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Lancashire / Re: Help me find this cad William Fletcher please
« on: Saturday 21 March 15 22:42 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Keyboard & Annette ... I tried to find the census referred to by Keyboard & couldn't find it on ancestry? That's definitely them though ... John was indeed a Maker - up, Calendar operator & a Packer. Margaret s/b or is AKA Mary Ann. Thomas is new to me, as is Eliza?  ... I will check for Baptism records,
Thanks again! As for this "cad" William Fletcher I have found a record of a William Fletcher (Year: 1869; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: M237, 1820-1897; Microfilm Roll: Roll 316; Line: 11; List Number: 927) Leaving from Liverpool, steerage class, in August 1869 & arriving in New York. A very likely candidate methinks. His youngest daughter Mary Alice was born in December of that year ('69) his wife Emma would have been 4 or 5 months pregnant in August!

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Lancashire / Re: Help me find this cad William Fletcher please
« on: Saturday 21 March 15 15:13 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Annette,
I have accessed the 1861 census & it certainly fits, albeit her age is off by a couple of years and as you know that's not unusual. In 1871 she was definitely living with her parents in Ardwick with her two young daughters and also her sister Elizabeth who by then had married a John Nevitt & had a daughter of their own (Annie) I can find little or no records of the Buxton's in general on 1850's or 60's census in Lancashire, can you?   
G

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Lancashire / Re: Help me find this cad William Fletcher please
« on: Friday 20 March 15 03:11 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for your responses and sorry for my somewhat late response ... on holidays :-)
Anyway, Emma was the fourth born of six Buxton's and I'm confident based on our records was indeed a legitimate Buxton and as confirmed on her death certificate she died at the Royal Infirmary, Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom. Death Certificate of 32 year old Emma Fletcher nee Buxton on June 11, 1877, Wife of William Fletcher, a "Moulder" died of Bronchiis. Daughter of John Buxton, 8 Burton Street, Ardwick, Manchester. I have edited obviously ;-) As for this Buckston & William Fletcher in Hartlepool ... its seems like a long way from Manchester but it's more than I have found so far so I will dig into it, Thanks a ton!!!

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Lancashire / Help me find this cad William Fletcher please
« on: Wednesday 18 March 15 23:05 GMT (UK)  »
My 2nd great grandmother Emma Buxton b14 Jul 1844 in Manchester, daughter of John Buxton b1811 & Maria Liggat (born abt 1812) married a William Fletcher in or around 1864? They had two girls, my great grandmother Emily Fletcher b1865 and her sister Alice Fletcher b1869. By 1871 she & her two daughters both under the age of 6, were living with her parents (John & Maria on Ashton Street, in Ardwick) :o
 I know from Emma's death certificate as well as Emily's & Alice's marriage certificates that William was a moulder. (Emily married my grandfather Walter Raymond Brown) and lived on Apollo & Rome Streets and eventually Reather St. In all cases the records imply William was alive (i.e. not "deceased") 
Family "stories" say William up & left Emma with the two young girls and emigrated to the US & was never heard form again.  ::)
I can find no record of the marriage between Emma & William & while I have found records of various William Fletchers living England around that time I cannot tie any of them to poor Emma. :-\
My 90 yr old aunt Marjorie Brown would love to know what happened to this "cad" before she passes on. Any and all ideas welcomed. ???
Thanks,

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The Common Room / Re: Any Idea what sport this man is involved?
« on: Wednesday 18 March 15 17:29 GMT (UK)  »
I can't get enough resolution to see the medals clearly ... could be a Maltese cross but it's hard to say. I'm hoping when I see the original I can get an even closer look and maybe a better scan although I must say it's a fairly his res scan that was sent to me :-(

I have scoured the net for Victorian & Edwardian images and as yet cannot find any "outfits" quite like the one's in these two photo's ... odd? I must say the closest was an Oxford athlete so maybe it's university garb? That said nobody in my family from that era seem to have gone to any post secondary education other than apprenticeships. 
G

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The Common Room / Re: Any Idea what sport this man is involved?
« on: Tuesday 17 March 15 17:54 GMT (UK)  »
I sent the upper photo to the US fencing museum and it was suggested the medals look like they may be for  athletics but consensus was that the guy is not a fencer.
Grunge 

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Can somebody date this photo please?
« on: Tuesday 17 March 15 17:41 GMT (UK)  »
Here's the full frame version.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Can somebody date this photo please?
« on: Tuesday 17 March 15 03:39 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Jim ... I think you are correct. I have boosted the image as best I can. Perhaps someone can make the pic more clear?

Thanks Jim

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Can somebody date this photo please?
« on: Tuesday 17 March 15 03:03 GMT (UK)  »
Good question ... my father has the original(s)in an album we have recently inherited. I believe it's on a card but unfortunately much like most of the collection it is glued down onto the paper in the album.    :o
I will be visiting my dad in June and will see the photographs up close then for the first time. Removing them without damage may be difficult I'm afraid. ???
G.

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