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    Just because transportation ceased it doesn't...

    Just because transportation ceased it doesn't mean they didn't have a full complement of convicts on the books that still required supervision. They didn't all get a Get-Out-Of-Gaol-Free card....
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    Thank you Lesley and Grisel for your help. I am...

    Thank you Lesley and Grisel for your help. I am probably following a red herring myself. I am trying to figure out how an ex-nuptial baby got from Cootamudra in New South Wales to Edinburgh. There...
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    Thank you, Peter, the photos make it clearer that...

    Thank you, Peter, the photos make it clearer that the street address of the Paulville Cottages, or Rows, was Whitburn Road. I can see now that the road went under the railway bridge, which is not so...
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    Thanks, Lesley. I don't have ready access to...

    Thanks, Lesley. I don't have ready access to the 1911 Census (not included in Ancestry) and I am looking for a date in 1924 anyway. If I have to pay for access, I'll wait for the 1921 Census to...
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    Thank you helachau. Could there be any less...

    Thank you helachau. Could there be any less salubrious spot for the establishment of a large number of dwellings than this? Next to the cemetery, steelworks and railway lines? But perhaps a park...
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    Paulville Cottages, Bathgate

    Hello folks,

    In January 1924 Mrs C RYAN and Miss N R Ryan left a ship at Southampton, and stated their destination was 98 Paulville Cottages, Bathgate, SCT.

    I would like to know who was living...
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    Again, thank you, and bless your little white...

    Again, thank you, and bless your little white socks. I'd never have gone looking for anyone serving as a Fencible, whatever the heck that is. I will look it up!

    Ah yes, I can see why I ignored...
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    It's ok, I stopped being pathetic and retraced my...

    It's ok, I stopped being pathetic and retraced my steps in Ancestry and this time I clicked on the Military entry for "Soldier, Veteran, and Prisoner Rolls and Lists" with two records appended. For...
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    I'm going to need more than luck. For the life...

    I'm going to need more than luck. For the life of me I can't find these other documents you mention, other than the Chelsea Pension doc. Not on Ancestry, not on FMP and not at TNA. Obviously...
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    Thank you so much! I hadn't seen the first doc...

    Thank you so much! I hadn't seen the first doc you mention, only the second. And yes, this morning I found a reference to the 14th in Jamaica in 1782 and returning to Portsmouth in 1791. This...
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    Queen's Rangers and 14th Regiment of Foot

    Hello folks,

    I am hoping someone can throw a bit of light on where and what a soldier was doing. Thomas Killick (or Kellick) joined the army in 1783 and admitted as a Chelsea Pensioner in 1803. ...
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    Hi Megan, I would probably approach this in a...

    Hi Megan,
    I would probably approach this in a different way. Looking at Joseph's convict description record https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON33-1-77$init=CON33-1-77p201 and with the use of a list of...
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    Don't forget this, on the same page: "Nearly...

    Don't forget this, on the same page:

    "Nearly 60 million pages of digitised records are already published online, with new content added each week. Access to these records remains free of charge"....
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    Hi Stephanie, If the fellow survived the war,...

    Hi Stephanie,

    If the fellow survived the war, he most likely is in a battalion photo of officers taken in France in 1918. There seems to have been quite a lot of them taken, often more than one...
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    One of the least expensive methods of updating...

    One of the least expensive methods of updating your style would be changing your hairstyle, which cost virtually nothing - so any woman can wear a new hairstyle. The main difference between...
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    The portrait was taken in the 1870. The style of...

    The portrait was taken in the 1870. The style of the dress with frills and apron, and the hairstyle tells us that. Also the square border around the image was typical in the 1870s. In the 1880s it...
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    Hi Gerald, the clothes date somewhere between...

    Hi Gerald, the clothes date somewhere between 1900 and 1910. By 1914 big hair was out and women were wearing a less dressed/formal style. Standup collars went out in 1912, and big hats were in...
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    The young woman's jacket has the wider sleeves...

    The young woman's jacket has the wider sleeves popular in the 1890s, though still being worn after 1900. I would like to get a magnifying glass on the the back of her skirt, as there seems to be a...
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    I agree that both photos were taken in the 1890s,...

    I agree that both photos were taken in the 1890s, but I would veer towards the beginning of the decade. In the 1880s ladies' hair styles were fairly severe, with hair parted in the middle and pulled...
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    Finding people in passenger indexes can be...

    Finding people in passenger indexes can be dependent on their economic status. Poorer passengers with an assisted passage were carefully documented. People who did not qualify for assistance, ie,...
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    Most local libraries would have free access to...

    Most local libraries would have free access to Ancestry and Find My Past and various other useful databases. Very easy access for most people, unless you are in regional Australia.
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    The usual place to check addresses is in the...

    The usual place to check addresses is in the Sands & McDougall Post Office Directories, which lists alphabetically and also by suburb and street. The State Library of Victoria has these digitised at...
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    Although you found a mirror which fits the round...

    Although you found a mirror which fits the round space, this piece is so clearly a patriotic piece intended to highlight the service of a man of the household. I can't help thinking that the mirror...
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    The clothing is typical for the 1880s, with the...

    The clothing is typical for the 1880s, with the narrow cut of the man's and the woman's jacket, the sloped shoulder line, the man's short hair, sidewhiskers and droopy moustache. I think I can see...
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    Mon. Inscriptions, St Alphege's, Greenwich

    Hello folks,

    I have found a record of a burial for a Mary Buckley in the registers of St Alphege's, Greenwich. This occurred in 1855 and she was aged 75. There is also a death in the Greenwich...
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