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Re: Would like some help with this letter from 1851
« Reply #18 on: Sunday 23 August 15 11:12 BST (UK) »
certainly makes sense - but the writing doesn't look like it - can't just make it up!  ;) ;)
Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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Re: Would like some help with this letter from 1851
« Reply #19 on: Sunday 23 August 15 11:12 BST (UK) »
The date still bothers me a little for a few reasons

If its May 22 what is it before the date.

Also I am fairly certain that the Post office didn't use green ink in 1880s
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Re: Would like some help with this letter from 1851
« Reply #20 on: Sunday 23 August 15 11:14 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Wiggy on Sunday 23 August 15 11:12 BST (UK)
certainly makes sense - but the writing doesn't look like it - can't just make it up!  ;) ;)
Sorry wiggy you've let me, which but doesn't look like it.
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Re: Would like some help with this letter from 1851
« Reply #21 on: Sunday 23 August 15 11:15 BST (UK) »
Is it a "good strong surname"?

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Re: Would like some help with this letter from 1851
« Reply #22 on: Sunday 23 August 15 11:16 BST (UK) »
Does that make sense??     surname?

But that word doesn't look like constitution either does it - that's the word I mean

Could the 'green' ink be faded blue ink do you think?
Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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Re: Would like some help with this letter from 1851
« Reply #23 on: Sunday 23 August 15 11:19 BST (UK) »
Just to confirm the 1851 date on the envelope is correct.  There is a 26 year old Ann Little working as a servant to Mr. Hembrew in Clarendon Street, Wolverhampton in 1851.  :)
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Re: Would like some help with this letter from 1851
« Reply #24 on: Sunday 23 August 15 11:21 BST (UK) »
One of the reasons I go for constitution is it fits with the having been in bed and I can get constitution out of it, but then I'm used to reading sme shocking writing (including my own).
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Re: Would like some help with this letter from 1851
« Reply #25 on: Sunday 23 August 15 11:23 BST (UK) »
Quote from: GUT on Sunday 23 August 15 11:12 BST (UK)
The date still bothers me a little for a few reasons

If its May 22 what is it before the date.

Also I am fairly certain that the Post office didn't use green ink in 1880s

I'm not sure what it is before the May 22 but with the date stamped 1851 and the picture of Newcastle from August 1850, I'm happy putting it in that time. No idea about Post Office inks though!

Quote from: Jool on Sunday 23 August 15 11:19 BST (UK)
Just to confirm the 1851 date on the envelope is correct.  There is a 26 year old Ann Little working as a servant to Mr. Hembrew in Clarendon Street, Wolverhampton in 1851.  :)

Yes I'd found that shortly before posting. I found it using the address though; I hadn't the slightest clue what the "Hembrow" name was.

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Re: Would like some help with this letter from 1851
« Reply #26 on: Sunday 23 August 15 11:30 BST (UK) »
Thank you everyone for the help! I don't like to ask for help too often so I appreciate all your time here.

If anyone is wondering of the back story here, it seems two daughters of my 4th great grandfather left the village of Crosby-on-Eden, Cumberland to live in Newcastle and Wolverhampton respectively, and seems the letter made its way back to Cumberland sometime not too long afterward and it was with my relatives (part of my great grandfather's possessions) on my recent travel over there (from my home in Australia).
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