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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Agnes Aitken, please date Sydney photo
« on: Monday 01 February 16 00:39 GMT (UK)  »
I don't know. She may not have been able to bend the finger because of injury, but if that is the case I would expect that she'd be likely to hide it. The hand arrangement appears to be deliberate to me.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Agnes Aitken, please date Sydney photo
« on: Sunday 31 January 16 22:22 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks everyone for your opinions. It seems that the late 1880's is most likely so it could be Agnes. Is there anything to indicate she may be in mourning? I do think that her hand position may be significant as it looks so unnatural.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Agnes Aitken, please date Sydney photo
« on: Sunday 31 January 16 09:17 GMT (UK)  »
I think this may be Agnes Aitken born 1841 in Sydney, Australia to Alexander Aitken and Agnes Crawford. Because of the awkward way she is holding her left hand (displaying her ring finger?) I wondered whether it may have been taken soon after she was widowed. Her partner, Alexander McGregor, (can't find a marriage) died in 1884, but it appears they were separated as the family seemed to have been unaware of his death until 1888 when they placed a memoriam notice in the newspaper. Several years later Agnes celebrated her 50th birthday, this lady looks around that age to me. Can anyone please date this?

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One Name Studies: A to G / GAMBLE(S), GAMEWELL(S) and other variants
« on: Saturday 21 March 15 00:45 GMT (UK)  »
I am searching for the family of my ancestor Elizabeth GAMEWELLS who married in Sheffield, Yorkshire in 1834, she used the same spelling when registering a child's birth in 1837. I've been unable to find any family by that name in the area but found George GAMBLE and Ruth STONES whose 11 children (born in Rotherham and Sheffield) were baptised as GAMBLE(S), GAMWELL, GRAMWELL and GAMEWELL. There is no baptism for an Elizabeth although there is a suspicious 6 year gap around the time she was born in c1801. Has anyone has come across other GAMBLE families using similar variants?

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Suffolk Lookup Requests / Re: BADWELL ASH Baptism Lookup please - KERRY
« on: Monday 19 January 15 22:06 GMT (UK)  »
Alas no. There are only 3 male employees listed - a garden boy age 19, a footman age 22 and butler, age 55 although I imagine there would have been other casual male employees not listed on the day. I don't suppose a scullery maid had a lot of spare time for social activities but Long Melford was only a mile away so can't rule out anyone really.

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Suffolk Lookup Requests / Re: BADWELL ASH Baptism Lookup please - KERRY
« on: Monday 19 January 15 21:37 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for your replies. I'm sure Chares isn't her biological father for a couple of reasons. In the 1871 census (6 months before Maria was born) her mother Ellen was a scullery maid at Kentwell Hall in Melford, Suffolk, 20 miles from Charles in Finningham. That doesn't completely rule him out but in mid 1880 Charles was charged with neglecting and failing to maintain his wife's illegitimate child who was in the care of the Stow Union Workhouse. She was still there for the 1881 census while Charles, Ellen and children lived in Bradford, Yorkshire.

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Suffolk Lookup Requests / BADWELL ASH Baptism Lookup please - KERRY
« on: Monday 19 January 15 00:25 GMT (UK)  »
Maria KERRY was born on 20 Sep 1871 at Badwell Ash, illegitimate child of Ellen KERRY. Was she baptised? If so, any mention of the father?

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Re: How is Hedon pronounced?
« on: Thursday 18 December 14 21:44 GMT (UK)  »
I was leaning more towards Yeadon because I had assumed that the enumerator would only write Eden if he heard a long 'e', but he could have heard Hedon without the 'h' (shouldn't assume). The 1861 spelling Headon does suggest a long 'e' but isn't conclusive. I hadn't thought of a local name such as the Egypt example either. It's clear I can't rely on the census returns to provide an answer, but an interesting discussion on spelling and local accents - thanks everyone.

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Yorkshire (East Riding & York) / Re: How is Hedon pronounced?
« on: Thursday 18 December 14 10:53 GMT (UK)  »
So not clear cut at all. Barnsley does seems like an unlikely place to move to from Hull, but you never know. Thanks everyone for your input - food for thought.

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