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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Cause of Death on Navy Death Record - Portsmouth Dockyard
« on: Wednesday 12 April 23 21:58 BST (UK)  »
Hi all,

Just a message to complete this topic.

With the assistance of the staff at the local History Centre, we were able to take a high resolution print of the article and through post processing in Photoshop were able to recover the lost words.

I have attached a pdf of the article for those who took an interest.

Many thanks for your help,

Steve

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Cause of Death on Navy Death Record - Portsmouth Dockyard
« on: Monday 27 March 23 19:30 BST (UK)  »
Hi all,

Many thanks for your help, it is greatly appreciated.

I can now see the word "crane" and wonder if there should be a hyphen between the word "crane" and  "fumes" as it then makes a little more sense.

My local history center has free access to the British Newspaper Archive, so I will look up and print the article that appeared in the Hampshire Telegraph.

Thanks,

Steve

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Cause of Death on Navy Death Record - Portsmouth Dockyard
« on: Saturday 25 March 23 23:53 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

I hope the group can help me with this one.

I have been struggling with a couple of words that have been entered as the cause of death for my 2x Great Grand Uncle Richard Bryant in the Navy Death Records.  He died due to an accident in Portsmouth Dockyard.

I can read the following:

"asphyxia - caused by steam travelling *****  *****  from Jetty into hold of lighter"

A "lighter" is a type of flat-bottomed barge used to transfer goods and passengers to and from moored ships.

I have attached the whole document and an enlarged section of the test in question.

Two red dots marks the entry on the whole document.

Your thoughts will be much appreciated as usual.

Steve

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The Common Room / Same Marriage Index Number for Two Different People
« on: Thursday 22 December 22 00:50 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Group,

I am hoping someone can help me unravel a conundrum I came across on FreeBMD.

I was searching for the wife of Theodore George Dedman.  I was aware her first name was Alice, they were married in Havant, Hampshire and the index was 2b 993.

The search returned an "Alice Rose Hobbs" and a "Alice Pearce", who both share the same index number.

How can you have two people sharing the same index number on the same date?

I have attached a screen grab of the result for reference.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

StevieB  :)

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Cause of Death
« on: Wednesday 02 November 22 22:03 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

Thank you for your thoughts, they are very much appreciated and I can now see that the word is "exhaustion".

Best wishes,

Steve

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Cause of Death
« on: Tuesday 01 November 22 22:46 GMT (UK)  »
Hi everyone,

I am hoping the group can help me transcribe the third line of the "cause of death" entry shown on a death certificate.

I can transcribe the following:

Typhoid Fever
14 days
?
certified

I have attached the whole entry, as I aware this helps with the transcribing.

I have made a number of attempts, but nothing seems to match any health condition.

As a point of interest, Albert was the son of my 2x great grandmother.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

Steve

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Workhouse Guardian Minutes Signature
« on: Saturday 15 October 22 18:12 BST (UK)  »
Hi All,

Many thanks for your suggestions.

I am going with the popular thought that it is "Mr. Dore".

Special thanks to "maddys52" for the Hampshire/Portsmouth Telegraph reference, I will check the article in the future.

SteveB

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Workhouse Guardian Minutes Signature
« on: Saturday 15 October 22 03:29 BST (UK)  »
Hi all,

I have a problem in clearly transcribing a "seconded by signature" from the minutes taken at a Workhouse Guardian Minutes.

Proposed by Mr. Cunningham
Seconded by Mr. ?

Your thoughts will be greatly appreciated.

Steve

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The Common Room / Re: Birth Place I.A.M. ???
« on: Monday 26 September 22 02:30 BST (UK)  »
Hi All,

Thanks once again for all your thoughts, it is very much appreciated.

I have enlarged the the section of the birth certificate in question (see below) and I believe this shows that the letter is an "A", so currently I am going with the concensus of opinion that it's 1 A.M. especially considering the information provided by Little Nell.

From the information provided by Wred, I will investigate Edward George Scoffield entering the workhouse in 1880.  This would have been two years prior to his daughter's (Amelia) death, unfortunately she died in Borough of Portsmouth Lunatic Asylum with Tuberculosis.

Interestingly, Amelia Ann Mitchell (nee Scoffield) was in Portsea Island Union Workhouse at the time she was committed to Dorset County Asylum on 25th May 1877 (see transcribed reception document below).

Steve

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