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The Common Room / Re: Reason to move to west Wales in 1900?
« on: Monday 09 June 25 09:11 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for your replies, which have shed light on the possibility, suggested by Cas, that they may have met in Bath! I had not considered that. If Amelia had responded to a newspaper ad, and headed west and found there to be vacancies, she could have informed James, by letter I guess?  And looking at details of the Somersetshire Home for Boys he may very well have been taught how to farm which will have made him very employable.

By the time of their marriage they were on farms only a few miles apart, so had they not met in Bath then presumably they would have learned of each others existence through word of mouth.


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The Common Room / Reason to move to west Wales in 1900?
« on: Sunday 08 June 25 18:58 BST (UK)  »
How could two young persons from many miles away end up working on farms in west Wales around 1900?

James Seeley was born 1878 Clapham, but by 1904 hes in west Wales working on a farm -which must have been a polar-opposite experience to life in Clapham.

In 1904, in west Wales he married Amelia Ashman who in 1901 is down as being born Sussex 1882, but by 1901 she too was working on  a farm in west Wales.

I'm just wondering how might young people find themselves heading extreme west around 1900?There obviously was work but how did they know this before travelling or if the accommodation/work was satisfactory, I didn't know that hiring fairs had such a wide catchment?

Thanks


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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Pixelated jpg scanned 20 years ago
« on: Wednesday 04 June 25 17:58 BST (UK)  »
Thank you so much Peter, as always that effort is 'mint'!   :D

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Pixelated jpg scanned 20 years ago
« on: Thursday 22 May 25 21:58 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for your efforts guys, I'm astounded at what can be achieved, some of those look like they were taken today, how the pixels can be sharpened is just incredible

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Pixelated jpg scanned 20 years ago
« on: Wednesday 21 May 25 15:57 BST (UK)  »
Griff had a number of brothers so they could possibly be them

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Pixelated jpg scanned 20 years ago
« on: Wednesday 21 May 25 15:54 BST (UK)  »
Hi despite best endeavours 20 years ago, I scanned the first photo and it's a measly 50kb as I didn't know what I was doing back then. Is it possible for someone to kindly try to de-pixelate and improve the quality? I didn't even know it was possible until I saw a cracking effort on here in last few days.

Sitting, is my great grandfather Griff Thomas of the machine gun corps, who came home to west Wales after WW1 and not so long after went to London with his wife to open a shop and raise his family. I'm not sure who the other two standing are or whether they were lucky enough to come home. Griffs medal card provides his reg is 54621 and mgc101b115 page 9615 but I know nothing of where he fought, his daughter (my gran) said he never talked about what he did in the war.

I have another scan of seemily earlier photo where Griff and the chap on the left are at the same location/set and it appears to be on a post card of French origin, so guessing he was in France at least twice for these photo opportunities.

Many thanks



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Antrim / Re: Finding death date, or graves of my GG Grandparents in Malone
« on: Sunday 28 April 24 14:20 BST (UK)  »
Damn that is bad news :(

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Census Lookup and Resource Requests / Re: Brick Wall due to marriage not with GRO
« on: Sunday 28 April 24 14:13 BST (UK)  »
Ok well I got the death certs and bingo, he was the 1879 one so now I have his death date.

I think Ann's death certificate suggests she died in chapel as it gives her place of death as Bethsaida. I can look up in the papers now to see if I can learn anymore of their lives.

As for the archives when I go I will ask re the burial register and let you know.

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Antrim / Re: Finding death date, or graves of my GG Grandparents in Malone
« on: Sunday 28 April 24 11:50 BST (UK)  »
Hi if I wanted find evidence of Robert and Margaret living together then the 1921 census would be my go to but from what I  glean online the 1921 was held back until 1926 and records not available to the public until Jan 1927.

Was watching videos of city cemetary last night, quite a place

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