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Shropshire / Newport Tithe Map Online?
« on: Wednesday 18 October 23 18:25 BST (UK)  »
Can anyone tell me if the tithe map(s) for the Newport area are available online as a journey to the Archives at Shrewsbury is quite a jaunt.

I'm interested in the area south of the town: Chetwynd Aston, Pave Lane, Woodcote etc.

Many thanks

Paul

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Words on 1754 map
« on: Tuesday 18 April 23 08:55 BST (UK)  »
This is a very long shot but here goes!

We've always read the text from this map as 'Site of the Old Hall' but I'm not convinced about the first word and wonder if anyone has another suggestion? It seems to start with 'S' but it looks as if the third letter not the second is 'i'.

The blobs left of the word 'of' and lower centre of the image are trees. No better image is available I'm afraid and the feature isn't shown on any later map (there are no earlier maps either) :(

TIA

Paul

EDIT: forgot to include the word 'the' in the original post!

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Warwickshire / Nickless + Whitworth, Two Marriage Dates
« on: Tuesday 14 March 23 11:54 GMT (UK)  »
I'm trying to pin down the marriage of James Nickless and Sarah Whitworth in February 1827 at Aston, Birmingham. FamilySearch.org has two entries, one for 4th Feb and the other for 18th (both of which are Sundays). I'm wondering if someone has made a mistake and the first date could relate to banns? Unfortunately I don't have access to the original registers so any help would be very welcome.

1)
Spouse:  SARAH WHITWORTH
Marriage: 18 FEB 1827 Aston Juxta Birmingham, Warwick, England


2)
Name James Nickless
Sex Male
Age   21
Residence Place Cheapside Deritend
Birth Year (Estimated)   1806
Marital Status Single
Spouse's Name Sarah Whitworth
Spouse's Sex Female
Spouse's Age 22
Spouse's Residence Place Cheapside Deritend
Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated) 1805
Spouse's Marital Status Single
Marriage Date 04 Feb 1827


TIA

Paul

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Help with PR burial entry 1645
« on: Thursday 16 June 22 13:44 BST (UK)  »
Can some one help with this please?

I think it reads "Edward Smith gentleman of Tedgley Lodge.." but I can't decipher the rest other than Latin 'fuit' (was).

TIA

Paul

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Staffordshire / Tithe map for extra parochial areas?
« on: Wednesday 15 June 22 17:12 BST (UK)  »
I'm trying to find the tithe map for Teddesley near Penkridge but I understand it was an extra parochial place... does this mean a map won't exist?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Words from a 1640s will
« on: Tuesday 14 June 22 20:07 BST (UK)  »
I have an inventory of goods, each line starts and ends with the same two words followed by the valuation as per this example. Can someone tell me what the words are please? The first looks a bit like 'from' and the last 'sprise'

Thank you,

Paul

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The Common Room / Enumerators' Walks
« on: Wednesday 10 November 21 11:13 GMT (UK)  »
Is there some way get to the description of each enumerator's walk for an area without having to trawl through every census page to get to it? I'm using Find My Past at present.

I'm looking for the occupants of a particular house in a rural location which seems to get lumped in with different places in the parish on each census. I don't know the names of the occupants and 'address search' doesn't work (often nothing more than the area is given, not even a road name)  but I could probably work out who lived there given the walk.

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The Common Room / Ducking??
« on: Tuesday 09 November 21 11:48 GMT (UK)  »
In my research I found a newspaper report of a theft in 1831 and amongst the stolen items is "a quantity of ducking". The only think that comes to my mind is duck-board - does any have any other ideas (unless it's a misprint but even then I can't think what it might be!)?

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The Common Room / Apprenticed after father's death?
« on: Friday 10 September 21 15:31 BST (UK)  »
As you can see, this transcribed record on 'Find My Past' relates to an apprenticeship in 1736 but I'm fairly sure that the boy's father had died 5 years earlier. As the lad would have been 16 at the time (which I think might be a bit old?) I'm wondering if there's an error in the date (although if it was, say, 1730 when his father was still alive that would make the boy 10).

Is it likely that someone would be apprenticed after their father's death but still in his name or is a transcription error more likely?

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