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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Malignant cause of death help
« on: Thursday 11 April 24 11:00 BST (UK)  »
I'm assuming this is cancer for this lady who died aged 49, but what sort of cancer?

Malignant disease of ...

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Norfolk / Chesterfield Cottages, Cromer - who lived here 1920?
« on: Saturday 18 June 22 17:05 BST (UK)  »
This is I believe Edward Slipper Gaff, possibly with one of his daughters. It is simply labelled "Cromer 1920".

I've had a look on maps of the time, and then on Google, and I reckon this is highly likely to be 19 Chesterfield Cottages, Cromer.

The problem is that Edward Slipper Gaff lived in London for most of his life, in 1911, at his marriage in 1919, in 1929 on the electoral register etc... So what was he doing in Cromer? Maybe on holiday but why is he wearing his work clothes (he was a butcher)? He does have family from Norfolk but none I am aware of in Cromer.

Who lived at 19 Chesterfield Cottages in Cromer in 1920? I tried searching using the findmypast free search for the 1921 census but none of the Chesterfield Cottages addresses showed up.

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London & Middlesex Lookup Requests / Edward Slipper GAFF - did third of his four wives die? Phoebe KIPPING
« on: Thursday 16 June 22 16:22 BST (UK)  »
Edward Slipper Gaff, a butcher, b1873 on an apparently failed family emigration adventure to North America, but had returned to his family's Norfolk roots by the 1881 census. Then he moves to London by 1891.

1st marriage to Edith Corder in 1897. She dies in 1899 (after 2 children)
2nd marriage to Alice Amelia Togwell in 1900. She dies in 1901 (after 1 child)
3rd marriage to Phoebe Julia Kipping in 1904. They're both on the 1911 census (no children)
4th marriage to Caroline Gill in 1919. They don't seem to be on the 1921 census.

Can't find any death details for Phoebe, is there any indication what might have happened to her?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Theatre of WWII
« on: Thursday 09 June 22 16:51 BST (UK)  »
My grandfather never talked about his war service, and served until he was badly injured behind enemy lines in 1945. One family member says North Africa, another says France.

Now maybe we have an answer, what does this say, North West  ???

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The Common Room / 16 years between children
« on: Wednesday 12 January 22 07:12 GMT (UK)  »
In 1891 both parents are 40 with a 17-year old son and a 1 year old son. In 1901 the older son is still living there along with the 11-year old and also an 8 year-old, both listed as sons of the 50-year old couple.

How common is such a gap between children? Would you be suspicious? How suspicious? What are the chances an unmarried woman's children would live with the father's parents? This is in a town in the Scottish Borders.



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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Census - Relationship to head of family
« on: Tuesday 11 January 22 11:39 GMT (UK)  »
Any ideas how this 33 and 55 year-old relate to the head of the household? They have different surnames both from each other and from the family. However they're living with these people on the 1841 and 1851 censuses, so aren't just visiting! I assume they are both widowers. Could be cousins or in-laws but the description looks like "journeyman" which I thought you'd only find in the occupation column.

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The Common Room / Were middle names often omitted from death certificates in the 1880s?
« on: Monday 07 December 20 09:22 GMT (UK)  »
I am wondering how common it was for middle names to be omitted from death certificates?

I know that this John Thomas Parker b1842 Lichfield died in England between the 1881 and 1891 cenuses, because his wife is listed as a widow in 1891. However, looking at the GRO index there's only two John Thomas Parkers who died in this decade, one being his father (1883) and the other being a guy from Northamptonshire who died in Islington 1889.

I'm guessing my JTP died in Staffordshire or possibly in Lancashire where his wife ended up. There are several called "John Parker" who fit this bill, but I can't afford to splash out money on certificates if there's little chance they had an unrecorded middle name.


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / 1939 Register occupation
« on: Friday 20 November 20 07:07 GMT (UK)  »
Can anyone decipher the middle row of this 1939 Register? I included another line that begins with a capital M for comparison.

It was transcribed as "Maid? Business" which is obviously incorrect. For context he was 65, lived in Stoke, his son was a "Dairyman" (actually a door-to-door milkman I think), his father a Draper, and in 1901 he was a Draper's Assistant but in 1911 a Motorman (a tram driver).


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Occupations - China industry
« on: Sunday 15 November 20 09:40 GMT (UK)  »
This is Brosely nr Ironbridge in 1841, so lots of china, tiles and bricks.

The middle three are women, I'm guessing China Burnisher and then two other China somethings?

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