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Hi All,

Sorry to be a nuisance ...
It's a while since I uploaded a photo to this forum, and the technique seems to have changed!
I've successfully uploaded the picture to photo-bucket ... but when I click on the codes alongside the image the code disappears, and the word 'copied' appears on a yellow background.
However, the code hasn't been copied at all! I don't seem to be able to 'cut & paste' the code in the way that I'd always done previously ... is the situation now that I have to manually copy the code and then type it in to this forum? (Also, please can you remind me which code it is ... Email & IM; Direct; HTML; or IMG ?)

Hi All ~

Please could someone estimate a date that this photo was taken?
The portrait is of Margaret Beaty (b. 1854). The image has been printed onto a round metal plate with a slightly convex surface ... apologies for the poor quality, but it doesn't scan particularly well.



Many thanks, in advance!

This is an extract from the medical record of my grandfather's brother. He served in WW1 having enlisted in the 1/8th (Irish) Battalion The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) at the age of 16. He fought at the Somme and suffered gas poisoning. He was discharged on 13.7.1919 ... and this record is dated 15.3.25. The after-effect of war took its toll, and sadly he eventually took his own life.

Apart from "Effects of Gas Poisoning" I can't read anything else that's written ... I imagine it's all technical medical terms?
 



Bestest,
Paula.

Hi All ~

Does anyone have info about early 19thC midwives?

I've been researching the Irving family (John Irving b.1795 x Fanny Armstrong b.1797) The couple were m. 1821, in Prestwich, Lancs.

John & Fanny were living in a 'court dwelling in Liverpool with their children at the time of the 1841 census. (Court dwellings were crowded, unsanitary hovels). John's occupation is described as a coachman, and Fanny is described as being a midwife (not only on the 1841 census, but on subsequent census returns also)

I have copies of Court Papers from 1855 which indicate that John Irving was no longer working (due to health problems) and the family were in receipt of Poor Relief ... so they were obviously struggling with poverty.

I know that 'The Midwives Act' which laid down the requirements for midwife education and registration didn't come into force until 1902 ... so my question is this: Would Fanny have received payment for assisting women in childbirth? And would I be correct in assuming that she would only have assisted women from a similar social class to herself? (I've tried googling, but not found the answers ... however, I admit to being a novice researcher!)

In fact, I'd be interested to receive any info which may shed light on Fanny Irving's work as a midwife in Liverpool during the early- mid- 19thC. 
 
Bestest,
ZED

Hi All ~

This is my late grandfather William Herbert Greaves in his WW1 army uniform. I know that he fought in France (and returned safely home to Liverpool), but I would like to know to which regiment he belonged (fingers crossed that there are sufficient clues to this in the photograph!) I'm certain it would have been a NW (most likely Lancashire?) regiment.

Thank you in anticipation