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Family History Beginners Board / Re: William John Williams
« on: Sunday 09 September 18 13:18 BST (UK)  »
In my collection I have the WW1 medals- Mercantile Marine and BWM medal for “William Williams”. I wonder if it was the same person?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Please decipher name script on back of 1809 silver pocketwatch
« on: Sunday 27 April 14 10:46 BST (UK)  »
Thanks STG.

To my untrained eye I thought the first initial may have been a P?

And I couldn't work out for certain what the remaining letters were, perhaps Elwood, Elmoor, Elmore. Hence my difficulties!

Pete

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Please decipher name script on back of 1809 silver pocketwatch
« on: Sunday 27 April 14 10:28 BST (UK)  »
Hi,

I have an old silver pocket watch dated 1809 made by Joseph Irish in Portsmouth. It has a name scripted on the back of it which I think would have been the first owner. I'm having difficulty in working out exactly what the letters are as they are a bit too fancy! I'd like to know so that I can search the local records etc and see if I can find out about that person.

I hope someone can help confirm what the letters are.

Thanks!

Pete

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Decipher old short hand postcard from 1906?
« on: Sunday 27 April 14 10:17 BST (UK)  »
Yes you have both helped a great deal! Thank you very much indeed and I hope you enjoyed working it out!! Just looked like squiggles to my untrained eye! Nice to know what it all meant after 108 years. Mystery solved!

Pete


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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Please could I have an idea of date for this Devonshire family photo?
« on: Thursday 24 April 14 16:39 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for everyone's thoughts on this.

I'd guess it was a travelling photographer as the area is mainly farms.

I'd have expected it to be my Great Grandparents (Samuel Sowden and Lucy Sowden) in the photo with my Grandfather as a child, but I've attached a photo of my Grandfather as a boy with his mother below. I'm not sure that the lady in the group photo is the same as the lady in the lane. I don't have any photos of my Great Grandfather.






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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Decipher old short hand postcard from 1906?
« on: Thursday 24 April 14 13:46 BST (UK)  »
Wow thanks 'conahy calling' and 'Rhododendron'. I had no idea what the text contained and wondered why they had written it in shorthand in the first place. The card is local to Southampton so your interpretation seems spot on!

Many thanks for your effort!

Pete

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Decipher old short hand postcard from 1906?
« on: Wednesday 23 April 14 20:57 BST (UK)  »
Hi,

Please could anyone interpret what is written on this postcard? I think it is shorthand text.

It was posted in 1906 to Leslie Carden.

Many thanks!

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Please could I have an idea of date for this Devonshire family photo?
« on: Wednesday 23 April 14 20:46 BST (UK)  »
Hi, I'm new to the forum and would love to know a rough idea of the date of my family photo in order to help me identify who they are? It was a photo found with my Grandfather's possessions when he died but unfortunately I don't know who the sitters are. No one in my family had seen it before. My Grandfather's family (Sowden) come from around the South Molton - Witheridge area in Devon. My Grandfather was born in 1912 so don't know whether he would be in the photo or whether it could be earlier.

There is no writing on the photo and nothing on the back. It looks to be a farm lane but not enough to identify location.

Would the baby be a boy or a girl based on its clothes? That may help me go back through the census records looking for man, wife, three sons and possibly daughter?

Thankyou for any assistance!

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: Stephen Barnes in 1841 - 1871
« on: Thursday 07 November 13 17:59 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Clare, thanks for your message.

I'm descended from Francis (Frank) Noyce who married Caroline Barnes (daughter of Stephen). Their son, Arthur Thomas Noyce, was my Great Grandfather.



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