Help with deciphering an 1832 entry, please.

[Gwebb1]

In Bishop's Transcripts on Ancestry, I have found the burial of a Mary Davies, aged 70, who was buried at St John's on 3rd June 1832.

Unfortunately, I cannot make out the address and it is so unclear that it would not upload well onto this site. Looks as though it could begin with a 'Z' and I thought at first it might have been Zeal Street but this does not seem to exist!

Can anyone make it out?

As always, many thanks.

Glen

[retiringtype]

Is this the one transcribed as Mary Davier?

Looks very clearly to be Leeds Street to me.

[JohnnyO]

Is this the one transcribed as Mary Davier?

Looks very clearly to be Leeds Street to me.

Leeds Street...

[MaryA]

Leeds Street http://www.liverpoolhistoryprojects.co. ... az/M11.htm

[Gwebb1]

Thanks, everyone. That was the entry I was looking at. However, I think I can probably rule it out of my research, having seen where Leeds Street is.

However, how come you folks got a much clearer image than I was able to get? Is there something I should be clicking on to enhance the images?

Glen

[luxor]

... how come you folks got a much clearer image than I was able to get? Is there something I should be clicking on to enhance the images?

Glen

Digital photography software, like Photoshop, will allow you to clean up scans. You're looking for the opposite of a full range of tones; you just want Black and White. A dirty scan may have the lines as dark grey and the paper as just slightly less dark grey. The trick is to set a tool like Levels so that the lines are mapped to Black and the slightly lighter areas to White.

Do a search for sites like this:

http://dw-wp.com/resources/cartooning-q ... s-cleanup/

If the page is consistent, it's pretty easy. If there is variation across the page, it's not.

[Gwebb1]

Sounds rather technical but I'll give it a go!

Thanks, Luxor.

G.

[alex69]

The John Lewis Northern Hospital was in Leeds Street. She may have died there.
Don't necessarily rule her out.

Alex

[daggers]

John Lewis Northern Hospital???
No, David not John, for the record.

D

[alex69]

OOPS!
Of course it was David Lewis...next to Waitrose A&E!!

[MaryA]

[Gwebb1]

I've never heard of the David Lewis Hospital but your comments have given me a giggle!

I'm not sure where the entry actually gets me as I was hoping to make a link between the Mary Davies who died in this hospital and the widow of Edward Davies. He was buried in St John's on 17th Nov 1803. Short of searching through possible records in the hope that one will say 'widow of Edward Davies', is there any other way I can find out more about the Mary mentioned in this burial record?

Regards,
Glen

[Gwebb1]

Further to my last post, I am interested in finding Mary Davies's death as I am trying to find when she was born.
her maiden name was Percivall, she married Edward Davies in Liverpool in 1789 and I am guessing she was probably born about 1764 as this was when Edward was born and I think their first child (Martha) was born in 1790 although the first baptism record that identifies her as Mary Percivall was the baptism of Elizabeth in 1794.

I'd be interested to see anything anyone finds that they think might be relevant to this family - please note that I have birth records for Martha, Mary, Elizabeth, Sarah born 1797 (also burial record), Sarah born 1798, Catharine and Edward born 1804, after his father's death.

Regards,
Glen

[retiringtype]

Just in case anyone is looking for the 1789 marriage. It was at St Peter's. The witnesses also appear on other marriage records on the same page.

[Hilary]

Maybe Mary married again, she was still young and had a lot of children to bring up.

[Gwebb1]

Thanks, both.

Yes, I'll try looking for possible marriages for a Mary Davies. I'm coming over to Liverpool in early May so if anyone can think of any lines of enquiry I can follow up at the Record Office, please let me know.

Regards,
Glen

[MaryA]

Will be great to see you if you can manage to coincide your visit with a Tuesday afternoon at the Help Desk.

[Gwebb1]

I'll see what I can do. You and other members of the Society have given me so much advice in recent years via the website that I would like to thank you personally.
G.

[Hilary]

There's this one

Marriage: 7 Nov 1807 St Nicholas, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
William Humphreys - Cordwainer, Liverpool
Mary Davies - (X), Widow, same Parish
Witness: Edward Coventry; James Anderton
Married by Banns by: Ls. Pughe Curate
Register: Marriages 1807, Page 486, Entry 295
Source: LDS Film 93839

[Gwebb1]

Thank you for all your contributions. They have given me a few alternatives and I've made some tentative follow-ups but I think I'll have to shelve this line of enquiry for now as I just don't have anything definite enough at the moment.
No doubt something will turn up sometime in the future... probably when I am following a different lead altogether!

Cheers.

Glen