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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Help with Dating Photos from C19th
« on: Sunday 03 March 24 18:07 GMT (UK)  »
Dear All,

I'd appreciate any help with dating the attached photos or identifying the people in them, or indeed confirming the location in one instance. I understand that the two formal photos of people standing in front of 'grand frontages' concern the same family, albeit some years apart.

In the photograph ending WA0005, the location seems to be Menzies Castle in Aberfeldy, which hosted game shoots; I understand the photographer to be Robert Irvine and Son of Aberfeldy. I take the photograph of the shooting party at rest (ending WA0002) to be related to this photograph.

In the photograph ending WA0001, the location is speculative, tentatively being identified as Brougham Hall near Penrith. The photographer is J. Lomax of 45 Bridge Street, Penrith.


Though I didn't know it at the time, these photos may be connected to my related Rootschat query at: https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=880554.new;topicseen#new
(These pictures may somehow connect to the family of the "adopted" Jane Weatherby in that query).

Thanks again,

Richard




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England / Adoption - Wards of Chancery - 1840s
« on: Wednesday 21 February 24 10:38 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all,

Any knowledge or advice in relation to the following would be warmly received.

Family legend has it that one of my great, great grandmothers, called Jane Weatherby, was adopted.

She was born at Market Drayton, Shropshire in 1846. It's said that she was born to unknown parents there, at an inn where a man named William Weatherby worked as an ostler. He then apparently adopted her into his family.

Nothing in her birth certificate or parish register entry points to an adoption: the father is named as William Weatherby and the mother as Amelia Caswell, who were an estalished couple with children already - see for instance 1851 census HO107/1996/189/9 at Church Lane, Market Drayton.
 
It is said that Jane was made a ward in chancery, and that money for her keep was paid through a
firm of London Solicitors.

After going to school in Derby, she later became a ward of Dr Stocker at Draycott in the Moors, where he was rector.

So, for instance, is there any chance of tracking down court of chancery records from the 1840s and how would I go about that? Maybe, I'm also missing other possible lines of inquiry?

Thanks a million,

Richard

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Armed Forces / Royal Engineers - Which Unit?
« on: Monday 02 January 23 09:23 GMT (UK)  »
Hi there,

I'm hoping for some help please ascertaining what Unit my great grandfather served in during WW1.

His name was Henry Augustus Allen, born in 1886 in Croydon.

I have an entry for him in the Surrey Recruitment Registers, when he volunteered in Jan 1915. His place of attestation is given as Norwood. The regiment is given simply as the Royal Engineers.
His service number was: 63957.
I cannot find his service record, though do have his medal rolls card and his Silver Star, Victory Medal, and British War Medal rolls.

I was told that he was at Passchendaele if maybe that can assist in narrowing the options.

Thanks for any advice or help.

Richard








Richard

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Surrey / Walworth Wesleyan Chapel - Baptisms
« on: Monday 22 August 22 22:01 BST (UK)  »
I found the baptism of an ancestor Emily Elizabeth Allen at Walworth Wesleyan Chapel in 1837 (RG4/4328).
I suspect that her siblings Charles, Isabella and Frances may also have been baptised there subsequently.
Would anyone happen to know where I might find the relevant baptism register for the same chapel / circuit (neither Lambeth Archives nor the LMA seem to have anything)?

Thanks,

richard

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Shropshire Lookup Requests / Weatherby Monumental Inscriptions at Leighton (St Mary)
« on: Saturday 11 May 19 15:21 BST (UK)  »
Would anyone be able to help me with monumental inscriptions for the Weatherby family at Leighton please. I can't seem to trace an MI survey for the graveyard. Thanks for any assistance or pointers,

Richard

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Dorset / Deciphering Birth Place in Dorset
« on: Tuesday 09 April 19 19:06 BST (UK)  »
Can anyone help with deciphering the birth place on the first line please. This comes from the 1851 census for Sarah Baron nee White (RG number: HO107; Piece: 1864; Folio: 358; Page: 29).

Thanks

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Hampshire & IOW Lookup Requests / Burial Records Check - Mile End
« on: Thursday 01 September 16 18:00 BST (UK)  »
I'd be grateful if anyone could check for the following burials in Mile End cemetery - I've already excluded Kingston and Highland.

John Rogers: died 10 Feb 1866
Martha Rogers: died 3 Dec 1869
both of Bishop's Street, Portsea

Richard

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Baptism Entry in Latin
« on: Saturday 30 April 16 09:47 BST (UK)  »
Would anyone please be able to help deciphering the entry dated 1727 for the parents in this Austrian Catholic baptism register.

The register comes from Niederrussbach just northwest of Vienna.

Thanks

Richard

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Staffordshire Lookup Requests / Lookup Request - Wall - Burial Registers
« on: Monday 28 March 16 12:12 BST (UK)  »
Would anyone be able to look up two possible burials in Wall (near Shenstone) which aren't yet available in the Staffordshire Collection on Find My Past.

Emma MARSON = d. Q1 1853
Thomas MARSON = d. Q1 1862

Thanks,

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