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The number 41058, clearly legible at the foot of the attached cabinet portrait from an eBay trader in Cambridgeshire, confirms that Marion's design with cherubs and a camera was registered in 1886. The printers' code, for anyone who believes it to be significant, is “ — – — ” or something along those lines. Their factory or business (imprimerie or imprimeur) is abbreviated in the bottom left corner as Marion Imp. Paris, whereas the Ipswich example uploaded here in 2018 has the English Marion & Co.

I'm not sure whether the name pencilled next to the number 1192 is Napper, nor how long after 1886 this mount was used by W. H. Waterfield's "Marlboro" Photographic Studio at either Devonport or Stonehouse. Devon is unfamiliar territory for me but online sources suggest a date close to 1900.

In 1890 Richard Ford was renting photographic equipment at 38 Union Street in Stonehouse from his landlord, John William Wakeham, a tobacconist who had divided the premises into two parts (Google Books: Photography 6 March 1890 p. 153). John Wakeham's name can be seen on an earlier carte de visite.

Adjoining the tobacconist's at 38 Union Street in Eyre's 1895 Plymouth directory is Henry Charles Absalom (pp. 185 & 373). He was a 26-year-old photographer in 1901, living with his parents at 35 Union Street, while the only residents at number 38 were the families of marine pensioner John Turner and naval seaman Joseph Holmes. In Devonport the census shows that 38 Marlboro Street was the home of ironmonger John Gent Gould.

The "well-known Plymothian" Dr William Henry Waterfield (1862-1952) was not only a prominent physician and surgeon but also a prize-winning photographer, as reported by the Western Morning News on 30 October 1934 (p. 11). As early as 23 June 1900 the newspaper had carried a front-page advertisement for photographs by W. H. Waterfield of Marlborough Street, Devonport. He was listed there, at 38 Marlborough Street, in Kelly's 1902 directory of Devon as a photographer (p. 505) and at 53 Union Street, Stonehouse, as a surgeon (p. 524) but 38 Union Street (omitted from p. 524) had no apparent commercial occupancy at that time.

By 1906 a different photographer, Harry John Steer, was at 38 Union Street and William Waterfield's studio in Devonport seems to have moved to 28 Marlborough Street while his surgery in Stonehouse remained at 53 Union Street ([Eyre's?] 1906-7 Post Office Directory of Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse pp. 451, 422 and 452).

David

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Suffolk / Re: Charles NESLING MRCVS Vet in Framlingham
« on: Monday 18 March 24 10:09 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Ausmaz1

I'm not aware of a connection but it could well be worth researching, since Bedfield is close to Brundish, where Elizabeth Nestling's daughter Mary was baptized in 1806, and to Wilby, where Mary Nesling married Daniel Feavyear in 1829.

David

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Suffolk / Re: Wightmans of Framlingham (and Websters)
« on: Tuesday 12 March 24 12:54 GMT (UK)  »
Published in 1834, Green's history of Framlingham is a little too early for the Websters but there are several members of the Wightman family in the churchyard inscriptions on page 170 of the attached extracts from Google Books.

David

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Suffolk Resources & Links / Ufford churchyard inscriptions
« on: Saturday 09 March 24 13:08 GMT (UK)  »
The full title of the attached booklet is Inscriptions in Ufford Churchyard, Suffolk. Also Names of those buried in the New Churchyard, without Tombstones. The quality of the machine-readable text is the best I can achieve under RootsChat's maximum file size.

A note at the top of the third page ascribes the original transcription in 1928 to C.P. [Charles Partridge (1872-1955)] and the revision in 1931 to H.D. [presumably the rector, the Revd Herbert Drake (1868-1947)].

The index of surnames (pages 22-25) incorporates people commemorated in the new churchyard (section G: pages 18-22) but not those without gravestones, whose unnumbered and undated lower-case entries are interspersed. As stated on page 18, the plots in each of the six rows in this section are listed from south to north, and single burials in double graves are marked by the letter D.

The oldest stone found in the churchyard in 1928 was on the grave of Hannah Newson, who died in 1753 aged 77. There was no apparent trace of her when Ufford was surveyed again in 1966 by pupils of Bacton Modern School. Their copies of the monumental inscriptions in both the churchyard and the church may not be the most accurate but they include additional details, such as verses. They were published in 2007 on a mini-CD in the "Medway Series of Monumental Inscriptions" by the Parish Register Transcription Society in collaboration with the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies, from whom that CD was still available in 2023. Its latest record is for Eardley Steuart Blois Brooke (1869-1955). There are a few from the 1930s and 1940s, e.g. Francis George Drake (1916-1934) and his parents, Catherine Maude Drake (1871 [not 1781]-1944) and Herbert Drake (1868-1947 [not 1941]) who was Rector of Ufford from 1919 to 1947.

David Gobbitt

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Suffolk / Re: Charles NESLING MRCVS Vet in Framlingham
« on: Monday 19 February 24 13:53 GMT (UK)  »
Hello EM, and welcome to RootsChat.

I visited your grandmother briefly in 1977 at Bredfield with her daughter Pam, who put me in touch with Nancy Bowen. Their information helped me to compile my Nesling family tree and to write about Tuck's picture of your grandfather's garage at Wickham Market (uploaded to Flickr in 2020).

David

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Suffolk / Re: Woods
« on: Thursday 15 February 24 12:44 GMT (UK)  »
Hello porthos

The Suffolk FHS discourages lookups from its transcriptions but I'm sure you would find Elizabeth Cecil Woods or Cicely Elizabeth Richardson (1811-1868) and at least eight of her siblings' dates of birth in the Society's Loes & Orford Deaneries Baptism Index (1754-1812). There is also a search service for specific requests.

David

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Suffolk / Re: Any Knowledge of this Ipswich Photographer
« on: Wednesday 07 February 24 16:58 GMT (UK)  »
As yet, there has been no response to my 2018 posting on Ancestry's (formerly RootsWeb's) Suffolk Message Board: Dating photographs from the studios of James W. Howard in Ipswich. Perhaps RootsChat will bring more contributors, either here or there.

I was hoping that additional examples of numbered prints would provide a better guide than these few from my archives:

32742 by Boughtons of Ipswich apparently taken about 1920

58976 by James W. Howard (late Boughton's) dated 1 August 1931

71146 by James W. Howard and Son dated November 1939

David

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Suffolk / Re: Mornement in or around Hoxne and Southery C 1700
« on: Monday 22 January 24 10:38 GMT (UK)  »
You're welcome Essnell. Your software has failed to reveal that the y after May is the first letter in ye 8th, representing the old thorn character (pronounced like th).

David

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Suffolk / Re: Mornement in or around Hoxne and Southery C 1700
« on: Sunday 21 January 24 10:31 GMT (UK)  »
John Moniment (FreeReg)/Moriment (FindMyPast) bapt 8 May 1709, Shipdham, to John and Mary - transcriptions only.

FreeREG is correct. FamilySearch has the original image (75 of 253) in its online collection of Norfolk parish registers (listed here).

As to the origin of the surname, speculation has linked it with Moneyman (e.g. Robert at Ranworth, Norfolk, c.1546, perhaps derived from a maker of coins) and with a variant of Monmouth (John de Monumeta in Gloucestershire, 1273).

David

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