to follow this thread and am interested in your post - I wonder if you could confirm the dates you have - John Day b. 1773 - d. 1777 cannot be correct as that makes him only 4 years old. Could you confirm what your F W Jackson presented. Also could you confirm Sarah Smyth's date of birth as that would mean she was 60 yrs old when Ann was born. I am interested to know where the name Golding comes from too. I like the Ramsey for Ramus connection though. It is a complicated web. I am descended from Elizabeth Day daughter of John of Antigua and possibly Sarah Smyth though I have not been able to make a definitive connection with Sarah. However, it is good that you have that name specifically in your record as it has so far been conjecture. Many thanks and let's see if we can prove anything beyond doubt.

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Devon / Re: Paris Street, Exeter
« on: Thursday 08 March 18 17:34 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Ian and Dee-jay for your responses - he is also a sideline for me as his father was son of my 4xgreat grandfather by his second wife. So my interest has mainly been for clues to paternal ancestry as I have been trying to find parents for CHH senior for many many years. He is one of those mysterious ones with plenty of rumours of being the illegitimate son of an earl. CHH junior was (as far as I know) the third of that name CHH senior having at least one other child named CHH who died young. The Holland name was carried through a good number of descendants which must be significant. CHH junior does seem to be a very shady character - army, navy, air force, "explorer" etc etc as well as bankrupt, divorce. I already have the divorce stuff for Clara Dolman the first wife. Well, if I can provide anything else let me know. Thanks

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Devon / Re: Paris Street, Exeter
« on: Thursday 08 March 18 09:32 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Ian

I would be interested in your interest in Charles Holland Hastings. I think yours is the son of Francis, son of my 4xgreat grandfather Lt-Col Sir Charles Holland Hastings KCH. I have quite a lot of info about Sir CHH but perhaps you already have much the same.

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Antrim / Re: Kyle's Tullynahinnion Portglenone Co Antrim
« on: Tuesday 04 March 14 08:32 GMT (UK)  »
Greetings all

I can't be much help, but am also trying to get back to earlier generations than most of those posted so far. I am descended from Mary Kyle who married James Haw (or Hall) and was in Aughnacleagh another township close to Portglenone town. I have no idea of her parentage, but her dates are roughly 1806 to 16 September 1882. They had children named Jane (b c 1834), William (b c 1840) and Mary (b c 1845) that I have been able to identify. From grandchildren's names I would guess the most likely Kyle ones (apart from Mary) to be John and Ann, but this could be a red herring. Jane Haw/Hall married (1855) Alexander Rea/Rae from Tullynahinion and ended up in Glasgow. Any clues there?

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Other Countries / Re: Day family, Antigua and Sierre Leone
« on: Tuesday 04 March 14 08:04 GMT (UK)  »
Hello James and Lorraine
I've been away for a long time and just revisited these posts. Some great research being done.
James - I like your Smyth (rather than Smith) suggestion for John Day's wife very much and looking again at William Day's will I am fairly well on the way to convincing myself that the cousin Sarah mentioned whose surname is difficult to decipher could be Smyth. I had rejected Smith in favour of something like Lough or Bough, because of the curlicue below the line, but now think it could well be the y of Smyth. The small gap between the y (if it is one) and the h, is enough to accommodate a faded t. Cousin Sarah Smyth would have to be the daughter of Sarah Smyth (Mrs John Day)'s brother, perhaps the William or Christopher you mention. Did you find any more about those Smyths of Annables, Herts?

By the way, just to remind you in case I am forgotten - I am descended from John's daughter Elizabeth who married Charles Wills Walrond - interestingly they named one of their daughters Grace Ladington (sic) Walrond.



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Other Countries / Re: Day family, Antigua and Sierre Leone
« on: Wednesday 24 August 11 14:11 BST (UK)  »
Hi Lorraine

Funnily enough I was just composing a response to your earlier one when I got a notification of another post.

Thanks for your info. I had seen the John Taddy entry but not the John Day one. It cuts things a bit fine for my Elizabeth Day daughter of John as she married in 1777 so would have had to have been born fairly soon after the 1758 marriage. May I ask the source of your info and also of the birth and baptism of Ann Day who married Thomas Lodington? Are you certain that the birth and baptismal dates are for that Ann? The Caribbeana volumes mention a John Day and his wife Elizabeth Yate, but they must have been an earlier generation and whether they were of the same family remains to be seen. They had a son John and a daughter, Anne but this was in a will dated 1715 with codicils up to 1723. Will continue to dig.

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