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England / The most likely 1935 magazine?
« on: Sunday 30 January 11 17:29 GMT (UK)  »
My gt gt grandfather, George Frederick Baker (1859 - 1944) was a bit of a character. Known as 'Quark' he lived the last 15 years of his life in a Crofters caravan in a field above the village of Bures Hamlet in Essex.

His occupation was that of a rat-catcher although he undertook any farm labouring jobs on offer. He was abit of a local eccentric, especially known for riding his three wheeled bike.

According to family legend (and this has been varified by three seperate sources), Quark was featured in a national magazine article. Photographs taken of Quark riding his trike were used in the magazine. A few have been uncovered and were found to be dated 1935 on the reverse.

Unfortunately the name of the magazine wasn't noted on the photographs and no one can remember the magazines name either.

Given the above info on my gt gt grandfather and the year of 1935, can anyone suggest what would have been the most likely magazine that the article would have appeared in?

I'm really hoping to find this article / magazine so any help would be gratefully received.

Thank you,
Rob

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Help with dating this photo please
« on: Wednesday 12 January 11 10:07 GMT (UK)  »
Please help with dating this photo.
 
I don't know who the two ladies are,only that they are in my family tree...... somewhere.

Any help with dating the photo and/or info regarding their possible ages would be very useful.
many thanks,
Rob  :)


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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / a touch of colour please
« on: Monday 10 January 11 13:08 GMT (UK)  »
Hi

Can anyone help me please with colouring this wedding photo?

The bridesmaid on the right is my mum, Peggy South, at her sisters wedding in 1954.

thank you
Rob


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Armed Forces / Help please: re Reformatory ships records
« on: Thursday 06 January 11 10:44 GMT (UK)  »
Can anyone help please with info on the availability of reformatory ships records?

My grandfather, Cecil George Brown (born January 1902 Lexden,Colchester, Essex) left school December 1915 and at somepoint during 1916 ended up on the HMS Cornwall reformatory ship moored on the Thames at Purfleet.

(Legend has it he set fire to his bedroom with his two sisters inside and then jumped out the window leaving them to deal with the problem. No harm or real damage was done thankfully. But it was the last straw for his parents.)

From there,he served in the Royal Navy on a few ships,including a destroyer on convoy duty in the North Atlantic.

Would any records have survived to show how long he was at the reformatory school or his service with the Royal Navy? I think he left in 1922.

thank you,
Rob


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Kent Lookup Requests / Woolwich look-up's please.
« on: Saturday 01 January 11 16:06 GMT (UK)  »
Can anyone help please with baptism & burial look up's for St Mary Magdalene parish, Woolwich between 1804 & 1814?

Looking for any entries re: the children of John & Lucy SOUTH.

thank you
Rob

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Kent / John South: Looking for that vital link!
« on: Friday 31 December 10 22:52 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

I'm looking for any advice regarding how i might find info that will solve a vital missing link.

My 4x great grandfather John South married Lucy Buckingham in Colchester, Essex in 1801.

The couple had five children, Lucy (1802) & John (1803) in Colchester, Samuel (c1808), William (1809) & Thomas (1813) in Woolwich.

In 1816, Samuel was belatedly baptised in Colchester.....his fathers trade noted as ' late private in royal artillery'.

I am assuming that John South met and married Lucy whilst stationed in Colchester and later the family relocated to Woolwich before returning to Colchester when John was discharged.

John South died in 1847,aged 71, in Colchester.

What I am missing is any definative proof of John South's place and date of birth.

The most likely candidate is the John South who was baptised in 1777 in Southfleet. The year virtually matches and the distance between Southfleet and Woolwich is relatively close.

The names John & Lucy gave their children neatly correspond with the father and siblings of the Southfleet's John South.......and Lucy's father.

I have looked at the Royal Artillery service papers of a John South from Kent, but unfortunately this John South was serving at least twenty years before my 4x great grandfather was born.

I'm looking for that vital piece of info that links the John South who married in Colchester in 1801 to the John South baptised in Southfleet in 1777.

Based on all the info above, how likely is it that i have got the right man?

If anyone is researching the South family (with links to Southfleet and Swanscombe circa 1770) and can confirm or eliminate this John South, I would be pleased to hear from you.

many thanks
Rob

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Please date my great grandfathers !!
« on: Thursday 30 December 10 19:45 GMT (UK)  »
Can anyone place an approx date on the photos below for me please?

This is my paternal great grandfather, Joseph Brown, who was born in 1875.
The photo is the postcard type.



And this, sitting down, is (I think?) my maternal great grandfather William South, born in 1878.




many thanks
Rob

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Essex Completed Lookup Requests / John South 1841 Colchester
« on: Monday 27 December 10 15:33 GMT (UK)  »
Hi

I am looking for John South (born 1773)
1841 census
Second ward, Colchester, Essex.

Ancestry doesn't appear to be picking him up but other companies are showing the above details.

I would be very grateful if anyone can add more info to John South's census registration.

thank you
Rob

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Please date these photos
« on: Sunday 26 December 10 18:21 GMT (UK)  »
I have posted below four photos which i would love to have an approximate date for. The first two feature my great grandmother,the third my great grandparents and the fourth my grandmother.

Apologies for the poor quality of the photos. I don't have access to the originals and these were hastily taken shots made for reference purposes.

Any assistance with the dating would be, as always, very much appreciated.
many thanks now
Rob











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