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Somerset / Re: Transcribe the occupation please?
« on: Monday 06 August 12 16:17 BST (UK) »
It's a far, far cry from the backwater of being a hawker's daughter on the edge of the hamlet of Galhampton in Somerset in 1861. I'm pleased for her!
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Somerset / Re: Transcribe the occupation please?
« on: Monday 06 August 12 16:06 BST (UK) »
Hey up! That's a lorra money! I'd just checked 1891 and saw that they were back together again, looks like she made a wise choice with him. It adds to speculation that she was literate, then, she would be an asset to an enterprising man, and willing to put up with a bit in the early years. Mmm. Thanks, Carol!
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Somerset / Re: Transcribe the occupation please?
« on: Monday 06 August 12 15:59 BST (UK) »
What a coincidence! She married in 1865 in Somerset, first son born in Rushden c1868 and second son born in Chelsea c1870, then back to Rushden for the census, so she hasn't had time to stand still yet!
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Somerset / Re: Transcribe the occupation please?
« on: Monday 06 August 12 15:53 BST (UK) »
N o real clues from 1871, she married Mr Wilmott and is a shoe binder and liner, married but with no husband staying the night, and two children to care for, at Rushden, Northants.
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Somerset / Re: Transcribe the occupation please?
« on: Monday 06 August 12 15:39 BST (UK) »
Especially if the A is close to the C of the crossed out word - yes, a definite possibility, and she is clerking for her father and her brother. I'm just trying to find out what happened to her (not in 1871) to see if that gives any clues.
Good sleuthing, thanks!
Good sleuthing, thanks!
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Somerset / Re: Transcribe the occupation please?
« on: Monday 06 August 12 15:35 BST (UK) »
Thanks for the snip!
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Somerset / Transcribe the occupation please?
« on: Monday 06 August 12 15:28 BST (UK) »
1861 Census:
1861 and Amelia Fry is living at Galhampton, her father George Fry is a licensed hawker, her mother is a hawker's wife, her older brother George is a horsebreaker and Amelia Fry, age 23, is
??
It's a something Helper. On the 1851 census her father was a dealer in marine stores, so I get the impression that he was hawking household objects, bits of hardware, buying and selling. So maybe Amelia looked after "the shop" such as it was. It wasn't licensed premises of any kind at that time so that rules out a few other things.
The original looked a bit like C....npt Keeper, then the first work is crossed out and it looks like Creenpt Keeper. I'm baffled!
Any ideas, please?
1861 and Amelia Fry is living at Galhampton, her father George Fry is a licensed hawker, her mother is a hawker's wife, her older brother George is a horsebreaker and Amelia Fry, age 23, is
??It's a something Helper. On the 1851 census her father was a dealer in marine stores, so I get the impression that he was hawking household objects, bits of hardware, buying and selling. So maybe Amelia looked after "the shop" such as it was. It wasn't licensed premises of any kind at that time so that rules out a few other things.
The original looked a bit like C....npt Keeper, then the first work is crossed out and it looks like Creenpt Keeper. I'm baffled!
Any ideas, please?
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Lancashire / Re: 123 Cresent Rd, Crumpsall 1843
« on: Thursday 28 January 10 12:45 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Ted, I think that the fact that "my" certificate is as recent as 1966 complicated the issue slightly as hospitals are for ever evolving and, whilst 223, the Crescent Road site, might not have been a geriatric hospital in earlier years, it might have been so in 1966.
Hilary
Hilary
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Lancashire / Re: 123 Cresent Rd, Crumpsall 1843
« on: Monday 29 June 09 14:01 BST (UK) »
I think you two should write the book - or even the film!