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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Trying to Decipher this Relationship
« on: Wednesday 10 April 24 20:39 BST (UK) »
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: 1841 Census occupation - doesn't make sense to me - help
« on: Tuesday 09 April 24 22:00 BST (UK) »
Stone barer, maybe? http://doot.spub.co.uk/code.php?value=072 ( note the “r” in what I assume is weaver above)
Don’t know why only the wife has an occupation though
Don’t know why only the wife has an occupation though
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The Lighter Side / Re: New genealogy novel
« on: Tuesday 02 April 24 20:13 BST (UK) »
Thank you! I’ve really enjoyed his books 
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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: DNA I manage has hundreds of matches showing as maternal
« on: Sunday 31 March 24 10:18 BST (UK) »
Is this on Ancestry? Have you checked that he has allocated his dna to the correct parent on the ethnicity inheritance page? There is an option to edit and change the allocation if it’s simply mislabelled mother’s side as fathers which should correct all the matches also.
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The Lighter Side / Re: 'Put away?'
« on: Sunday 31 March 24 10:05 BST (UK) »
It is awfully sad when you find a poor soul like this when researching.
I recall from nurse training back in the early 1980s visiting a local hospital for children and adults with learning difficulties, now long closed. I was quite shocked although it seemed a happy place.
My great uncle , Percy, was sent to a Darenth school for mentally defective children in 1904, aged 8. Later he was sent to the Fountain asylum- in 1911 he is recorded as a congenital imbecile of unknown cause. I can find little more. His mother was the informant of his death at 21 in 1917 ( his father, having joined up,) so I hope there was contact. My mother was the source of much of the information about my dad’s side as he died a long time before I started family history research and she said my dad had a cousin who had been put away (possibly with epilepsy) who came to stay sometimes for a holiday. I like to think this is a little confused and it was actually Percy visiting with his family including my grandfather, his brother
I recall from nurse training back in the early 1980s visiting a local hospital for children and adults with learning difficulties, now long closed. I was quite shocked although it seemed a happy place.
My great uncle , Percy, was sent to a Darenth school for mentally defective children in 1904, aged 8. Later he was sent to the Fountain asylum- in 1911 he is recorded as a congenital imbecile of unknown cause. I can find little more. His mother was the informant of his death at 21 in 1917 ( his father, having joined up,) so I hope there was contact. My mother was the source of much of the information about my dad’s side as he died a long time before I started family history research and she said my dad had a cousin who had been put away (possibly with epilepsy) who came to stay sometimes for a holiday. I like to think this is a little confused and it was actually Percy visiting with his family including my grandfather, his brother
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Nurse in Electrical Department, and abbreviation (1921 census)
« on: Saturday 30 March 24 17:52 GMT (UK) »
https://www.csp.org.uk/frontline/article/foreign-fields-physiotherapys-links-first-world-war
Possibly this: incorporated society of trained masseuses, precursor to physiotherapist
Possibly this: incorporated society of trained masseuses, precursor to physiotherapist
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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Shared 18% DNA
« on: Thursday 21 March 24 20:19 GMT (UK) »
My known first cousin shares 13%/ 900 cm with me so you have a close match. It may be that there was a child from the first marriage and neither family know about each other. My husband has a half sister who shares 25% dna/1770 cm so that shows that these are likely first cousins in my view.
Jo
Jo
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: 1846 Birth
« on: Thursday 21 March 24 19:50 GMT (UK) »
Yes, that’s what it looked like to me
Jo
Jo
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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Illegitimate Birth
« on: Monday 18 March 24 11:45 GMT (UK) »
My great grandparents stated on the 1911 census they’d been married 10 years but they didn’t actually marry till 1912! He was single and she was widowed so no reason not to marry- who knows why they didn’t!