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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / What are these words?
« on: Sunday 10 March 24 13:35 GMT (UK)  »
I attach a burial record for George Larkin "murdered by unknown person" in 1751 but can anyone please decipher the last words in the record.  The same words seem to appear for several records below George's but  not in every case.

Thank you!

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Help with poor handwriting
« on: Monday 04 March 24 17:25 GMT (UK)  »
Can someone decipher the entry on the attached for James Fleming please?  The record does not give a year that I can see but is UK Naval Registers 1848 - 1939 from Ancestry.

I'm trying to establish if this James Fleming is James William Hitchcock Fleming born in 1911 in London.

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The Common Room / Property Ownership Records
« on: Saturday 17 February 24 14:32 GMT (UK)  »
I am trying to establish whether my grandmother-in-law bought her several properties in her own name or in co-ownership with a man she lived with but did not marry although they fathered a son and pretended to be married - he even using her married name.

Does anyone know if the ownership of properties bought in London boroughs in, probably, 1930s and 1940s are available on line or by applying somewhere?

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Census and Resource Discussion / Geni
« on: Sunday 28 January 24 13:36 GMT (UK)  »
I have been keeping the family tree and archive for my maternal family since the 1980s and we have a family gathering every two years.  Recently, a tech-minded cousin created a tree for us on Geni.  I password protected it and checked the security by asking my children and brother to try access, editing etc.  They couldn't so I was happy it was secure.

In recent months I have been receiving emails from Geni that a chap (Brian) has been adding people and records to 'my' tree.  I contacted him politely and asked how we were related.  He told me that his deceased wife was a niece of my paternal grandmother - so nothing to do with my maternal side and cousins.

Every week I get a long email from Geni telling me how many people and records Brian has added to my tree and I can see that he 'manages' the profiles of 24,000 + people.

I have loaded photos and biographies for my maternal ancestors and have invested considerable time and money in my research for the benefit of my maternal family and not for any random passerby to view and download.

So, how do I approach this and get it back to private, remove my tree permanently or other option?  I am very disappointed with Geni and suspect many of my cousins would object to having all their details so readily/easily available to all and sundry.

I am trying not to rant but am very angry!

Thank you.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Are these signatures the same man?
« on: Saturday 23 September 23 14:22 BST (UK)  »
I have had a long standing mystery in the family.  My grandmother-in-law married Thomas James Fleming in 1910.  They had a son in 1911 but seem to cease being a couple some time after then.  Grandmother went on to have another son in 1923 and lived with him as man and wife although he constantly changed his first names around and sometimes used her married name as his own - significantly on the 1923 birth certificate.  The 1939 Registration confirmed they had not married and Thomas Fleming was living in the north with another woman.

I have tracked their separate lives and now come to 1921.

So, do you think the signatures on this 1910 marriage certificate and the 1921 census are one and the same man?

Thanks for looking.


Gillian

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Address on 1871 Census
« on: Thursday 27 October 22 17:14 BST (UK)  »
Could someone please take a look at the last address at the bottom of this schedule.  I want to know where Joseph and Jane Coggins were living.  I think I can make out the word 'College' but not sure.

The household carries on to the next page and is equally unclear/confusing as the first daughter listed is faint and transcribed (by Ancestry) as 'Sassacus'.  Other trees on Ancestry have it as Emma Sarah and the age is right but Emma Sarah was a niece and not a daughter and the second name on that page is also Emma who was their daughter.  There are more puzzles here than I need as, so far as I can see, Emma Sarah and Emma are in the GRO with mother's maiden name of Church whereas Jane who married Joseph and noted in the baptism of Emma was Moss before she married. 

Thanks for looking ...................

P.S.  The system doesn't seem to want to load the first page I am referring to and only the continued household.  My apologies.  I have asked the Moderators for help.

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Occupation Interests / Metropolitan Police
« on: Thursday 15 September 22 11:14 BST (UK)  »
I am doing a bit of digging on the paternal side of a maternal cousin for her.  Her father was born 1933, saw national service in the Royal Navy, bought himself out, married and joined the Metropolitan Police.  He served as a PC but in later life was in the Diplomatic Protection Group and was involved in the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege and worked at the Houses of Parliament.  He died in 1985.  I have found out his father was also a PC in the Metropolitan Police and is recorded as such for his 1932 marriage and in the 1939 Registration.

Does anyone know if there are any records available online (or by application to someone, somewhere) to get a bit more information please?

Thank you!

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FH Documents and Artefacts / A Plain Communion Book
« on: Saturday 20 August 22 15:21 BST (UK)  »
Going through a long dormant box of 'heirlooms' I have found a small red book marked 'A Plain Communion Book'.  Inside the hard front cover is handwritten in ink "Mary Pollington - Confirmed in Holy Trinity Upper Tooting Dec 8.1911"  Underneath in a different hand in pencil is written "27 Salisbury St. New North road, London. N.1."

My mother was a Mary Pollington but not born until February 1927 so I know this book is not hers.  I only have one other Mary Pollington in my family tree and she was born 1859 and died 1919.

Any thoughts on how old a child/person would be at Communion or 'Confirmed' to trace this Mary?

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Arthur Haigh
« on: Friday 12 August 22 09:14 BST (UK)  »
Could someone 'clean up' this photo in terms of making it a little clearer for me please.  This is Arthur Haigh who was one of the many young men who went to fight in the First World War and did not return.  Arthur was one of the 'Bradford Pals'.

Thank you.

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