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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: importer of what?
« on: Sunday 08 October 23 06:30 BST (UK)  »
Wow that's really interesting, thank you. Chapman was an importer, so whatever ingredients he was using were being shipped in from somewhere else. This explanation certainly makes more sense than the word "perfumer" first brings to mind.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: importer of what?
« on: Saturday 07 October 23 23:02 BST (UK)  »
Ahhhhh that kind of makes sense. Long story, but I'm looking at a group of men who all seemed to be involved in importation of things from America, which is quite a surprise, and not what I expected them to be doing. One was involved in sugar and another in cotton. So if this was to do with tobacco it makes more sense than a perfumer as we might think of it. Thanks!!!

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / importer of what?
« on: Saturday 07 October 23 22:28 BST (UK)  »
Any ideas what this might say, and what it means please? "Jno Henry Chapman fund holder, formerly importer of perfumed spirits", or possibly spices. Which is it please? And if it says spirits, does it mean wines or perfumes? First entry on the page.
Thanks

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Shropshire / Re: completely stumped
« on: Sunday 10 September 23 13:45 BST (UK)  »
Well you sound to have had a good result there. It would be pointless me taking a DNA test as I'm not actually related to the person I'm looking for. Its part of some research I'm doing. Thanks for the tip though.

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Shropshire / Re: completely stumped
« on: Saturday 02 September 23 08:52 BST (UK)  »
Thanks, yes I have applied for these but there is an extremely long wait time, of several months, to obtain these. I'm hoping they will eventually supply some sort of lead to set me off in the right direction.

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Shropshire / Re: completely stumped
« on: Sunday 30 July 23 12:22 BST (UK)  »
So... we've got 2 options for 1881:
first born Hodnet, age 24, servant in Withington, Lancashire
second birth town of Oxon, - wrong county - age 24, nurse for Corrie family in Kensington

And 2 options for 1891
first born Salop (transcribed Baeese) age 36 (bit old) hospital nurse at Holdenhurst in Hampshire at a spa hospital
second born Shrewsbury age 31 (bit young) nurse in the household of the Wigan family, in Walton, Surrey
And nothing after that.
Hmmmm....

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Shropshire / Re: completely stumped
« on: Sunday 30 July 23 11:14 BST (UK)  »
Oh heck! It's not getting any clearer - there's too many of them, all born about the same time, same place, same occupation!

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Shropshire / Re: completely stumped
« on: Sunday 30 July 23 10:58 BST (UK)  »
Hmmmmm.... so she could have been ill at that point then? I don't see her anywhere in 1901 or 1911, but the only matching death between 1891 and 1901 is a Mary Breeze who died at Knighton, (mid Wales) at the end of 1891. Her only sibling, Martha, was in Glamorgan in 1891 married to John Robert Frazer.

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Shropshire / Re: completely stumped
« on: Sunday 30 July 23 10:32 BST (UK)  »
Possible for 1881
Nurse with Corrie family in Kensington London

Piece number 30, Folio 88, Page 8

Although it says birth county Staffordshire not Shropshire, it does say birth town was Oxon

Yes thats the family. Sorry was posting from the family tree I've got sketched in front of me and not the actual census page.

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