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Travelling People / Re: Mary Arnold, Kent 1700
« on: Sunday 28 April 24 18:10 BST (UK)  »
Thanks that information is great.  Where did you get that record.  I am wary about putting in my tree that she is connected as its one of those it could or couldnt be links.  If it is that she remarried then she possibly wasnt a traveller if she wasnt an Arnold.

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Travelling People / Mary Arnold, Kent 1700
« on: Sunday 28 April 24 17:32 BST (UK)  »
Hi.  I have been doing my tree on Ancestry for a few years including a DNA test.  There is a hint to my 5th great grandmother being a Mary Arnold who was born in Folkestone in 1730 and marrying a Henry Butcher in 1756 and she died in 1813 in Whitstable.  On the ancestry for Mary Arnold they have put a photo of a caravan incinuating that she was a traveller.  I am just wondering how this could be proved from a records point of view etc.

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Norfolk / Re: Norfolk ... coal miners?!
« on: Tuesday 05 July 22 17:30 BST (UK)  »
My norfolk family the Lowns moved to Northumberland to work in the mines.  I read somewhere that in many mining towns the majority were from Norfolk.  I put it down to the change of working habits as looking at previous census they were all agricultural labourers working on estates like Gunton but due to mechanisation they probably didnt need as many people any more. I also think that agricultural labourers houses may have been owned by where they worked so if they didnt have a job they would have been evicted

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The Lighter Side / Re: Ancestry and personal family trees
« on: Saturday 06 March 21 10:31 GMT (UK)  »
I been using the ancestry library edition and noticed how many trees there are that are wrong.  I think though that it's just that people start it and pick up bits from other trees and then put 2 and 2 together and get 5.  I also think this as got my dna done and there lots of through lines that just dont add up.  Someone had a supposed shared 5 times great grandmother linked to my tree that they had put photo of gypsy caravan next to but looking at their tree and mine there was nothing linking that person to me or that they were a gypsy.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Eliza Pooley maybe
« on: Friday 05 March 21 18:03 GMT (UK)  »
Could it maybe be their grandmother. What age were the children in the photos born. 

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Eliza Pooley maybe
« on: Friday 05 March 21 14:50 GMT (UK)  »
Her hairstyle looks very old fashioned for 1890s as looks like something from 1840s.  Age wise maybe 60s or 70s so maybe someone born around 1820ish.

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Lanarkshire / Re: James Johnstone - My White Whale
« on: Friday 05 March 21 12:08 GMT (UK)  »
The 1881 census will have been taken before the wedding and ages can be 5 years out.  It could be that he was working in the shipyards in govan and got a job in the monk lands area for a new foundry as sometimes the best workers got moved over.

I would try the 1891 and 1901 census in England and slightly different spellings. I think it was common for men to go AWOL like that as they couldnt get divorced and they might take labourer jobs and move around a bit.  Might be difficult though as a common name.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Photo date help please - Constance Baggaley
« on: Sunday 28 February 21 08:32 GMT (UK)  »
I think its maybe around 1916 ish as I have a photo of my great gran from around time she got married and she wearing a similar style blouse and the photo was faded like that.  The hair style is a bit unusual but maybe she wore hair like that in early 1900s and didnt change it.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: "Potential" Common Ancestor - Anyone else got one of those?
« on: Tuesday 23 February 21 15:47 GMT (UK)  »
Have you used the timeline function to see where the 2 trees split.  You can get this by clicking on the person it says is your shared ancestor.

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