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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Death Notice Deciphering Please
« on: Saturday 29 July 23 00:15 BST (UK)  »
I agree with JenB that the location is Dalry Mills. 
As the other addresses in the list are recognisable as being in Edinburgh,  I assume that Dalry Mills were there, too, and not in the Ayrshire(?) Dalry.   A Google search shows Dalry / Murrayfield mills in Edinburgh as paper mills, but the occupation of currier is to do with dressing tanned leather, I think.   Would paper milling and leather preparation have gone on in the same premises?
Hope I haven’t confused the issue! But I have confused myself! 😳
Ax

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with Cause of Death
« on: Friday 24 June 22 00:45 BST (UK)  »
Hah!  Most definitely not! 
When I first looked at it I though it said buchal tumor, and I didn’t think there was such a thing!  On closer inspection it’s cerebral tumor (tumour)
I had trouble trying to decipher some of the writing in column 1 -  City of Coiling….?  then saw Collingwood. But as for County of ……. ?  I still can’t work that out!  Hopefully, you have deciphered it!
A

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with Cause of Death
« on: Friday 24 June 22 00:28 BST (UK)  »
I’m fairly sure it’s Cerebral Tumor (tumour)
Definitely don’t feel silly!  Sometimes you see them, sometimes you don’t!
Anne

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Mariner ?
« on: Tuesday 06 April 21 13:51 BST (UK)  »
Or M = Master, so Master Mariner?
Anne

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Scotland / Re: Curling match, 1955
« on: Wednesday 16 September 20 01:19 BST (UK)  »
A G*****e search for “Scotland versus USA curling 1955” returned a few interesting pieces.  One report about the ‘Scot Tour’ of 1955 on the United States Women’s Curling Association (uswca) website has a photograph of the team members as they are about to board the plane to travel to Scotland. The pictured team members are named and one is Mrs Ross Bennett.  The report gives some information but I don’t think it include dates or venues of planned matches - I don’t want to go back and check in case I loose this reply!   
It does say that the article is printed in the United States Women’s Curling Association Historical Review, 1947 to 1997.   
Hope it is of some interest.   
Anne

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Need help with Neil death record
« on: Saturday 01 August 20 11:10 BST (UK)  »
Good morning, neillers1, and welcome to Rootschat.
I agree with your reading of the names on the certificate.  Re his mother’s maiden surname , and his wife’s maiden surname, I think the spelling is Macaulay - the second-last letter an  a  and not an  e .    His mother’s first name is Anne. The e at the end is quite flat, similar to several other e on the certificate.   
One thing I can’t make out though is Place of Death! You maybe knew that already so didn’t have to try to decipher it from the certificate! Is it Egh- - - - lied ?

Anne

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with Translation
« on: Friday 31 July 20 01:25 BST (UK)  »
A quick G search shows that, at that time, Lee, Kent was a village, a parish and a sub-district in Lewisham district, Kent.  Now it’s a district in south-east London, within the London Boroughs of Lewisham and Greenwich.  It is within the historic county of Kent.

Anne

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with Translation
« on: Friday 31 July 20 01:07 BST (UK)  »
I think the address is Cornwall Terrace, Lee, Kent.

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Aberdeenshire / Re: Catherine (Kate) Duncan
« on: Monday 25 May 20 11:06 BST (UK)  »
Re my reply, Reply #9, I apologise for  S H O U T I N G via use of capital letters.
It’s really not like me!  Must be to do with the stress of lockdown. 

Sorry.  Keep up the search!

Anne

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