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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Date and restore if possible. Names not known. Location poss derbyshire
« on: Tuesday 24 April 18 10:25 BST (UK)  »
I found the attached photos when clearing my late mothers home.  The larger and clearer of the photos was taken by A Seaman and Sons, Chesterfield and Ilkeston.  I don´t know of an Ilkeston link so I believe it to be Chesterfield and either the Stevenson, Hardy or Medlicott line who lived in Clay Cross Derbyshire. The smaller photo gives me no clues.  It is printed on a postcard with no identifying details at all. The maximum DPI I can get is 600.  Hope you can date and touch them up a bit. Thanks


******I keep getting an error message when I try to upload photos

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Shropshire / Help needed with Ann Medlicott/Downing/Nichols/Mason born Wellington
« on: Tuesday 17 April 18 12:11 BST (UK)  »
I have been wrestling with this issue for many years.  I have aired parts of the problem over the years but it seems that I have an entire part of a family that I cannot untangle.
1847 my 2 x great grandfather Thomas Medlicott b 1818 in Stirchley, Shropshire married Ann Nichols, my 2 x great grandmother b 1821 in Wellington, Shropshire.  The marriage took place in Wellington.  Thomas’s first wife  Matilda had died.  Ann gives no father’s name. Witnesses at the wedding are Sarah Nichols b 1826/27 in Wellington, Shropshire and Edward Hayward who later marry in 1848.

There is a possible baptism for Sarah with father Edward Nichols and mother Mary at All Saints, Wellington 1827. I cannot find any info on Edward Nichols or his wife.  Is Sarah Ann’s sister?

I cannot find a baptism for Ann and I cannot find her in the 1841 census. I can find an Ann Downing in 1841 living in the household of John Ison on Watling Street, Shropshire.  See below for Downing explanation

In 1851 Thomas Medlicott and Ann are together and with them is Mary Downing b abt. 1798 in Wellington, Shropshire.  She is described as Thomas’s mother in law .  I cannot find any info for Mary Downing previously Nichols.  She is described as a widow but I cannot find a husband dying. 

In 1851 Edward Hayward and Sarah have their own children living with them plus Martha Nichols born 1845 described as a relative.  I cannot find a record for Martha in GRO.

Thomas Medlicott dies and his widow Ann marries Henry Mason in 1860.  This time she gives her father as William Downing.  I cannot find a death for William Downing although her mother is a widow by 1851.  Witnesses at this wedding are Thomas Nickless and Emma Russel

In 1861 Martha Nickolas b 1845 is living with William Ison and family.  Is there a connection between Martha Nichols/Nickolas and Ann Downing who was servant to John Ison in 1841.

Hopefully someone will cast an eye over this and help me firm up some details.  They just don’t seem to appear in registers or I am not finding them.

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United States of America / USA born british Subject
« on: Saturday 29 June 13 19:00 BST (UK)  »
My GG Uncle George Henry Hardy was born in USA in 1887. I do not know and cannot find out where he was born.  I cannot find his mother and father, Sarah and Charles Henry Hardy on any passenger lists in that period.  I know that by 1891 they were back in England in derbyshire.  I know also that his aunt Hannah marsh was in Schuylkill, Pennsylvania at that time.  Can anyone advise how I may determine where he was born.  That may help me understand why they went there.

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