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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Deciphering occupation please
« on: Tuesday 29 March 11 06:29 BST (UK) »
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with name please
« on: Tuesday 29 March 11 05:52 BST (UK) »
I think it might be "Born in the 73 Highlanders seated India" ?
As for the name - definitely "Mary Taylor Stewart" as everyone else seems to agree.
As for the name - definitely "Mary Taylor Stewart" as everyone else seems to agree.
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Help dating this photo please?
« on: Friday 25 March 11 22:10 GMT (UK) »glad to hear it jemhay,that is a much better notion than mine.
George
Yes - it is a "nicer" one - but thinking about it - they would surely have taken more care to get all of his head rather than tear off his left ear?! Hmmmm I'd love to know what really happened...
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Help dating this photo please?
« on: Friday 25 March 11 18:50 GMT (UK) »
Thanks so much everyone!
Greensleeves: I wasn't sure about the gloves - his hands looked too well defined to me to be in gloves, but I see what you mean about that tiny sliver of his head - even that looks a little darker than the other folks skin tone from what little is visible.
Prue and Jim: Thanks for the dating - very helpful, now I can go have a look to see who 'fits' age wise and married around that time.
Sylvia: Thanks for the link - fascinating stuff. I LOVE old photos!
Seoras: My cousin suggested the groom was maybe cut out for a locket, but that's just conjecture.
Greensleeves: I wasn't sure about the gloves - his hands looked too well defined to me to be in gloves, but I see what you mean about that tiny sliver of his head - even that looks a little darker than the other folks skin tone from what little is visible.
Prue and Jim: Thanks for the dating - very helpful, now I can go have a look to see who 'fits' age wise and married around that time.
Sylvia: Thanks for the link - fascinating stuff. I LOVE old photos!
Seoras: My cousin suggested the groom was maybe cut out for a locket, but that's just conjecture.
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / COMPLETED - THANK YOU!! Help dating this photo please?
« on: Friday 25 March 11 07:56 GMT (UK) »
Hi,
I know absolutely nothing about this photo or the people in it. It's a scan that was emailed to me so I can't tell you anything about the photo itself either, I'm afraid. Thanks very much in advance.
The one interesting thing I noticed earlier, is the colour of the grooms hands (he's been cut out of the photo along with two or three other people I'd imagine), his skin seems very dark - no?
I know absolutely nothing about this photo or the people in it. It's a scan that was emailed to me so I can't tell you anything about the photo itself either, I'm afraid. Thanks very much in advance.
The one interesting thing I noticed earlier, is the colour of the grooms hands (he's been cut out of the photo along with two or three other people I'd imagine), his skin seems very dark - no?
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: 1915??? (Date clarified please)
« on: Friday 25 March 11 06:40 GMT (UK) »Thanks for that Redroger. Nanny Dinah is a bit of a mystery! I'm now wondering if she was married previously?! Although i can't find anything to suggest so and the marriage cert in 1929 records her as a Spinster. Mind you, they were married in a Registry Office, false home address was given, nobody recognises the names of the witnesses and everybody thought they were married 11/12 years earlier in a church! (I've posted all the details on the 'Kent Lookup Requests' board, under the posting of 'Birth/Baptism/Census lookup please - Dorothy 'Dinah' Staples/Shepherd/Langley')
Thanks alot, Glen.
Hi Glen,
does the certificate show her father's name? If so, does his surname match hers? Is it Langley or Shepherd?
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Her birth is found in the June qtr of 1893 as Dinah Mahalia SHEPHERD (on the Census above she appears to be Dinah Matalia) She was baptised Dinah Mehalah SHEPHERD on the 9th August 1893 in Southwark, her parents Edwin Thomas (a printer) and Ellen living at 10 Paved Place Gravel? (difficult to decipher the last word of the address).
There is one other Dinah SHEPHERD - a Cotton Weaver born (and living) 1889 in Warrington, Lancashire - but there is a matching marriage for her in Warrington1912 to a DITCHFIELD
1911 Census Information Removed
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,355484.0.html
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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: approx date !!
« on: Friday 25 March 11 02:55 GMT (UK) »
Oh - I definitely see the young lady in your first post being the older lady in the last one. Definitely a possibility.
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Gloucestershire Lookup Requests / Re: 1841 census, please - SERGEANT
« on: Wednesday 19 November 08 11:50 GMT (UK) »This whole thing is taking life again!
I was at primary school with a girl called HATHAWAY - she was lovely!
Poor Esther must have died ...
Hmmmm it sure is - the plot thickens it seems...
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Gloucestershire Lookup Requests / Re: 1841 census, please - SERGEANT
« on: Wednesday 19 November 08 11:47 GMT (UK) »
Hello again, and thanks for the warm welcome
I suppose the boys could be step brothers. They are all eight years old, though so they couldn't all be Mary's children. That would mean that John senior was either married before, or they were born out of wedlock. I'm not sure how likely this is tough, as they are both only 30 at the time and the boys being eight, wouldn't leave them a lot of time for multiple marriages - though it certainly wouldn't have been an impossibility. I'm thinking they likely belonged to other family - but you never know. They may have been orphaned and raised by Mary and John.
My SARGENTS left Gloucestershire and moved across to Berkshire/Hampshire around 1915.
Did your Nathanial marry a Matilda ORCHARD in 1851?
Did you ever confirm who Elizabeth/Betty was to Nathaniel? I'm thinking grandmother, as his mother appears to be Mary from the Census, but I need to confirm this. The same applies, of course, to my John (Nathan's brother) so I would like to find out anyway. I just checked a certificate which I believe to be my John's birth and it has his mother showing as "Mary formerly WATTS" and his Father is also a John. His occupation at that time was "Brushmaker" I have him as a "General Labourer" on Census - I don't know if this fits, or is the wrong certificate.
I suppose the boys could be step brothers. They are all eight years old, though so they couldn't all be Mary's children. That would mean that John senior was either married before, or they were born out of wedlock. I'm not sure how likely this is tough, as they are both only 30 at the time and the boys being eight, wouldn't leave them a lot of time for multiple marriages - though it certainly wouldn't have been an impossibility. I'm thinking they likely belonged to other family - but you never know. They may have been orphaned and raised by Mary and John.
My SARGENTS left Gloucestershire and moved across to Berkshire/Hampshire around 1915.
Did your Nathanial marry a Matilda ORCHARD in 1851?
Did you ever confirm who Elizabeth/Betty was to Nathaniel? I'm thinking grandmother, as his mother appears to be Mary from the Census, but I need to confirm this. The same applies, of course, to my John (Nathan's brother) so I would like to find out anyway. I just checked a certificate which I believe to be my John's birth and it has his mother showing as "Mary formerly WATTS" and his Father is also a John. His occupation at that time was "Brushmaker" I have him as a "General Labourer" on Census - I don't know if this fits, or is the wrong certificate.
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