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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / A clean up challenge anyone?
« on: Monday 09 January 12 19:39 GMT (UK)  »
I'm reasonably good at using photoshop but this image is so damaged I don't know where to start.

Anyone else want to have a shot?

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Could someone date these please
« on: Saturday 31 December 11 11:32 GMT (UK)  »
These two both were both labelled as Patrick Harrington. I know that Patrick was born in the summer of 1902. It may be the same young man with a couple of years in between when the pictures was taken but I don't think so. I think they are different Harringtons

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Could someone date this please
« on: Wednesday 28 December 11 20:37 GMT (UK)  »
This is as much as I have. Ir's a copy of the original which was sent to me. I don't have the original. There is some text at the bottom which appears to be the photographers name. it isn't clear but under a magnifying glass I think it says

W J Brown and Son

Thanks in advance ;D

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The Common Room / Early 20th century London photographers?
« on: Wednesday 28 December 11 18:51 GMT (UK)  »
Does anyone know if there is an online directory of London photographers from the early 20th century?

I've been sent some family from family photos from a distant relative and hopefully one is of my maternal grandmother. unfortunately, the picture isn't labelled but there is some writing at the bottom which appears to be the photographers name or company. The photo itself and the name of the photographer might help to give us a date and a possible identification of the lady in question.

The name at the bottom is partially missing and is very faded but seems to be something like

W of Braunt? Bryent? with possibly the letters "Lon" afterwards

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Ireland / help or advice please
« on: Sunday 09 January 11 13:08 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, I wonder if anyone can point me in the right direction. All my irish ancestors left ireland before civil registration so I've never had to order certificates from the republic.

I've been asked by a freind to track down her mother's family

Mary Teresa O'Neill             
DOB           29th June   1905

Initially, my friend thought her mother was born In Newry but the Northern ireland record's office has no record of this birth but it turned out that Mary Teresa O'Neil's father was a veterinary surgeon called James O'Neil who seems to had a practice in Cork.

So how do i go about finding BMD indexes for the republic in 1905? Are there any census returned that cover at  least 1901 for Cork?


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The Common Room / Pharos online courses
« on: Sunday 02 January 11 16:29 GMT (UK)  »
I've signed up for one of these courses and just wondered if anyone has done one and has any feed back on them?


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The Common Room / Help with death certificate please
« on: Saturday 14 August 10 17:40 BST (UK)  »
I've received a death certificate for a man who died in Charing Cross Hospital in 1989

The name of the informant is given, a woman, who doesn't share the same surname as him and her address is not given.

What I don't understand is the "qualified" section, which on all my other death certificates is usally given as something along the lines of "widow" or "daughter/son"

This simply says

"causing the body to be buried"

Does this mean the informant didn't wasn't actually connected to the deceased?

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The Common Room / Death certificate - explanation of terms please?
« on: Thursday 29 July 10 15:28 BST (UK)  »
Hi. I wonder if someone could help me make sense of a death certificate.

"Dead body found (date1941 and address (Covenry)) U.D

"Male (age) years U.D. A Rate Fixor (then occupation)


Does anyone know what the U.D. stands for and what a Rate Fixor is?

cause of death "Due to war operations"

At the risk of sounding dense does that mean the person was killed in one of the blitzes?

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The Common Room / What happened to Harriet?
« on: Wednesday 05 August 09 20:39 BST (UK)  »
I'm trying to find out what happened to my husband's ancestor Harriet Green

She was born in St Pancras in 1867/68 to parents Benjamin and Anne Green.

I've got her on the 1871 census RG10/215/30/53

and on the 1881 census RG11/235/23/40

and that's it.

I thought she's married a James de Val and found them both on the 1901 and 1911 census, expect, when i got Harriet de Val's death certificate she was the wrong age for our Harrriet.

So I don't know who (if anyone) Harriet married, where she was on the 1891 and 1901 census and when she died.

Any help always welcome.

Jillie

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