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I’ve got a few sets of photographs that are believed to be the same ancestors, but several decades apart. It’s one of those situations where I can kind of see how they could be the same person if I squint hard enough, but I’m wondering if perhaps there is someone on the board who has expertise, training, and/or experience in age progression who might be able to lend a more trained eye to either confirm or refute the identification of the individuals.  There is one sort of triangle of pictures where there are two “young” pictures supposed to be one of my ancestors, and interestingly, I can see a resemblance in both young pictures to an older version of her, but the two young ones don’t look to me a lot like the same person themselves when compared to each other.

I know that’s technically outside the scope of the board topic, but couldn’t think of a better place to turn.

marriage Scoulton 3 Jan 1742/3 Oliver Watson and Mary Ann Quantril

Oh!  Where did you find that one? 

If it would be helpful in finding Oliver's other marriage, he was most likely born in 1697, and Suzanna was most likely the daughter of a Thomas Gardner, who is mentioned as Susanna Parkerson's grandfather in the 2nd page of the deed above.

Wow, thanks! That is both exciting and challenging. Obviously with that name, Suzanna seems like a great candidate to be Susanna Watson Parkerson’s mother.  On the other hand, I am not sure Mary Anne is an obvious fit as the widow of her father. It seems strange that she would be buried as a pauper two weeks after her daughter or stepdaughter sold real estate in the same town that had once belonged to her late husband.  I guess it’s possible that she spent her share of his estate already by then.

Hopefully I can find Oliver’s will. Does anybody have any good advice on finding wills from that time and place?

I'm attaching a copy of a 1791 Shenandoah County, Virginia deed (left side, lower half) record involving my (then-deceased) ancestor Ollive Watson, where his native town in Norfolkshire is specified.  It appears to me to say "Scoutern."  But I can't find any evidence online that a town by that name ever existed. 

I'm wondering if anybody familiar with Norfolkshire might have any idea what town this might refer to.

I found a christening that I can't rule out as potentially being him from 1697 in Scarning, but Scarning feels like a bit of a stretch to be butchered into Scoutern.

Don't know if anyone will care this far after the fact, but the two sons of Thomas McCarthy and Mary Lawlor that we didn't have a good bio for actually turned out to be fairly notable.

John Joseph (aka Jack) was a star defensive player on Bohemians FC and on the Irish Olympic team in 1924.  He even has his own wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_McCarthy_(Irish_footballer).  His son played for the Bohs for a year in the 50s, also.  His granddaughter (whose DNA match with me led to this discovery) was a member of the Irish National Field Hockey team for several years.

As someone who knows little about soccer and less still about Irish soccer, I'm not sure how big a deal the Bohs are exactly, but the Olympics do stand out for me.

His younger brother Stephen was a forward for the Bohs, and led the team in scoring in 1929.  I'm still not sure what became of Stephen after his playing days, though.  Despite her being his great niece, Jack's granddaughter was completely unaware of Stephen's existence (or of any of Jack's other siblings, for that matter).