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Help needed to decipher handwriting
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Unknown | Report | 23 Apr 2006 17:48 |
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Well, it didn't look like Weeford, but there you go! |
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MaryfromItaly | Report | 23 Apr 2006 17:36 |
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I hadn't thought of looking at the next page, good idea. I've now discovered fom Genuki that there's a place nearby called Weeford, so I guess it must be Freeford in Weeford. What a delightful address... |
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Unknown | Report | 23 Apr 2006 17:34 |
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If you go to the next page of the census, there's more in the margin there too. I think its just to make clear which bit of Tamworth road these people are living in. It says 'Freeford in [whatever that bitis]ford'. nell |
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Unknown | Report | 23 Apr 2006 17:33 |
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It looks like 'Freeford in Theeford [not sure abt the Thee bit but 2nd bit of word is ford] se Reps letter' I don't have any idea what this means. But if there is a relevant letter it might be with the original census documents (ie at Kew) or perhaps a copy would be in the county records office. |
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MaryfromItaly | Report | 23 Apr 2006 17:28 |
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Alongside the entry in the 1871 census for Thomas Mallet, born 1819, his wife Matilda and daughters Caroline and Ellen, living in Tamworth Road, Lichfield, Staffs, there’s a handwritten comment that I can’t decipher. Thomas farmed in a hamlet called Freeford, called Fulfen Freeford in some documents, which was in or near Tamworth Road. I think his property was called Freeford Farm. The handwritten comment says something like “Free ford in …. see report – letter”. Can anyone decipher the rest of it, and suggest where I could get hold of the documents it refers to? |
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MaryfromItaly | Report | 23 Apr 2006 17:26 |
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Can anyone help me decipher some handwriting on the 1871 census? |
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