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feral-underclass wrote:have you seen this postcard em?

So sad.....

I have transcribed I think...cant read one word ...can anyone for me pls

"Dear Husband just a few lines to you
hopeing to find you quite well as it leaves
me well at presant.
Dear Husband I am sending you this card to
tell you that it is Clara Birthday
today Saturday 25 as I should be glad
if you could her as she was not 12 months
Old when you went away as she is quite a big girl know
I should like you to have a ??? if they would let you
as I think you ought to be entitled to one but cheer up
my dear and I hope God will bring you home safe
Love from your ever loving wife and daughter
good night my dear

Northern Lass wrote:Clara Birthday 25 sept ...just seen it on card

Except that according to her death certificate, Clara's birthday is the 25 July, not September. Does the card have a postmark Feral ?

Northern Lass wrote:

feral-underclass wrote:have you seen this postcard em?

So sad.....

I have transcribed I think...cant read one word ...can anyone for me pls

"Dear Husband just a few lines to you
hopeing to find you quite well as it leaves
me well at presant.
Dear Husband I am sending you this card to
tell you that it is Clara Birthday
today Saturday 25 as I should be glad
if you could her as she was not 12 months
Old when you went away as she is quite a big girl know
I should like you to have a ??? if they would let you
as I think you ought to be entitled to one but cheer up
my dear and I hope God will bring you home safe
Love from your ever loving wife and daughter
good night my dear

It's a furlow Jan

Added to BCC here :

http://bcconnections.tribalpages.com/fa ... dge-Family

I'll add some more later on

Andy Johnson has given me a date for the announcement of Matthew's death in the Tipton Herald - I'll get it from Sandwell Archives tomorrow

I have a photo of Enoch and who looks to be his son, probably Matthew, as I can't find any other of his sone joining up. I've sent a copy to Andy so he can have a look at the uniform.

Antie Em wrote:

Northern Lass wrote:

feral-underclass wrote:have you seen this postcard em?

So sad.....

I have transcribed I think...cant read one word ...can anyone for me pls

"Dear Husband just a few lines to you
hopeing to find you quite well as it leaves
me well at presant.
Dear Husband I am sending you this card to
tell you that it is Clara Birthday
today Saturday 25 as I should be glad
if you could her as she was not 12 months
Old when you went away as she is quite a big girl know
I should like you to have a ??? if they would let you
as I think you ought to be entitled to one but cheer up
my dear and I hope God will bring you home safe
Love from your ever loving wife and daughter
good night my dear

It's a furlow Jan

she wanted him back on furlough for a few weeks to see the baby

Antie Em wrote:

Northern Lass wrote:Clara Birthday 25 sept ...just seen it on card

Except that according to her death certificate, Clara's birthday is the 25 July, not September. Does the card have a postmark Feral ?

no postmark em!

most working class famlies with men serving at the front at the time , would write 3 or 4 postcards and place them in one envelope to save on money!

hope that makes sense?

She puts 25 Sept on postcard

I can't see September on the postcard, but Saturday 25th September 1915 was a Saturday, so she has the wrong date of birth on her death registration.

Antie Em wrote:I can't see September on the postcard, but Saturday 25th September 1915 was a Saturday, so she has the wrong date of birth on her death registration.

I was talking rubbish about sept being on....

So if her birthday was "today" 25 Saturday .....which 25 is it?

we know it is Saturday and we know it is 25 so when was that sent?
you say Sat 25 sept was a sat in 1915 so got to be that hasnt it shall we put sept in
I have put month for now

Yes - we'll use September. I'll have a look for her baptism today at Sandwell.

Just had a look on my records from St Michaels and I have the baptism for Clara

13 Aug 1913, St Michael, Tividale, Clara Elizabeth, Daur of Matthew & Fanny Partridge, of 11 Tipton Road

So I will add her date of birth as recorded on her death certificate, 23 July 1913

Antie Em wrote:Just had a look on my records from St Michaels and I have the baptism for Clara

13 Aug 1913, St Michael, Tividale, Clara Elizabeth, Daur of Matthew & Fanny Partridge, of 11 Tipton Road

So I will add her date of birth as recorded on her death certificate, 23 July 1913

Thanks Maggie can you add that Bapt too pls

and I think we can archive this now

Completed with thanks well done everyone a very interesting thread