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Handwriting decipher thread *must post link to full page*

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65 ✭✭hammy007


    New Home wrote: »
    Found it, I think. Hainprechting. https://mapcarta.com/de/35564330

    Thank you! I think the prechting part is right. I think the first part may be Reihn. I just found this newspaper article in German and it's a little easier to read:

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/kvmeqi1uolucgjs/Muggenthaler%20newspaper.png?dl=0


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,859 ✭✭✭chooseusername


    Any idea what the name 'Demetrius' would be known as?


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,264 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Any idea what the name 'Demetrius' would be known as?

    Jeremiah, which can also appear as Darby.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 565 ✭✭✭montgo


    And maybe Dermot...........


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 407 ✭✭VirginiaB


    Or Denis?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,777 ✭✭✭BowWow


    Any idea what the name 'Demetrius' would be known as?
    spurious wrote: »
    Jeremiah, which can also appear as Darby.

    Also Diarmuid.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11 danoH


    Hi everyone - new to site but hoping for help with handwritten document - marriage record- Canada and DUBLIN interest DanoH


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,672 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Welcome - you will need a few posts before you can post a link but if you want to PM it to me, I'll add it into the thread.

    We keep all the handwriting help posts in this one thread to keep everything tidy.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 297 ✭✭mindhorn


    Last entry

    Second entry

    I can't make out the address for either of these entries.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,777 ✭✭✭BowWow


    mindhorn wrote: »

    Found dead in a bath at South City Baths, 15 Nassau Place.
    Home Addresss is 39 East Essex Street.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,777 ✭✭✭BowWow


    mindhorn wrote: »

    Died in St. Vincent's Hospital.
    Home address is either 37 or 57 Denmark Street.


  • Registered Users Posts: 297 ✭✭mindhorn


    BowWow wrote: »
    Found dead in a bath at South City Baths, 15 Nassau Place.
    Home Addresss is 39 East Essex Street.

    Maybe I need glasses but why am I not seeing any of the above in the entry?


  • Registered Users Posts: 11 danoH


    PM to me -do mean for me to upload image toyou personall Pinky - if yes how? Sorry my lack of knowledge danoH


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,421 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    mindhorn wrote: »
    Maybe I need glasses but why am I not seeing any of the above in the entry?
    Same for me.
    mindhorn wrote: »

    Address 60 Great Strand Street

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  • Registered Users Posts: 297 ✭✭mindhorn


    I won't book an eye test just yet. I was too busy focusing on the address that I somehow managed to miss columns 5 and 7. I'm seeing 'widow' and 'Porter's widow'. Reading that right?

    If so, that makes no sense to me as her husband lived until 1913. Let's presume I have the "right" person and my research is correct. Would it be possible to make a mistake like this on the cert?


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,672 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    danoH wrote: »
    PM to me -do mean for me to upload image toyou personall Pinky - if yes how? Sorry my lack of knowledge danoH

    No, you can just send me the url of the image. Then reply to this thread mentioning what you need help with on the image and I'll edit your post to add in the link.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 11 danoH


    Everytime I tried to place what i think was URL - i was told that I couldnt post anything -links etc yet---sorry about going way back in time with DNA


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,672 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Yes, that's why I suggesting you send me a PM with the URL (the website address of the page with the image of your query) and I can post it for you.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 11 danoH


    PinkyP Thanks for patience.....The image I have was sent to me by Sebastian Robert -Drouin Institute Quebec -after a request for info re. my interest- he said "..first started in the BMD files in the Kardex Modifie - to find one fiche Vergeylen/Healy marriage Westmount Quebec 1917....its a jpeg d1p_115d1786.JPG but whether this info any good to you??? If no other way perhaps if I keep on posting I will eventuall be able to send the image to you ----Many thaks regardless


  • Registered Users Posts: 11 danoH




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,538 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Notes on second last entry on P117 here? England, 1938 is about all I'm getting - I presume it has to be a marriage.

    https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000633753#page/117/mode/1up

    There's an even darker image on the now abandoned Irish Genealogy records site

    https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/reels/rathmines_mf_1882-1906_ba_0237.pdf


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,672 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    danoH wrote: »

    This link doesn't work.
    If you don't have a url, you can upload the image as an attachment to a post.

