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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Note on 1896 burial entry
« on: Wednesday 15 May 24 12:20 BST (UK)  »
You may be correct, however:

Check the handwriting elsewhere in the register.

Genuki mentions a tithe award which will give field names.  https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SFK/Oulton

There are some triangular fields at the east and west sides of the parish, inside the dotted line
https://maps.nls.uk/view/101576306
https://maps.nls.uk/view/101584205

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Note on 1896 burial entry
« on: Wednesday 15 May 24 11:40 BST (UK)  »
? Three Cornered Piece? - a field name?

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The Common Room / Re: Holly and Ivy in 1911
« on: Tuesday 14 May 24 18:10 BST (UK)  »
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Ivy and Holly's births are registered in Worksop.

Todwick and Dinnington, both in Yorkshire, were in the registration district of Worksop, Nottinghamshire, until 1936.

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The Common Room / Re: Imperial War Museum
« on: Monday 13 May 24 22:20 BST (UK)  »
That is a dreadful standard of public service.  It needs a formal complaint.

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Dublin / Re: Registry of Deeds: Union Street Research
« on: Monday 13 May 24 20:26 BST (UK)  »
This view from 2009 shows the other end more clearly:

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.347737,-6.2586041,3a,75y,318.83h,102.47t/data= !3m6!1e1!3m4!1syOu7OL4QZhi8lxOOjpmfHg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?coh=205409&entry=ttu

It appears to be a public road with double yellow lines running right through.

If there are "books of reference" for the compulsory purchases they may include names of occupiers as well as owners.  The papers of the Wide Street Commission appear to be held by the city library and archives.  Worth checking the catalogue and making an enquiry whether such information appears.

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Europe / Re: Searching for a secret marriage in France - early 1900s
« on: Monday 13 May 24 14:24 BST (UK)  »
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... his brother Jack listed himself as a "widow" on his M/C to his second wife, when in actual fact he was divorced!

I had come across a similar thing on a C. of E. marriage cert. in 1919.  I found out quite recently, probably from RootsChat, that at the time it was legal to do so!  Possibly changed in 1928.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: Understanding WY electoral registers
« on: Monday 13 May 24 10:37 BST (UK)  »
I only asked the date because it appeared to be the format of a pre-1920 register, not later.

I will also say that this register set is named by Ancestry as "West Yorkshire" which is completely incorrect.  The parts are all headed West RIDING of Yorkshire.  Ancestry has obtained them from West Yorkshire Archives, which is located in the former West Riding county town of Wakefield, so they had inherited the West Riding County Council collections.  These cover a much larger area than West Yorkshire, parts are now in five other counties.  However the set does not include the borough constituencies which were not the responsiblity of the West Riding County Council.

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Yorkshire (West Riding) Lookup Requests / Re: Ullathorne
« on: Monday 13 May 24 07:13 BST (UK)  »
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Wonder what she was doing in Elsecar and if her 'father' was there also. It doesn't make a lot of sence for a 19 year old female to move from Durhan to Elsecar

Coal mining.  Some family member must have moved there.

https://www.elsecar-heritage.com/news/historic-engine-ready-to-mark-a-special-year-at-elsecar-colliery

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Yorkshire (West Riding) Lookup Requests / Re: Ullathorne
« on: Sunday 12 May 24 22:54 BST (UK)  »
Findmypast has no entries for Elsecar in the Index to Yorkshire Marriages so I think there is a slip-up there.

Added: I have reported it.

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