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This is a very frustrating photo as the people in it look like 'mine' but I can't match them to a family group in my tree 

I'm not good at visual stuff at all, so I'd be really grateful for any idea about -
a) when the photo was taken
b) how old the people in it might have been at the time.

The back gives the photographer as H. M. Neale & Co Artists in Photography 98 Victoria St. Bristol.

Looking at the site for Bristol photographers, this firm seems to have been around at least from the late 1890s to the 1920s so I don't know if that's any help.

One other question - I have 2 portraits of what I think might be the same girls. It's the same photographer but they both appear to be dressed in nighties. Was this normal? 

Thanks very much for reading this

Angela

I'm finding bits of this will, dated 1869, surprisingly difficult to decipher and would really appreciate some other views on it. I'm not sure how big I should make the surrounding snippets in order to give you a taste of the handwriting, so if bigger bits would be better, I'll happily do that.

The first bit (apart from a proper name which I may post later) is this one and the context is -

" I hereby give and bequeath the said premises with their actual and reputed rights members? and appurtenances for such several terms as I may have therein at my ??...art?? to my brother James Wells......."

The bold words are the ones I'm not sure of

Thanks very much

Angela

I was wondering if some kind person might have access to burial records for Lugwardine Parish.

Simeon and Mercy Hellier (variously spelled) were living in Lugwardine in 1891 according to the census, but I can't find them later. There is a possible death entry on FreeBMD for Simeon in 1891 but nothing for Mercy.

If someone was able to check the burial records for me, that would be wonderful 

Thanks very much

Angela

I'm really hoping that another RootsChatter might come up with something for my double brick wall!

On 26 Sep 1825, my ggg grandparents John Abbott and Hannah (also born Abbott) were married in Hardington Mandeville. Unusually for my family, they consistently give the same ages on the censuses, which imply they were both born between April 1804 and Mar 1805, John in Hardington Mandeville and Hannah in East Coker. almost their entire married life seems to have been spent in Haselbury Plucknett.

Unfortunately, even after buying the microfiche from Somerset Record Office, I can find no trace of either of their baptisms in the appropriate parishes, so I'm stuck  (and have been for many years now....)

Have any of you got any bright ideas? All gratefully received 

Regards

Angela

I downloaded my great-uncle's war medal card ages go, but put it to one side as I found it incomprehensible 

Anyway, I've been going through it in conjunction with the National Archives help pages and am very slightly further forward but not a lot. It's the style of card the NA says goes with the Silver War Medal but apart from that it's puzzling. It looks like -

NAME             CORPS                Reg No   Rank  Date of Discharge   
                                                                         9-3-19   
ROGERS          Sect. B.A.R         21913    Stw     Enlistment
Lancelot          R.E.                                             1-4-11


Then there's -

Cause of Discharge
Paid 3 9 7  (may be a faint 1 before the 3)
(XVIA) A O (or 5 or 6 ...)
29/1919
        S



Then there's -

Action Taken      List RE/4224


Now RE I can get as Royal Engineers. The action taken bit is, I presume, the medal roll entry, but I'm stuck with the other bit of the Corps and the rank (steward?) and as for the cause of Discharge  - well 

If anyone could point me in the right direction I would be most grateful

Regards

Angela