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    Would anybody like to suggest a possibility for the maiden name on this one please?



    Frances Blake
    Shoemaker
    Anne Blake
    M.S.(maiden surname) ----

    She was Irish, if that's any help.
    Gillian
    User page: http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/...ustGillian-117

  • #2
    Nasty!

    Ends in -hill or -hile.

    Tochill? Fochill? Neither of which are names I have ever heard.

    Assuming this is a Scottish cert, can you get another child's cert, or even the mother's death cert? I had to do this with one of mine because the mother's mn was completely unreadable/indecipherable on "my" child's cert.

    OC

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    • #3
      That's a tough one! The first four letters look like Fool but I can't make out the rest of it.

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      • #4
        I reduced it in size by 50% then printed it out in best quality and it looks like "Feehile", a name I have not come across before
        Len of the Chilterns passed away July 2021

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        • #5
          Fechile? Feehile?
          No that looks silly. I was going by the e in shoemaker.

          Anne

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Anne in Carlisle View Post
            Fechile? Feehile?
            No that looks silly. I was going by the e in shoemaker.

            Anne
            I have since googled the name and Feehile certainly is a known surname.
            Len of the Chilterns passed away July 2021

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            • #7
              Thanks OC and Carol.

              I can't make it into anything sounding like any name I know.

              It is a Scottish one - the parents of my uncle's widow. She's well into her nineties now but still manages to e-mail me unaided from Australia. The bride on the above cert, her mother, emigrated with them when she was well into her eighties, along with her equally aged companion!

              I'll have to see if I can find a cert for the marriage of one of the other children.
              Gillian
              User page: http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/...ustGillian-117

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              • #8
                Really, Len??

                You live and learn - even at our age!!

                Anne

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                • #9
                  Ooh - thanks Anne and Len - I'd never heard of Feehile and was sure it had to be Fech something!
                  Gillian
                  User page: http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/...ustGillian-117

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                  • #10
                    Len and Ann - you were right!

                    Just found two sons for a Francis Blake and Ann Feely and a Francis Blake and Ann Feehely on the IGI!!
                    Update - and a third! So now I know they were in Baragh, Leitrim!
                    Gillian
                    User page: http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/...ustGillian-117

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                    • #11
                      well done! x

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                      • #12
                        I have found it is a good trick to use one's printer to sharpen up an image, often by reducing the size.

                        Another trick worth trying (sounds silly but often works) is to turn it upside down and look at it.
                        Len of the Chilterns passed away July 2021

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                        • #13
                          Thanks for the tips Len - I shall certainly try those in future!
                          Gillian
                          User page: http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/...ustGillian-117

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                          • #14
                            Great tips Len

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                            • #15
                              Another "trick" with Scottish images is to send a polite email to ScotlandsPeople to say the image is dodgy. They will sometimes post you a better scan. The only one I've done this with was an 1855 birth where the registrar had used such a fine pen the scan was virtually illegible. They sent me a beautiful scan on 2 sheets of A3.
                              Uncle John - Passed away March 2020

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                              • #16
                                SP have been great for sending me scanned copies of faint images in the post in the past Uncle John.

                                Unfortunately, in the case of one death cert with its bonus 1855 list of all children of the deceased and their ages (none of whom had a surviving baptism record), the list fell in the very centre of the book and was therefore simply a blacked-out shadow! SP kindly transcribed the list for me in the end!
                                Gillian
                                User page: http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/...ustGillian-117

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