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The Common Room / Re: What happened to Mary Mitchell?
« on: Wednesday 26 March 25 18:50 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for your replies. I must say that I'd missed her being next door to Jacob Mitchell in 1881. In fact, although she was, it seems, at No.8 then, the census form suggests that she was under Jacob as head of household, so maybe his servant.

 

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The Common Room / What happened to Mary Mitchell?
« on: Wednesday 26 March 25 14:05 GMT (UK)  »
I would appreciate help with a little puzzle. Mary Carter, widow (47) married widower Jacob Mitchell (60) in St Swithin's, Lincoln, in May 1881. In the 1891 Census, Jacob is described as a widower. The only death registration I can find in Lincoln for a Mary Carter is a lady who died in the December quarter of 1882, aged 56, which seems to rule her out.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Occupation (?) in marriage register
« on: Sunday 23 March 25 09:25 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks all. I thought it read “servant man”, but it just seemed a bit odd. It seems to maybe suggest a manservant in a domestic setting, as opposed to an ag lab. OTOH, I don’t seem to see a big house in Manthorpe where he might have been employed.

Dave :)


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Occupation (?) in marriage register
« on: Sunday 23 March 25 08:41 GMT (UK)  »
I would appreciate a second opinion on what looks to me like an occupation in a marriage register (Witham on the Hill, 1758). I think I know what it reads after “County of Lincoln” on, but it is a bit odd if so, because none of the other entries by the same curate gives an occupation for the groom, stating just “bachelor”.

Dave :)

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The Common Room / Re: George Humphreys, born in England c. 1909?
« on: Sunday 23 February 25 10:29 GMT (UK)  »
Many thanks for all your help. It would seem that both George and Hetty’s families emigrated around the same time, but Hetty was brought to England very soon afterwards, where her father died in 1920, and her mother took her back to Canada shortly afterwards.

Dave :)

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The Common Room / George Humphreys, born in England c. 1909?
« on: Sunday 23 February 25 09:49 GMT (UK)  »
I would aprreciate help with George Humphreys. He married Hetty Light in Toronto in 1932. According to the record, he was aged 23, and born in England. (Hetty was born in Ontario of English parentage. I have lots of info about her.)

The record states that George’s father was Alfred Humphreys, and his mother’s maiden name was Emily Owens. I can see an Emily Humphreys in 1911 in Church Stretton, who is married, and has a son George, whose age agrees. Also, suggestively, she has a son, Alfred. However, her husband was not present for the census.

I don’t know when George immigrated to Canada.

Dave

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World War Two / Re: Sergeant Pilot Harold Day grave
« on: Tuesday 18 February 25 21:00 GMT (UK)  »
Many thanks both for your replies and solving this for me.

Dave  :)

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World War Two / Sergeant Pilot Harold Day grave
« on: Tuesday 18 February 25 18:57 GMT (UK)  »
I would appreciate help with a bit of a mystery. I have seen this gravestone in Humberstone churchyard, Leicester, to Sgt Pilot Harold Day, killed in action, October 2nd 1940, aged 27. What surprised me is that the headstone looks like a private one, quite different from a CWGC pattern. (It depicts a plane at the top left.)  I have found Harold Day on the CWGC website, and he served in the RAF Volunteer Reserve in 44 Squadron.

I'm assuming that he is buried in the plot, rather than its being a cenotaph. Could I find any more about the circumstances of his death, and is it unusual for him not to have a CWGC headstone?


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The Common Room / Re: Can I download a better image from British Newspaper Archive?
« on: Tuesday 10 December 24 19:20 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Andrew Tarr on Tuesday 10 December 24 09:48 GMT (UK)
When I want a copy of an online newspaper article I enlarge it to readable size, do a screen-grab, then crop the relevant part(s).  This is clearly best in full-screen mode  ;).  If the quality is good enough (not often!) you could then use OCR to make it into proper text.

Thank you for these tips,

Dave :)

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