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New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Headstone Photo, Omaka Cemetery
« on: Tuesday 27 June 23 14:16 BST (UK)  »
I'm kicking myself!  I normally check FindAGrave and BillionGraves in a case like this, but I never thought to do so because Susan's new headstone was erected so recently.  Can't believe FindAGrave had it.  Thank you so much for this.  Greatly appreciated.

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New Zealand Completed Requests / Headstone Photo, Omaka Cemetery
« on: Monday 26 June 23 22:50 BST (UK)  »
Is there anyone near Omaka Cemetery who would be so kind as to take a photo of Susan Finnimore Barron's headstone?  Susan died in 1924, and I was recently told that a new headstone had been erected, apparently because the old one was in very bad shape.  Online information gives the following information:  No. 3 Lawn, Block 6, Row 0, Plot Number 4.  Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

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Sussex / Re: Can Anyone Identify This Building?
« on: Saturday 27 August 22 16:38 BST (UK)  »
Almost two weeks later, no response from the Seaford Museum.  Unfortunately, this is not the first time I've failed to receive a response from them.

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Sussex / Re: Can Anyone Identify This Building?
« on: Sunday 14 August 22 21:11 BST (UK)  »
I'll definitely try the museum.  Will send a message tonight (my time) so they have it first thing Monday.  :)

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Sussex / Re: Can Anyone Identify This Building?
« on: Sunday 14 August 22 18:42 BST (UK)  »
Jool, what a great find!  Thank you so much.  I have a couple of letters that my mother wrote in 1943, and she never mentioned George and Louie's surname.  Now I can do a little bit of research on them.  My mother and Louie wrote to one another long after my mother emigrated to Canada in 1945.

I have no explanation as to why my mother referred to Stanmore Cottage rather than Stanmer Cottage.  She mentioned the name twice in her letters (?).  Hoping you can find something to corroborate the Old Cottage/Stanmer Cottage connection.


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Sussex / Re: Can Anyone Identify This Building?
« on: Friday 12 August 22 15:25 BST (UK)  »
Thank you all for responding.  For some reason, I did not receive any notification that responses had been posted.

Yes, I had a feeling my picture was a mirror image, so thanks for the confirmation.

The possibility that my picture shows a building on Dane Road is intriguing.  For most of 1943, my mother lived at a place called Stanmore Cottage on Dane Road, owned by a couple named Louie and George (don't have a surname).  Perhaps Stanmore Cottage and The Old Cottage are one and the same.

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Sussex / Can Anyone Identify This Building?
« on: Saturday 06 August 22 19:17 BST (UK)  »
This picture was taken in Seaford some sixty years ago.  My parents were visiting Seaford where my mother lived with her first husband in the early days of WW2.  I think the building had some special significance for my mother.  She and her then husband operated a furniture store or interior design store in town and I wonder if there is a connection.  Can anyone identify this building and (I know this is a stretch) tell me what was in the building back in the early 1940s?  Perhaps a museum or historical society might be able to help.  I should note that the picture may be a mirror image of the building.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with an Occupation
« on: Wednesday 29 September 21 14:46 BST (UK)  »
Thank you both for the quick responses.  I have learned a new word, even if it is now considered archaic!  Also very helpful because I have another citation for an individual where it's mentioned that he is a shoemaker.  Now I know I'm dealing with the same person.  :)

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Help with an Occupation
« on: Tuesday 28 September 21 20:42 BST (UK)  »
I simply cannot figure out the occupation on the fourth line.  Driving me crazy!

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