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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with an Apprenticeship Indenture
« on: Monday 10 February 25 03:01 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks, that is helpful. I greatly appreciate expertise and experience of others that I do not have!

I could put the whole document up though its size would make it unreadable to all, I think.

Thanks again, from down under.

David

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with an Apprenticeship Indenture
« on: Sunday 09 February 25 08:26 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks so much Kay99.  That DOES look pretty good and actually suggests a birth date now too.
Thanks again.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Help with an Apprenticeship Indenture
« on: Sunday 09 February 25 07:25 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks to Staffordshire people, I was delighted to find the Apprenticeship Indenture for someone I believe is my 4th great grandmother. There are some bits of it I am having trouble to decipher. If anyone can help with this I'd be very grateful!
Thanks in advance folks,

David
 

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: John Argles Robinson and Sarah . . Probert
« on: Friday 13 December 24 22:36 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Rita,
Thanks so much for the contact. I'll be pleased to answer any questions you might ask and I'll be happy to give you all I have re the Robinsons and descendants in Australia.

I'd love to go back beyond Stephen and Mary, but so far I have nothing.

I'm busy at the present but can send more at a later time.

John and Sarah arrived in Adelaide and soon Edward Probert Robinson was born. John sailed to Melbourne in 1951 attracted by the then Victorian gold rush, but drowned in the Yarra river the day after arriving in Melbourne.  I have a copy of the Post Mortem report. Sarah eventually moved to Melbourne and married. (I have met a descendant of her family in Melbourne too.)

Edward P married Janet Millar Hamilton. Janet Millar Robinson, one of their daughters married Clement Arthur Yates.  These were my paternal grandparents.  I knew Janet and three of her sisters, Isabel, Alice and Catherine.  There's quite a bit to be said about these folk.

I've been busy since Covid hit in writing history of the boot manufacturing activities of the Yates side of my family in Melbourne so I have neglected the tree quite a lot.

As I say, I'd be pleased to share with you anything I might have/know about the Robinsons.

Warm regards from warm Brisbane.

David



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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Early 1900s, Melbourne Aust Interpretation
« on: Tuesday 16 January 24 07:14 GMT (UK)  »
Will try to in the next few days - though I'm travelling from Thursday. I don't want the pics to be too large.
David

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Early 1900s, Melbourne Aust Interpretation
« on: Tuesday 16 January 24 07:00 GMT (UK)  »
Ahhhh. Jewellery didn't do it, but the dress did. I have another photo of a similar looking woman but the collar/neck is quite different as is the setting, but pleating and cuffs are identical. If this photo is 1880 or so it matches quite well with a pair of photos of a couple have who were married in Leicester (in 1875) but photographed in Melbourne dated as late 1870's or so on basis of the address of the photographer. She had a wedding ring on. This makes her Mrs Yates and not Miss Yates at the time! Assuming 1880, she would have been 24 years old.
So Sue, thanks so much for prompting my closer inspection of detail.
Dave

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Early 1900s, Melbourne Aust Interpretation
« on: Tuesday 16 January 24 06:31 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Sue,
That's great advice - not being a family into jewelry in a big way.  Both sides of the family were of meagre means as far as I can tell - at least before they came to Australia and at least until the late 1890s. I don't have a lot of photos, but will look at them again. It would be really nice to know if it is a UK or Melbourne photo. 
I'll keep beavering away.  Thanks again.
David

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Early 1900s, Melbourne Aust Interpretation
« on: Tuesday 16 January 24 02:36 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks so much, folks.
Sunnylew, I can't believe I had missed the "Proof" marking!  Thanks for pointing it out.

Teetotal and Gadget, I also appreciate the artificial and real Intelligence.  That is helpful indeed.  I have spent some time trying to identify the "set" for the photo as that might help with a city (?Melbourne or Leicester?).  Still working on it.

Folks, thanks again.
Dave (downunder)

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Early 1900s, Melbourne Aust Interpretation
« on: Friday 12 January 24 05:16 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Sue.
Sorry, I only have the scan. The original was apparently pasted into an album and there's no further information. I don't have access to the "original".  It is almost certainly 100% YATES as that was the name of the family.

Thanks Maddy too.
I was pretty sure it says Yates Miss 2112 - July 21st too. I wondered if 2112 was a batch/order number or similar. I WISH there was something to identify the studio. It is remotely possible the photo originated in Leicester, UK.

There ARE a couple of related photos that date in the 1880s, but I can't for the life of me find a female who would have been 15-20 years at that time. Just one of the unknowns then! 

I do appreciate your responses.
Dave

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