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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: 1871 census street and place of birth
« on: Sunday 12 April 20 14:17 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Folks
Good to see where Steel St was.
Curious thing about his place of birth as Tipperary is that on every census after 1871 he gave his place of birth as Liverpool.  Could this have been as a result of the anti-Irish feelings at the time?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: 1871 census street and place of birth
« on: Sunday 12 April 20 13:14 BST (UK)  »
Thanks that looks possible.  An entry above has Co Waterford with Ireland as an afterthought and it looks like the ditto applies to Ireland.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / 1871 census street and place of birth
« on: Sunday 12 April 20 13:02 BST (UK)  »
Hi All
Could somebody help out with the street name on this 1871 census entry please?
Also the place of birth is eluding me for Thomas Callan.  The enumerator has a strange capital L so I can see Liverpool Lancashire for Sarah Callan and the children (I think) but the place for Thomas Callan I can't.
Thanks

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Great grandmother in Australia - date the photograph please
« on: Tuesday 31 March 20 16:52 BST (UK)  »
It's tantalizing but compelling to work out who's who.  I'm fortunate in that the mystery photos I have were all given to me by the lady I think is in the first photo and are extremely likely to be all family members.
Over the years I've managed to work quite a few out but sometimes it's only doing things like this that give you fresh thoughts and people saying her age was wrong made me break my wrong assumptions and look again.

The outcome of this has been that I've matched the writing on the photo to a letter I have and can confirm it is my great grandmother's daughter Elsie.

Thanks all and sorry for the roundabout way of solving things, I was curious about the year never thinking I had misidentified the person.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Great grandmother in Australia - date the photograph please
« on: Tuesday 31 March 20 14:58 BST (UK)  »
Apologies, just posting this has made me look again and challenge assumptions. Prompted by another family member the original photo now looks more like it's Margaret's daughter, born in 1894.
That would make her in her mid twenties which fits in nicely with the suggestions made.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Great grandmother in Australia - date the photograph please
« on: Monday 30 March 20 19:18 BST (UK)  »
Now this is where I've been going wrong.  This photo is of Margaret taken Oct 1915 with a message on the reverse to her son Joe (my grandad).
Margaret was 46 then so did look good for her age.

The handwriting is different to the other two so I now know the lady in the mirror is not Margaret.

Thanks for you help.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Great grandmother in Australia - date the photograph please
« on: Monday 30 March 20 19:12 BST (UK)  »
Thought it was the same handwriting on both photos but could easily be wrong.
Assumed it said 'George' at the top left but not sure now.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Great grandmother in Australia - date the photograph please
« on: Monday 30 March 20 19:10 BST (UK)  »
Interesting, thanks again folks, I've been going wrong here.
This is the other lady riding on the trap (handwriting referring to 'myself' identical on the back of both photos.
This must be the one in common to both and not Great Grandmother Margaret.  I'll separate the posts so the photos don't get mixed up.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Great grandmother in Australia - date the photograph please
« on: Monday 30 March 20 18:02 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for the replies all.
Ruskie, if this helps this is a photo of Margaret taken with her son George who was born in Feb 1911 when she was 41.
He looks about 8 or 9 to me.

Both this and the photo in the original post have identical handwriting on the back referring to 'myself' so I'm certain they are both the same person.

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