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Northamptonshire / Re: Military Board School, Northampton
« on: Yesterday at 10:22 »
I think this Mary Ann Sheppard is probably the one in the 1891 census aged 20, an assistant school mistress.

The children taken on as monitors/monitresses to train as teachers were sometimes as young as 13.

See https://discover.hubpages.com/education/Victorian-Schools-and-the-training-of-Pupil-Teacher-Mary-Ann-Collingwood

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Northamptonshire / Re: Military Board School, Northampton
« on: Yesterday at 10:17 »
The school seems to be more often referred to as the Military Road School, or the Military Road Board School.

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Offaly (Kings) / Re: Lackey Woods Drayman Co Offaly
« on: Wednesday 01 May 24 22:06 BST (UK)  »
There's a Royal Marine named Lackey Woods in the 1851 census at Pembroke Dock - age 21, born Sligo.

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Armed Forces / Re: Whereabouts of 2nd Battalion, 1st Royal Regiment of Foot 1837-1857
« on: Tuesday 30 April 24 17:50 BST (UK)  »
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/49570/49570-h/49570-h.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Scots

https://www.nam.ac.uk/explore/royal-scots

You can track their movements month by month in "Stations of the British Army" in contemporary newspapers.

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Wiltshire / Re: Mortimer
« on: Sunday 28 April 24 11:24 BST (UK)  »
I am wondering if that's "stone cutter" rather than  "hair cutter"

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Trying to read some of writing on 1840 migration document
« on: Saturday 27 April 24 11:43 BST (UK)  »
This is from the Limerick Chronicle of 6 March 1844. Joseph Samuel Scales among several Scales parishioners in Kilkee, Co Clare:

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Trying to read some of writing on 1840 migration document
« on: Saturday 27 April 24 10:47 BST (UK)  »
Have you seen this ? Not sure of the provenance but Eliza's parents are recorded as Joseph Scales (a gardener of Mount Pleasant) and Mary Johnson:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DTW7-YPM?cc=1542665&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AFL2M-N9J

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Trying to read some of writing on 1840 migration document
« on: Saturday 27 April 24 09:30 BST (UK)  »
A better quality scan might help. Even the printed bits are blurred and hard to read.

One of the signatures is Joseph Saml Scales. Below that Alick Williams and below that John Lucas ?.

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Armed Forces / Re: HMS Yarmouth at Bombay 1755-1760
« on: Saturday 27 April 24 09:14 BST (UK)  »
Sackett's will was proved in March 1757. If he died in the East Indies it would have taken several months for news of his death to reach his family so presumably he died some time in 1756.

The Captain's logs might shed some light: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C4462790

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