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Shropshire / Re: James Price and Mary Sayer of Atcham
« on: Saturday 20 January 24 14:49 GMT (UK)  »
Hello. I live near Atcham and was just in the churchyard looking at gravestones. One of those that I photographed was that of Jane Price, wife of John Price, who died in 1849. Were she and her husband members of your family?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Changing signatures
« on: Tuesday 25 October 22 17:11 BST (UK)  »
I'm sure this is the same hand. Age alone has affected it.

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Devon Lookup Requests / Re: Emma HAMLYN
« on: Tuesday 25 October 22 10:55 BST (UK)  »
Further developments!
I've realised that William Hamlyn, butcher of Seven Dials, London, was not one and the same as William Henry Hamlyn, butcher of Seven Dials, London (as is assumed by everyone else on Ancestry etc). William Henry Hamlyn was William Hamlyn's son. Everything makes sense now. William Henry Hamlyn was baptised at St Giles in the Fields in 1810, the second child of William and Grace Hamlyn. He later married Sarah Carr and emigrated in about 1840 (possibly when his father went into the workhouse) to Quebec and had most of his children there.

So I've been searching for a William Hamlyn marriage to a Grace prior to their first child being born in 1808 and the only one I can find is in Wembury in Devon in December 1800 - to a Grace Cornish. He remarried in 1834 - to Johanna Sullivan. Elsewhere on Rootschat I've posted a request for handwriting experts who might be able to decide whether the two signatures of William Hamlyn are written by the same hand. Of course, with 34 years between them, there was plenty of time for alteration, but my hunch is that it is one and the same man, although I will have to account for the gap between the marriage and their first child being born in 1808.

The other thing I now know about him is that he had a brother, Henry, in whose house his second child by Johanna, prior to their marriage, was born. I might add that we already know that William was not born in Middlesex (1841 census).

If I am right about the signatures, William was from Plymouth.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Will of Margarett Perry 1699
« on: Tuesday 25 October 22 10:01 BST (UK)  »
I think it’s a title prior to the name, Francis Sedgwith - something akin to ‘Master’ - and it contains a contraction (identical to the contraction in Westminster a few lines up). It’s a shame it’s unclear because the rest of the document is so beautifully written! I’ll keep staring at it and see if it becomes clearer!

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Re: JACOB COX OF BASINGSTOKE 1792 BIBLE
« on: Wednesday 22 June 22 15:13 BST (UK)  »
Thank you so much. I've found the Coxes of Basingstoke on Ancestry, so perhaps I should try to contact them directly too.

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Hampshire & Isle of Wight / Jacob COX of Basingstoke 1792 Bible
« on: Tuesday 21 June 22 18:12 BST (UK)  »
I have a large old bible in which a Jacob Cox has inscribed his name very beautifully: "Jacob Cox - HIS BOOK - Basingstoke - January 1792."
I'd be interested in contacting anyone who may be descended from this gentleman, in case they would like to have this family heirloom

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Devon Lookup Requests / Re: Emma HAMLYN
« on: Monday 13 June 22 15:39 BST (UK)  »
I'm sorry - this is a very late reply!

Thank you for enquiring. As it happens, I've recently made a breakthrough with this couple. I found a detailed account of them in Ancestry's Poor Law records from the London Metropolitan Archives. There is a postscript appended to the parish's consideration of Johanna Sullivan's case explaining that she had her two daughters, Ann (1832) and Emma (1834) out of wedlock, but both were the daughters of William Hamlyn, whom she subsequently married in St Pancras Old Church in August 1834. He was a widower at that point, so perhaps he only married her when he was free to do so. By 1940 William and Johanna were both in St Giles in the Fields workhouse. The two girls were in Acton and Shoreditch (I know Emma was at the Shoreditch nursery for poor children). William died in the workhouse in January 1843, so appears in the 1841 census. But I can't find Johanna Hamlyn in 1841 or in any remarriage or death records, so I'm still at a loss as to her age and place of birth and parentage - just as I still have no idea where William was born.

Thanks for your continuing interest after all these years! Emma

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Suffolk Lookup Requests / Re: LAVENHAM marriage HOWE-DIXON
« on: Monday 22 October 18 10:28 BST (UK)  »
Yes, that's the christening, but I think it's a mis-transcription. Her parents are Thomas Howe and Mary nee Sparke. It may be that the marriage is also mistranscribed or that it was incorrectly written down in the first place. The name 'Sparke' is commonly written down as 'Smart', though it's a family name which goes back centuries as 'Sparke' in Lavenham and Great Waldingfield.

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Suffolk Lookup Requests / LAVENHAM marriage HOWE-DIXON
« on: Sunday 21 October 18 22:43 BST (UK)  »
If anyone has a spare moment in the Suffolk Record Office, I'd be grateful if they could check for a marriage in Lavenham in 1794. I have a Sarah Howe, baptised in Lavenham in 1778, who is married with a child and living in Whitechapel by May 1794. Her husband is one John Dixon, who does not appear to have been liked by the Howe family, if Sarah's brother's will is anything to go by! They could have got married anywhere, but I can't find the marriage anywhere else and I'd like to check Lavenham. Thanks.

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