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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Fleming or Springall in Jersey
« on: Wednesday 13 March 19 09:10 GMT (UK)  »
I have this rather faded, colourless photo.  Can it be made 'brighter' and coloured please?

I would also like to try and place and date it.  There is a photographer's stamp on the reverse but only the word 'Jersey' is visible.  The hotel name behind the car and people is barely visible.  The boy in the front seat MAY be my father-in-law who was born in 1923.

Thank you.

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Census Lookup and Resource Requests / Where is she?
« on: Thursday 07 February 19 07:49 GMT (UK)  »
Elizabeth Brunning (nee Taylor) married Henry Brunning in 1831 in Suffolk and he died in 1832 in Rumburgh, Suffolk.  They had two children - George and Martha.  Elizabeth was born 1794 (although her 1861 death certificate says she was 85 which makes her a lot older!) and in the 1851 and 1861 census she gives her place of birth as South Elmham, Suffolk.  In the 1841 census her daughter (Martha Brunning, born 1831 Chediston, Suffolk) is living with Elizabeth's widowed mother in Halesworth, Suffolk.

I can't find Elizabeth Brunning in the 1841 census.  I have one in the Blything Union Workhouse but that isn't her and the list of 'possibles' show no-one else likely.  I suspect she is somewhere very poorly recorded/transcribed but no luck ……………. so far.

Any ideas?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / A handwitten Will
« on: Sunday 28 October 18 15:10 GMT (UK)  »
I would be very grateful if someone could read/interpret this handwritten Will for me.  The Will is that of Joshua George Seaman.  I'm hoping that some of the wording may clear up a mystery.


Joshua's widow (Martha) remarried and died in 1903 leaving nearly £8,500.  My ancestor (not related to Martha) was granted Administration on three Estates in 1904.  One of the Estates was the daughter (Elizabeth Ann) mentioned here in terms of a pianoforte who died aged 17 in 1858.  The other two Estates do not seem to be relatives of Martha but rather the half brother and his widow of this Joshua Seaman.

Thank you for anything anyone can offer!

Moderator comment: Apologies, but you may not post images of complete wills, even if rather small and difficult to read  ;) .  Small portions that you might be struggling with, that's fine, but not a) the whole thing or b) lots of snippets which eventually amount to the whole thing.  Thanks  :)

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Europe / Research in Cyprus
« on: Saturday 20 October 18 11:41 BST (UK)  »
A friend was born in England in 1942 as her mother (Cypriot) had been evacuated to England for the birth.

The friend now wants to start her family research on her parents, grandparents etc.  She has some names and dates and cousins who had photos etc.  Any ideas where, how she should start as she is a complete novice and I have no experience of research in this area.

Thank you in advance.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / A Hume Lady
« on: Friday 21 September 18 15:24 BST (UK)  »
I was given this photo by a family member but he doesn't know who she is.

We think it might be Catherine Hume (nee O'Hanlon) born in Ireland c1856.  Catherine died in 1897 in Portadown.  Catherine married and had seven children - all born in Armagh.  I don't think Catherine spent any time in England except for a few months in 1890 after her youngest child was born.  The family were in Croydon, Surrey when the child died aged seven months in 1890 and the family (I presume they were all together in Surrey) returned to Ireland.  In 1890 all the older children were baptised into the Roman Catholic Church in Armagh.


Catherine's eldest two children were girls:  Eugenie born in 1879 and Alice in 1882 in Armagh.  I have a photo of Alice taken (probably) just before WWI and the face is a little squarer.  I have no photos of Eugenie except as a very old lady but a photo (WWI again) of a son has a similar shape face.  Eugenie and Alice were definitely in England as young woman as they appear in the 1901 census in Stockport with their father.  They later both emigrated to Canada as married women.
So, if this lady is not Catherine it could be one of her daughters.  Dating the photo and the lady would help.


I feel sure it must be of a family member to have been kept.  I have several other family photographs but don't want to overload this post with them unless asked to do so!

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