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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with occupation please..!
« on: Monday 19 June 17 13:25 BST (UK)  »
It's actually the line below my initial request (I didn't ask about it/request it first time round), but the line above is 'Brass Finisher'. This is his wife and her profession.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with occupation please..!
« on: Monday 19 June 17 13:21 BST (UK)  »
Hi Annie,

That's what I thought too... but wondering if there was an old obscure profession/job that I wasn't aware of! I wonder what a 'fishing tackle' might've done??

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with occupation please..!
« on: Monday 19 June 17 13:16 BST (UK)  »
I can't work out the second word of this one either:

Fishing...?


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with occupation please..!
« on: Sunday 18 June 17 21:03 BST (UK)  »
Thanks so much both!

I knew I'd get an answer here, but the speed at which it came - awesome!

 ;D

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Help with occupation please..!
« on: Sunday 18 June 17 20:48 BST (UK)  »
Does anyone have any idea what this might say?

I cannot work it out at all..!

It's a profession/job etc from 19th Century

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Antrim / Re: Rumours of Blacks on Rathlin Island
« on: Sunday 08 January 17 22:35 GMT (UK)  »
I think you're right too - I hope to be able to be conclusive soon!

One of the things holding me back from being totally confident though, as mentioned before, is that Daniel listed Alexander as deceased on his marriage certificate in 1910. Though maybe through because of the change of his religion he was 'dead to the family'..!!

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Antrim / Re: Rumours of Blacks on Rathlin Island
« on: Sunday 08 January 17 20:41 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all,

I'm sure you're bored of me already! But I found my Daniel Black in the 1939 register, trying to get confirmation of his birth date, as there are so many differences in all the records, and lo and behold, another date - 3rd March.

My question, was whether anyone could help work out what the pencil marks on the entry mean?

It looks like MI UAV, but it could mean 3rd MAY? But then the march isn't crossed out, and the M/7 1/I doesn't mean anything! ANyone seen this before? is it a well-known acronym for something?

Thanks so much,
- Terry

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Antrim / Re: Rumours of Blacks on Rathlin Island
« on: Wednesday 04 January 17 17:34 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: hallmark on Wednesday 04 January 17 16:12 GMT (UK)
"....when I have the Alexander I'm after listed as dead on a marriage certificate in 1910. ....."

So when did he die? Where?  etc.....

Unfortunately, the only evidence I have for him at all is on my great-grandfather's marriage certificate. In the box where it states 'name of father' it says: 'Alexander Black (deceased)'. The marriage was in 1910. So I don't know where or when he died, only that he died before 1910.

Similarly, I don't have Daniel Black's birth certificate and I'm struggling to work out which is the correct one, simply because his birthday on the military records is listed as 3rd May. The birth certificate pointed out many times in this thread lines up in so many ways except with his DOB on the naval records, which I've got no reason to assume is wrong.

I can't really see the link to Arthur Black with father Alexander that Sinann has posted properly on my phone, I'll have to look later when I get home, but this could be very helpful

Thanks a lot everyone
-T


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Antrim / Re: Rumours of Blacks on Rathlin Island
« on: Wednesday 04 January 17 15:29 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks again!

Yes I'd seen this record, but as I mentioned, the birth date doesn't match up with the birth date on the military records, and the Alexander who is married to Matilda is still alive in 1911, when I have the Alexander I'm after listed as dead on a marriage certificate in 1910.

"There appears to be an Alexander Black married to a Matilda Black, who had a son, Daniel Black, born on March 23rd, in Glenarm, Ireland. This is very tempting to believe it's the Daniel and Alexander I'm looking for, but THIS Alexander is alive and appears on the 1911 census, and this Daniel is born on March 23rd, not in May."

How often are dates wrong on documents like this?

I didn't think the record I'd seen there was the same one as it was described as April/May/June but now I see it it's the same one I'd seen before!

Does this mean it HAS to be the right Alexander, or is it possible there are no surviving records?

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