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Not only in Scotland. This is a transcription of my 2xGtGf living in Bridge Street, Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
Edmund Jones / Head / Married / Male / 43 / 1818 / Journeyer Plasterer / Overton, Hampshire, England.
Should be Flintshire, Overton.
This wasted 6 months of searching effort.
. In 1911 he’s 31, so it can’t be more than early 20’s he doesn’t look old enough to be much later. Looks as though they could be on a canal bank, barge in the background ?
Not that I know of, perhaps because nobody is moaning about it is why you have not heard anything.
I have my tree on Tribalpages a site I hear very little about these days, has it fallen out of favour for some reason I’m not aware of ?
As well as the normal times tables, at school in the 1960s we also learned to recite
12 inches one foot
3 feet one yard
22 yards one chain
10 chains one furlong
eight furlongs one mile.
My favourite detention task for miscreant maths students is to put these measures on the whiteboard and tell them to calculate the number of square inches in a square mile (without the assistance of a calculator).
It's actually surprisingly straightworward if you tackle it sensibly, ratther than just ploughing ahead with lots of increasingly lengthy long multiplications.
It helps to square the numbers first, so you're doing
12^2 x 3^2 x 22^2 x 10^2 x 8^2
You already know all but one of these:
144 x 9 x 22^2 x 100 x 64
And 22 is just 2x11 so 22^2 is 2^2 x 11^2 = 4x121 = 484
so we have 144 x 9 x 484 x 100 x 64 and you can do these in any order
I would recommend starting with 484 x 64:
484 x
64
_____
1936 +
29040
_____
30976
Now multiply this by 144 (holding back the 144 to this point makes sense because you only need to do one actual multiplication ... 30976 x 4)
30976 x
144
_______
123904 +
1239040
3097600
_______
4460544
What remains is to multiply by 100 and 9. 100 is easy: 4460544 x 100 = 446054400
And finally, to multiply by 9, just multiply by 10 and subtract the number you first thought of
4460544000 -
446054400
__________
4014489600
So there you have it ... correctly approached, it should take no more than 2 or 3 minutes ...