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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: Ahmed_U on Sunday 22 February 09 13:22 GMT (UK)
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hi all,
sorry for the trouble again, but I do have real difficulty reading some of this handwriting.
I can see Lincolnshire and Bedfordshire in the image, but nothing else! Please help.
Thank you.
Ahmed
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I think the first one is Lincolnshire Banson then some kind of alteration was made and Barkston is written in the disability column. :)
The others are proving more difficult. The enumerator certainly had problems with place names.
It's always worth checking here to try to identify placenames:
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/
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Wyba(o)ston (with a ?, so obviously someone is questioning this)
R(B)-tenhi(a)ll
Can't make much sense of them and of course the thick line across the names doesn't help .... :-\
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I think the bottom one might be Pertenhall - I've been searching on the OS Maps
see:
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/BDF/Pertenhall/index.html
Gadget
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Nothing remotely like the middle one on the maps or here:
http://www.genoot.com/eng/bdf/index.html
Do you have the family on any other censuses?
Gadget
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The middle one is Wyboston. It's right by the A1 in Bedfordshire
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=516567&Y=256670&A=Y&Z=120
Jennifer
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The middle one is Wyboston,Bedfordshire which is near St Neots.
Snap Jen ;D
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Snap Jen ;D
It's a bit like waiting for a bus.....nothing happens for a little while then two come along together ;D
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Strange that that one is not in the Gazeteer but Pertenhall is!
My knowledge of Bedfordshire is one of travelling through by road or rail but never stopping :)
Gadget
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It's totally irrelevant to the enquiry (so please forgive me Ahmed :D ) but here is a rather interesting story about Wyboston.
http://www.peterclarke.com/Land4.htm
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Many thanks all.
I would never have guessed Wyboston, as I have not heard of it before! :P
I thought it was Pertenhall, because his grandfather was actually born in Pertenhall (assuming I have the right guy).
I am attaching two images, I am quite sure of the same person (as a LOT of other pieces in the jigsaw seem to match), but the birthplace name looks a bit too different for my liking. The first one from the 1851 census I had made out to be Baston in Lincs, but the one from 1871 does not seem to be Baston.
Ahmed
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It's totally irrelevant to the enquiry (so please forgive me Ahmed :D ) but here is a rather interesting story about Wyboston.
http://www.peterclarke.com/Land4.htm
it is always nice to know a bit more about the place that you're looking into.
Thank you!