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Dublin / Stanley, Photographer in Dublin around 1890
« on: Saturday 19 November 22 12:18 GMT (UK)  »
I'd be grateful if anybody could anybody could point me to a site giving access to information about a photographer called Stanley (surname) producing 'cartes de visite' in Dublin about this date.

I have three of these of known family and am trying to make out is whether they were all taken at the same time. One of these was dated here as about 1889 (John Little and wife), the others may be later (their children).  The subjects  of all three left for South Africa in 1896.

I've tried Google. Can't get into the right part of the only site which might have this!
Any help please?

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Dublin / Searching for Henrietta Knight Little
« on: Friday 12 March 21 15:13 GMT (UK)  »
Hello again after a long while! I have a 'brick wall'.

I and a Canadian relative, John, have been searching for Henrietta Knight, born in Dublin on the 28th September 1868. She married Alexander Little on the 16th November 1891, from Thorncastle Street.  (We know  about her six children.)

She's last seen by us in the 1901 Dublin Census, living in Cambridge Place, 
with her husband and 4 children.
Her last child seems to be William Thomas, b 8 Sept 1910 at 36 Pembroke Cottages, Ringsend.
Neither of the parents is in the 1911 census.
We have not found her after this, although Alexander may be in the Dublin voter lists  in 1913.

I have a little more info, but this is the basics.....
She is NOT the 'Henrietta Louise' found later in a rather posher area of Dublin.

Did she die? Did she emigrate, did she remarry - or both?
No result from searches worldwide.
...........Any ideas or info?




 

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United States of America / Tracing some Welsh emigrants - Emily Florence Allen m Frank Jones
« on: Thursday 16 August 18 20:16 BST (UK)  »
I've been trying to trace this couple, born in Denbighshire, Wales. They are in the 1901 census in the Wrexham district, living in Gwersyllt. I can't find them after that until a passport application in 1922, in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

They had two children, Fanita (possibly Ethel Fanita) and Horace Jones, but I don't know where they were born, and I don't know when the couple emigrated.

There's a very confusing tree on Ancestry uk which I don't think is accurate! And I can't access some American records.

I don't know if Fanita - my mother's cousin - ever married. I do have a photo of her in the early 1970s and I've recently identified the place as Los Angeles. My mother visited twice from Britain and Fanita's address was in Port Huaneme 50 miles from there.

That's a long way from Connecticut and big gaps in my information....can anyone help?




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Canada / Arthur John Edward Andrews
« on: Tuesday 07 April 15 10:25 BST (UK)  »
We think this photograph may be of Arthur John Edward Andrews, born in Dublin in 1875.
On the back it just says 'Arthur Andrews' - in my father's writing. The opinion of people on the 'dating' thread here is that he looks probably Canadian and from the 1930s-40s.

There are four Arthur Andrews on my Irish relatives tree, but the other three have either been accounted for (Arthur William, photo) or were too old or too young at these dates.

Someone on an (unsourced) record online thinks he died before the 1901 census of Dublin - he doesn't appear anywhere in Ireland in the two available censuses.
But this photo makes me think not, as he's probably in his 50s.

There is at least one record of an Arthur Andrews leaving Ireland for Canada in 1895.....I'm still looking!
Does anyone have any information?


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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Which Arthur Andrews?
« on: Wednesday 01 April 15 19:45 BST (UK)  »
I hope this file isn't too small!  I have no date for the picture.
This photo is labelled Arthur Andrews, but I have four Arthur Andrews in my Irish tree.
All were born in Dublin, but this picture may be even in the US.
One went to Texas. Another may have visited New York.
Can you give me some idea of when it was taken, then I can hazard a guess as to which Arthur it is!

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Cambridgeshire / Death of Maurice Edgar Little, Cambridge 1972.
« on: Thursday 06 November 14 13:10 GMT (UK)  »
My uncle Maurice died in 1972 ...I have just received his death certificate, and he died of 'Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis'. (Ok, I looked that up)

My parents didn't know this - we had been out of touch since sometime after he married in 1950.
Having read the certificate more closely today, I see the informant was a Cyril Frederick Wright and his qualifications read as 'Causing the body to be cremated'.

Which, very unexpectedly, sounds as if Maurice was alone at the time.
Was he separated from wife Henrietta? (Betty).

He was an architect and university lecturer, and this is beginning to sound like a sad story.

Where can I find any more information? Nothing on Ancestry that I can find.

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Scotland / Can you identify any of this?
« on: Monday 24 March 14 13:36 GMT (UK)  »
I have a small piece, round and 8" across in total, of framed embroidery of roses, has come from my family, is obviously old, how old I don't know. The back is browned paper and is handwritten
“Murdock-McCrorie
Framer
Phone -19-598”

The frame is plaster (I think), painted gold and red with a plaster bow at the top.
The phone number does limit the date, but I have never found one like that.
It possibly isn't even Scottish, but......

Can anyone help?

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Durham / Emma Bell
« on: Sunday 03 November 13 08:03 GMT (UK)  »
I am trying to find out about my gggrandfather's third wife Emma Bell, born in 1864 in Sunderland to Robert and Sarah Bell.
In 1871 and 1881 she is in Bishop Wearmouth with her family
In 1891, 1901 she has returned there with two children as Emma Little.

In between we know that she married John Little in 1883 in Warrington and lived in Newton-le-Willows in Lancashire. She was 19, he was 70(!). He died in 1889.

At the moment my sister and I think she was sent away and married off.
There must be a connection to have brought her so far away. But what?
The Bells were a glassmaking family, her father Robert was a factory manager, but I can't find where he worked or anything else about him so far - there are so many Bells in the area.

Anyone know anything about this family?



 

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Wales / Glass Industry in Wales?
« on: Monday 21 November 11 11:14 GMT (UK)  »
Having been researching my family for about two years and their involvement in glass production in Scotland, Lancashire and Dublin, I've become interested in the glass industry in Britain generally and the development in the 19th century....there were hundreds of early Victorian glassworks with glass cones in these areas - were there ever works with glass cones in Wales?
 
So far I have only found online very brief mentions of glass production in Newport (1885), Cardiff (1826) and Neath (1740).
Can you tell me any more about any of these?
Or, was there anywhere in North Wales where glass was produced? I can't find glassworkers in censuses.....N or S.
There was plenty of coal in Wales, but was there sand available, and transport?
 
Any one with some information?

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