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Offline Ebor337

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Longshot!!!
« on: Tuesday 11 August 09 16:19 BST (UK) »
I'm 99.9% certain its impossible to figure out what is underneath this squiggle, but can someone just confirm this is beyong deciphering?! :)



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Re: Longshot!!!
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 11 August 09 16:23 BST (UK) »
Make that 100% !
Edmonds/Edmunds - mainly Sussex
DeBoo - London
Green - Suffolk
Parker - Sussex
Kemp - Essex
Farrington - Essex
Boniface - West Sussex

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Re: Longshot!!!
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 11 August 09 16:27 BST (UK) »
You often see Widow entered on the 1841 census - then crossed out as it wasn't actually an occupation.

There's actually such an instance on the previous page and perhaps another on the page before that.
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Re: Longshot!!!
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 11 August 09 16:42 BST (UK) »
Well that would work out, Geoff as she was widowed in 1838.

Thanks for the input anyway.


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Re: Longshot!!!
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 11 August 09 16:49 BST (UK) »
You can just make out (what looks like "widow" - but there was possibly something before it (maybe her husband's occupation-e.g. ag lab's widow)-so half of it is indecipherable
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Thornhill, Cresswell, Sisson, Harriman, Cripps, Eyre, Walter, Marson, Battison, Holmes, Bailey, Hardman, Fairhurst Noon-mainly in Derbys/Notts-but also Northampton, Oxford, Leics, Lancs-England
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Re: Longshot!!!
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 11 August 09 19:01 BST (UK) »
On the assumption that the writing was the same as in the previous column, then the entry was about 10 characters long (including spaces).

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Midlothian: Adam(s), Meikle/Muckle
Leith: Bridges
Edinburgh: Brown
Prestonpans: Bird, Inglis
Fife: Wemyss
Orkney: Brock
Ireland: Sweeney