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Antrim / Re: Stewarts of Ballintoy and some related families
« on: Saturday 08 June 24 12:52 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks for your reply Gilby. Very much appreciate your interpretation of the record.  Was totally not making any sense to me. uggh!

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Antrim / Re: Stewarts of Ballintoy and some related families
« on: Wednesday 29 May 24 08:40 BST (UK)  »
Hi Gilby,

Apologies for the reply to an old post.  My interest is in your post re the Ascog Stewarts is particularly regarding this entry:

1711   GD1/456/199    Copy tack by Rev. Dugald Stewart, minister of Rothesay, to John Stewart of Ascog of 4 bolls victual payable yearly to granter from Stewart's lands of Stuck and Culinshamrag during his tenure of the ministry of said parish   17 Aug 1711

I am yet to discover any evidence of the parentage of my ancestor the Rev Dugald Stewart, mentioned above, and am wondering if the entry you quoted offers any clues. 

Do you know the meaning of it? I am guessing one is renting (is that what "copy tack" means?) lands to the other but as both are named Stewart I can not be certain who is renting to whom? It seems to be that perhaps while the Rev is minister he is renting out his lands? 

Apologies if this paragraph makes perfectly simple sense to everyone else and it is just me that is not understanding the transaction described above.

Any clarification, greatly appreciated.
many thanks
Kerry

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Elizabeth Collins b. 1858 d. 1951 help with date of photo please
« on: Thursday 14 September 23 23:18 BST (UK)  »
Wow.  Thanks so much Carol.  You are so kind. Looks beautiful  :D

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Elizabeth Collins b. 1858 d. 1951 help with date of photo please
« on: Wednesday 13 September 23 00:34 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Carol, I wish it were mine. However I am grateful my cousin came to me and let me know she had it.  At least I get to see it even if it just digitally.  As most of my ancestors came to Australia escaping poverty of industrial England and Scotland in the 1850's they had very little and for some time. And so this is only the second photo of some one of this generation of my family I have seen.  Additionally, I only have copies of photos of 4 people in the younger generation. Even my for my great great grandparents generation I still have not managed to uncover photos of 6 of 16 of them.  Some lost in tragic circumstances, some unwittingly or maliciously destroyed and some never taken. Such a shame.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Elizabeth Collins b. 1858 d. 1951 help with date of photo please
« on: Tuesday 12 September 23 12:36 BST (UK)  »
This is gold.  So grateful.  So maybe one more generation back still. Louisa's mum was baptised in Milford in 1803 as Ann Geary Cromey and lived in Wiltshire until her death at Britford in 1884. Elizabeth's other grandmother was born Elizabeth Jerrett in Pitton, Wiltshire in 1785.  She was buried in the same town in 1865. So another candidate there.  Of course there is the possibility the photo belongs to Elizabeth's grandmothers in law.  However she bears a strong resemblance not only to my grandmother but also to myself. So I feel confident she is also an ancestor to my great great grandmother Harriet (Elizabeth's sister).  Quite surprised that family resemblances could travel that far down the line but I guess it's just like any other part of your DNA.
Once again so incredibly grateful for sharing your knowledge so generously.
Kerry in Brissy

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Elizabeth Collins b. 1858 d. 1951 help with date of photo please
« on: Tuesday 12 September 23 10:57 BST (UK)  »
Thanks so much for the awesome info.  Bearing this in mind I'm thinking the photo might depict  Elizabeth's mum, Lousia Collins (nee Dickett) b. 1828 Wiltshire, England d. 1908 Victoria, Australia.  Or possibly Elizabeth's mother-in-law.  Thanks so very much.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Elizabeth Collins b. 1858 d. 1951 help with date of photo please
« on: Monday 11 September 23 05:34 BST (UK)  »
Grateful for any help to determine the age of this, sadly unnamed and undated photo please.
Likely to have been taken somewhere in a small country town in Victoria, Australia.
Likely suspected subject is Elizabeth Collins b. 1858 d. 1951.
Photo is contained in a leather and velvet case.
Thanks so much for any assistance.
Kerry in Brisbane

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Devon Lookup Requests / Re: Devonshire look-up please - DAVY/DAVEY
« on: Saturday 07 September 19 00:00 BST (UK)  »
Hi apologies,  as I know this is an old post,  but contrary to popular opinion,  I fear the Thomas Davey (occupation Lighterman) who married Elizabeth Pile in 1796 is unlikely to be the Thomas Davy who found himself transported for life to Australia a few years later. 

The pardoned convict Thomas Davis who subsequently married Harriet Taylor in 1811 could only leave a mark on the parish registers. Where as 15 years earlier Thomas Davey the lighterman was able to sign his name on his wedding day.


Still, I most happy to proved wrong, if some one has documentary or DNA proof to connect the two. 

I myself am connected to Thomas and Elizabeth through their daughter Hannah who married William Hugh Henry Chesterman.  Would be very happy to see if any descendant of Thomas and Harriet is a DNA relation to me on Ancestry. Let me know.

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Happy ancestor hunting everyone
Kerry

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Cheshire Lookup Requests / Re: Missing Smiths in Stockport 1851 census
« on: Thursday 17 January 19 10:19 GMT (UK)  »
Well, that was GBP6 very well spent.

Just now received my pdf of my Richard's sister Ann's birth registration from the GRO

it reads:

when born: 1 July 1842 Newbridge Lane
name: Ann
sex: Girl
name and surname of father: William Smith
name and maiden surname of Mother: Hannah Smith formerly Swindells
rank or profession of father: Bleacher
signature, description and residence of informant: William Smith Father

And so, now, any doubt I had, that ggg grandfather was a bleacher in New Bridge Lane in the 1840's can now be erased as he is the informant and has correctly supplied my ggg grandmother's maiden name (as per my gg grandfather's marriage entry). 

Still need to find William's death and his birth/christening for that matter, but as I say I have Smiths, I expect this to be my most challenging line to research and my progress on that line is certainly bearing that out.

So very grateful to you Rosie and David for your help and guidance, I feel like I've finally taken some bricks out of the wall  :)

Kerry






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