Talk:Thomas Brierley grave cipher

Latest comment: 3 years ago by Ingratis in topic Date of death

A start

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I put this up in a hurry. I will link references in good time and stick my photos up of the memorial. This is the best I could come up with from the available evidence (including GRO, newspaper articles, commentaries, books, archives etc - many of which are contradictory and some clearly wrong). Please add any refs you have on this article in the meanwhile. I will asure you though that the articles that describe him as having eight brothers - of various names including Abishai, Joab etc are incorrect. It was his father. His father, Joab/Job, had eight brothers: George (Hurst), Daniel, Jesse, Abishai, Asahel, Ittai/Hite, Didymus and Gideon (just in case some local experts wanted to know). Their father was John Brierley and he was known as the man with "nine sons".

Candy 12:21, 10 September 2006 (UTC)Reply

Refs

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I put some refs up. Not certain the best way to do this as some of them conflict and some most likely have exaggerated parts. I could rewrite the article to be more scholarly ... According to X jada, jada, but according to Y, blah, blah, although Z agrees with X. However, it will quickly become unreadable. On the otherhand, this article is PoV becasue I have chosen what seems to be the most likely from the sources (generally favouring the earlier sources over the later ones). Any thoughts? Does anyone visit this page ? Candy 12:44, 7 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

Interesting

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A quite interesting article, however, it seems to be a bit subjective... I am just interested, where did you learn about this man?

Endedneeds06 (talk) 22:14, 2 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

From a link from both the Mellor wiki pages (I was born in Manchester) and from Simon Singh's homepage (I had read his work on Ciphers). The gravestone is well known in the region and is a tourist spot. --Candy (talk) 17:16, 3 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Requested move 24 January 2020

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved to "Thomas Brierley grave cipher". (non-admin closure) Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:29, 1 February 2020 (UTC)Reply



Thomas Brierley → ? – At Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Thomas Brierley (2nd nomination), multiple editors have opined that this article should be renamed and reworked to shift the focus from the person to his grave stone or its cipher. Where should this article be moved to? feminist (talk) 06:43, 24 January 2020 (UTC)Reply


The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.
Just to note that User:Dl2000 considered moving the article following this consensus was for some reason vandalism. I have asked them why. MilborneOne (talk) 17:42, 1 February 2020 (UTC)Reply
Page is moved back to consensus result, concede it wasn't vandalism. Apologies for not tracking this move discussion. Hopefully the article is where it should be. Dl2000 (talk) 18:59, 1 February 2020 (UTC)Reply

Date of death

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There is agreement between the letters of administration and the burial register that TB died in 1855. Unless the unnamed source for a supposed death in 1854 is forthcoming I think this is enough to state 1855 as the year of death. Ingratis (talk) 22:41, 30 March 2021 (UTC)Reply