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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,421 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    L1011 wrote: »
    Notes on second last entry on P117 here? England, 1938 is about all I'm getting - I presume it has to be a marriage.

    https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000633753#page/117/mode/1up

    There's an even darker image on the now abandoned Irish Genealogy records site

    https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/reels/rathmines_mf_1882-1906_ba_0237.pdf

    The first word of the note is matrimonium or some such rendering of matrimony followed by some other Latin rendering of contracted so yeah, a reference to the person baptised being married in England.

    In the English civil indexes there is an entry for an Andrew C. Ralph marrying an Ellen V. Perks in Fylde, Lancashire in 1938.

    I wasn't aware the Irish Genealogy parish records had been abandoned - when did this happen?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,538 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    That wedding would be quite likely I'd expect - I'll look in to it.

    I meant abandoned in so far as the last new set of transcriptions was many years ago; with the NAI scans having been the replacement effort.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭Mick Tator


    I agree with Hermy's take on this - it is a marriage, matrimonium coniunctierunt apud Fleetwood, England (Joined in marriage near Fleetwood, England) According to a Google search 'Fleetwood is a coastal town in Lancashire, England, at the northwest corner of the Fylde, '


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,777 ✭✭✭BowWow


    mindhorn wrote: »
    Last entry
    Second entry
    I can't make out the address for either of these entries.
    BowWow wrote: »
    Found dead in a bath at South City Baths, 15 Nassau Place. Home Addresss is 39 East Essex Street.
    BowWow wrote: »
    Died in St. Vincent's Hospital.
    Home address is either 37 or 57 Denmark Street.
    mindhorn wrote: »
    Maybe I need glasses but why am I not seeing any of the above in the entry?
    Hermy wrote: »
    Same for me.
    Address 60 Great Strand Street


    Guys, apologies, my fault. I took my "Last Entry" details from the page with the "Second Entry". I will arrange stronger glasses :o


  • Registered Users Posts: 11 danoH


    mona - Copy.JPG
    Perhaps this will work


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,672 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Yes, can see that.

    What do you need help with?

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • Registered Users Posts: 297 ✭✭mindhorn


    mindhorn wrote: »
    mindhorn wrote: »
    I was too busy focusing on the address that I somehow managed to miss columns 5 and 7. I'm seeing 'widow' and 'Porter's widow'. Reading that right?

    If so, that makes no sense to me as her husband lived until 1913. Let's presume I have the "right" person and my research is correct. Would it be possible to make a mistake like this on the cert?

    Shameless bump!


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,264 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    mindhorn wrote: »
    I was too busy focusing on the address that I somehow managed to miss columns 5 and 7. I'm seeing 'widow' and 'Porter's widow'. Reading that right?

    If so, that makes no sense to me as her husband lived until 1913. Let's presume I have the "right" person and my research is correct. Would it be possible to make a mistake like this on the cert?

    It certainly would be unusual with her daughter as informant, who presumably would know.

    There is a Laurence Whelan died in the hospice (Dublin South) in 1897.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11 danoH


    At last ...its the section that follows on from- spinster over 21 years of age daughter of- ......?Healy................Dublin Ireland -that I cant make out and of course this is the bit I am interested in ....Thanksagain -regardless


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,421 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    danoH wrote: »
    At last ...its the section that follows on from- spinster over 21 years of age daughter of- ......?Healy................Dublin Ireland -that I cant make out and of course this is the bit I am interested in ....Thanksagain -regardless

    Kudos for your persistence!

    Here's my take on the section after spinster.

    "...now resident in the City of Montreal spinster over 21 years of age daughter of Maurice Healy now resident in Dublin Ireland and his lawful wife now deceased Mona Dwyer were united by me by authority of License in the holy bonds of matrimony on January 26th 1917 in the City of Montreal in presence of subscribing witnesses..."

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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,672 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Concur - think the word Hermy is missing is "were"

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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,421 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    pinkypinky wrote: »
    Concur - think the word Hermy is missing is "were"

    Now amended thanks.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 11 danoH


    Pinky Hermy thank you so much -I kept thinling that 'lawful wife ...' was an area in Dublin.... Mona Dwyer ...should help me to locate Maurice in the 1901/11 cencus ...patience pays .....Thanks a million danoH


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  • Registered Users Posts: 297 ✭✭mindhorn


    spurious wrote: »
    It certainly would be unusual with her daughter as informant, who presumably would know.

    There is a Laurence Whelan died in the hospice (Dublin South) in 1897.

    Thanks spurious.

