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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Metal Backed Photo
« on: Wednesday 10 November 10 10:34 GMT (UK) »
The date looks very much like 1913 to me.
Keith
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Warwickshire / Re: Thomas Fordrey
« on: Tuesday 09 November 10 14:58 GMT (UK) »
IGI is an incomplete resource. Its content is only as good as the information supplied to its compilers.
The complete St Philips parish registers are held on microfilm by the Heritage and Archive Dept, Birmingham Central Library. If you can't visit the library their genealogist will undertake a search for you, for which there is a charge. They claim to need 20 working days to make the search.
Keith
The complete St Philips parish registers are held on microfilm by the Heritage and Archive Dept, Birmingham Central Library. If you can't visit the library their genealogist will undertake a search for you, for which there is a charge. They claim to need 20 working days to make the search.
Keith
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The Common Room / Re: Chancery records for disputed will
« on: Tuesday 09 November 10 14:51 GMT (UK) »
Helvissa,
There are two forms of Chancery judgment; enrolled and unenrolled. Since enrolled judgments were considerably more expensive it is likely that judgment in the case of a disputed estate will be unenrolled. These judgments are listed in a particular book at the National Archive but it has been so long since I consulted it that I can't recall its title.
Chancery records for the period you are concerned with will most likely be in handwritten form. They will take the form of 'Interrogatories'; written questions put to each witness, followed by their written response. Such responses often contain the same wording from witness to witness. Since Interrogatories and answers were written down by clerks working for the appointed interrogator (usually a solicitor working within the geographical area where witnesses were likely to be found) the quality of handwriting is entirely a matter of luck.
As to which documents you will need, the clue lies in the case number. Absolutely anything with the case number you quote will be relevant to the case you are researching.
Good luck and, dhould you go, enjoy your trip to Kew. It is a fascinating experience.
Keith
There are two forms of Chancery judgment; enrolled and unenrolled. Since enrolled judgments were considerably more expensive it is likely that judgment in the case of a disputed estate will be unenrolled. These judgments are listed in a particular book at the National Archive but it has been so long since I consulted it that I can't recall its title.
Chancery records for the period you are concerned with will most likely be in handwritten form. They will take the form of 'Interrogatories'; written questions put to each witness, followed by their written response. Such responses often contain the same wording from witness to witness. Since Interrogatories and answers were written down by clerks working for the appointed interrogator (usually a solicitor working within the geographical area where witnesses were likely to be found) the quality of handwriting is entirely a matter of luck.
As to which documents you will need, the clue lies in the case number. Absolutely anything with the case number you quote will be relevant to the case you are researching.
Good luck and, dhould you go, enjoy your trip to Kew. It is a fascinating experience.
Keith
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Warwickshire / Re: Who was James Townsend?
« on: Saturday 06 November 10 22:11 GMT (UK) »
Yegods, where did you get that from?
I only found out about its location a few days ago by asking Carl Chinn.
Thank you very much, Jim.
Keith
I only found out about its location a few days ago by asking Carl Chinn.
Thank you very much, Jim.
Keith
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Warwickshire / Re: Who was James Townsend?
« on: Saturday 06 November 10 12:06 GMT (UK) »
Hi Jim.
The strange thing about St Martins marriage records for that period is that they are limited to a one line entry. Witnesses and next of kin aren't recorded. Not even the name of the officiating vicar appears.
Others have suggested that they lived in Fisher St, which was fairly newly built at that time and ran from the top end of Corporation Street to Gosta Green. I've seen no evidence for this myself but intend to visit Central Library to see whether they have rate books of the period.
Regards,
Keith
The strange thing about St Martins marriage records for that period is that they are limited to a one line entry. Witnesses and next of kin aren't recorded. Not even the name of the officiating vicar appears.
Others have suggested that they lived in Fisher St, which was fairly newly built at that time and ran from the top end of Corporation Street to Gosta Green. I've seen no evidence for this myself but intend to visit Central Library to see whether they have rate books of the period.
Regards,
Keith
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Warwickshire / Who was James Townsend?
« on: Friday 05 November 10 13:56 GMT (UK) »
St Martin, Birmingham, parish recors reveal that James Townsend married Mary Walker on 7 October 1799. The same records suggest that they had six children, one of whom was my known 2 x gret grabdfather James (1800-1845).
Somewhat strangely the parich records give only the date of the marriage and the names of bride and grom. No other information is recorded.
I can find three candidates for Mary, all born in Birmingham between 1773 and 1778 but have nothing which helps to determine the right one. I can find no record whatever of the birth of a James Townsend in or near Birmingham during the same sort of period. I see a James born in Great Alne, Warwickshire at aboit the right time but have no reason to believe that they are one and the same.
Where do I go from here?
Keith
Somewhat strangely the parich records give only the date of the marriage and the names of bride and grom. No other information is recorded.
I can find three candidates for Mary, all born in Birmingham between 1773 and 1778 but have nothing which helps to determine the right one. I can find no record whatever of the birth of a James Townsend in or near Birmingham during the same sort of period. I see a James born in Great Alne, Warwickshire at aboit the right time but have no reason to believe that they are one and the same.
Where do I go from here?
Keith
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The Common Room / Re: Advice Needed - Please
« on: Sunday 17 October 10 17:19 BST (UK) »
You may find that the local library has old voter lists. Alternatively they may have Kelly's Directories for the period in quwstion.
Good luck.
Keith
Good luck.
Keith
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Warwickshire / Re: Thomas Wootton criminal 1800s
« on: Tuesday 12 October 10 11:34 BST (UK) »
This may be Thpmas Wooton, son of James Wooton (1750) and Ann Owen (1754), born Birmingham, 1794. I can find no marriage for him but he had eight female siblings born between 1777 and 1796.
If this is the right man he was christened 1 Sep 1794 at St Philips, Birmingham.
Keith
If this is the right man he was christened 1 Sep 1794 at St Philips, Birmingham.
Keith
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The Lighter Side / Re: Witches of the UK
« on: Tuesday 12 October 10 11:18 BST (UK) »
For the 1945 'witchcraft' murder in Lowerr Quinton, Warwickshire see
http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/features/weird-warwickshire/1945-witchcraft-murder.shtml
Good luck with the project.
Keith
http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/features/weird-warwickshire/1945-witchcraft-murder.shtml
Good luck with the project.
Keith