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Graveyards and Gravestones / Brompton cemetery private grave reference numbers
« on: Sunday 18 July 21 16:47 BST (UK)  »
Hi all,
I have several ancestors buried in the Brompton cemetery. I have specific grave references for 2 private graves. The first holds 6 people of whom 2 are ancestors (buried 1842 and 1843). Grave reference is AC 138.0 by 155.6. The Brompton pdf map showing the different quadrants by letter reference gives me the general location and the footnote explains how to use the numbers: starting in the N.E. corner the first figure is North to South and the second is East to West. But the note does not say what the numbers represent. If they are feet then 155.6 is a very precise figure and would make that location some 52 yards, which would place it in the next quadrant (AD).
The other (1859) ancestor's grave reference is aH 106.6 by 35.0, that is c.35 by 11.6 yards. This is quite a small quadrant.
If you use the Brompton site's grave locater on their map (a small red marker) then it puts both graves in entirely different, adjacent, quadrants not the ones given above.
Much of the cemetery is now untended and overgrown, which makes any search even more difficult.
Hopefully one of you has already come across (and solved?) this problem.

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The Common Room / How to find the owner of buildings and the origin of a street name
« on: Thursday 25 February 21 20:58 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all,
I have identified a 'street' that appears in 1841 and 1851 censuses called Winks Buildings. I have identified it on a map (1862) where it is shown as a street off Turks Row in Chelsea. There is a cluster of Winks residing in the immediate vicinity. My first thought was that the 'buildings' were owned by a Winks and so I tried cross-referencing the names of residents from the 1841 census on the Land Tax Valuations list pre 1841 but without success. I know it exists in 1834 as I have a burial record with the address, as well as an arrest in 1834, reported in The Examiner.
Any ideas?

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The Common Room / Marriage Bond and Allegation ages
« on: Monday 26 October 20 22:18 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all. I have a marriage Allegation 1771 in Westminster where the age of the groom is given as '26 and upwards' and the bride '21 and upwards'. Is this the equivalent of 'of age' in later marriages? Was there a different 'of age' for men and women?
Thanks

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The Common Room / Burial record annotations
« on: Friday 23 October 20 20:30 BST (UK)  »
Hi. I have burial records in St James Piccadilly in 1740. They simply list names of the deceased with date of burial. Then following the names there is an annotation - a 'C' (probably the most common), an 'M' or an 'N'. e.g. John Doe C

Any ideas what the annotations mean?
Thanks

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The Common Room / Ward in Chancery
« on: Friday 16 October 20 12:37 BST (UK)  »
In 1861 what did Ward in Chancery mean for a 62 year old woman? Did it mean 'incapacitated'? Would she have a guardian appointed? Can records be viewed?
Thanks

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The Common Room / What did 'Housekeeper buried' mean?
« on: Saturday 16 November 19 23:09 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all,
What did 'Housekeeper buried' mean? Context Yorkshire male burial records 1727.
Cheers

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The Common Room / 2 baptisms? (Baptised twice?)
« on: Friday 15 March 19 23:15 GMT (UK)  »
1830's London. How likely is it that some-one would be baptised twice?  I have a probable ancestor baptised in 1833, with location and the birth year corresponding to consistent census entries. A second baptism is recorded with his younger brother in 1836, the year of the latter's birth, but the location no longer corresponds at all to the census entries for my guy. I know baptisms of siblings can take place together, so the year is not of great significance. So, for the first baptism: year good, parents good, location good, father's profession corresponds to elder brothers' baptism records (labourer).  For the second: year could be ok, baptism with sibling, my ancestor's second given name is there, father's profession corresponds to later information (weaver). So, 2 baptisms?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / a 5 or a 6?
« on: Friday 01 March 19 14:21 GMT (UK)  »
This is a follow-on from another post about a soldier's letter. Because of other information if have recently found, the date is crucial. If it is 1851, then this corresponds and makes sense with the content of the letter. If it is 1867 then there are problems (wife of brother he is affectionately writing to dies in 1860; the recently born son referred to is born in 1850; mother's address referred to is correct in 1851).  The '6' of 26 February has a very pronounced curl. In the year, the last digit is similar to the '1' of '18**'.  The third, and crucial, digit does not have the pronounced curl of the first 6 and seems to have a horizontal bar at the top, with a straight line down, which, unfortunately, combines with the bottom, making it look like a '6'. I, obviously, want it to be a '5' but would like some more objective views. The second image is the stamp on the outside, but doesn't seem to help. Incidentally, it seems that postage to the US cost a farthing!!
Thanks for any insight



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The Common Room / Trying to look up an address
« on: Thursday 28 February 19 14:45 GMT (UK)  »
Can anyone tell me if there is a way to look up a street, without using a named person? Period concerned is 1870 ish.  I have a name in the 1851 census that I am looking for but does not appear in 1861 or 1871. I have reason to believe they were at a particular address in 1869 (Commercial Road, Lambeth).  I have tried taking the names of people in Commercial Road in 1851 and fast forwarding them to 1861 & 1871. However, they were a mobile population and turned up at different addresses. I can't use the electoral register as the person of interest is female (Sarah Allen, born c 1801, Watford, Herts). Thanks

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