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Messages - Adele1

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Canada / Re: Brookside Cemetery, Winnipeg
« on: Monday 19 September 11 16:11 BST (UK)  »
If you're still looking for a photo of the gravesite I'll do it for you.  We'll be going to Brookside this weekend. 

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: baptism record in French
« on: Monday 09 May 11 01:58 BST (UK)  »
What's that bit at the bottom where it says "pour Mamere Justine _____"?  I think it means for grandmother Justine____?  Maybe the grandmother made sure the baby was baptized, since the father was unknown and the baby was baptized the same day she was born, who else would do it?

Dit and Ditte followed by a noun/adjective means it's a nickname.  My ancestry has Abraham Martin dit L'Ecossais (the Scotsman) and Jean-Baptiste Tetreau dit Ducharme (the charmer), I have seen baptismal records with ditte and that would just represent the female version of the nickname.   Looking at my French-English dictionary I find that laconique means terse, laconisme means tersely, why wouldn't laconire mean the terse one? 

It does look like pere inconnu, the godmother is Marie-Catherine Antoinette, fille (single) and the godfather is Jean-Francois Thery/Theri (two different spellings in the copy)  The birth is 14 Oct., 1790.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: DECIPHER occupation please
« on: Sunday 08 May 11 23:14 BST (UK)  »
Sargeant

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Ages of this couple
« on: Sunday 08 May 11 23:12 BST (UK)  »
I would go mid to late 50's for him and she would be late 40's or early 50's.

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Armed Forces / Re: Second Boer War soldier
« on: Tuesday 21 December 10 20:38 GMT (UK)  »
All I've been able to get on him is that he was born in Ireland about 1877.

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Armed Forces / Second Boer War soldier
« on: Tuesday 21 December 10 20:32 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

I'm looking for Andrew Conheeney, he was a soldier of the second boer war and I can't find him on ancestry, their index isn't complete.  Would someone be able to look him up somewhere else.  He was awarded both the King's and Queen's medals for his service and I have no idea what regiment he was in. 

Any help would be appreciated,

Adele

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World War One / Re: Soldiers Died in Great War look-up
« on: Wednesday 24 November 10 21:35 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

From Ancestry, his service number is 96383 on the medals index.  He was born in Ingatestone, Essex and died Oct. 10, 1917 in Mesopotamia.  He enlisted at Warley, Essex.  His regiment was Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery.

Adele


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Canada / Re: B.N.F.N. - meaning?
« on: Wednesday 24 November 10 18:05 GMT (UK)  »
Hello,

wild guess "British Navy, Foreign National"?

Adele

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Canada / Re: How COOL is this?
« on: Wednesday 24 November 10 17:50 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

I have something to add about Zacharie Cloutier that I found in a book about 20  years ago, I can't remember the title but I know it's about the origins of French-Canadian names.  Apparently Zacharie Cloutier  is ancestor to every French-Canadian through female and male lines, not one family tree is missing him in its genealogy.

Adele

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