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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Need help dating old photograph - Melbourne (19th or 20th century)
« on: Wednesday 05 January 22 22:25 GMT (UK)  »
The accident/amputation occurred in 1918

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Need help dating old photograph - Melbourne (19th or 20th century)
« on: Monday 03 January 22 03:12 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks on s all for your help :-)
I had a shortlist of 4 relatives that I thought could have been in the photo; I researched all of their WW1 records on NAA and found that one (a great great uncle) had his left leg amputated during the war.. so I believe that is him. I’m unsure if the other 2 people in the picture are relatives or friends so will continue to investigate further..

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Need help dating old photograph - Melbourne (19th or 20th century)
« on: Sunday 02 January 22 07:27 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,
I’m trying to figure out which ancestors are in the attached photo (which is on a postcard marked Yeoman Studios, Royal Arcade Melbourne).
Any help appreciated!

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Wedding certificate- struggling to interpret most of this..
« on: Monday 09 August 21 05:36 BST (UK)  »
Following on from my post a couple of days ago regarding an ancestor's occupation (thanks for everyone's help with that!) I've got the wedding certificate for the same ancestors- William Hodder and Sarah Curtiss. It's really hard to make out much at all, they were married in Reigate in 1842; I can't quite read the details of their parents, ages or witnesses... Would love some help!
thanks again  :)

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Occupation- can't decipher this..
« on: Saturday 07 August 21 06:56 BST (UK)  »
Hi,

I've just located a relative's immigration record, and would love some help deciphering his occupation- see attached

thanks

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Carlisle baptism record- can't read handwriting
« on: Friday 30 July 21 23:38 BST (UK)  »
Hi, I've managed to get hold of my 3 x g-grandfather's baptism record from Carlisle in 1833- John Snee (thanks to someone at the Cumberland archives). Here he is listed as John Slee and I can see his parents are Ann and William- however I can't read much else! Any help deciphering this would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance...

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Cumberland / Re: Irish Immigrants residing in Whitehaven in the 1840's
« on: Thursday 08 April 21 10:00 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: aghadowey on Thursday 08 April 21 08:33 BST (UK)
Previous topics-
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=843626.msg7103781#msg7103781
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=844468.msg7112932#msg7112932 (Ireland)

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... however due to the common surname of Smith I can't find any dates around when the family arrived in the UK.
Ireland was part of the U.K. which is why no records were kept of people moving from one part to another. Migration between Ireland and England, Scotland and Wales was very common with families sometimes moving back and forth for employment or family reasons.

Your other post gives mother's maiden name as Collins. Unfortunately, the dates you are looking for are well before the start of civil registration in Ireland. If the family were Catholic there are now many R.C. parish registers online but you'd need to have a more exact location than 'Ireland' to start browsing through them.
https://registers.nli.ie/

Although Rosanna died at a young age it would be worth tracing her parents and siblings forward in English census records to see if a more exact place of birth is mentioned. Sometimes a county is given but in the 1911 census (we can't do lookups for that one here but Family Search should have it) a townland or parish is often mentioned.

Thanks- that's helpful. I've seen some references in other family trees to County Armagh and also Dromore, so might start looking there. I'll also look at the siblings to see if there is any mention in the 1911 census..

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Cumberland / Irish Immigrants residing in Whitehaven in the 1840's
« on: Thursday 08 April 21 05:40 BST (UK)  »
Hi, I've hit a brick wall tracing my 3x great-ggrandmother, who I believe was an Irish immigrant who moved across to England as a child. Her name was Rosanna Smith, however she was also appears in some documents as Rosey/Roseanna/Rosanneah etc.
She was born approx. 1835 and appears in the 1841 Census as loving in Scott's Court, St Bees, Whitehaven with her parents Michael and Mary and siblings. I have traced her beyond that to her wedding and early death (of TB aged 29) however due to the common surname of Smith I can't find any dates around when the family arrived in the UK.
Any direction regarding research in this area (St Bees/Whitehaven) in particular history regarding Irish immigrants would be much appreciated!
thanks

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Cause of Death- ??
« on: Wednesday 31 March 21 01:23 BST (UK)  »
Hi, trying to decipher the below cause of death on a death certificate- any help here is much appreciated!

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