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Hi all.

Just wondering for a rough date for these. I feel like the hats are the key but I wouldnt have a clue how/where to start with them.

Thank ye.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Anyone read chinese?
« on: Sunday 20 December 20 19:14 GMT (UK)  »
The first picture is a note from the gift giver.  It roughly translates to:

Mr. Thomas,
Please enjoy.
From the Republic of China.
Li Sin Textile (?) Company

The second is the gift itself, a poem.
Haha, you've just made my day; I posted this 6 years ago. Thank you very much.

My great-grandfather, George Thomas, was an industrial chemist who worked in the textile industry and travelled all over; 1921-1925 he was in China helping set up factories, I assume, bleaching fabric.

Before he left the workers were supposed to have given him a two-piece silver plaque and these two pictures.

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The Common Room / Re: Using Find My Past website
« on: Saturday 07 November 20 10:20 GMT (UK)  »
No, you're missing the point entirely.

My genealogy is England based and generally done on Ancestry; what that means is I look at Ancestry's scans of the original census returns and parish records - these are not transcriptions.

Some of my in-laws are Scottish and I've done some of theirs on Scotlandspeople's pay-per-view basis.

What this means in practice is that my English research is much broader and more accurate because I'm happy to pull up 10 different census returns if that's what's needed to rule out 9 of them whereas I wouldn't be willing to pay to do the equivalent in Scotland nor would I be willing to travel to libraries, archives and family history centres to do the same.

I realise Ancestry's Scottish records are transcriptions - the Scottish government took a different approach to publicising its records than the Westminster government - but the end result is that genealogy in England is much cheaper and I can go off on random tangents without worrying about the cost (unless you want to buy every redundant BMD certificate from the GRO that you don't really need).

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The Common Room / Re: Using Find My Past website
« on: Saturday 07 November 20 01:16 GMT (UK)  »
Scottish certificates are cheaper and better quality but the point is I don't need to buy English certificates thanks to the mass of records which are available much cheaper on ancestry (et al). 

Scotlands people charge £1.50 per census return? Ancestry says Ive attached 12000 records to my tree. If even 20% of those are census returns this would be a lot of money in Scotland.

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The Common Room / Re: Was there a purge ?
« on: Friday 06 November 20 17:55 GMT (UK)  »
...an Irish ghetto.... a den of iniquity
I actually laughed aloud. This is literally what the area was; a disease ridden hellhole. Social campaigners were aware of how awful the area was in the 1880s and were investigating and publicising the issues despite the laissez-faire attitude in charge although I'm not aware of any specific projects as such.

If you're invested in the area one commission published a series of articles published in the liverpool daily post in 1883 called "Squalid Liverpool" which was later published as a pamphlet and, incidentally, you can buy reprints online for a few quid.

There are a couple of pages which comment on the catholic church - I think they give an idea of the challenges facing the area.


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The Common Room / Re: tempest? what does that mean?
« on: Saturday 31 October 20 21:07 GMT (UK)  »
There was a fairly well off family called Tempest (hence the pub).

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

Barlick being historically Yorkshire and now Lancs so they're in the right area as you say East Lancashire and West Yorkshire arguably being more their own hill region rather than plains Lancashire and Yorkshire proper.

Also early 1600s would be around the time Shakespeare published his play which seems a little coincidental. Unless someone can find a lot of Tempest as a forename earlier than the 1600s.

*I didn't see your post.

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The Common Room / Re: tempest? what does that mean?
« on: Saturday 31 October 20 19:32 GMT (UK)  »
Lanopc has 208 tempests being baptised, married or buried between 1605 and 1913 in Lancs; almost all of them male. Seems most common in East Lancashire which is funny cause I've noticed one or two other weird names coming from the area.

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Well. A maternal great-grandfather didn't marry my great-grandmother seeing as he was inconveniently married and she wouldn't get a divorce. Didn't stop him from having four with the wife and 6 with the mistress. The other maternal great-grandfather supposedly left me with cousins in Peru while his wife was in England. But he told his sons their mother cheated on him as well so it's all fair I guess. Eventually I solved my paternal grandmother's line when I stopped assuming they were married before they started having children. 4 generations. 4! in a direct line! But somehow they passed the paternal name down. And I'm barely going to touch on the multitude having children about 5 months after getting married.

Safe to say I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for compounded adulterers and fornicators. And I wouldn't change any of them either.

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Personally I was thoroughly disappointed not to see any of mine in there. But never mind.

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