Handwriting decipher thread *must post link to full page*

It started as a result of the Ne Temere decree (1907/8) to ensure all catholic marriages were valid, in this case ensuring the person getting married had been baptised. Not all priests made a note on the baptism but it's fairly widespread and very handy.

Ship Corker? A few pages after, James Fargo employment is listed here, similar?

Lorrance Scottora, a few pages before:

Ai says about the early 1920's dock workers:

FWIW Caulking was a regular maintenance job on all wooden sailing vessels. It involves hammering ‘oakum’ (unpicked strands of rope with pitch/tar) into the seams between planks on the hull/decks to keep them watertight. As the ship’s timbers moved due to waves, the caulking was pushed out of position.

We get the expression “The devil to pay!” from that activity. It derives from 18th-century nautical slang where "the devil" was the ship's longest seam along the keel, requiring difficult maintenance, or "paying" (caulking) with pitch. It was named the ‘devil’ because it is in such an awkward inaccessible position.

Any ideas on this one please? (edit:woman's name by the way)

Dont see any records on that name - I did try that one myself also.

Had a child in 1863 in Wexford so I presume married before that and to a Robert Webster.

Going to flick through the Wexford marriages microfilm, maybe find it in that.

Edit: Found this in the microfilm but it's partially blurred! Any way around this?

Edit: Fixed!

Seems like a Cecily Carty indeed. Can't find that name on https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/

One of the godparents on that 1863 baptism (also Wexford town) is an Ellen Carty - might be related to this Cecily

Aside from NLI, newspapers and IG website, are there are other places that the deaths would be recorded? Cecily Carty driving me mad ha.

I found some old Wexford Town burial records - link below - that I am going to flick through. Maybe find something in there. Might help others out also.

https://wexfordcountyarchive.com/our-collections/digital-collections/municipal-burial-records-1881-1926/

Thanks all for the help so far. I'll keep plugging away looking for Cecily Carty/Webster. I've tried various spellings etc but nothing yet.

I'm not sure if they stayed in Enniscorthy/Wexford or not - I know their son (struggling to find any other siblings) married in Dublin to a Skerries woman in 1896 and was living in Dublin City for a time. I was thinking their son moved for work and perhaps the parents stayed in Wexford.

The husband Robert Webster is making it hard to track him down too. No birth record and only one possible death (1888 (42 yrs old) in Enniscorthy) but nothing concrete to link him to that death.

I've gotten back to early 1800s with other relatives but these two (Cecily and Robert) are tricky.

I won't muddy the handwriting thread with these two any longer - if ye are interested to see the outcome (or join on the hunt!) then feel free to split the discussion to a separate thread.

The extra word in box seems to be location of work if similar to next two with B'lyn = Brooklyn and NY = New York but no ideas otherwise what "Consolidate" means,