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The Common Room / Is it Ok to add someone else family tree to a website?
« on: Monday 27 May 19 11:08 BST (UK)  »
I am just wanting a bit of advice. 
I was asked to research the family who built a house which is now a museum. We hoped we could find out more about the couple who had emigrated from Scotland to Australia and possibly find some living relatives - they had no children but lots of siblings. Along the way I found a cousin who fought in Boer War and World War 1 and was awarded medals for bravery.  I tracked his grave to the local cemetery but there is no marker of any sort.
I have become a bit attached to William. He started a grocer's shop and gave credit to striking workers to feed their families, and went bankrupt as a result.  Due to disability from war wounds he lost his job at a time when there was not much financial help for he and his family.
I would like to try to get a stone/marked of some sort put on his grave.  There are grants available towards such markers but I feel I should first try to contact family members.  I am not sure how best to do this.  I know the problems with posting trees online.  I have my own tree online and get I hints that are dubious and suggested links to other trees that are to me a bit shaky.
What are the ethics of putting a tree of people not related to me online?  Is it not the correct thing to post a tree for another family??
Any comments??
Jan

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Cornwall / Carvedras, Kenwyn
« on: Monday 11 March 19 13:25 GMT (UK)  »
Hi
I am trying to get a little bit of background information about a relative William Woodley.  He was born in Hampshire in 1849 and became a groom and also a whipper-in.  From census records and the birth/baptism records for his children he moved around quite a bit.
In 1871 census, few years before he married he is shown as living in Carvedras, Kenwyn and as the Whipper-in for B. R. Hunt (his neighbour is a the huntsman). He seems to have been living a few doors away from the Vicar of St George's.
I was trying to find out what the initials "B. R.' would mean. From my research all I can find out about Carvedras is that there was a tin smelter there.
He was only in the Truro area for a short time as in 1874 he marries Caroline Jane Merrifield in London.  Caroline is from Plymouth.
If anyone has any information about Carvedras and Kenwyn and what B. R. Hunt might I appreciate the help
Jan

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The Common Room / Confused by dates when year started in March in early 18th Century
« on: Monday 07 January 19 14:01 GMT (UK)  »
Hi
I understand about the changing of beginning of the year from March to January 1st and using notations such as 14 Mar1730/31 to indicate that at the time a record was written it would have been the last few months of 1730 but according to current ideas we call would call it 1731.
But....
I have found an ancestor in a tree I am researching and Find My Past gives his baptism date as 19 Feb 1727 as this a transcription and I haven't yet found an image from the parish register I am not sure whether this date is old style or new style.
Today on peerage.com I found this gentleman and his date of birth is given as 17 Feb 1729.  I am pretty certain it the same person as other family members and dates match.  Also family stories suggest they were descended from Robert II of Scotland and this man is from that line.
He is Rev George Lyon born in Blairgowrie, Perthshire.
Any suggestions please
Jan

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Improving images of Census returns or other documents
« on: Wednesday 21 November 18 17:14 GMT (UK)  »
Hi
As many people have I have images of census forms that are indistinct.  I am not sure whether the original document is faint or the photos taken are not of the best quality.  I have downloaded many images and entered the information on the relevant people in my tree but when I go back and look at the images again some are very hard to read.   I have found lots of information online about improving photos of people etc but I am struggling to find information about improving images of handwritten documents.  Can anyone suggest a website where I could learn how to do this?

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The Common Room / Early Nonconformist ministers
« on: Thursday 06 September 18 09:03 BST (UK)  »
Hi
I have been researching in-laws of in-laws again.
I found that a Mary Heywood who married into my extended family in 1840's was descended from The Reverend Oliver Heywood (1629-1702) who 'ejected' from his church by the Uniformity Act in 1661.  There are several books written about Oliver Heywood, some in 1800's and most include a form of family tree going back to John Heywood "in the time of Edward VI".  I have been transcribing this tree into a genealogy program - but not yet linking it to my tree.
As a result the program I am using is offering hints to records written at the time the births, deaths etc actually happened - I think!
Rev Oliver Heywood died in 1702and according to the books he is buried in Holswort's chapel in Halifax chruch and a very blurred Finda grave photo seems to confirm this.  However a hint has taken me to transcript and image of Noncoformist record from Cheshire. which implies he was buried in Dukenfield in Cheshire.  Other entries on the same page in the register mentions other events that did not take place in Cheshire - death of King William, coronation of Queen Anne.
So after a long preamble would the record of Rev Oliver's death and burial in this register be a similar recording of an event of importance ather than suggesting he is buried in Cheshire?
I will try to add an image of the record.

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The Common Room / Family tree found in book published in 1825
« on: Saturday 01 September 18 09:17 BST (UK)  »
Hi
I have been distracted again and am following in-laws of in-laws.
I found a book about Oliver Heywood a nonconformist  minister in 17th century.  Apart from the record of his problems with changes in the law relating to the nonconformist church which I am still trying to get my head around, thee a 'family tree' for the family from the time of Edward VI to 1825.  There are some phrases that I would like to check the meaning of.
sine pueris - does this mean died without children ( trying to remember school girl Latin)
V.D.M.  ??  is this a qualification?
I didn't learn any history for this period at school - I do like the way researching family history makes me also find out about what was going on at the same time.
Jan

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The Common Room / Has any one heard of the surname Faab?
« on: Tuesday 14 August 18 11:33 BST (UK)  »
I have been asked to help work the identity of a lady in a portrait.  According to  writing on the back her maiden name is FAAB.  I wondered if anyone had any ideas of where she might be from originally.  I haven't been able to find any thing about the name.
She seems to have ended up in Australia.  I will see if I can get permission to post the picture on the site.
Thanks\Jan

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United States of America / Civil War pensions
« on: Sunday 08 July 18 07:45 BST (UK)  »
Hi
 I was wondering whether it is possible to confirm whether a pension was paid to a 'widow'. 
Some of my relatives emigrated from Wiltshire, England to New York in the 1840's.  Three of the sons enlisted in the Civil War.  Two died - one at Andersonville prison and the other at Charlestown.  The third Frederick Moss returned to his wife and census records show him with his family up to and including 1875 census in Guyaga County New York.  He then gets married in Cuyahoga Ohio in 1878 - no evidence of a divorce.  Find a Grave has a record of his burial in 1893 in Cuyahoga County in a plot reserved for veterans.
HOWEVER on the 1890 veteran and widows 'census' his first wife Eunice (in New York) claims that she is a widow. The details of Frederick service enlistment date etc match other records.
If Eunice is listed on this record does it mean she is receiving a widows pension and if so when she claimed the pension how would she have proved she was a widow?
According to information on Find a Grave the second wife Mary tried to claim a pension after 1893 and I think was refused.
Any suggestions/ideas would be welcome.
Jan

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Canada / British Bonus allowed
« on: Monday 25 June 18 05:03 BST (UK)  »
Hi
I am researching a branch of my family were several of the siblings emigrated from Lincolnshire, England to Canada between 1906 and 1911.  Two families that I have found on passenger lists for Empress of Britain arriving in St John's in 1910 have the words "BRITISH BONUS ALLOWED" stamped across columns 11, 12, and 13. which I think are supposed to show any earlier visits to Canada.
I wondered why they would be given the bonus and how much it was.  Both families were going to Wolsey, Sask to farm.
Thanks

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