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Oh so very true Janey
my head is spinning to lol
we have two very tearful people at the moment in fact all of us are
this is all so fantastic and still seems so unreal but we are doing this slowly for the two of them so everyone has time for it to sink in
but we are all over the moon
wont be leaving the site as i enjoy being here

PollyPoppet you have made my head spin!!

I have just figured out that you're Wendy - and this is what your own lovely PM was about!

All along I had had no idea that this was *your* family!! I thought you were just popping in to help out like the rest of us. And then I didn't know who this Wendy was who sent me the lovely PM ... with no names in it. ;)

Well this is double great, then! And further proof of genealogy karma -- you hang around here helping other people out long enough, and somebody will do it for you.

You and Elizabeth have found your family members, and I'm all sorted. Phew.

Hi Janey
Sorry i stand corrected
without you providing this none of this would have been possible
So once again
I send you the biggest Thankyou from me my family
And my dad x

Sorry to say, PollyPoppet, not "also". ;)

Elizabeth's lovely PM:


Thank you so much for the information you have provided Janey. You had exactly the right person and I spoke to [Margaret's daughter]'s husband, Margaret's son in law this morning before I went to work. We have now confirmed all and a brother and half sister are being put in touch with one another by phone this evening, Margaret in Essex and [Margaret's brother] [in Arbroath, East Scotland. [Margaret's brother]has not seen her since she was 2 or 3 years old and Margaret was so young she didn't know if she even had any siblings. It's a great outcome - thank you again for all you've done, it is most appreciated.


The trick really was in all those middle names of Margaret's!

n
this up for Janey
who also played a part in this
so a big thankyou Janey
xxx

Ah - nope, she was the doppelganger. ;)

It was very lucky Margaret had all those middle names - that's what found the marriage and births to tie to the surname for Gillian!

all i sent Elizabeth
was i thought her maiden name was wilkins
and to ask if she posted this thread helping me

I still wish I understood what you got up to, PollyPoppet ...

It really can help to know the kind of info that was found/sent, even just as a tip for future searching.

Hi Elizabeth and everyone
what can i say but except
I thankyou you and your other half from the bottom of my heart for all your hard work
And everyone who helped
this is so fantastic and a very emotional time for me and my family
and without you and everyone who helped we would not be reuniting my dad and his sister who he hasnt seen since he was 4 and she was 2
my dad is 80 this year
we are all busy trying to sort things out but hope to reunite them as soon as possible
You are two truly amazing people and i hope we all keep in conact as without you this would not be happening
Thankyou xx

You were busy calling the number I gave you and having a telephone reunion!

Got your PM, and you are most welcome, and best wishes to all of you.

Apologies for not replying sooner, just got the message early am today and have been at work since then. Good news is we have found the Margaret Ewen with your fantastic help and two people now in their 70s are being reunited by phone as we speak. Can't tell you how excited we all are. Very many thanks to all who posted replies to my thread.

I'm just not understanding.

Is that something new from Elizabeth?

I PMed her everything she could possibly need last night, and she's read the message! (unless I found a family of doppelgangers, Gillian was not Wilkins - that person's mother was not Ewen - and that marriage is completely unrelated.) Still don't know what you sent her, PollyPoppet ...

Hi Everyone
I think Elizabeth has posted this trying to help me
margaret elsie jane christie ewen is my dads sister we are trying to trace her
we know she didnt marry in scotland
but i believe she married in england to a ? wilkins dont have any dates but think it was in bristol
she had a daughter gillian wilkins who married i think a raymond mayes
again i dont have a date of birth or marriage
again i think this took place in bristol
she had a thread on ancestrey looking for family of her mother margaret
which all details match with mine but we are finding it hard to contact her
she has also posted on here i have pm her also but had no reply as they are old threads i feel she may no longer be on the site
i am so close to finding her for my dad so any help would be greatly appreciated
thankyou
i have pm Elizabeth but had no answer as yet

Edited,as it was just idle gossip.
viv

Sorry Tom -- I did try to make it clear what I found!

Margaret married in England and her children were born and married there, and I found contact info (address and telephone number) for one of the children, in England, and Margaret and her husband on the current electoral roll in England.

I guess maybe Elizabeth did contact you and then didn't let you know my results?

I'm really rather surprised not to have heard back myself ...

Although I found her birth record in 1933 there is no record of a death in Scotland from 1933 up till today for this person. There were a few named Margaret Ewen but non with the same middle names or parentage.

Tom

Could not find a marriage in Scotland from age 16 for Margaret. I tried to find a birth in Scotland for Gillian under the mothers maiden surname of Ewen but again no luck.

I will check the death indexes and see if I can find anything there.

Tom

PollyPoppet, I hope you didn't spend time doing all over what I did and sent to Elizabeth -- Margaret's marriage, two daughters, daughters' marriages and contact info for one daughter. Did you send the contact info for Margaret and her husband maybe? It would be nice to know, given the time that I did spend on it.

Elizabeth has read my message but I have had no reply.

pm sent

Elizabeth?

Just to add, Margaret and her husband whose name I sent you are on the current electoral roll.

If the contact info I provided for a daughter of Margaret, from BT on line, doesn't work, you can ask Whirley or Jean here at GR for an electoral roll lookup of contact details for those names together in Essex, they are the only household that matches. You can PM Whirley or Jean (not both of course) via their threads:

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=1190509
or
http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=1191569