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World War One / Assistance needed Reading 'period of engagement' on RAF record
« on: Saturday 09 January 21 02:49 GMT (UK)  »
Hello,

I recently found my Great Grandfather's military records after years of searching. I'm having some trouble understanding the notation underneath the period of engagement on the right side of this screen shot. Could anyone help me?

Thank you.

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Ayrshire / Blair's Charity School - Galston
« on: Saturday 15 August 20 20:46 BST (UK)  »
Hello everyone!

I've recently subscribed to the FindMyPast Newspaper archive and I'm having fun searching for relative articles. I've found one which mentions the school examination results of someone who was likely my ancestor or at least a relative of said ancestor. It's in the Ardrossan and Saltcoats gazette in 1878 and the examination results listed are for children attending 'Blair's Charity School'. The heading of that column of the newspaper is Galston, so I assume the school was in or close to Galston.

A quick google search gives me nothing, not one iota of information.

A search of the newspaper archive for Blair's Charity School does throw up a couple of other results, one of which is an article of the school board meeting for the area. In this article they refer to students that have gone to other schools and Blair's Charity School is refered to as 'Blair's' (Charity) School. This indicated to me an air of contempt about the place, putting Blair's in quotes - does this mean it doesn't really belong to Blair? and the word Charity in brackets...

Anyway, I thought I'd check in here and see if anyone else has come across reference to this school or has any information about it.

Thank you in advance for any input you can offer.


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Marriage witnesses name opinions needed
« on: Thursday 28 November 19 20:23 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all,

I've had this record in my possession for a number of years and I am still undecided about the names of the witnesses. I thought perhaps dropping it here for some opinions might be a good idea. Perhaps those with a better understanding of the handwriting of the era will be able to help? This is from a 1819 Marriage Banns in Gloucestershire, England.


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Help understanding an old Land Tax Roll
« on: Friday 01 September 17 05:08 BST (UK)  »
Hi everyone,

Not sure if this is the right place for this but I couldn't find anywhere else that seemed quite right.

I'm trying to understand a Land Tax Roll document on Scotland's Places. It does have a transcription already, but I've no idea what it's telling me, or how the name I'm looking at fits in with the prior text.

https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital-volumes/historical-tax-rolls/land-tax-rolls-1645-1831/land-tax-rolls-various-counties-volume-01/176

The name Donald McNeill is one of the signed names.

He could potentially be an ancestor of mine, so I'm trying to figure out what information about him I might be able to gleen from this document, but I'm having a hard time even figuring out where the information starts, or what year it's from, let alone what it might be telling me.

Can anyone help, or point me in the direction of any resources that might?

Cheers!


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Renfrewshire / How do I research land owners?
« on: Sunday 05 June 16 08:57 BST (UK)  »
I have a Lochhead family who resided at High Commore farm, near Nielston in Renfrewshire. I've done a lot of digging with the available online maps and have located the spot where the farm once stood. There is still a Commore Farm, but it doesn't look like High Commore is there any more. I'm attaching the old map. If you google Commore farm neilston and look at google maps you'll see the same area. Commore is aka Cummore.

A little family backstory:

William Lochhead
b. 1693
d. 24 May 1771 High Commore, Neilston, Renfrewshire

Married 25 June 1745 to Janet Gemmell b.1717

Had a son:

John Lochhead b.1746 High Commore d.1841

John married Barbara Spreul and they had several children including a John Lochhead who's OPR reads "John Lochead & Barbara Spreul spouses at High Cummore had a son born June the twentieth & ninth and baptised July the third named John."
There are other children but I won't go into that here as we're looking backwards not forwards.

I located a poll tax record from 1695 there is a record of a John Lochhead as an apprentice.

Whole document
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/neilston/chapter23.htm

John is listed at the bottom of this page.
http://www.electricscotland.com/history/neilston/chapte61.jpg

This is obviously right around the time the aforementioned William Lochhead was born, so I think that John the apprentice might be his father.

