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The Common Room / Poll books?
« on: Saturday 18 November 23 10:24 GMT (UK)  »
Hello,

I discovered pool books yesterday, and have had great fun using Ancestry and FindMyPast to find anyone who was able to vote and for whom they voted. Some books appear only to be in local libraries far from me or are out-of-print. Does anyone happen to have a copy of or access to any of the following:

1839, West Yorkshire (looking for Hemingways in Stanley or Lofthouse, Wakefield area; or Lofthouses in the Dunsforths, Ripon area)
1859, West Yorkshire (same again)
Any Hampshire ones, say 1700 - 1872 (specifically the Alton area; looking for Streaters in Alresford, East Worldham, Farringdon)
Any Devon ones, say 1780 - 1861 (I am looking for Wyatts of Plympton St. Mary, which I could not find in the Plymouth poll books on FindMyPast)

Any help would be very greatly appreciated. Please do DM me if there are any costs involved.

Adam

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / ? House, Buckland Monachorum, Devon (1861 Census)
« on: Thursday 27 October 22 11:15 BST (UK)  »
Hello,

I’ve just been looking through a scan of the household of William and Mary Harding in Buckland Monachorum in 1861. I can read that their address is something ‘house’, but can’t make out the first part, other than it may be a ‘B’. Could anyone please take a look for me?

Adam

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Dorset / Kerly/Kearley family of Tarrant Gunville
« on: Friday 16 September 22 21:35 BST (UK)  »
Hello,

I was revisiting my forebear John Kearley earlier, and noticed there was an elderly lady called Martha Carter living with him in Uxbridge in 1841. I wondered if this might be his mother. John said on the two censuses he lived through (1851 and 1861) that he was born in Dorset around 1794. I found a John Kerly christened in Tarrant Gunville on the 24th of March 1793, to Thomas and Martha. I know the famous Kearleys of Uxbridge, one of whom became Viscount Devonport, had an ancestor in Uxbridge who was a glazier like John and came from one of the Tarrant villages. I’m wondering therefore if this John is my John, and his mother Martha remarried to a Mr. Carter and died in Uxbridge. Unfortunately, I’ve turned up nothing more! Nor have I got further back from Thomas and Martha, except possibly a Thomas Kearley christened in Tarrant Rushton to Silas Kearley on the 20th of December 1759. If anyone could please help me at all, I’d be greatly appreciative.

Best wishes,

Adam

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Armed Forces / Post corporal?
« on: Saturday 16 July 22 13:38 BST (UK)  »
Hello,

I found the term used in a service record, for my grandma’s dad, who was in India for most of the 1920s. I wasn’t sure if it was something to do with the post office or perhaps a bugler (e.g. the Last Post). My searches haven’t yielded any answers. Can anyone please help?

Adam

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Details of military injury, 1922
« on: Thursday 30 June 22 15:41 BST (UK)  »
Hello,

I just got some military records, and knew the subject had lost two fingers (reputedly while in the Army). I think perhaps this report refers to it, but I’m not sure as I can’t make out many of the words other than ‘fracture lower end of right radius’. If anyone could please help, I’d greatly appreciate it!

Adam

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / John Boulton remarriage
« on: Saturday 21 May 22 12:14 BST (UK)  »
Hello,

John’s wife Sarah Hannah Boulton died on the 25th of October 1922, at the family home, 5 Gasholder Terrace in Hunslet. John died in hospital in Leeds on the 7th of May 1933, while living at 141 Thorpe Road in Middleton. His widow A. Boulton registered the death. I haven’t managed to find a remarriage to this A. Boulton (whose name was Alice, according to his obituary). I thought he might’ve been the John Bolton who married Alice Brown in Hunslet in 1926, but I got that certificate today, and it wasn’t him. Could anyone please help?

Adam

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / County Kerry?
« on: Thursday 12 May 22 12:54 BST (UK)  »
Hello,

Does this say ‘C. Kerry?’ It’s from some Tank Corps records; the battalion this man came from was on the Curragh in Ireland at the end of WW1, and this record is from 1919.

I’d appreciate any help!

Adam

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Devon / Simon Kemp MacGregor and Bessie Lamacraft wedding
« on: Friday 08 April 22 11:02 BST (UK)  »
Hello,

I remember viewing this marriage entry on FindMyPast when I was a member, but can’t find it saved in my files. It was in Dawlish in late 1886. Could anyone please find me the date and the name of Simon’s father?

Adam

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Yorkshire (North Riding) / Lofthouse family of Hutton Conyers?
« on: Wednesday 16 March 22 19:46 GMT (UK)  »
Hello,

I’ve been searching for a while for the baptism of Christopher Lofthouse, born in Hutton Conyers in about 1780. I know that it was extra-parochial, so wondered where he might have been christened. I’ve just come across a Christopher Loftus christened in Ripon, about 2 miles away, on the 19th of September 1779. Could anyone please examine this record, to see if it mentions him being from Hutton Conyers? I presume it’s him, but can’t be sure.

I’d appreciate any help!

Adam

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