Recent content by DJRVST

A touch late in replying but I've only just come across this post. Very interesting details as they relate to a family story. My Mother told me about 'The night Docker's went up' during the raid mentioned above. My parents lived in Hockley at the time. She described the explosions as...

That hangs together well. I tried all manner of various spellings and wildcard searches and didn't come up with anything, but I didn't think of an abbreviation. Happy hunting.

The best I can think of at the moment is: Look at the y in Mary. The capital E's vary have a look at the date in particular. No more than supposition because I can't find a definitive example, but my Occam's Razor vote/best guess is an E. There are some Palaeography books available from various...

Sorry, question already answered I've just seen the 1870 above. My brother had the condition develop and could not sleep with it untreated.

It could be Eczema with a y not a z. I've looked at a list of letter shapes from old documents and it seems to fit. What is the date of the cert? I can see the possibility because of the nature of the condition without modern drugs.

No his name was Bartholomew Condley and the date I have is 1879

Thank you for posting this. One of my wife's ancestors was landlord at 1 Moseley St in the late 1870's. Do you have any idea of the date of the photograph?

Very interesting article. I lived in a UK100. ( I intend to liberally quote it in conversations- and ask in quizzes!!!!).

Thank you its the school at 1 and a half. Name fits perfectly with the details in my Great Grandfathers exercise book. DJRVST

Thank you. I'll see what I can determine with that information. Intriguing.

My great Grandfather attended J.T. Godfrey's Commercial Academy in Caroline Street in 1846 (I have one of his exercise books). I have not been able to find out whereabouts it was on the street. I know where Caroline Street is but the address of the Academy is proving elusive as the book only...

Thanks for the image, it has a great level of detail and I can see my childhood home and the line of the brook, woods and field which were our playground.

Thank you for the information and forbearance oldMohawk. I realised as I hit post that I'd made a mistake-I sometime have a dispute with my "2 in 1" machine if I fail to give it due attention!!!

I can echo that experience. As it says above you can use clues and even if they are proven wrong it narrows your search down. On one issue it took me five years to find the correct pathway. I have in research put a great deal of work into analysing possible data, found what appeared to be the...