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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Can anyone read the place name
« on: Sunday 10 March 19 17:11 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks so much for all the replies and I can see now that is "Engineering Dept. Provinces". I initially thought it was the name of a town hence the confusion.
AnnieP

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Can anyone read the place name
« on: Sunday 10 March 19 12:59 GMT (UK)  »
This is a British Postal Service Appointment Book for Harold E Fenton. He was appointed as a clerk on the 21 Dec 1926 but I can't decipher the next column which should be the place name.
Any ideas?
AnnieP

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The Common Room / Re: Very very large BRICK WALL
« on: Tuesday 08 January 19 16:59 GMT (UK)  »
You will all be very pleased to know that I received the Scottish 1939 register extract today and I think that you've cracked it! The date of birth given is 4 Jun 1872 which is a year out (should have been 1871) but with the day and month correct I'm sure that this is my great-aunt Ada. As my son said the informant on the death certificate was her husband and he might well have not known or even met her parents therefore the error in the names was understandable. The important point was that her father was a shipwright. The error in the year of birth on the 1939 register could well come down to memory on her part I suppose, but she obviously knew the actual day and month. I must now try to do more research into the marriage of Charles & Ada. I did have a thought that she may well have travelled to America then met and married him over there. Anyway huge, huge thanks to all your efforts in at last discovering her whereabouts. You've all been brilliant.

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The Common Room / Re: Very very large BRICK WALL
« on: Wednesday 19 December 18 11:34 GMT (UK)  »
I was beginning to think that it was going to be a waste of time asking for the 1939 Scottish extract when it appeared that she was in Wales. Having read everything again (it's a bit like a book now) I see that the names Charles and Ada Young were shown on the electoral rolls in 1934 & 1939 in Edinburgh so felt a great sense of relief. Question is, if this is the correct Ada and Charles and the Welsh couple are a red herring where have they been up until 1934? Also would the marriage be in the non-conformist records as he was an evangelist? I'm not to well up on non-conformists.

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The Common Room / Re: Very very large BRICK WALL
« on: Tuesday 18 December 18 18:03 GMT (UK)  »
I've suddenly remembered that she has been mentioned before as Ada Olive but to be honest I'm very confused!!!

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The Common Room / Re: Very very large BRICK WALL
« on: Tuesday 18 December 18 18:00 GMT (UK)  »
Definitely, you'll all be the first to be told. Mind you it may be that you will hear the loud shriek coming from the Chichester direction first!
I've just seen the new post about a Charles and Olive Young in the 1939 register. This is all so complicated. Are there two marriages - Charles and Olive Young and Manton and Ada Young?

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The Common Room / Re: Very very large BRICK WALL
« on: Tuesday 18 December 18 17:18 GMT (UK)  »
You will all be pleased to know that I have today posted a request to the National Records of Scotland for an extract from the 1939 Register for Ada Young. Cross your fingers that her date of birth will be  the 4 Jun 1871. I shall be so upset if this isn't her after all the hard work contributed by everyone.
I did remember to send a copy of her death certificate!

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The Common Room / Re: Very very large BRICK WALL
« on: Sunday 16 December 18 12:41 GMT (UK)  »
I've looked for the birth of an Ada O and Ada Olive born in Portsmouth within 5 years each way of 1875 but there are none, which looks promising. In actual fact Ada Georgina Moth was born in the registration district of Alverstoke, Hampshire and on the 1881 & 1891 census it gives Gosport as her place of birth rather than Portsmouth but I realize this is a minor point. I can find no record of a marriage to either Charles Young or Manton Young around 1895 as on the 1911 census it states that they have been married for 16 years. On the 1901 census the transcription for Charles' employment was market man but looking at it, the second word does seem to be longer than just 'man'. So much work has gone into this mystery and it would be great if the summary was near enough correct. I suppose Charles Young could have a second name of 'Manton' but that doesn't explain the different places of birth. It seems to be getting even more complicated but that's the fun of it all.  :)

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The Common Room / Re: Very very large BRICK WALL
« on: Saturday 15 December 18 15:06 GMT (UK)  »
This is really so kind of you all and it appears that like me, you feel that you won't be beaten. She must be somewhere!! It's amazing reading through all the comments how much lateral thinking there is in trying to solve this problem. I await any more suggestions with great interest, please let there be a future "Eureka" moment.
Many, many thanks
AnnieP

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