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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: A date for Mary please
« on: Monday 23 February 09 17:21 GMT (UK)  »
Wow what can I say - the clean up & colour are so beautiful. Thank you Dave and Paula.

The WWI date is interesting.
I thought it said Mary on the back, but my daughter looked with a magnifying glass and said it's too long to be Mary, but it does begin with Mar
My grandad had three sisters, Martha (1894) Minnie (1897) & Margaret (1901)
so going by dates, it now looks more likely that it's Martha.

Thanks again to all who replied, and apologies for my late response, for some reason I haven't been getting any notifications.

Sueky

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / A date for Mary please
« on: Saturday 21 February 09 15:49 GMT (UK)  »
Could someone please try and date this photo.
On the back in very faint pencil it says 'Mary'. I think it is my great grandfathers mother, Mary Cotton (b1830 - d1909)
Thanks

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The Common Room / Re: Evacuees - WWII
« on: Saturday 21 February 09 14:00 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks to you both for the links. Its a fascinating subject.
I never knew mum had been evacuated 'til the other day when she casually dropped it into the conversation.

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The Common Room / Evacuees - WWII
« on: Friday 20 February 09 20:18 GMT (UK)  »
My mum (born 1938) was evacuated to Shropshire - she thinks 1943/1944.
Is there any records of evacuees - who they went to, how long for etc, and if so where would I find them?
Thanks

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Cheshire / Re: Cheshire Parish Records Marriages only pre 1837
« on: Friday 20 February 09 19:57 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Jean,
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
Just looked again at Sarahs M cert and it shows her father as JOHN COTTON. So if she'd married previous, she would have married a COTTON  :-\
Not impossible, as there was alot of them around, but unlikely really (although stranger things have happened!)
I agree the best way forward would be to try and find daughter Mary's baptism instead.
Thanks again
Sueky

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Cheshire / Re: Cheshire Parish Records Marriages only pre 1837
« on: Friday 20 February 09 13:23 GMT (UK)  »
Hi
Its a bit of a long shot, but
Could you check for a marriage for a SARAH COTTON (no grooms name known)between 1820 - 1837.
It would possibly have been in the CREWE area. The family tended to stay in the parishes of Alsager/Barthomley/Haslington.
I have her marrying George Beech in Odd Rode in 1839 but the cert doesnt show condition. The 1841 census shows her in Alsager with George and a 13yr old daughter (Mary Cotton)
I presume Mary was illegitimate, and that Sarah never married previous to George, but just in case...........
Many thanks

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The Common Room / Re: Clodies/Claudius - A simple spelling mistake?
« on: Tuesday 17 February 09 23:23 GMT (UK)  »
sorry Richard, the previous post you mention was when i was given 'duff' information  which I took as the truth. Having actually checked it out for myself, the Charles born in Pendleton (to William & Eleanor) is not my Charles Cotton. Is that topic still there? I thought I'd completed it - my apologies.

My Charles Cotton is Charles 'Claudius' Cotton, born 1851 Lower Crumpsall, Manchester.
His mother is Mary Cotton. No father is recorded on his birth cert although his marriage cert states father William Cotton. I dont believe this is true.
His mother never married - she died a spinster in 1909. She had three illegitimate children, Charles is the eldest and the only one who survived past childhood.

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The Common Room / Re: Clodies/Claudius - A simple spelling mistake?
« on: Tuesday 17 February 09 22:02 GMT (UK)  »
yes I'd forgot about his marriage cert - so he considered himself to be a Claudius, and on the whole it does appear more plausible than Clodies.

Kia your explaination made me smile. I did exactly the same with my daughter. I'd never seen her name written so spelt it how I said it - it wasn't until she was 18mths and I took her for a check up that a Welsh doctor told me I'd spelt it wrong!!

Thanks to all for taking the time to reply.

Right, I'm off to look for Claudius' in Cheshire

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The Common Room / Re: Clodies/Claudius - A simple spelling mistake?
« on: Tuesday 17 February 09 21:10 GMT (UK)  »
So............presuming his middle name is something to do with the identity of his father - I'm looking for someone with either a christian name Claudius or a surname Clodies.

Which brings me back to my original question - how likely is it that a registrar would misspell the christian name Claudius?  ::)

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