Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.


Messages - Alexander.

Pages: 1 ... 356 357 358 [359] 360 361 362 ... 372
3223
Nottinghamshire / Re: W. N. Nicholson's Ironworks Firm, Newark
« on: Thursday 29 October 09 15:44 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Larkspur for your response. I was also slightly surprised that Harry was listed as a foundry worker in 1911. This is the list of baptisms of his children which nicely shows how his occupation changed:

1898 - Labourer
1899 - Labourer
1902 - Engine Driver
1904 - Engine Driver
1906 - Labourer
1909 - Sawyer
1911 - Sawyer
1915 - Foundry Machine Worker
1917 - Foundry Machine Worker

I don't know if Harry was working at Nicholson's at that point or if he just worked there later. Though he did seem to keep changing his occupation. I suppose since he was working in the agricultural machine firm during WWI he did not have to serve.

Thanks,
Alexander

3224
Nottinghamshire / W. N. Nicholson's Ironworks Firm, Newark
« on: Thursday 29 October 09 01:22 GMT (UK)  »
I have been told that my gg grandfather Harry Frecknall worked at W. N. Nicholson's Ironwork Firm in Newark in the 1920s. I think this firm made agricultural machinery. However I don't know much about Nicholson's and was wondering if anyone knew anything about the firm? Also, would it be possible that any records still exist for workers at Nicholson's?

Thanks!
Alexander


3225
Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Photo clean up please
« on: Wednesday 28 October 09 16:53 GMT (UK)  »
These are great - they don't look like "quick" tidies to me!  ;D

Thanks,
Alexander

3226
Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Photo clean up please
« on: Tuesday 27 October 09 23:29 GMT (UK)  »
Could someone please do a little bit of clean up work on this photo of my great grandparents Arthur and Mary Frecknall? The photo was only small to begin with so I know it's not great quality, but any improvement would be very appreciated.

Thanks,
Alexander

3227
Nottinghamshire Lookup Requests / Re: South Muskham baptism lookup please - William WHITE
« on: Monday 26 October 09 17:00 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks very much for checking. I'm not sure where he would be then.

My grandma seems to have all the hardest name to research - first Hall and Cook, then Richardson and White! ::)

Regards,
Alexander

3228
London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Islington St. Mary Churchyard
« on: Monday 26 October 09 14:25 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for your responses.

William was a shoemaker, and later a schoolteacher, so I don't know if he would be wealthy enough to have a gravestone. He was certainly frequently back and forth from Nottinghamshire to London because at the time of his death the rest of his family was living up in Worksop, Notts.

Thanks,
Alexander

3229
Warwickshire / Re: Edwin JOHNSON of Birmingham
« on: Monday 26 October 09 14:14 GMT (UK)  »
That's what I thought, so he can't have actually been born in Solihull - it must have been either Kings Norton or Aston districts.

3230
Warwickshire / Re: Edwin JOHNSON of Birmingham
« on: Sunday 25 October 09 20:47 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks, I hadn't seen the 1891 census you found - it is bound to be him (what a relief to find he wasn't in prison at age 18!) :o

I definitely hadn't ruled out the four year old in 1881 - I just couldn't find any evidence that it was the correct person, since I also couldn't find a daughter Elizabeth.

So the ages for Edwin in the censuses so far are 16 (1891), 26 (1901) and 36 (1911). He was consistent then, and Aug 1874 birth/baptism seems just right. Still not sure about 1881 though.

One other question - was Solihull in the Aston or Kings Norton registration districts? I can't figure out which is his birth on FreeBMD.

Thanks,
Alexander

3231
Warwickshire / Edwin JOHNSON of Birmingham
« on: Sunday 25 October 09 17:07 GMT (UK)  »
One of my biggest brickwalls has been my gg grandfather Edwin JOHNSON. The earliest census I have definitely found him in is the 1901 census, once my g grandmother had been born:

1901 census: 103 Victoria St No. 4, Deritend, Birmingham, Warwickshire (Ref: RG13/2863, Folio 162, Page 11)
Edwin Johnson, Head, M, 26, Bricklayers Labourer, Worker, Warwick Solihull
Ellen M. Johnson, Wife, M, 26, Warwick Halford Bridge
Sydney Johnson, Son, S, 4, Birmingham
Walter Johnson, Son, S, 2, Birmingham
Doris A. Johnson, Daur, S, 3 Mo, Birmingham

On his marriage cert the name for his father is blank, indicating he was illegitimate. Checking the IGI there is an appropriate baptism on 19 Aug 1874 in Solihull, to Elizabeth Johnson his mother. However I have been able to trace neither before this.

I have found a 'possible' in the 1891 census where an Edwin Johnson (18) is at the Birmingham prison. However there were several Edwins born in Birmingham around this time. It does fit in line with what I know about his character though - "a nasty piece of work"!

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,
Alexander

Pages: 1 ... 356 357 358 [359] 360 361 362 ... 372