    I see the Laurence you referred to but I think that's someone unrelated. Also states that he was a carpenter whereas on Mary Anne's death cert it says her husband was a porter. Obviously people had many varied jobs back then but I do think it's a different person. Plus he was 45 in 1897 and she was 57 in 1898. Ages were not always accurate but I don't think there's a connection between the two people.

    Don't want to drag this any further off topic but that's thrown a right spanner in the works. A lot of research has been done on the back of some of the names mentioned here. I'll have to go back over the details but afraid of confirmation bias creeping in. Maybe this needs to be moved to the off-topic chat but I don't know if someone fancies cross-checking some documents I have. I have all the details but I may like someone to take a look at what I have and confirm whether what I have looks okay or if I've made a mistake along the way.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,672 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Please feel free to start a new thread with all the stuff.

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 311 ✭✭srmf5


    It's not handwriting but I'm wondering if anyone might be able to make out what's on this headstone.

    148757595_1436219191.jpg

    It looks to say:
    MARY KELLY
    A native of the parish of ?
    County Roscommon Ireland

    There's one parish that I think it might be, but even then, it doesn't look exactly right. The bottom of the headstone also has 'Erected by' but I can't see much else after that. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭Mick Tator


    srmf5 wrote: »
    It's not handwriting but I'm wondering if anyone might be able to make out what's on this headstone.

    It looks to say:
    MARY KELLY
    A native of the parish of ?
    County Roscommon Ireland

    There's one parish that I think it might be, but even then, it doesn't look exactly right. The bottom of the headstone also has 'Erected by' but I can't see much else after that. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.


    In memor’m of
    MARY KELLY
    A native of the Parish of ….
    County Roscommon in Ireland
    (???)
    Sept 27th 184?
    Aged 64 years

    I cannot decipher the italic script but the penultimate line commences ‘Erected by …. (possibly ‘her brother’?)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 311 ✭✭srmf5


    Mick Tator wrote: »
    In memor’m of
    MARY KELLY
    A native of the Parish of ….
    County Roscommon in Ireland
    (???)
    Sept 27th 184?
    Aged 64 years

    I cannot decipher the italic script but the penultimate line commences ‘Erected by …. (possibly ‘her brother’?)

    Thanks for the help. I think that the year is 1863 but I'm not certain. I also can't make out who it's erected by. It's the erected by and parish that I'm mostly interested in but primarily the parish. Looking at the image, there seems to be a better chance of making out the parish than the erected by anyway. The picture is on Findagrave of a headstone in the US. I'm interested to know if she was from the same parish as my ancestors. It's a shame that the person who took the picture didn't transcribe what was on the headstone as well since it looks like it would be easy enough to read if you were looking at it in-person.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭Mick Tator


    It is challenging. Are you in the Kelly Clan Facebook group/page? There is a large number of US Kellys there with Roscommon heritage and they might know of her/ graveyard.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 311 ✭✭srmf5


    Mick Tator wrote: »
    It is challenging. Are you in the Kelly Clan Facebook group/page? There is a large number of US Kellys there with Roscommon heritage and they might know of her/ graveyard.

    Thanks for the tip! I'll try that out.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,264 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Do you know which graveyard/cemetery it is? It's a long shot, but there may have been volunteers transcribed it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 311 ✭✭srmf5


    spurious wrote: »
    Do you know which graveyard/cemetery it is? It's a long shot, but there may have been volunteers transcribed it.

    Yes, it's Saint John the Evangelist Cemetery, Lambertville, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, USA.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,421 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Re cause of death for the last entry on this record can anyone tell me the word I'm missing?

    I have the first part - pulmonary exhaustion 2 hours - but the middle word of the second line has me stumped - chronic _______ disease.

    https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1970/04148/4054363.pdf

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 311 ✭✭srmf5


    Hermy wrote: »
    Re cause of death for the last entry on this record can anyone tell me the word I'm missing?

    I have the first part - pulmonary exhaustion 2 hours - but the middle word of the second line has me stumped - chronic _______ disease.

    https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1970/04148/4054363.pdf

    Could it be chronic tubercular disease?

    I think that the first part could be pulmonary embolism.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,421 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Spot on srmf5 - thanks!

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  • Registered Users Posts: 166 ✭✭Whereisgerry?


    Any idea what the surname might be on this birth record?


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,421 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Any idea what the surname might be on this birth record?

    Folliott?

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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,020 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Fallcott?


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