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Just a note that the "Lilly" on the 1906 census (transcribed as DENETT on A*try) is probably:

http://vitalstats.gov.mb.ca/Query.php
Births
23/10/1905 Winnipeg
Derrett Lillian Dorothy

I think there are Months after her age on the census.

Maureen

Hi Maureen
Thanks, I think you're right. Looking back over my downloaded records, I think I must have taken "Lilly" from the 1906 census where the field after her age simply contains a smudge. The 10 year old "Lillian" on the 1916 census must be the same person - "Lillian Dorothy".
Ray

Thanks for that Sandra. I'd already picked up the voters list info from the free access on Ancestry which expired yesterday. The marriage/divorce is something I hadn't expected though.

The One World Tree entry confirms the birth and death dates I have for him and I assume the wife I already have (Anne) is his second - as she appears to be buried with him in the family plot (Brookside Cemetery). There is a Rachel DERRETT on the voters list for 1054 Sherburn Street, Winnipeg in 1953 where she seems to be nursing a pensioner - this could be his first wife.



We need to be careful discussing children as we're entering the land of the "living" but what I'd ideally like to find out is why and when Clifford's father (Henry) Herbert DERRETT travelled to Canada.

Herbert came from Gloucestershire and married my Great Aunt Maud Emily ROBERTS in 1904 who came from Birkenhead. Herbert was 24 but, from all accounts, appears to have had a 7 year old child "Lilly" with him.

The file format (e.g. JPEG) has no impact on the image resolution. It's simply an image compression algorithm set up by the Joint Photographic Experts Group. Whilst good at reducing the size of files, JPEG compression throws away information - the amount of which varies with the degree of compression.

You will be able to see artefacts of the compression process in an over-compressed image and one thing you definitely shouldn't do is save a JPEG file as a JPEG as this progressively decreases the quality.

To get back to the original question, you should see no discernable difference reducing a 600dpi image to 300dpi image (assuming the latter is printed to only half the size of the former)

Doubtless you will be able to get them restored but, even if you can find someone who can be trusted to do the work, I suspect that this would be prohibitively expensive and probably not worth the cost unless they are of historical importance (yes, I am sure they are to you but you will realise what I'm getting at).

What you have are a series of lantern slides and what are known as tintypes. The latter can be unstable and tend to develop rust and darken over time unless they are stored correctly.

I would suggest that you start by giving them a light clean - simply brush/blow off the dust with a lens brush/blower - and scan them (or have them scanned). This way, you will at least have a copy of the photographs in their current condition which can be digitally restored if you wish. You can then consider whether you wish to do anything else with the originals other than store them in a dry and dark place.

If you are scanning them, I would advise scanning the lantern slides at a high resolution (at least 3 or 4 times the usually recommended 300dpi for print restoration). This will enable you to produce prints 3 or 4 times + as big as the slides. They were, after all, intended for projection to several hundred times their original size.

Quote from: Ray T on Wednesday 19 December 12 20:14 GMT (UK)

Just a thought. Is the Whitehall on Long Hill in the "Hope Parish" or is there another "Whitehall"?

The one on Long Hill is quite some way from Hope and, I would have thought more likely to have been connected to Buxton or Chapel-en-le-Frith.

According to GENUKI ( http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DBY/Fernilee/index.html ) Fernilee was in Hope parish, which isn't far from White Hall.

That's fine, apart from Fernilee having little (if any) other logical connection with Hope nowadays. It's interesting to note that Chapel-en-le-Frith, which is considerably closer to Hope, ceased to be in the Hope parish as long ago as 1297.

I doubt that I'll ever fully understand religious matters!