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Hi
This is a photo from a box of stuff of my parents.
I have absolutely no idea who the people in the picture are.
Would anyone like to guess the roundabout date it would have been taken and/or judge the approx ages of the sitters?
The reverse of the photo is printed so that it could be sent as a postcard but is otherwise blank.
This made me think it was a studio photograph but the quality is really not that good!
Do the clothes give any idea of status or  geographical location ?
I'm pretty sure it must have been taken in the UK.
Any ideas welcome
Thanks
Rebel

Hi there,
Using the site Scotlandspeople, I can trace my ancestor Hugh Knox Pollock back to his baptism in 1814 in Scotland.

Through this, I have the names of his parents (Walter Pollock and Isabell Knox...Isabel with various spellings) and a number of siblings, all in the parish of Houston and Killellan.

Walter Wilson   Pollock b 1807
Margaret                     b 1812
Isabell                         b 1819
John                           b 1821

I  can find neither a marriage nor the deaths for the parents.

Son Walter Wilson marrries Janet McCallum in 1831 with occ sailor but that's all I have.
He is NOT the Walter who is later a gamekeeper ...I've checked the death cert, wrong father.

As to my Hugh, he marries in 1837 in Liverpool  and is a stoker (fireman) in the merchant navy. I can't find him on a census until 1871 in Southampton Workhouse, after his wife has died.
The age in 1871/81/91 is consistent but 10 years too old but as he was lsited as a No 3 (Idiot or Imbecile) I suspect this is understandable. He dies, still in the Workhouse, in 1897.

I've had no luck with the other children.
Where else can I look for the parents and brother Walter?
Any ideas please?
Rebel

Hi
Just to say that Ancestry has today added this set of records to its Norfolk collection

Norfolk, England, Indexes to Wills, Probate, Administrations and Marriage Licence Bonds, 1371-1858

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/62679/

Rebel

Hi
As the GRO has reduced its prices, I have in the last couple of weeks ordered several death certificates. They have been much more useful than I thought!
A "lost" relative who registers the death, in the case of a woman her deceased
husband's name and his occupation,addresses and the like.
But yesterday I received a certificate from 1844 where the cause of death was just left blank. That was the first time I had seen that.
The chap in question was 73.
If no one actually knew the cause, the least I would have expected is "Senile Decay" as a sort of alibi answer.
Has anyone else experienced similar?
Rebel

Hi
I was wondering :
When searching Family Trees at Ancestry, how are the results displayed?
Are the trees listed according to the date they were created/uploaded?
I can't see an alphabetical connection to the User name and it doesn't appear to have anything to do with the amount of individuals listed.
Or is it completely random ?

For some names, there are just too many hits to work through! And some trees are just plain copies.Is there anyway of telling which tree would have been the original?

Thanks
Rebel