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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Occupation Help Please
« on: Friday 20 September 13 12:38 BST (UK) »
Three out of three of us now say coachman. I wonder why I had to send the first message as a personal one? Victor
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Kent Lookup Requests / Re: Where do I get will transcript or original from in High Halden?
« on: Sunday 01 September 13 22:29 BST (UK) »
The National Archives. As you know the wills exist you should be able to get them downloaded direct to your computer. I got one within minutes and it cost me three pounds something. Reading it was a different matter! My local family history society helped a lot, it's amazing the knowledge and expertise some of them have.
Victor
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Deciphering London district please
« on: Sunday 25 August 13 11:27 BST (UK) »
Seems like you may have solved it. I belong to a family history society and they have members who can decipher old writing. Are you a member of one that could help you? Joining would really help with this and other problems you may encounter. Victor
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Deciphering London district please
« on: Saturday 24 August 13 20:25 BST (UK) »
Good, you are getting somewhere. What was the occupation of the father and what is the occupation of the person to whom his son(?) was apprenticed? And do you know where that is? This, hopefully will narrow down where the place in question is.
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Deciphering London district please
« on: Saturday 24 August 13 13:27 BST (UK) »
A bit more of the document would help to get a feel for the formation of letters but initially I thought Stratford but a closer look indicates the final part of the word as .....side. Are there no clues in the document that would give an idea as to whereabouts in London it might be? What date are we looking at? A will of 1842 I looked at recently would suggest the first letter may be D. What type of document is it?
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London and Middlesex / Re: Ancestors that worked for the Royal Arsenal
« on: Saturday 23 March 13 14:55 GMT (UK) »
Hi,
I wish I had joined Rootschat before yesterday, I was in the Greenwich Heritage Centre then looking for the same information as you! I might have been able to help! My great grandfather took his family to Constantinople between 1863-1866 and returned sometime before the 1881 census. I have births for two of his children, marriages for four of his elder children, plus several births of their children, whilst they were there. I'm not sure whether Woolwich Arsenal sent him there but that is what the family story says. He was an engineer but of what type I don't know. It has been assumed that he was a marine engineer but now I'm not so sure, he might have worked on railways. Either way, another family story says he was out there teaching the Turks how to use the new munitions Britain was supplying them in their war against the Russians. I've just been informed by a volunteer at the Greenwich Heritage Centre, who is also a member of the West Kent Family History Society, (as am I) of two web sites I found interesting, which you might like to view. "The Building of Istanbul Docks - 1870-1910" and "Old and New Photographs of Istanbul" (by Maggie Blanck). If you are not a member of the WKFHS I would recommend you join, they are very helpful and enthusiastic. Hopefully I will hear from you at some time but in the meantime good hunting.
Victor
I wish I had joined Rootschat before yesterday, I was in the Greenwich Heritage Centre then looking for the same information as you! I might have been able to help! My great grandfather took his family to Constantinople between 1863-1866 and returned sometime before the 1881 census. I have births for two of his children, marriages for four of his elder children, plus several births of their children, whilst they were there. I'm not sure whether Woolwich Arsenal sent him there but that is what the family story says. He was an engineer but of what type I don't know. It has been assumed that he was a marine engineer but now I'm not so sure, he might have worked on railways. Either way, another family story says he was out there teaching the Turks how to use the new munitions Britain was supplying them in their war against the Russians. I've just been informed by a volunteer at the Greenwich Heritage Centre, who is also a member of the West Kent Family History Society, (as am I) of two web sites I found interesting, which you might like to view. "The Building of Istanbul Docks - 1870-1910" and "Old and New Photographs of Istanbul" (by Maggie Blanck). If you are not a member of the WKFHS I would recommend you join, they are very helpful and enthusiastic. Hopefully I will hear from you at some time but in the meantime good hunting.
Victor
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