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Offline Vasquez109

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Cant read anything!
« on: Sunday 22 March 09 18:31 GMT (UK) »
Ive tried taking numerous photos of this stone from all different angles but cant get it any better than this.

Is anyone brave enough to have a go with what it says?

Moderator Comment: image deleted, as it was returning an "Unsupported JPEG Compression" error message.

See Reply #4
Northants - Stevenson, Smith, Spriggs, Hight, Dodson, Coleman
Swansea - Thomas, Williams, Howell, David, Rees, Griffiths, Jenkins, Bevan
Rutland - Hales
Derbyshire - Harlow, Riley, Pemberton, Aldred
Yorkshire - Stamper, Boyes, Duke
London - Harper, Wallis
Essex - Shelford, Wallis, Read, Stanes
Hertfordshire - Bishop
Cornwall - Johns, Soper, Rowe, Ball, Webb, Dunn, Quintrell, Hain, Oliver
Gloucestershire - Harper, Ash, Gregory, Denman
County Durham - Proud, Duke
Yorkshire - Stamper, Pickering

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Re: Cant read anything!
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 22 March 09 18:33 GMT (UK) »
Is this viewing properly with anyone else? Its not for some reason here. Don't know why. It's under 500k.  :'(
Northants - Stevenson, Smith, Spriggs, Hight, Dodson, Coleman
Swansea - Thomas, Williams, Howell, David, Rees, Griffiths, Jenkins, Bevan
Rutland - Hales
Derbyshire - Harlow, Riley, Pemberton, Aldred
Yorkshire - Stamper, Boyes, Duke
London - Harper, Wallis
Essex - Shelford, Wallis, Read, Stanes
Hertfordshire - Bishop
Cornwall - Johns, Soper, Rowe, Ball, Webb, Dunn, Quintrell, Hain, Oliver
Gloucestershire - Harper, Ash, Gregory, Denman
County Durham - Proud, Duke
Yorkshire - Stamper, Pickering

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Re: Cant read anything!
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 22 March 09 18:42 GMT (UK) »
Hi!

no, it won't open. When I tried to open it I got an error message.

Perhaps you should try re-posting it.

Judy  ;)
Best wishes, Judy :-))


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Re: Cant read anything!
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 22 March 09 18:53 GMT (UK) »
i cant either!! ;)
it wont open for me either.


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Re: Cant read anything!
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 22 March 09 20:36 GMT (UK) »
Erm...Try this then!
Northants - Stevenson, Smith, Spriggs, Hight, Dodson, Coleman
Swansea - Thomas, Williams, Howell, David, Rees, Griffiths, Jenkins, Bevan
Rutland - Hales
Derbyshire - Harlow, Riley, Pemberton, Aldred
Yorkshire - Stamper, Boyes, Duke
London - Harper, Wallis
Essex - Shelford, Wallis, Read, Stanes
Hertfordshire - Bishop
Cornwall - Johns, Soper, Rowe, Ball, Webb, Dunn, Quintrell, Hain, Oliver
Gloucestershire - Harper, Ash, Gregory, Denman
County Durham - Proud, Duke
Yorkshire - Stamper, Pickering

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Re: Cant read anything!
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 22 March 09 20:38 GMT (UK) »
Im when I save a picture as a jpg. I need to save using Standard encoding not Lossless. Rootschat has a hissy fit because it cant understand how its encoded.

Bit like me not understanding what the headstone says!
Northants - Stevenson, Smith, Spriggs, Hight, Dodson, Coleman
Swansea - Thomas, Williams, Howell, David, Rees, Griffiths, Jenkins, Bevan
Rutland - Hales
Derbyshire - Harlow, Riley, Pemberton, Aldred
Yorkshire - Stamper, Boyes, Duke
London - Harper, Wallis
Essex - Shelford, Wallis, Read, Stanes
Hertfordshire - Bishop
Cornwall - Johns, Soper, Rowe, Ball, Webb, Dunn, Quintrell, Hain, Oliver
Gloucestershire - Harper, Ash, Gregory, Denman
County Durham - Proud, Duke
Yorkshire - Stamper, Pickering

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Re: Cant read anything!
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 22 March 09 23:10 GMT (UK) »
Hi Vasquez,

I have played with your image to try to make it more readable, and think it may say

Elizabeth.................
George Full..............  [which might be Fuller]



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Re: Cant read anything!
« Reply #7 on: Monday 23 March 09 10:37 GMT (UK) »
If you can visit the stone, it might be worth trying to take a rubbing from it.  Either that or do what the Egyptologists do to read the hyrogliphs.  Use a bright torch and shine it sideways on so that the carved letters form a shadow.
East London:
Happe/Hoppe (St. Georges in the East)
Stanley (middle name Thurston)
Rondeau (Spitalfields and Salford)
Jones (Bishopsgate - Thomas, Ostrich Feather Manufacturer)
Wood (London City)
McDermott (Londonderry and Stepney)
Upcraft (Bethnal Green)
Chidgey (Shoredtich)
Grim (Bethnal Green)
Row (Mast makers in Wapping)
Spurden (Stepney and Pancras)
Glibbery (Bishopsgate)

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Re: Cant read anything!
« Reply #8 on: Monday 23 March 09 12:01 GMT (UK) »
Sorry, I cannot decipher it but if you can visit the stone again try wetting it.  Sometimes that makes the images easier to see.

FF

p.s. Good Luck!
Noon:  Middx. Ratcliffe, Shoreditch, Stepney, Mile End and Essex

Perry: Shoreditch

Twitchett:  London

Trim / Trimm:  London