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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Help deciphering a birth location in Wexford please
« on: Monday 18 November 24 16:02 GMT (UK)  »
Attached is a birth record from the Irish Genealogy site for a James Kirwin born on 7th October 1865.

Is anyone able to decipher the location in Wexford please?

Many thanks for reading this.

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The Lighter Side / 1891 Census Unusual Entry
« on: Tuesday 12 November 24 16:17 GMT (UK)  »
I am currently helping a friend research their family and found them in 1891 in Borwick, Lancashire, father, mother and 5 children.

However included at the address is 'Man unknown aged about 30, Labourer, slept in this house.'

So - if you are missing a male ancestor, aged about 30 in 1891 - this might be him!!

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The Common Room / Thomas Scaife Railway Engineer died 1840
« on: Tuesday 24 September 24 18:32 BST (UK)  »
I just felt I must share this.

There is a wonderful memorial on Find A Grave, for a Thomas Scaife, a Railway Engineer, who died on 10th November 1840 at Bromsgrove Railway Station. He was only 28 years old and he was killed when an engine boiler exploded.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58867633/thomas-scaife

One of his workmen seemingly composed the poem on his memorial stone and in case you cannot read it - I have attached a transcription. It is SO moving - and how a Railwayman managed to compose such a beautiful poem, I just don't don't know.

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The Common Room / Roman Catholic baptisms. Was proof of marriage of parents needed?
« on: Wednesday 18 September 24 16:15 BST (UK)  »
I have attached a Parish Register of a marriage at St Nicholas in Liverpool in 1826.
This is for a John Leadbeater (or variant) - parents James and Mary - nee 'Donolly'.

The entry includes the word 'Conj' - indicating that these parents were a married couple.

Does anyone know if priests sought proof of marriage BEFORE stating 'Conj' on a baptism, please?

I ask because I have NEVER found a marriage of James Leadbeatter/Leadbetter etc to Mary Donnolly/Donnelly etc.

James was from Scotland and Mary from Ireland or Liverpool  -- (I suspect Ireland - but after 1841 census, she shows Liverpool on census records.)

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The Lighter Side / Occupation of Boat Ranger
« on: Friday 20 October 23 19:37 BST (UK)  »
Hello Everyone -- has anyone ever come across the occupation of 'Boat Ranger' - or 'Canal Bank Ranger' please?

This particular man was seemingly a Boat Ranger/Canal Bank Ranger on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal - I imagine that he may have sailed up and down a section of the canal, looking out for boats in trouble or something like that - but I don't know. I've never heard of this job before.


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The Lighter Side / Interesting Birth
« on: Sunday 08 October 23 11:27 BST (UK)  »
In the Leeds Intelligencer of 7 Aug 1770 - there is the attached report! I do hope it's legible to you - but if not, it reads (with the letter 's' now substituted for the printed 'f').

'We are advised from Hull, that a few days ago, a person, who adopted the name of William --- , and in that character had served several gentlemen of that place as a domestic servant, giving general satisfaction, was safely delivered of a fine girl, to the great astonishment of all who knew HIM.'

(Presumably it wasn't a huge surprise to EVERYONE!)

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World War Two / John Thomas Aspinall Royal Navy/ Merchant Seaman?
« on: Friday 15 September 23 14:58 BST (UK)  »
I am not sure if I am posting this query in the right place actually.

John Thomas Aspinall was born in 1907 on a boat near Wigan - his father was also a Boatman.

My friend has a document indicating that on 26/1/1943 he was engaged for training at the Royal Navy Training Establishment, H.M.S. Gordon.
On 9/3/1943 he was discharged from this training 'Passed out A.B.'
The next entry dated 12/5/1943 shows an engagement in Glasgow - Fireman and 'Trimmer'? This form passed down to my friend is attached.

In addition there are 2 cards on the Find My Past under the 'Britain Merchant Seamen 1918-1941' for John Aspinall - correct date of birth.

One seems to be either/or Health or Unemployment Insurance Card - undated - showing his occupation as Fireman.
The other - dated 5/3/1943 - 'Declaration to be made if need arises' - showing the name of the ship as H.M.S. Gordon.
https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=GBOR%2FBT364%2F085%2F284&parentid=GBOR%2FMERNAVSEA%2FBT364%2F5973

Were Merchant Seamen co-opted into the Navy please after undergoing a short period of training? Or trained 'just in case' they were needed?


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Lancashire / Lancaster Lunatic Asylum
« on: Wednesday 16 August 23 19:03 BST (UK)  »
Hi Everyone,

Does anyone happen to know please, whether the records for inmates at Lancaster Lunatic Asylum are held anywhere? This is for the 1890s.

The records for Whiitingham Asylum are kept at Lancashire Archives, but I can't see anything for Lancaster records there.

Many thanks.

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The Lighter Side / Unusual description of a wife's occupation
« on: Monday 24 July 23 13:26 BST (UK)  »
On the 1851 Census of Lewes in Sussex, I came across the attached description of a lady - in the occupation column.

Had that been me - I don't think I would have been quite so explicit!

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