Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: Steve G on Monday 01 April 19 14:51 BST (UK)
Title: Where's This Say, Please?
Post by: Steve G on Monday 01 April 19 14:51 BST (UK)
(https://i.postimg.cc/R0w5kbz7/Untitled.jpg)
Thanks :)
Title: Re: Where's This Say, Please?
Post by: bevj on Monday 01 April 19 14:59 BST (UK)
It looks like Gloster, Chedder (Gloucester, Cheddar) ;) I thought Cheddar was in Somerset, but maybe it's on the border. Bev
Title: Re: Where's This Say, Please?
Post by: Treetotal on Monday 01 April 19 15:01 BST (UK)
That's what I see too. Carol
Title: Re: Where's This Say, Please?
Post by: ShaunJ on Monday 01 April 19 15:07 BST (UK)
I wonder if it's Chedworth mistranscribed as Cheddar by the enumerator.
Title: Re: Where's This Say, Please?
Post by: Steve G on Monday 01 April 19 15:39 BST (UK)
:) Cheers, peeps. Swine, isn't it? Certainly looks like Cheddar, in Glos. But, the actual Cheddar is well south of even Bristol. It most certainly is ~ and always has been ~ firmly within Somerset.
Shaun's Chedworth is a beauty. Very much in Glos. Just seems stretching it a bit, again, to think anyone could confuse Chedworth with Cheddar :-\
Dunno. Guy was in Exeter Gaol, as it happens. (Doesn't make us any the wiser, does it?! ;D)
Just banging my head against my all time brick wall, again. Going over some old notes.
Christ, my head hurts! Again!
Thanks, all ;)
Title: Re: Where's This Say, Please?
Post by: CarolA3 on Monday 01 April 19 15:53 BST (UK)
We can't see the original return that the enumerator was trying to copy, so if it was not written clearly then only the well-known places would be recognisable.
Two long shots in Glos would be CLEEVE near Westbury on Severn, and (Bishop's) CLEEVE near Cheltenham.
Carol
Title: Re: Where's This Say, Please?
Post by: Michael J on Monday 01 April 19 16:34 BST (UK)
I'm not sure the middle letters are 'd' - there are no long upstrokes such as on the writer's letter l, h & t, and there are no other letter 'd's in the sample with which to compare.
Also the second 'd' looks similar the letter 'o' to me.
Title: Re: Where's This Say, Please?
Post by: JenB on Monday 01 April 19 16:46 BST (UK)
it would be useful perhaps to see more of the page.
Which census ? What's his name?
Title: Re: Where's This Say, Please?
Post by: Maiden Stone on Tuesday 02 April 19 00:24 BST (UK)
I'm not sure the middle letters are 'd' - there are no long upstrokes such as on the writer's letter l, h & t, and there are no other letter 'd's in the sample with which to compare.
Also the second 'd' looks similar the letter 'o' to me.