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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Anyone up for a Challenge?
« on: Monday 02 March 20 10:35 GMT (UK)  »
It may be worth noting that in 1911 Esther Wooff together with James and (Sarah) Jane Dodsworth are in Eppleby,which looks to be less than a mile from Forcett.

Roger

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Anyone up for a Challenge?
« on: Monday 02 March 20 10:16 GMT (UK)  »
I think I have found the connection between Edith Beck(nee Wooff) and the Mrs Gertrude Metcalfe listed in the probate record.The pathway was as follows:-
Death record for a Gertrude Metcalfe 1913-1983 Richmond
Only Gertrude born 1913 in Richmond is Gertrude Dodsworth(Dec Qtr) mmn Wooff
(Marriage of Gertrude Dodsworth to James Metcalfe Dec Qtr 1935 Richmond)
Marriage of Sarah Jane Wooff to James Dodsworth Dec Qtr 1898 Richmond
Birth of Sarah Jane Wooff Dec Qtr 1879 Teesdale
Census 1881 Sarah J daughter of John and Esther Wooff RG11/4931/39/12
Census 1871 Richard Wooff(father of Edith),son of John and Esther,RG10/4878/18/2

I think this makes Edith and Gertrude cousins(?)

Roger


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Anyone up for a Challenge?
« on: Saturday 29 February 20 17:34 GMT (UK)  »
The only remaining alternative I can think of is that the portrait is of a suitor of Edith at the time,who doesn't reference Ernest because he is no longer at home.

Roger

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Anyone up for a Challenge?
« on: Friday 28 February 20 21:50 GMT (UK)  »
Yes,it looks similar,but I can't get enough detail to be certain.

Roger

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Anyone up for a Challenge?
« on: Friday 28 February 20 16:43 GMT (UK)  »
There is a 1968 Hereford death record and equivalent probate record wich would match also.

Roger

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Anyone up for a Challenge?
« on: Friday 28 February 20 16:32 GMT (UK)  »
Edith Beck is a widow in Herefordshire in 1939.From memory her parents Richard and Sarah were
in that county in 1911.

Roger

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Anyone up for a Challenge?
« on: Friday 28 February 20 14:55 GMT (UK)  »
So many things seem right about family of Edith born to Richard and Sarah,except Ernest dying in 1903.However,he was with the Neashams in 1901(William and Jane nee Gates,sister to Sarah),and was employed on the railways(is that a railwayman's hat in the portrait.Is  the person portrayed 19 or less?).Perhaps he had a number of portrait postcards done and one of the Neashams used it in 1905 to communicate with Ernest's family.
(I don't think it is a photo of one of the Neashams)

Regards
Roger

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: William Page
« on: Sunday 16 February 20 16:43 GMT (UK)  »
There is a death of William Page aged 45 in March Qtr 1891 in neighbouring Pancras district,but the census date was 5 April.

Roger

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: William Page
« on: Sunday 16 February 20 16:31 GMT (UK)  »
RG12/220/57/2

Roger

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