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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Dating photo of unknown young man
« on: Friday 18 January 13 04:34 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,
Are there any experts in men's clothes who can date this photo and guess the age of the subject? It was hidden behind another photo in a family locket and is quite a surprise! The locket came from Ireland to Australia in 1878 with my gg grandmother who was married in 1873 and the visible photo was of her husband. There's nothing on the back of the photo which can help, and I wouldn't know at what stage this photo was put under the other in the locket. It's not very easy to open though.

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Family History Beginners Board / "Died in his 61st year" - how old?
« on: Wednesday 19 December 12 03:21 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Anybody,
Dumb question I guess, but does this mean my ancestor died before his 61st birthday?

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Ireland Resources / Link: Registry of Deeds, Dublin
« on: Friday 06 April 12 07:42 BST (UK)  »
Hi All,
I couldn't find an existing heading for either the Registry or the Deeds, though there must be posts about both somewhere as the Registry is such an enormous (though well hidden) goldmine for 18th and 19th century Irish family research, especially if your ancestors owned or leased land.
Anyway, I'm indexing some deeds to do with my ancestors for the Registry of Deeds Index Project:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~registryofdeeds/
but even after transcribing a few of them completely to remove the spidery writing factor, and grateful as I am for the relationships between family members so beautifully spelled out in the preamble, I usually can't work out exactly what the deed is actually saying  :-[ I wondered if experienced deed readers here might have some advice - preferably other than hiring a Lawyer!
Cheers
 
 


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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Portrait photo from 1870s Dublin. Help with dating and restoration?
« on: Wednesday 04 January 12 23:21 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all,
The attached is the earliest photo we have of my great grandfather James Beatty. I include both the unrestored portrait and the back of the photo. We have a later photo of him with his family in Dublin which must certainly have been taken in late 1877 (immediately before they left for Australia) going by the age of his baby son who was born 12 May 1877. The date 1880 pencilled on the back of this photo is certainly wrong, as their next child was born in Melbourne 14 Sept 1878.
The main differences which I hope could help date it are the more sculptured hair style and the double breasted? suit with more rounded lapels. I was going to include the later photo as well, but 2 seems to be the limit.
I'd also be grateful if an expert could have a go at restoring the photo while preserving his facial features.
Thanks. 

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Ireland / Being blocked from doing your own Irish research and forced to pay a researcher?
« on: Tuesday 01 November 11 04:59 GMT (UK)  »
I have heard from two different sources that people going to Ireland to research their family have been denied access to records (even churchyard headstones for example) by "the authorities" and forced to hire an (expensive) "researcher" to do it all for them. Does anybody know what this is about? Is it all over Ireland or only in certain counties? The National Library of Ireland seems to welcome family historians, according to their website.

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Fermanagh / James Beatty of Co. Fermanagh
« on: Friday 21 October 11 08:03 BST (UK)  »
Yes, I do realise how many James Beattys there were in 19th century Co. Fermanagh but refuse to admit defeat! This is everything I know about ours: On the 1873 marriage certificate of his son, (born in Fermanagh abt. 1842 and also named James Beatty) he is described as a "farmer" whereas the father of the bride is described as a "gentleman". From this I deduce that James Beatty senior was probably a tenant farmer, not a landowner, but a reasonably substantial one since his son caught the eye of a "gentlemans" daughter. The son's wedding was in a Presbyterian church in Dublin, so, like all the others, our James Beatty was probably of Scottish origin. I went through the whole of the Griffiths Valuation for Co. Fermanagh, and guessing that you'd need at least 30 acres to be a farmer (please let me know if you have better info. about 19th century Irish farming!) found that only about 7 James Beattys had that much land. 5 of them were within a few miles of Five-Mile-Town, and maybe some of them are the same person. 

If I were closer to Ireland I'd be happy to spend a week or two wading through Presbyterian and COI parish and land records in Dublin and Belfast, including the updates to the Griffith Valuation, trying to find out if one of those James Beattys had a son James Beatty in 1842. As I'm on the other side of the world in Australia I'd really appreciate any advice as to how to proceed from here, including any flaws you can spot in my reasoning so far.

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Mayo / Pagets of Knockglass (Mayo) and Kinard (Sligo)
« on: Thursday 20 October 11 06:58 BST (UK)  »
Hi,
I'd appreciate any help with my Paget relations of Knockglass, Crossmolina who were certainly C of I. My gg grandfather was James Paget of Kinard Lodge near Enniscrone who died there in 1872 aged 69. I have his death certificate. Who were his parents though? I believe Kinard was purchased in 1810 by a "James Paget of Knockglass, Crossmolina". Was that the father of our James (who'd have been aged only 7 in 1810!)? Was our James the brother or the cousin of his near contemporary Thomas Paget of Knockglass? I know that Thomas had a son who was later "Captain James Paget of Knockglass". I find many references on the web and in gazeteers etc. to both James and Thomas between 1825 and 1875, but the precise relationships are very difficult to tease out. I was hoping the local COI church records might help. I suppose it's hoping for too much for an 1803 baptism record though.
I'd even be happy to find someone else who's interested in this family.

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