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Handwriting decipher thread *must post link to full page*

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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,371 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    According to the linked 1920 US census return Jennie Garvey at line 23 was a ticket agent for the R R Co.

    I wonder would any of ye have an idea what the R R Co was?

    https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJRB-DHP

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  • Registered Users Posts: 11 euro_girl21


    Morning, I would guess Rail Road Company maybe. I did some research on my great uncle who worked as a "trolley driver" on the BRT - Brookly Rapid Transit. Some info on that here: Home - New York Transit Museum (nytransitmuseum.org) but there is a lot material online re railways in US see also here for example New York Central Railroad - Wikipedia

    have a good day



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,371 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Thanks eurogirl - that was my hunch but I was curious to see if others would come to the same conclusion.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,686 ✭✭✭chooseusername


    She lived in Brooklyn, so could it be Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) abbreviated to R.R. co.;




  • Registered Users Posts: 113 ✭✭55Gem


    Often other people in the area work for the same company and their occupation within the company can help work out what it is.

    Not 100% these are the same company but have a look.

    There is a William Groom Conductor for ?RR (line 11)

    and lower down the same page

    James McHugh (line 21) motorman ?RR

    Benjamin Kelley motorman working for ? RR possible Electric RR (line 48)

    New York. Census 1920 • FamilySearch

    and George Goff clerk for RR (line 94)

    New York. Census 1920 • FamilySearch



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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,371 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    You know Gem, I did that very thing recently for a hard-to-read occupation but never thought of doing the same this time around!

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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,646 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Appalling handwriting alert: what do you think Patricia Sherry died of?


    https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1941/04712/4258487.pdf

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  • Registered Users Posts: 669 ✭✭✭Mick Tator


    It's puerperal debility and caesarian- I'll let others comment on the remainder, fresh eyes. Basically it weakness following childbirth, so off to the birth registers........

    Edit it could be febris/latin for fever



  • Registered Users Posts: 113 ✭✭55Gem


    I did wonder if it had something to do with childbirth given her age and I think I see 21 days on the third line. So if she had the fever for 21 days a birth on or not long before that.



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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,646 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Thanks, that's what I thought as well.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 669 ✭✭✭Mick Tator


    Looking at it again on a bigger screen I’d now say Puerpal febris 2 months, 21 days cardiac and XXX? failure cer[tified].  So the birth would be registered Q4 1940

    I wonder could it be no.219 ? https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1940/04721/4261760.pdf

    If that’s correct, my guess is she gave birth in Drogheda, child died after a few hours, she never recovered fully, developed a post-partum fever and was moved to the Coombe Maternity Hosp. where there  would have better facilities/specialised care.



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,646 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    I think that's too long before - 11th June 1940 to 2nd Feb 1941.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 669 ✭✭✭Mick Tator


    Hmmm. So she has a (possible) first child – spina bifida, both items often a complicated / protracted / difficult labour with attendant tissue damage that will endure; she is discharged end-June and some time later becomes infected. That infection develops into PPfever and she is in the Coombe hospital by end-November. I still think it’s possible and worth more research.

    I wonder if this is the marriage? https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1937/08910/5222451.pdf



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,646 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    I don't have enough details on the case to be sure.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 50 ✭✭Fraoch333


    It would be great if someone could figure out the cause of death for Julia Cuniam - I haven't a clue what it is! Thanks. https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/civil-perform-search.jsp?namefm=Julia+&namel=Cuniam&location=&yyfrom=1882&yyto=1882&type=D&submit=Search



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,371 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Is the second word peritonitis?

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  • Registered Users Posts: 793 ✭✭✭cobham


    Mitro ( to do with heart valve?) and second word ending in ''….ilonity" ??



  • Registered Users Posts: 50 ✭✭Fraoch333


    Ah thanks so much Hermy and cobham! I tried searching with your suggestions and found metro peritonitis, which fits perfectly when I look back at the handwriting.



  • Registered Users Posts: 793 ✭✭✭cobham


    Thks, never heard of 'metro' as a medical term, poor woman only 26 yrs.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 50 ✭✭Fraoch333


    I'd never heard of it before. It's terribly sad, she had a baby just 17 days before she died. S



  • Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭dubred


    Looking for help with an address please, it is for entry 368, Joseph Connell, it is the address in column 2 I am interested in https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1931/04890/4324677.pdf

    it looks like 221 ? ? South ? Street.



  • Registered Users Posts: 50 ✭✭Fraoch333


    I wonder if it could be 2 St (possibly Mary's) Villas. There is a South Earl Street, but I can't find a sign of a place with villas there.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 113 ✭✭55Gem


    Memorial for him on Nov 28 1935 Evening Herald by his brothers and sisters.

    4 St. Mary’s Villa, South Earl Street



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,371 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Great spot Fraoch!

    According to Thom's Directory St. Mary's Villas was between 21 and 22 South Earl Street.

    From 1934-46 it was down as Long Entry and before that it was known as Donohoe's Court.

    The map is from the UCD collection.

    Interesting side note - the Office of Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths was then at 33-35 South Earl Street.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭dubred


    Brilliant, I have access to the Newspaper Archive through work and had checked for Death notices, but keep forgetting to check the Memorials. Is there a smart way to limit search results to obituaries and memorials?

    Some of his cousins were born in 1 South Earl Street in the 1880s.

    He would have been my Great Grandmother's brother and while I thought I had accounted for all of her siblings last year, I discovered him last week when I purchased the Glasnevin grave record for their father and he was listed as the informant. I haven't been able to find a record of his birth or baptism, I found his marriage record, but nothing in either of the census archives. He is recorded as an 'Ex-Sailor' in the record above, is that likely to mean he was in the British Navy?

    Thanks also to Fraoch and Hermy. That map resource may well consume the rest of my weekend 😁.

    Edit, just found him in the 1901 Census, his age was mistranscribed, and also in the 1911 census.

    Post edited by dubred on


  • Registered Users Posts: 113 ✭✭55Gem


    I can’t get the search to work again for 1935, found another Memorial though this time from 1940.

    The 4 puzzled me before as the cert house number looks like 2 not 4 but this time it’s 5.😮

    So in All these words I put Deaths. (Memorials are on the same page so usually works)

    In the search bar I put Connell< NEAR> Joseph

    And because Fraoch looked to be spot on in This EXACT word or phrase I put Villas South Earl Street

    Even though the s is missing on Villas it worked but not for St it had to be Street.

    So hit and miss.



  • Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭dubred


    I have since found that Joseph's uncle, James Cramer, died at 3 Mary's Villas in November 1930, entry 338 https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1930/04909/4331660.pdf

    and the obituary in the Evening Herald states he died at his residence at 21 South Earl Street. He was a Pork Butcher and Joseph was recorded as a Bacon Factory worker in the 1911 census.



  • Registered Users Posts: 107 ✭✭dubred


    Thanks for that, the <NEAR> is something I hadn't been using, just searching for the name in All these words can result in 1000s of results for anything other than the most common names. I had been just browsing the Herald for the dates after the death if i knew it, but haven't had much luck with that prior to the 1940s. I find the search can miss a lot if the original is of lower quality.



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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,646 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky




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