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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Painting title or place (?) on back of oil painting...
« on: Wednesday 18 January 23 14:19 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks everyone.

I've decided that it is "Last Gleam".   Turns out that that is not a particularly original painting title for a pastoral sunset, but it is apt.

Cheers
Paul

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Painting title or place (?) on back of oil painting...
« on: Tuesday 17 January 23 12:16 GMT (UK)  »
Just thought about the sun setting when describing the picture....It's not "Last Gleam"  perhaps...?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Painting title or place (?) on back of oil painting...
« on: Tuesday 17 January 23 12:14 GMT (UK)  »
Sorry should have said..... there are distant cows in by a river...


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Painting title or place (?) on back of oil painting...
« on: Tuesday 17 January 23 11:56 GMT (UK)  »
This is not strictly genealogical in nature, but I know you folks are fantastic at deciphering old handwriting.

The label is on the back of an oil painting by James Edward Grace (1851-1908). It was exhibited in 1807 at the Dudley Gallery. At that time he was living at Bedford Park, Chiswick, but had lived in Milford, Surrey in the 1880s.

So far I've got:

Dudley oil
East [?]
James E Grace

I can't find anything which is a place or a meaningful title...  Here's hoping you can!

Many thanks
Paul

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Lancashire / Re: 5 Mysterious deaths in Blackburn in Q2 1901
« on: Thursday 07 January 21 11:52 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks jonw65...will take a look

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Lancashire / Re: 5 Mysterious deaths in Blackburn in Q2 1901
« on: Thursday 07 January 21 11:40 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks jow65 for the burial dates, but  I have failed to locate the source on FamilySearch.  Could you point me in the right direction please?  I'm trawling through copies of hand-typed cemetery records but sometimes it's just better for directions!  Don't tell my wife I said that ;-)

Also Rosie99...thanks for the correction.

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Lancashire / Re: 5 Mysterious deaths in Blackburn in Q2 1901
« on: Thursday 07 January 21 10:56 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for all your input.

I have found a newspaper report in the Preston Herald as suggested by josey.  It was illness. The report says it all.

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Lancashire / Re: 5 Mysterious deaths in Blackburn in Q2 1901
« on: Thursday 07 January 21 10:06 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Rosie and Josey!

So whatever happened, happened around the first week of May. 

Nice idea to look to at the register numbers!   While the death register entries are not consecutive they are tightly clustered...and if 200 people died/month then the 40 between the first and last of the 5 registrations suggest that the deaths occurred within a week.  This seems excessive for any illness...5 in a week then everyone else survives?

I may be dramatizing but I do wonder whether the shock caused Emily's premature birth...

I will see if I can find more of the Preston Herald...then I'll get my wallet out. 

Thanks again for your input.

Paul

PS Thanks to Antony too....I did find 14 West View Place of Google Streetview, and on contemporary maps...the houses around #14 do change design, but whether this was original or a later rebuild I couldn't say...it may have been different contractors building to their own templates.  I might have another look though.

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Lancashire / 5 Mysterious deaths in Blackburn in Q2 1901
« on: Wednesday 06 January 21 17:04 GMT (UK)  »
Hi

I've been looking at my great great aunt Nancy FORREST's family, who lived in Blackburn, and discovered what looks like a catastrophic event in her life.   

She married James BLACKBURN in 1887 and they had 9 children between 1888 and 1901. 

On 31 Mar 1901 they were a happy family with a child due living at 14 Double Street, Blackburn (which is now called West View Place).

But in Q2 1901 there are deaths registered for her husband and four of her children (#5 James, #6 Richard, #7 John and newborn #9 Emily).

I've not found any reference to an incident in the newspapers available on MyFindPast, but I'm speculating that there was a housefire.  Did James run back into the burning building to rescue the youngsters? 

I know I can spend the money to acquire the death certificates, but I'm hoping that someone with more local knowledge has access to other sources of information.

I appreciate that during lockdown this may not be possible, but thanks in advance for any help.

Paul

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9K9-C2Z

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