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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with Welsh Placename
« on: Wednesday 10 April 24 19:51 BST (UK)  »
Thank you all for the suggestions. I'll have a dig around in LLarnwrin and LLanwddyn.

I will also dig around locally for other Pughs again to see if I might find a connection - perhaps a brother or sister or cousin came with her.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Help with Welsh Placename
« on: Monday 08 April 24 17:38 BST (UK)  »
Hello
Please can you help me identify the name of Mary Wilcox' birthplace in the 1861 census. She was born in Wales but was in the Southwark area from at least 1814 onwards.

Mary Pugh - 1783-6 ish, born Llan...(??), Montgomeryshire. Ancestry thinks it says Llanwehyn but that doesn't seem to exist.
other refs:
1814 Married James Willcocks in St Mary Newington, London. He was a Tanner from Totnes in Devon.
1841 census (Mary Willcox, 55), St John Horsleydown, Southwark
1851 census (Mary Willcocks, 66) - St John Horsleydown, Southwark. Gives place of birth Montgomery, Wales
1861 census (Mary Wilcox, 78) -St John Horsleydown, Southwark.  Place of birth: see attached.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Is there something written under this smudge?
« on: Monday 03 December 18 16:15 GMT (UK)  »
Not sure where to put this, but I'll start with the handwriting/smudge first!

This is from nonconformist records for Wolverhampton (Darlington Street chapel) relating to the Smith family of Coven in Staffordshire.
They were Methodists, and the Smith family gave land and money for the Methodist Chapel in Coven. They were farmer> locksmiths>engineers over the years so quite wealthy.

I have three generations of these John Smiths fairly well documented and various family baptised at Darlington Street, but I can't fit this John/Joanna/Mary baptism in yet.

Am curious if there is something written under the smudge. Would that be a middle name or something else?

Further down the same page is what appears to be the same record, this time under the surname Farmer with parents John Smith and Johanna in the same box- is this a transcription error with each box shifted one column?

Don't want to confuse with too much detail,  one of the John Smiths of Coven (Farmer) died in Mar 1836, so it is possible that if it had anything to do with this John, that he was deceased at the time of this baptism.

Would appreciate your thoughts.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: S.H.V Birthplace???
« on: Tuesday 12 June 18 23:08 BST (UK)  »
I thought maybe they kept details of dependents (so wife and children's date of birth) in the event of pension and disability payments etc.

I would guess though that they had some kind of check so you couldn't claim for more children than there were, so it was the children's birth certs rather than the one for the man himself.

However, I really don't know for sure.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: S.H.V Birthplace???
« on: Tuesday 12 June 18 15:45 BST (UK)  »
If you search for SH* you will also find a few others - S.H.Cte (e.g. Philip Mansfield Abel) and one S.H.Extract (Baglee).

Added: also sometimes SHCert.

Short H? Version?

Could it be to do with the version of the birth certificate provided as evidence - maybe the shorter form birth certificates didn't include location of birth, only date?

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Four girls and a dog
« on: Saturday 09 June 18 18:42 BST (UK)  »
I would put Doris as younger than 7 here if she is the little girl standing. She doesn't look 7 - more like 5/6 maybe. I think she is still quite little.

I'd put them at 5ish littlest one standing, 7-10ish seated, 12-13 standing, dog - no idea ;D

I'd put them as the older girls (so before Olwen) because there is a bigger gap between the seated and standing.

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Pembrokeshire / Re: Birth Record of George James of Monkton
« on: Tuesday 15 May 18 17:10 BST (UK)  »
Could they possibly have had him baptised when he was older, so the monkton one with the right parents is correct, just that he was a child rather than a baby?

The original baptism record might note this.

Do George and Sarah have other children in Monkton around the time?

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Trimming Cottage Halifax
« on: Tuesday 24 April 18 12:08 BST (UK)  »
We've all been there - sometimes just takes a fresh pair of eyes!


BTW, there is a tree on ancestry (so be cautious etc etc) but could give you ideas to research which has William Reid (Eliza's first husband) with his mother as Hannah Askwith of Coxwold and father John Reid of Halifax which might maybe infer both Reids and Askwiths are are part of a wider extended family picture.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Trimming Cottage Halifax
« on: Tuesday 24 April 18 10:31 BST (UK)  »
Marriage, Nov 23 1871 Harrogate.

William Reid of Coxwold and Eliza, daughter of Thomas Metcalfe Reid

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