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Hi all,

Please would somebody be able to help me with a my 4th great grandmother's first husband please? I am struggling to find anything about him.
To start with her,
Her name was Caroline Lawrence. b1830.

She married a William Joy in 1849 in Bridport, Dorset. - The person I am trying to find out more, and his birth and death years.

In 1852, their daughter Susan Joy was born. She marks William Joy (deceased) on her marriage to
Charles Earey.

Then in October 1857, Caroline Joy marries Charles Mills in Axminster, Devon, United Kingdom.

This could put William Joy's death date anywhere between late 1851 and pre October of 1857.

Although I am not directly related to him I would still like to know more about him. I have checked FreeBMD and GRO but I am receiving no results.

Caroline was born in Bridport Dorset (place of first wedding), and died in Axminster, Dorset (place of second wedding). So didn't leave Dorset, and so I am unsure on wether William did too. All of Carolines other children (2nd marriage) were born in Lyme, Dorset, England, and Axminster. Susan was the only one born in Bridport.

Caroline Joy is living with her parents in 1851, and her husband does not live at the same adress, but I am yet to find a census for him in 1851.

I am assuming that William died and then Caroline Remarried, but if that is not the case, Susan Joy marks her father dead at her marriage in Oct 1874.

Many thanks for you time reading. I have hit a brick wall with William.

Edit: I can not see the marriage of Charles Mills and Caroline Joy to see if Caroline is regarded as a Widow. Although I am very much assuming that she was. I only can see their marriage on the Marriage Index.

Hi All

A bit of a random one. Im hoping I've posted this in an appropriate forum category as I know there is a photograph forum but I am not looking for this photo dated, just a question in general.
Post has since been moved to photograph forum. Thank you!

I have a photograph of my Nana when she was young, probably circa 1950 and it has been on my mums wall for as long as I can remember.

It's a very nice photograph, but it is green, like very green - colour wise.

I am collecting all these photographs to put onto the wall. I can't find anything online to say that there was a time where photographs were taken in this green hue. I'm wondering if originally it would have been taken in green, or if it was originally sepia/b+w that has aged poorly through light etc Im not sure. I assume my nana had this before my mum so I don't know the condition she kept it in. Anyhow, I am reverting all photographs I have back into their original condition, getting rid of scratches, tears etc, some with help from the photograph forum, and so If this was originally green, I shall keep it, and if not I will revert it to black and white.

Does anyone have any ideas?
I have tried searching, but the only things I have found are b+w photographs going green.

Anyone also have a green photograph  or know anything about wether this would be original?

Thank you! 

Hi all,

Thank you so much for your help with my last request, a photo restoration of my great Grandfather. I hope me posting 2 requests in a short time is okay. 

Here is a different great Grandfather of mine that I would love help in getting the creases out of. I have tidied up the photograph to the best of my ability, and it would be great to restore it back to its former glory, I would really appreciate it, thank you in advance.

I showed this photograph to my friends and their parents and they all gasped at the likeness between me and him, I don't see it myself, but I have only ever seen this photograph with the creases in, as well as other imperfections.

The photo itself was in bad condition, I'm not sure if it was the original, but the photo we have was printed just onto paper, not sure if that was the norm for army Photographs.

It would be great to keep it it's sepia colour if possible, but I'm grateful for everything

Thanks again.

Here is the photograph
This is James Mills born 1921 in Sculcoates, Hull, East Riding, passing in 1988 in Baildon, Shipley, West Yorkshire.

Hi all, this is family history related, but not directly, so I hope I've put this in the right place.

To set the tone, my great grandfather left my great nan and their 6 children and went on to have 7 more children with 2 other women, 5 when he was still married to my great nan. So he was a very fertile man so to speak. He was born 1913, and he was in the Army, called up for national service in 1940 in the UK.

Theres a story that my great nan was collecting his 'military money' almost like a military wives benefit? I don't know what this was called I'm hoping someone can help me with that. I think army wives could collect a third of their husbands money for their children back home.

One week my great nan went to collect the money and was told by the 'war office' (again I don't know the correct terminology, hoping someone can help fill the gaps with the appropriate term.) Anyways she was told that the money had already been collected by a woman in Scotland, where my great grandfather Wilfred was stationed previously. My great nan had to go to the office with her marriage records and childrens birth certificates to prove that she was Wilfred's wife, and that they were his children.

We have always speculated he had another child in Scotland, due to a woman collecting money in Scotland.

Wilfred's other children were born over 100 miles away from the original 6 so we have never spoken to them until now, as I have managed to get in contact with some of his other children through ancestry, as my great grandfather was in their trees as their father, I asked them if their nan or mum had ever lived in Scotland, and they said that they haven't ever been to Scotland.

I'm hoping someone can let me know what would be appropriate documents for the 'war office' to just give the money to this Scottish woman instead of my great nan. He already had someone collecting this money (again my great nan) so it would be odd for them to just change the Payee without proper documentation.

To our knowledge a birth certificate with Wilfred's name on would suffice. He didn't let his second partner put his name on the 5 birth certificates because he was still married to my great Nan, but a woman in Scotland may not have respected his wishes.

Many thanks,
Toby.

Definitely Shipley something

Thats not 11 at the bottom as my g nan was born 1914 and she is about 5/6 in this picture.

Sch I assume to be school as this is a school group picture. But the rest means nothing to me.

Trying to find a bit more information about the picture and the school.

Thanks.