I traced as far back as I could with OPR's when I was in Glasgow a few years ago, so I think I have to get creative from here on out  if I'm going to prove anything futher back that William. I was wondering about looking into Estate records but I have no idea how to find out who actually owned the land that the farm was on at that time.

This is where you come in. Can anyone offer advise in that regard?

Cheers!















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Occupation Interests / James Jenkins James Mariner Crew Record Help
« on: Sunday 05 June 16 07:58 BST (UK)  »
I've been falling down a rabbit hole for the last several hours and decided it's about time I turn to you guys for some help.

I've been looking into a great uncle, James Jenkins James b. 1854 in Poplar, London.
He's listed as a Sailmaker on the majority of the census records I can find, but I cannot for the life of me locate him on an 1891 census.
His wife Mary is shown on an 1891 census with the kids, so I wondered if James was at sea, his later census records show "Sailmaker at sea" as his occupation.

So I started poking around on Find My Past and eventually located a possible record for a James James who is an apprentice on a ship called the Olive Branch in 1868. The following is part of the record.

First name(s)   James
Last name   James
Birth year   1854
Birth place   London
Birth country   England
Year   1868
Role   Apprentice
Vessel name   Olive Branch
From date   01 Jul 1868
To date   31 Dec 1868
Previous port   [Ramsgate]
Previous vessel   [Indentured At]
Indenture port   Ramsgate
Vessel official number   62244
Vessel registration port   Ramsgate
Port registry year   1868
Port registry number   26
Vessel type   Sail

Trying to delve deeper I started looking for the Lloyd's register of ships, which took a while to figure out. I finally found a site that has the 1868 one that you can page through but I'm not sure how it's indexed so I just tried the search at the top of the page. I found no Olive Branch, and no ship with the above ships number.

I also tried looking at the Mercantile Navy List, there are lots of ships called the Olive Branch but none of them appear to be the right one.

Any suggestion for my next move to figure out if this is my James Jenkins James? I will be taking a trip home in October and plan to hit Kew, so if there's anything I might find there I'd love to be able to look.

cheers!

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / William Robert Gilbert - touchup request
« on: Sunday 22 May 16 05:07 BST (UK)  »
Hello everyone.

I was browsing some photos of photos that I took when I visited my grandma a few years ago, and I noticed this one had tears in it. If anyone can do a bit of a touch up on it I'd be very grateful.

Cheers!

(It helps if I put the right name on the thread! - edited now)

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Norfolk / AWOL Downham Parish Marriage Record
« on: Wednesday 23 March 16 19:11 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all,

I've located the marriage record of one Elizabeth Green to a Mathew Rodgers in the first quarter of 1866 on Downham Market.
(see previous thread http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=471237.0)

Exhibit A
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2DH1-Z9Q?from=lynx1

However, when I browse the parish records for this time period, it skips straight from one January record, to April, with no sign of the one I'm looking for.
The skip is on one page, January at the top and April at the bottom, so I don't think it's a case of missing pages.

Exhibit B
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-X3C5-4D?i=49&wc=92B5-FMQ%3A29489701%2C29373001%2C29933801%3Fcc%3D1416598&cc=1416598

Does anyone know if there's somewhere else that I should be looking for this record? Perhaps a parish border moved around this time or something.

My other thought, is that Elizabeth was born out of wedlock. Would that effect whether or not she could be married in the church?

Thanks for any advice you can offer.

 

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Help reading Irish baptism name.
« on: Sunday 06 March 16 07:53 GMT (UK)  »
Hi guys,

I got these names off of a Northern Irish baptism record from 1859.
I found this persons record a long time ago, but this is the first time I have seen the actual record rather than a transcript typed up online.

The fathers name does not look like it should. I won't mention what it should be, in case it sways peoples interpretation of the letters. The child's and mother's names end in a's when they shouldn't (Anna and Catherina), and the month of May (Maii?) has four letters, so I'm wondering if the person making this record was using local or Latin spellings of names.

I'd really like to know what people thinks the father's first name might be. This is the top one of the two names, the mothers name I can read easily.

Cheers!


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