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please decipher name of place in or near new york
« on: Saturday 17 March 18 16:54 GMT (UK) »
Please can you decipher the name of this town in of near new York?

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Re: please decipher name of place in or near new york
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 17 March 18 16:58 GMT (UK) »
Cohoes -just north of Troy?

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Re: please decipher name of place in or near new york
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 17 March 18 17:03 GMT (UK) »
Thanks gadget that is brilliant well done!!

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Re: please decipher name of place in or near new york
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 17 March 18 17:14 GMT (UK) »
I know that area reasonably well from back in the late 1960s  :)

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Re: please decipher name of place in or near new york
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 17 March 18 17:25 GMT (UK) »
Blimey Gadget, is there anywhere you haven't lived  ;D
Seeking: RC baptism Philip Murray Feb ish 1814 ? nr Chatham Kent.
IRE: Kik DRAY[EA], PURCELL, WHITE: Mea LYNCH: Tip MURRAY, SHEEDY: Wem ALLEN, ENGLISHBY; Dub PENROSE: Lim DUNN[E], FRAWLEY, WILLIAMS.
87th Regiment RIF: MURRAY
ENG; Marylebone HAYTER, TROU[W]SDALE, WILLIAMS,DUNEVAN Con HAMPTON, TREMELLING Wry CLEGG, HOLLAND, HORSEFIELD Coventry McGINTY
CAN; Halifax & Pictou: HOLLAND, WHITE, WILLIAMSON

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Re: please decipher name of place in or near new york
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 17 March 18 17:30 GMT (UK) »
I wondered how you got it so quick !!