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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Last column on 1901 census - help please
« on: Saturday 30 March 13 08:35 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you very much Gadget and Malky,

I agree sunken brain looks good, it sounds like a horrible condition.

You're right Gadget - I have Alicia's birthdate as 26 April 1827, so very economical indeed. I believe they both died in 1904, but haven't got those certificates.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Last column on 1901 census - help please
« on: Saturday 30 March 13 06:07 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Dave, thank you, I can see what you're saying. It's a puzzle  ???

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Last column on 1901 census - help please
« on: Saturday 30 March 13 04:48 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you very much, I can see that now. You're right, the S definitely matches. It's just the "p" which seems to be written very strangely. Maybe the paralysis and simple brain were the result of a stroke or similar, as she used to work for a fine art publisher, so clearly wasn't always disabled in such a way. I'll have to find out one day.

Thanks again

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Last column on 1901 census - help please
« on: Saturday 30 March 13 04:26 GMT (UK)  »
Good morning,

This attachment shows part of the 1901 census for my great-(etc)-aunts Alicia and Letitia Brown, who were spinsters in London. By this time they were 63 and 59 respectively, with Letitia working as a needlewoman.
Alicia had no occupation, but she does have something listed in the last column for diseases or disabilities. I'm struggling to read it. I can make out "paralysed" and then maybe weak brain(?) - does that make sense?
I've tried to include a bit more of the writing to compare without showing too much.

Any suggestions appreciated  :)

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Surrey / Re: Searching for birth of Sophia Goff, Godalming, circa 1788
« on: Sunday 24 March 13 20:00 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Brian, thank you very, very much!! That certainly looks like her, and some of those names Sophia used for her children.
I'm so happy I now have her parents and siblings, it gives me the starting block I've been searching for for so long.
Thanks again :)

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Surrey / Re: Searching for birth of Sophia Goff, Godalming, circa 1788
« on: Sunday 24 March 13 00:52 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Jane,

Thank you for looking. It's so strange that she doesn't come up anywhere! I've even searched for a possible previous marriage, of a Sophia to a Goff, but that also draws a blank.
Unfortunately I don't live near an LDS centre. I think I just have to be very patient with Sophia!

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Census and Resource Discussion / Re: ancestry vs findmypast
« on: Saturday 23 March 13 05:29 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,

Andy has very valid points. I just want to add that you can of course make your online tree private, which makes it impossible for others to copy your work or see confidential information.
To answer your question, from my experience, the Ancestry online tree facility is excellent to use.

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Surrey / Searching for birth of Sophia Goff, Godalming, circa 1788
« on: Friday 22 March 13 09:49 GMT (UK)  »
Good morning,

Could I please have some assistance in searching for a record of the birth/christening of my ancestor, Sophia Goff. Although her age is quite certain on later records, her birthplace changes.

1851 - age 63 (born c1788 in Godalming)
1861 - age 73 (born c1788 in Frensham)
1871 - age 83 (born c1788 in Godalming)

Sophia married Edward Penfold, a maltman, on 14 March 1809 in Thames Ditton. They lived in Sunbury-on-Thames, where Edward died in 1824.

Unfortunately I don't know anything about Sophia or Edward before their marriage, except for the details given on Sophia's census returns.

Just to avoid double-up research, I know everything I need to about Sophia after her marriage, and have traced their children, it's really her birth I'm struggling with.

I appreciate any replies that may come

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The Lighter Side / Re: On This Day in MARCH ... our ancestral BMDs.
« on: Monday 11 March 13 05:19 GMT (UK)  »
9 March 1823
My 4xgreat-grandfather, Giovanni Antonio Vitali, was born in Druogno, Piemonte. His parents, Pietro Vitali and Antonia Maria Beccari, were farmers in the area. Giovanni was the second of nine children. He argued with his father and at sixteen left Italy to live in the Netherlands, walking most of the way. When he was eighteen, he was forced to return to Italy for compulsory military duty. Upon his return to Amsterdam, he started as a chimney sweep apprentice. His father sent him letters and money but they never saw eachother again. Giovanni married a Dutch (a quarter French and a quarter German) servant, Sophia Pardoen, with whom he had 12 children, in Den Haag in 1850. He later owned his own chimney sweep companies, and died in 1893 aged 70.

10 March 1819
My 5xgreat-grandparents, Jan Stevensen Kieft, a 33 year old day labourer, and Jannetje Hannissen Haverkamp, a 23 year old, were married in Nijkerk. They had eleven children and remained married until Jannetje died on 23 May 1854, aged 59. Jan died the following year aged 69.

10 March 1875
My 5xgreat-grandmother, Antonia Maria Beccari, died in Druogno aged 75. She had been born there on 9 August 1799, the daughter of Giovanni Battista Beccari and Antonia Maria Baratta. She married farmer Pietro Vitali and had nine children. Widowed in 1853, she remained in the area until her death.

11 March 1781
My 6xgreat-grandmother, Gerritje Giesbers Rakhorst, was born in Putten. She was the daughter of Gijsbert Hendriksen Rakhorst and Teunisje Willems. Gerritje married Elbert Otten van Donkersgoed and they worked as farmers, raising eleven children. Widowed in 1845, Gerritje died in 1859 aged 78.

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