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Thanks andycand and CaroleW!

I do not believe that this William and Emily were together in 1891.  Think you may have a different family in the census records.  William does not appear as William T in 1891, 1901, or 1911.  1901 he is in Paddington - place of birth Chester-Le-Street, Durham.  The Russell surname comes from the birth certificate for Thomas Victor Vale, 2nd Q 1908.  Thomas appears in the Vale household in St. George Hanover Square in 1911.

What a brilliant job, Terry!  You'd never think there was a crease in the first place!

Hello -

I would be very grateful for some help restoring and decreasing this photograph of my Grandad. 

If preferred, here is a link to the jpg before the resizing < 500 KB.

https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/zselle2/shared/JR JPG.jpg

Thanks in advance!

@Seaweed or any one else with experience...

Do the dates "135456 - 10.20" correspond to voyage start or termination dates?

I've been going back and forth with Newfoundland.  They possess the Nestor agreements for 1920, but not for 1921.  I can't get much except a form response.  If the voyage terminated in 1920, then I'm happy to pay the $40 for that particular search.  But if it's almost guaranteed it terminated in 1921, I'll pick another ship and date range.

Yes, 1926, writing too early in the morning.

This is fabulous advice - I honestly didn't realize the crew agreements would be so thorough and contain age, address, etc.  I thought I'd be lucky to get a name and date of service.

I have all sorts of complementary evidence for solving my problem (birth cert, childrens' birth certs w/ signatures, addresses for the 1920-1930 time period, etc.).  One of the issues is that the CR10 year of birth is 11 years "off" - to the date.  If the agreements show age that matches more closely with the real year of 1899, that will go a long way in helping me explain the inconsistency.  I had Southampton search and looked myself at the National Archives, but it was the only the online search interface that enabled me to catch these candidates.  I'm more confident the CR10 is my man...but if both belong to him, all the better!

Thank you so much - I will contact Newfoundland and see if they can help!