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United States of America / Re: (Robertson) Lost in the USA
« on: Saturday 06 February 10 16:58 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks LissaM! I've got it now  :)   And thanks again jorose  :)

Could I be looking for them in any other censuses than the Fed ones generally available?

finta

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United States of America / Re: (Robertson) Lost in the USA
« on: Saturday 06 February 10 14:23 GMT (UK)  »
jorose - what a great site!  However, after much faffing about ;D , I only found the same info as I'd got from Ancestry as below, no added info about wife etc.  Probably I was doing something stupid - its not unheard of   ;).

If you have time and patience, could you possibly find it for me again and post it somehow?  :-*  Email readily supplied if you can.

Shellyesq - You're right of course, his wife might be under my nose, so to speak  :D

finta

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United States of America / Re: (Robertson) Lost in the USA
« on: Friday 05 February 10 18:47 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: jorose on Friday 05 February 10 15:04 GMT (UK)
Ellis Island in 1923 also give the address of his wife as "Mrs Robertson, 1254 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA"; handwritten note says something like "???(intends to) join wife in Boston and leave for California"


Thanks so much for that jorose  :)

I'd love to know how you got the original manifest with the handwritten notes from Ellis Island...I can only get the transcript.  When I try to access the original I only get manifests for other vessels (e.g. Western World) and not the Olympic  >:( 

Shellyesq - Chevrolet it is!! :)  Thanks for that, and the other clues as to a possible wife.   :)  I have his rellies in Massachusetts till 1930 - could he legally have married a first cousin c 1920?

finta

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United States of America / (Robertson) Lost in the USA
« on: Friday 05 February 10 12:02 GMT (UK)  »
Hello folks  :)

Can someone help trace a Robertson for me? Tall order, I know  ;D

Born:  Hugh William H. Robertson Jan 24th 1885 in Jarrow, South Shields, Durham, UK

Emigrated possibly 1904 (occupation: electrician), and stayed with relatives in Massachusetts a while.

WW1 Draft Registration card Sept 1918: living and working in NY, NY, NY age 33. [Working for a Motor Co. there but can't decipher details.]

Visited UK Jan 1923, returned to USA 7 Feb 1923.

Residence:  Oakland, USA [Alamedo, California?]
Arrival age: 38
Nationality: Gt Brit. -Scotch
Marital status:  M
Ship name:  Olympic
Incoming records give occupation as 'foreman'.

I can't find him on US Federal censuses, or any record of a marriage for him  ??? 

Can anybody please help trace his marriage and whereabouts after 1923, or suggest where I could look?

Thanks for your time  :)

finta


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Devon / Re: Dry dock from Plymouth to Singapore?
« on: Thursday 04 February 10 22:56 GMT (UK)  »
Oh well spotted jds1949  :)

I'd assumed  ::)  that because it was taken with a different camera than the photos of grandad in Singapore, it would have been taken by someone in Plymouth.  Thanks for pointing that out - it may well have been manoeuvring into position.

finta

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Devon / Dry dock from Plymouth to Singapore?
« on: Thursday 04 February 10 21:24 GMT (UK)  »
Could someone confirm what this is, please?

My grandad was a marine engineer at HM Dockyard in Plymouth and I was told he accompanied the first (floating?) dry dock to Singapore  before WWII.

Could this be it leaving Plymouth?  Listing a bit to starboard  :D

Any info would be really helpful  :).


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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Date, trade, anything, please!
« on: Monday 11 January 10 23:10 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks evie and still-looking - I was wondering about the postage charges  etc.,as they are different from photo postcards I have from 1911-c 17  :)

A little nosying about my grandfather's relatives has brought to light that my grandpa (Dinnington miner, later 'deputy') had an older brother who was described as "butcher" and "jourman" (presumably 'journeyman') in 1911 census).


Strange discovery though (if indeed it is grandpa's brother) as we have no photos of grandpa's wedding.  And only one[/and i] photo of his wife and daughter on holiday in Cleethorpes (c 1923) .....then nothing till c 1935 when his daughter, my mum, was a student at Goldsmith's College, London,  and (being a French 'student', on a French exchange course  ;) in Belgium, where she seemed to get on very well with one particular Belgian  ;D

Thanks again for all comments and wisdom -  you have all been so helpful in trying to 'locate' these people :-)

finta

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Great Uncle Sid - obscured message
« on: Monday 11 January 10 08:42 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Hollander

Is the third word 'Plymouth' by any chance?

finta


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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Date, trade, anything, please!
« on: Sunday 10 January 10 15:59 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks so much OR.  :)

Butchers crossed my mind too...but no known family connection discovered yet  :-\

All the old photos I have of this era are from one side of the family...other side too poor to afford them, and the granny from the less poor side was working as a draper's assistant in Sunderland in 1911, and her brother would only have been 13.
Maybe there were butchers elsewhere in the family...I'll need to examine the offshoots ;)
Does the striped blind signify anything do you think?

Thanks! :)

finta


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