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Clare / Re: The Co Clare CANNY family and their houses
« on: Thursday 01 October 15 10:30 BST (UK)  »
Hi David

Sorry I have taken so long to respond ... I only spotted this entry today.

And it's bad news I'm afraid. There are 74 Canny names on my database at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SHOW&db=yt2&recno=179 but I'm afraid there are no Michaels mentioned.

Good luck with your search ... mine has been a long and arduous exercise but extremely rewarding for the effort.

Whitey

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Photo of woman for dating please
« on: Wednesday 01 July 15 00:59 BST (UK)  »
Aha!!! I can't help with the date, BUT ... I am very familiar with this situation.

I am almost certain that the young lady is clutching the TV Remote Control so that her poor oppressed husband can't get his hands on it and switch the channel away from endless soapies. 

Yep ... a very familiar situation indeed.

 ;D  ;D  ;D

Whitey

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Australia / Re: Margaret White nee Walsh (Welsh?) d. Adelaide 25Nov1870
« on: Monday 09 March 15 05:13 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks all ... I have now fixed the link to the 2012 thread. Must have been too early in the morning for me.

The funeral announcement for the Foresters is interesting too and opens up another line of inquiry for me. Thanks Cristobel.

Spike - re the birth certificate for Joel ... I spoke to a Librarian at the Unley SA repository who had access to the birth certificate and informed me that it was rudimentary and difficult to read, but appeared to corroborate the Joel name rather than the possibility of a Jos (shortened version of Joseph).

Whitey   ;D

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Australia / Margaret White nee Walsh (Welsh?) d. Adelaide 25Nov1870
« on: Sunday 08 March 15 23:25 GMT (UK)  »
I hope I'm not 'pushing the envelope' too far, but I would really like to resurrect an unsolved mystery from my family research.

About 5-6 years back, with a lot of Rootschatters' generous help, I spent some considerable time researching the background of my G-G-grandparents Margaret Walsh and Samuel White, but with no certain outcome. Margaret (b. c1831) married Samuel White (b. c1829) in Holy Trinity Church Adelaide on 25 Aug 1851. Margaret died in Adelaide 25Nov1870 as a widow - I have no certain record of Samuel's death. Beyond those facts, the pair of them remain a mystery.

I believe Margaret Walsh  arrived in Adelaide from Ireland via Plymouth on the barque Inconstant on 7 June 1849 as part of the Earl Grey Scheme. The Inconstant was one of the more notorious ships carrying Irish Orphan girls to Australia and  their reception in Adelaide was characterised by hostile press reports about the character of the young women and alleged improprieties between the matron and the ship's officers during the voyage. The story has been researched by Mark Staniforth of Flinders University and is published at http://www.academia.edu/1266659/The_Inconstant_Girls - it is well worth reading.

Samuel White was dead before Margaret, but I have no date of his death. I believe they had 3 children, but I can locate records for 2 only, Mary Ann Elizabeth b. 1853 and Joel b. 1854.  Mary Ann's life is well researched, but there is no record of Joel beyond his birth entry.

The 3rd child was my G-Grandfather Joseph Frederick White, b. c1856 and d. 1927 - Joseph's marriage and death are well recorded, but there is no record of his birth. His obituary records that "He was the son of the late Mr Samuel White and was born at the Bay Rd, Plympton."  (Samuel was a butcher  at Bay Rd Plympton).

I really appreciate all the work that has been done for me previously - eternally optimistic, I am just hoping that something new might have entered the record books since that time. My family tree has grown considerably over the years and it is a great frustration that the branch about which I know the least, is my father's line - and ergo the history of the folk that passed me down my surname.

The previous threads are at
(2009) .....    http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,409343.10.html
(2012) .....    and at http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=574939.msg4272330#msg4272330

Please tell me to bugger off if you think I'm asking too much. As well as being eternally optimistic, I'm also quite thick-skinned.   ;D  ;D  ;D

Thanks all .... and a belated happy new year too!!

Whitey

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Can we de-fuzzy Felicity?
« on: Tuesday 02 December 14 03:09 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you Irene

Whitey

 ;D  ;D  ;D

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Can we de-fuzzy Felicity?
« on: Wednesday 26 November 14 06:38 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you all for your work ... I always feel guilty sending in such poor quality photos. Makes you glad that modern technology has largely corrected these regular faults of amateur photographers, doesn't it?

Thanks again folks.

Whitey

 ;D

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Can we de-fuzzy Felicity?
« on: Tuesday 25 November 14 00:39 GMT (UK)  »
This picture suffers from all sorts of lighting and focus woes ... but it is a very rare item.

Can we do something to improve it please?

Thanks

Whitey


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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Enid's looking a bit fuzzy here
« on: Friday 14 November 14 19:31 GMT (UK)  »
Well done everyone ... many thanks for your assistance.

Whitey ;D  ;D  ;D

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Enid's looking a bit fuzzy here
« on: Friday 14 November 14 01:10 GMT (UK)  »
Enid's looking a bit fuzzy here ... can anyone do anything to sharpen her up a bit? It'd be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Whitey


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