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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Date this US photo of William Sutton
« on: Yesterday at 23:13 »
Quote from: jim1 on Yesterday at 11:19
Neither.
This is an 1860's Ambrotype & the man looks in his 20's.

Oh interesting! Ok. So the elder William M Sutton I mentioned - his father was also called William M Sutton so this must be him! He lived from 1837-1884!

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Date this US photo of William Sutton
« on: Monday 05 January 26 23:59 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you!

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Date this US photo of William Sutton
« on: Thursday 01 January 26 21:49 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all.

I'm wondering if anyone can date this photo? I obviously have a name of who is in the photo but I have two men - a father and son - with the same name and I don't know which of them is in this photo. It was taken in North Carolina, USA.

The first William M. Sutton lived from 1867-1930.
His son, William M. Sutton, lived from 1892-1941.

Can anyone advise?

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Immigrants & Emigrants - General / Why leave one child behind?
« on: Friday 11 July 25 13:33 BST (UK)  »
Hi all,

Looking into someone's family history and have come across something curious. I have a family - the Wickhams. Father is Thomas and mother is Catherine. They were married in Roscommon, Ireland in the 1860s. They then had four children: Thomas (1868), Eliza (1872), Anne (1875) and Andrew (1877).

In 1883, I have a passenger arrival document into the US for Catherine and three of her children: Thomas, Eliza and Andrew. I assume husband Thomas was already in the US setting up and preparing for his family to join him.

But it seems as though 8-year-old Anne was left behind. Her parents had one final child, Margaret, in the US in 1887.

Matriarch Catherine died in 1893 and in 1899, then 24-year-old Anne emigrated to the US (I assume to her family?) She married a fellow-Irishman later that year. They had three children in America before moving back to Ireland and having a fourth here.

But my question is, why would her family have left her behind when they all went to the US? I suppose she could have been sick ad unable to travel? Would there have been other reasons?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Cause of death?
« on: Sunday 26 January 25 15:59 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks all, much appreciated!

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Cause of death?
« on: Sunday 26 January 25 15:32 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all,

Just wondering if anyone can determine what my 5xgreat-grandfather's cause of death was?

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Armed Forces / 1921 Census in Buller Barracks
« on: Saturday 11 January 25 12:48 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all,

Recently came across a man who might be my grandfather's uncle - William Houghton - in the 1921 Census.

Background
William was born in Aldershot to Rose Hannah and William Houghton in January 1899 (his father was in the army). The last record I have of him is the 1901 Scottish record where he's living in Glasgow with his mother and younger sister. He dropped off the face of the earth after that.

Now
Now I've possibly found him in the 1921 Census living in Buller Barracks as a Private, baker? His birthplace is correct and his age is off by almost 1 year exactly (which as census records go is pretty good I think!) Does anyone know how I can find out anything more about the person in this Census?? I've checked Fold records and can't see anything relating to this soldier. I'd love to confirm if this is my grandfather's uncle as I had just assumed he died as a baby as I could find nothing on him. (My grandfather's father - William's younger brother - was raised in an orphanage so we never knew this family)

Any help would be much appreciated!

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Armed Forces / Re: Where would a man in Worcestershire sign up to join the army in the 1890s?
« on: Saturday 13 July 24 12:19 BST (UK)  »
Well you see, I have found his wife and two children in the 1901 Census in Glasgow. After this, there is absolutely no record of those two children ever again - not in a census, a death or marriage. Nothing. I can't find any of them in 1911. There were a lot of William Houghtons and it's hard to narrow him down.

His wife had her son in 1905 and in 1908 the kid was lifted and put in an orphanage. In 1918 she left her address in the orphanage (she was living in Glasgow). In 1921 she's living with a new man who she claimed was her husband (but they actually got married two years later in 1923). No mention ever again of William Houghton. I've always assumed he died between 1901-04 and that because of that the family sort of fell apart - but I have nothin to prove this

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Armed Forces / Re: Where would a man in Worcestershire sign up to join the army in the 1890s?
« on: Saturday 13 July 24 11:47 BST (UK)  »
Oh that's interesting that he was so near Birmingham. I'm not familiar with the geography of the UK at all. I cannot find him anywhere in 1901 which is why I assume he was abroad. His wife was recorded in Glasgow as a 'wife of a soldier' rather than widow, so I assume he was still alive. She had a child by another man in Northern Ireland in about 1905 and there was never any mention of William again (she remarried in 1923). So I assume he died sometime between 1901-04 but I suppose he could have just deserted/separated from her

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