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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Great Uncles occupation
« on: Tuesday 01 March 22 12:27 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: PurdeyB on Tuesday 01 March 22 12:22 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Johnsonsyard on Tuesday 01 March 22 11:03 GMT (UK)
Hi attached my great uncles occupation after WW 1 IN 1921. Anyone make this out. Thanks,

Could he have been a private at a coaling boats garrison? http://porttowns.port.ac.uk/the-culture-of-a-victorian-coaling-station/

Hi 👋thanks for reply.  He was working at Harrow School. Before the war in 1911 he was a footman.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Great Uncles occupation
« on: Tuesday 01 March 22 11:03 GMT (UK)  »
Hi attached my great uncles occupation after WW 1 IN 1921. Anyone make this out. Thanks,

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: What can be learnt from this photo ? Great Uncle Robert Hardy
« on: Sunday 16 January 22 13:48 GMT (UK)  »
Thankyou. Staets to make aense.

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World War One / Re: RFA Brigades . Help Please.
« on: Sunday 16 January 22 13:47 GMT (UK)  »
Thankyou .

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / What can be learnt from this photo ? Great Uncle Robert Hardy
« on: Thursday 13 January 22 15:21 GMT (UK)  »
A photo of my Great Uncle Robert Hardy. He was in service as a footman in 1911 to Sir Arthur George Weigal MP. He was in the RFA 1914 - 1918 . On returning to blighty no job. 1921 boot cleaning at Harrow School. Died od Cancer in 1923. What can be leant from his photo attached. ?

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World War One / RFA Brigades . Help Please.
« on: Wednesday 12 January 22 13:44 GMT (UK)  »
Hope someone can help. My ancestor was a gunner with RFA 114/a Brigade. How can I find out about the activities of the Brigade in WW1 ? Also what dies the "a" refer to after 124 ? Many thanks.

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Re: Yeoman and Grassman
« on: Monday 19 April 21 15:41 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Vance Mead on Monday 19 April 21 14:39 BST (UK)
I find two possible meanings for Grassman:

A feudal tenant who occupies a cottage in return for providing labour; a cottier, cottager; especially one who occupies a cottage with no land attached to it but has grazing rights. In later use chiefly Scottish.

An elected or appointed officer in charge of the common land in a parish, district, etc., and responsible for its condition. Now rare (in later use chiefly English regional).


Thanks
So in the second meaning he could be a yeoman, but not in the first.

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Re: Missing person in Will. ?
« on: Monday 19 April 21 13:16 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: rosie99 on Monday 19 April 21 11:57 BST (UK)
Quote from: Johnsonsyard on Monday 19 April 21 11:47 BST (UK)
Frances Gillbank b 1690 nee Hardy daughter of William Hardy 1692 - 1721 of Bainton East Yorks is mentioned in his will with her husband John Gillbank as beneficiaries.  Cannot find the marriage or any trace of John . Any Ideas ?

How can Frances born 1690 be a daughter of William born 1692, do you mean she is his sister
Sorry he was born 1662 .

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Yeoman and Grassman
« on: Monday 19 April 21 12:15 BST (UK)  »
does any one know if its possible for a Grassman in the 17th century be also classed as a yeoman ? I ask as my Grassmans father was a yeoman with a messuage and six oxgangs, thanks.

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