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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: 1829 Directory - what does F and C signify after persons name?
« on: Tuesday 15 April 25 21:04 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Bookbox on Tuesday 15 April 25 19:47 BST (UK)
It will probably be Freeholder and Copyholder.
(It will surely be explained somewhere in the Directory - either in the Introduction, or at the beginning of the listings, or at the end of the listings.)

Finally found it at the back - Freeholders liable to serve on Juries, and Copyholders.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / 1829 Directory - what does F and C signify after persons name?
« on: Tuesday 15 April 25 19:30 BST (UK)  »
See image - from Pigotts 1829 Directory of Derbyshire.
Any idea's what the F and C indicates after certain names? Can't see a key in the directory.
F appears after some farmers but also after other trades, so I don't think it is F for Farmer.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Occupation on 1851 census
« on: Monday 07 April 25 21:26 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: ShaunJ on Monday 07 April 25 19:30 BST (UK)
"Proprietor of houses" (probably relates to the previous entry)
"House servant"
Thanks - also thought that line may refer to the prior entry.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Occupation on 1851 census
« on: Monday 07 April 25 19:27 BST (UK)  »
Any idea's what the text boxed in yellow reads? It's for a girl in her early 20's.
Thanks.

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World War One / Re: Who was William 29213
« on: Sunday 20 October 24 12:46 BST (UK)  »
Thanks!

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World War One / Re: Who was William 29213
« on: Sunday 20 October 24 10:03 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: heywood on Sunday 20 October 24 09:44 BST (UK)
His service record is available.
Birth Codnor, Derbys. Occupation - Collier.
Thanks - this fits.

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World War One / Who was William 29213
« on: Sunday 20 October 24 09:31 BST (UK)  »
I'm trying to identify the author of a letter dated 19 Nov 1918. It is signed 'William' and he gave his regimental number, regiment, and location: 29213 7th Battalion B___ [?], C Company 12 Platoon, British Expeditionary Forces, France (see image). He was likely from Derbyshire.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Grandfather's MSS ????
« on: Saturday 14 September 24 21:04 BST (UK)  »
It’s amazing they still survive today - they were discovered in an old suitcase in a partially collapsed loft in an house which had apparently been cleared a few years ago. They refer to events as far back as the 1840’s, and ancestors born in the late 1700’s, so a real treasure find for my family history.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Grandfather's MSS ????
« on: Saturday 14 September 24 17:45 BST (UK)  »
Brilliant - thanks!

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