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Graveyards and Gravestones / Re: Restoring grave with unknown ownership
« on: Friday 22 July 22 14:20 BST (UK) »
Unfortunately they stopped responding when I said I wasn't the owner.
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Graveyards and Gravestones / Restoring grave with unknown ownership
« on: Friday 22 July 22 13:58 BST (UK) »
Hello, I thought this might be a common question but I've not been able to find anything on Google.
In the course of my family history research I found the grave of a distant aunt, who died in 1898, buried in a prestigious position in Brompton Cemetery. The engraving is virtually impossible to read however and it's in bad shape.
I naively thought, "wouldn't it be good if this could be restored". But I have no idea how to go about this. I have no idea of the grave ownership. The person in question died a spinster, and the lady she worked for paid for her grave. But she too died a spinster, with property going to various nephews and friends. I reckon it would be next-to impossible to work out where the grave ownership has been passed.
Is it at all practical to get a restoration done when ownership is unknown? Is it worth caring about?
In the course of my family history research I found the grave of a distant aunt, who died in 1898, buried in a prestigious position in Brompton Cemetery. The engraving is virtually impossible to read however and it's in bad shape.
I naively thought, "wouldn't it be good if this could be restored". But I have no idea how to go about this. I have no idea of the grave ownership. The person in question died a spinster, and the lady she worked for paid for her grave. But she too died a spinster, with property going to various nephews and friends. I reckon it would be next-to impossible to work out where the grave ownership has been passed.
Is it at all practical to get a restoration done when ownership is unknown? Is it worth caring about?
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Ship name
« on: Wednesday 08 July 20 12:51 BST (UK) »
Hi all,
Looking at some merchant navy records, any idea what the third ship here is?
First is "Jane", then two instances of "William", but I am stuck as to the third ship.
Many thanks!
Looking at some merchant navy records, any idea what the third ship here is?
First is "Jane", then two instances of "William", but I am stuck as to the third ship.
Many thanks!
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Profession deciphering
« on: Monday 02 December 19 16:51 GMT (UK) »
Hi Treetotal, the "United Grand Lodge of England Freemason Membership Registers, 1751-1921" on Ancestry includes foreign lodges, including St John's: https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/60620/
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Profession deciphering
« on: Monday 02 December 19 13:45 GMT (UK) »
Yep that's the chap, although I reckon "corn trade" is a transcription error and it's actually "cork trade". I've got a reasonably good picture of him, but my question has always been "what took him to Newfoundland in the first place?" When back in Bristol, after this brief stint of cork work, he ended up working for CT Bennett & Co, Newfoundland merchants, and living above their offices in Queen Sq.
He was in Newfoundland before this 1855 marriage - I have him in the Freemasons' records in St John's in 1849, and witnessing a marriage in 1853. He doesn't appear in the 1841 or 1851 censuses in England so I assume he disappeared on his travels age 18 or earlier (b. 1823).
He seems to have named two of his daughters - Elizabeth Lash and Laura Gertrude Ayre - after two large baking firms in St John's (Lash's and Ayre's), presumably as some kind of patronage. He was also involved in business with a JN Finlay and were shipping goods around Newfoundland by sea. And hotfooted it back to England in 1869 shortly after suing someone in the St John's courts.
All these nuggets but no real strong picture of what he was up to originally!
He was in Newfoundland before this 1855 marriage - I have him in the Freemasons' records in St John's in 1849, and witnessing a marriage in 1853. He doesn't appear in the 1841 or 1851 censuses in England so I assume he disappeared on his travels age 18 or earlier (b. 1823).
He seems to have named two of his daughters - Elizabeth Lash and Laura Gertrude Ayre - after two large baking firms in St John's (Lash's and Ayre's), presumably as some kind of patronage. He was also involved in business with a JN Finlay and were shipping goods around Newfoundland by sea. And hotfooted it back to England in 1869 shortly after suing someone in the St John's courts.
All these nuggets but no real strong picture of what he was up to originally!
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Profession deciphering
« on: Monday 02 December 19 13:28 GMT (UK) »
Ah! Perfect. He once appeared in a Newfoundland directory as a "pedlar" to this all lines up perfectly. Thank you so much!
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Profession deciphering
« on: Monday 02 December 19 12:53 GMT (UK) »
Thanks both. That option hadn't crossed my mind since I was thinking specifically of professions. Did "traveller" have any specific meaning in those days?
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Profession deciphering
« on: Monday 02 December 19 12:30 GMT (UK) »
Hi sleuths,
I've got the record of marriage banns and I am stuck deciphering the profession - which is the one piece of information I am most keen on getting out of this!
Any help gratefully received. My understanding is that his work at this time was related to trade with Newfoundland, so merchant/sailing/etc. But struggling to work out what this could be; even found a list of professions but nothing seems to line up. I think it begins F and ends "er" but stuck for the middle. The other text we know:
- John Mortimer
- Bachelor (with profession crossed off underneath)
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- Redland
- John Mortimer
- Fuller
- Emma Churchward
- Spinster
- Redland
- James Churchward
- Mariner
Many thanks for any help you can provide!
I've got the record of marriage banns and I am stuck deciphering the profession - which is the one piece of information I am most keen on getting out of this!
Any help gratefully received. My understanding is that his work at this time was related to trade with Newfoundland, so merchant/sailing/etc. But struggling to work out what this could be; even found a list of professions but nothing seems to line up. I think it begins F and ends "er" but stuck for the middle. The other text we know:
- John Mortimer
- Bachelor (with profession crossed off underneath)
-
- Redland
- John Mortimer
- Fuller
- Emma Churchward
- Spinster
- Redland
- James Churchward
- Mariner
Many thanks for any help you can provide!
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Other Countries / Re: Southern Rhodesia 1930s
« on: Saturday 24 November 18 23:11 GMT (UK) »
@TreeSpirit 
That is some phenomenal detective work here, and I'm humbled you somehow connected my post here with my other throwaway comment about having lost a certain Mary L Mortimer after 1891. It would indeed seem that this is her.
Wow. I need to let this sink in for a while. But... wow. All the final pieces of this tree have just come together.
Thank you so much!
That is some phenomenal detective work here, and I'm humbled you somehow connected my post here with my other throwaway comment about having lost a certain Mary L Mortimer after 1891. It would indeed seem that this is her.
Wow. I need to let this sink in for a while. But... wow. All the final pieces of this tree have just come together.
Thank you so much!
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