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London and Middlesex / Re: Bertram William Arthur Page 1895 to 1969
« on: Friday 12 December 25 11:19 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks again Shaun, yes that is my tree.

Thanks Ladyhawk, definitely the same person, with Cathys help I found that he served on the Tuscania  between September 1928 and December 1930

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London and Middlesex / Re: Bertram William Arthur Page 1895 to 1969
« on: Wednesday 10 December 25 09:08 GMT (UK)  »
Cathy, thank you so much for pointing me towards that site. Extremely useful and informative, I now have a good list of his ships.

Thanks Daisy, his service records look to be one of the unlucky ones to have been lost, so it will probably never be easy to find what this injury was, or where it occurred

Many thanks

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London and Middlesex / Re: Bertram William Arthur Page 1895 to 1969
« on: Tuesday 09 December 25 12:00 GMT (UK)  »
ShaunJ, thank you so much for the information. These records have given me other targets to aim at and I have now found a record for his service on the SS China based on these results.

All these snippets of info helps to unblur the picture of Bertrams life and are much appreciated.

Many thanks

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London and Middlesex / Bertram William Arthur Page 1895 to 1969
« on: Monday 08 December 25 18:37 GMT (UK)  »
Hello,

I am trying to help a friend find out anything about his grandfather, who seems fairly elusive, or at least seems to have avoided appearing in any other records.

His name was Bertram William Arthur Page, born 25 Dec 1895 in Plumstead to William Arthur Page and Lydia Mary Elkin.

I have his census records and 1939 register details, and his marriage to Florence Ellen Williams in 1922, and his death in Brighton in 1969, but I'm trying to get a better idea of who he was.

His grandson believes he may have played piano on cruise ships at some stage, but I don't know where to look to prove this. I've looked for newspaper information for Bertram under that name and also Bert, and there is lots of info about a Bert Page, comedy pianist, but this would appear to be someone from Nottingham, not London.

Does anyone have any connections to Bertram and/or anything which would give more flesh to the bare bones of info I currently have?

Many thanks.

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Sussex / Re: Children of Albion Hill area, Brighton, 1920s
« on: Tuesday 29 July 25 16:27 BST (UK)  »
Wow, Jonwarrn, that is some heavy duty sleuthing. Yep, right person, and her brother as well. Thanks.

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Sussex / Children of Albion Hill area, Brighton, 1920s
« on: Tuesday 29 July 25 10:35 BST (UK)  »
Hello all,

I have been restoring this wonderful old photograph of my grandmother with lots of children in the Albion Hill area of Brighton, taken in the very early 1920s, and thought it was worth sharing here in case anyone had young relatives from that area at the same time. They may well be in this picture.

My nan (front row, third from the right) lived in Liverpool Street, so it is possible this picture was taken there. She was born in 1914, and I am guessing she looks about 7 or 8 at this time, so 1921-22 is a rough date. I have no idea of any names of the other children.

I think it is also fascinating as a glimpse into what kids in the back streets of Brighton were wearing at the time. A number of the boys are wearing ties, some with waistcoats, and there's even a little chap with a bow tie on. No scruffy street urchins here!

Colours may be a bit fanciful but it is lovely to see their faces smiling out from a century ago.

Original image for comparison.

Glen

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Death record in French, Haiti 1908
« on: Tuesday 08 July 25 14:20 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Isabel, now corrected

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Death record in French, Haiti 1908
« on: Tuesday 08 July 25 13:05 BST (UK)  »
Wow, so quick!

Many, many thanks Joger, that is brilliant.

I was mildly impressed with the auto transcription website, but it yet again shows the limits and risks of relying on these types of machine learning tools. I tried to get Copilot to transcribe the same, and it made up almost everything and presented it as fact.

I have been looking at Louis-Josephs family, and Polynice Joseph Janvier was his younger brother, so another name to add to the tree.

I am intrigued by the story of Louis-Joseph and especially his wife Jane. She came from the backstreets of Brighton, met and married the Haitian ambassador and dined at venues in the presence of Queen Victoria.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Death record in French, Haiti 1908
« on: Tuesday 08 July 25 09:07 BST (UK)  »
Good morning,

I wonder if anyone with a good knowledge of French and elaborate handwriting may be able to help me.

I have a death notice for an ancestor of mine who married the Haitian writer, politician and ambassador Louis-Joseph Janvier, and who died in Haiti in 1908.

I have used an automatic online transcriber which seems to me with my limited pre- O'level French to have done a rather good job of transcribing the text, and then used Google translate to get it into English, but there are a few words I am doubting the accuracy of. My old eyes cannot see the same as the transcription in the original, and although I doubt that any of them change the meaning of the whole text it would be nice to have an accurate transcription and translation so that the records are straight in my tree. And if anyone can verify the rest, just to ensure the transcriber did a good job, that would be great.

Attached is a copy of the original, and my attempt to highlight the words I am questioning.

Any help would be most gratefully received

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