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  • How bad luck and good luck go hand in hand

    in genealogy.

    I'm tidying up my family twigs. Had a chap called William E.A. Purvey who I couldn't find after 1881. I couldn't find a birth, but then found an Ernest Alfred [E.A.] Purvey at the right time in the birth indexes.

    So I looked for Ernest Purvey instead of William. Found a death but no age at death, so looked on the image. The bad luck was that the age at death has been damaged so can't read it, but the good luck is that William/Ernest's father, who had the distinguishing name of Job, died same year and q and is registered just one page earlier, thus making it v. likely its the right Ernest.

    Of course it was bad luck for both Ernest and Job, who were 19 and 41 respectively.

    BTW anyone know what was going around in 1886? I've found lots of deaths and not all in the same area in that year.
    ~ with love from Little Nell~
    Chowns, Dunt, Emms, Mealing, Purvey & Smoothy
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