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Messages - Andrew Tarr

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The Common Room / Re: 1939 register
« on: Thursday 07 August 25 09:36 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Nick_Ips on Thursday 07 August 25 09:03 BST (UK)
My guess would be an error or uncertainty in the birth year - either the source or the transcription.
I've seen a few cases where the redaction line is wobbly enough to see the birth year, which is either blank, indistinct, or amended.
And then there are those who forgot their true birth year.  I have one on the 1939 register born 1 October 1880; actual birth 1 October 1878.  So they should have appeared two years before the 1939 figure indicated. (actually they had died well before)

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The Common Room / Re: What is a W. A. S. Inspection (Eng)? (1939 REGISTER)
« on: Tuesday 05 August 25 16:00 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: PatLac on Tuesday 05 August 25 15:17 BST (UK)
So... it's actually W. A. S Inspection (ENG) as you had posted before, JenB ;D
I don't think you can assume much from the omission of a stop after the S .  I also tend to favour the W meaning War (it had been expected for some time) and the likelihood that ENG suggests engineering rather than England ?

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The Common Room / Re: What is a W. A. S. Inspection (Eng)? (1939 REGISTER)
« on: Monday 04 August 25 23:18 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Nick_Ips on Sunday 03 August 25 19:54 BST (UK)
Quote from: PatLac on Sunday 03 August 25 00:20 BST (UK)
Welding and Smelting Inspection (Engineer)?
Welding and smelting are very different activities.  Although (critical/structural) welds might be inspected, I can't think what 'inspection' would take place for smelting - it would be the resulting castings which might be inspected for quality, and that would probaby be a "casting inspector".

Yes, they are different.  How about Welding and Soldering ?  (not very serious, but if we are going in that direction ?)  ;D

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The Common Room / Re: GRO Death registration
« on: Wednesday 30 July 25 10:59 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: MollyC on Tuesday 29 July 25 16:27 BST (UK)
I wonder if they have noticed all the other doubled entries, as in Reply #15.
Is it anything more than one page of returns being accidentally keyed in twice without the clerk noticing ?

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The Common Room / Re: Just can’t find birth cert ?
« on: Monday 28 July 25 18:17 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Antony1977 on Monday 28 July 25 10:10 BST (UK)
My partners family history states that a relative of hers married in 1925, groom being 21 and bride being 12 😱

Attached cert suggests it’s true

I think the handwriting doesn't suggest that at all.  Apart from the improbability of being married at 12, the written digits indicate that the writer uses a single stroke for a 1, as in the 21 above.  In any case a minister would not sanction such a marriage !

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The Common Room / Re: Marriage certificate help
« on: Thursday 24 July 25 14:08 BST (UK)  »
Looks like that to me.  And they are both the same !  A common name, especially in old villages.  Is it in the centre of old Birmingham ?

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The Common Room / Re: Translating a Dutch name to English
« on: Monday 21 July 25 09:41 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: KGarrad on Sunday 20 July 25 20:36 BST (UK)
And Brileslijper translates as glasses grinder/sharpener.
Perhaps (originally) a maker of lenses (specs) ?

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The Common Room / Re: Potential phishing on Ancestry - beware
« on: Thursday 17 July 25 14:49 BST (UK)  »
Looks (sounds) rather like an AI invention to me.  Would any of us say 'impactful' for example ? (my spell-checker doesn't like it either)  ;D

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The Common Room / Re: How quickly could Hawkers travel in Victorian era?
« on: Tuesday 15 July 25 10:00 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Wexflyer on Tuesday 15 July 25 04:33 BST (UK)
While we may not be able to say precisely how fast a hawker would have travelled back then, we can give an absolute upper bound ~3x10^8 m/s. Could not have been faster than that.
I think the implied question was whether a 'hawker' - by virtue of the occupation - would be able to travel as fast as better-off members of the public ?

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