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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Decipher the last name written on this Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA record
« on: Yesterday at 23:00 »
Incidentally the South Carolina death indexes include a Roland Sinns in the listings for 1915-1924
https://scdhec.gov/vital-records/death-indexes-genealogy/vital-records-death-indexes-1915-1967

Don't know if you can search the Agricultural Schedules by farmer and try Sinns as a surname, I couldn't access the relevant archives to try, see state by state entry for site address.
https://www.archives.gov/research/census/nonpopulation#agricultural

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Decipher the last name written on this Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA record
« on: Yesterday at 22:10 »
Quote from: AncestryCompassResearch on Yesterday at 20:24
Thank you for all who replied on this thread.
I was unable to find any other SINNE residents in Orangeburg, SC in the same period of time. This made me think it was something other than Sinne.

Sotara is my Great Great Grandmother and we've just assumed and lumped together all of the variations of her name as Pon, Pou, Pough, Pow and I have even seen Pontoo.

I'd be interested to know more about the connections between the Pows of Scotland and the Pous (Pou, Pough, Pon, Pow) of South Carolina.

I'm using myself as the litmus test since I have known South Carolina Pon, Pou, Pough, Pow ancestors and also unknown distant cousins in Scotland.

There are references to a family history held in the familysearch library
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/46521?availability=Family%20History%20Library

An item that referred to the family originating in Spain and then moving over time via France and Scotland to South Carolina but provides no references:
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth795373/m1/306/

However under Pow in Black's Surnames of Scotland there's reference to a Gavin Pou emigrating from Scotland to Orangeburg (sadly no original source of this information is indicated) but there's this history of Orangeburg with multiple references to Gavin Pou, his life, family and original records:
https://archive.org/details/historyoforangeb00sall/page/32/mode/2up?q=gavin

There's also a manuscript family bible for a Pou family held by the University of South Carolina
https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/collection/famrec/id/339/

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Cumberland / Re: Parents of George Dawson (b.1774, d.1838)
« on: Yesterday at 09:03 »
Had you already seen this?
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/551

I also noticed that there was appeal where a 'Dawson' appears to be appealing on behalf of 'Bolton'
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BzdbAAAAQAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=parliamentary%20papers%20dawson%20antigua&pg=RA12-PA24#v=onepage&q=parliamentary%20papers%20dawson%20antigua&f=false

Possibly this Bolton
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/7760

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Decipher the last name written on this Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA record
« on: Yesterday at 08:46 »
Second the Sinne.

Interested in the other surname, I read the handwriting as Pow but I can also see the last letter as a u with a flourish.

I see from a cursory search that there's a connection between the Pows of Scotland and the Pous of South Carolina. Wondering if Pow might have become Pou due to a combination of pronounciation with an accent and reading of handwriting.

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Dumfriesshire / Re: High Street, Annan early 1800's
« on: Tuesday 28 May 24 22:51 BST (UK)  »
Not a photo, obviously, but here's the high street looking from the old town hall.
I would guess this is mid 19th century going by the dress of the gentleman (a banker?) and lady with child on the left.
Possibly could be dated to after 1838 (assuming those are gas lamps) and before 1882 (laying of setts).
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/annan-high-street-from-the-town-hall-213565

The old town hall
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/annan-old-town-hall-213585

The gas lighting and setts laying dates came from a pdf called 'Annan a historic walk', annoyingly it does include a photograph of an old view c.1900 looking down Bank Street towards the High Street but the detail is too indistinct to be much use.
https://www.annan.org.uk/history/annan_historic_walk3.pdf

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Lanarkshire / Re: Free Church Training School Glasgow. 1865-67
« on: Friday 24 May 24 23:05 BST (UK)  »
Edmund was 'Master of Method', according to the Post Office directory for 1866-67
https://digital.nls.uk/directories/browse/archive/84391441

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Lanarkshire / Re: Free Church Training School Glasgow. 1865-67
« on: Thursday 23 May 24 21:02 BST (UK)  »
According to Jordanhill College of Education archives the Free Church buildings were at Dundas Vale and Cowcaddens.

It looks like the building in the drawing was expanded, photos here of it at a much later stage but the central part is still recognisable. The address reads as 121 Cowcaddens on the sign in the photo.
https://canmore.org.uk/site/167440/glasgow-119-125-cowcaddens-street-former-college-of-weaving

Potted history here:
https://atom.lib.strath.ac.uk/glasgow-free-church-training-college

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Lanarkshire / Re: Free Church Training School Glasgow. 1865-67
« on: Thursday 23 May 24 20:37 BST (UK)  »
Here's a photo of the teacher that signed his report.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerr_(physicist)

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The Common Room / Re: Cause of Death "Uknown"
« on: Monday 20 May 24 17:26 BST (UK)  »
Legislation changes and more were involved
https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/private-lives/death-dying/dying-and-death/registeringdeath/

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