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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Wedding
« on: Sunday 20 December 15 00:53 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Norma Leigh on Sunday 20 December 15 00:09 GMT (UK)
Could somebody please colour this picture Mums Dress is pale Blue with cream lace and hat and shoes blue eyes for both parents Names Robert and Norma Radnedge year 1948

Welcome to RootsChat Norma, there are some amazing talented folk here, I'm sure you will be pleased with their efforts, I'll be keeping an eye on it too, Rod.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Please date the lady , the gent is Herbert Read Perth Australia .
« on: Monday 02 November 15 06:08 GMT (UK)  »
No problem Yonks, there are thousands of Reads here in the west, Gillingham in Dorset is still like a rabbit warren as far as the Reads go !
Cheers, Rod.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Please date the lady , the gent is Herbert Read Perth Australia .
« on: Monday 02 November 15 00:07 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Yonks Ago on Sunday 01 November 15 12:02 GMT (UK)
Ferret,

Can you tell me your connection to the Read/Reid family please.
I have a James REID born abt 1866 Erskin S.A. died 1928 Kalgoorlie.. he married into my family.

Cheers
Yonks

Hi Yonks, My 4th G Grands George READ and Elizabeth from Gillingham Dorset arrived ship Rockingham May 1830, five children, mostly stayed around Perth, on the same ship was JAMES and Ruth Read, see below.


READ, J, R & Family

1800 – 23 February 1878
13 July 1801 – 15 July 1873

Origin Gillingham, Dorset, England
Accompanying Family Rose, Eliza, Caroline, James, John & Frances
First settled in Sulphur Town, Garden Island, WA
Original Occupation Journey Man
Occupation in Australia Boatman, Farmer, House Proprietor - F'tle

ROCKINGHAM

Departure Port London, UK
Arrival Year 1830

Ruth Died Frem. 1873, James then moved to SA to be with Family and died GOOLWA 1879, not sure of Jame's relationship to George, possibly half Brother, or Brother.
Cheers, Rod.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Please date the lady , the gent is Herbert Read Perth Australia .
« on: Sunday 01 November 15 11:53 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: jim1 on Sunday 01 November 15 10:52 GMT (UK)
What you have is an over-sketched enlargement of 2 photos blended together.
I would suggest the lady's was taken late WW1 & up to 1920 & the one of him sometime during the 1920's.


So would that make them Mother and Son Jim?
The photo was done by the same studio as the wedding photos of my Grands in 1920, it's the same handwriting on the back of the packing ( just numbers and a squiggle), but nothing on the back of the photo as they are stuck down Grrrrrr so that would make him 43?,  as he was born 1877.
Thanks Jim.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Please date the lady , the gent is Herbert Read Perth Australia .
« on: Sunday 01 November 15 10:31 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Yonks Ago on Sunday 01 November 15 08:45 GMT (UK)
Ferret,

I would say the "Lady" is older than the chap..so maybe yes is his mother.

cheers
Yonks

Thanks Yonks, I thought that too, but I'm thinking they are husband and wife, he died well before she, and maybe someone had the photo put together, but a date for each person's photo would help clinch whether they are my G Grands, or GG Grands.
Cheers, Rod.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Please date the lady , the gent is Herbert Read Perth Australia .
« on: Sunday 01 November 15 08:07 GMT (UK)  »
Could these be the same lady?, sorry having bother posting photos

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Please date the lady , the gent is Herbert Read Perth Australia .
« on: Sunday 01 November 15 07:18 GMT (UK)  »
Hello My friends, I've been told these are my G Grandparents Herbert Read and Mary Little, BUT I'm thinking the lady is his mother taken much earlier and  I can see they are merged.
Herbert 1877 -1948.Mary was his wife 1881- 1957.
Could the lady be his MOTHER ? Emily Howlett 1844-1931. (a much older photo?)


Any help is Appreciated, Cheers, Rod.

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Dorset / Re: Re James Read Gillingham Dorset B 1800
« on: Thursday 29 October 15 12:50 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: LizzieL on Thursday 29 October 15 12:16 GMT (UK)
Looking at Dorset OPC baptism transcriptions for Gillingham I can't find James born 1800.
On the marriage transcription for John Read to Mary Goffe, it doesn't say he was widowed, neither does banns transcript. John and Mary were both of Bourton. Witness was Andrew Read, other witness noted as illegible.
I can't find the 1793 death for Elizabeth Read nee Stone you mentioned either.

Hi Lizzie, I did find a burial for an Elizabeth Read in Silton, 1794 aged 27years just down the road from Bourton, the records of the church don't go back that far, a kind lady searched the graveyard and found nothing.
The only John Read I found was living at Bourton, a farmer, he was much older than Mary Goffe. I haven't found a death for John Read, he was 76 in the 1851 Census.
 George Read and previous  ten generations all worked for Squire Weld, at Lulworth Castle Estate until 1829 when they left for Australia in 1830, If James was George's Brother, they would be 13 years apart, I don't think he was George's Son as George wasn't married until 1809. it is confusing isn't it, and thank you so much for looking into it for me, let me know if I can help further.
Kind regards Rod.

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Dorset / Re: Re James Read Gillingham Dorset B 1800
« on: Thursday 29 October 15 09:47 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: LizzieL on Thursday 29 October 15 09:32 GMT (UK)
Is your George Read the one bapt in Gillingham on 30 Dec 1787 s/o John and Elizabeth?

Hi Lizzie, Yes that is him, Married Elizabeth Coward 1809 in Gillingham,  George's mother is Transcribed wrongly as SHAW, but it's STONE on her marriage to John Read.
Cheers, Rod Read.

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