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I will pm her last known address she may still be there

also details of a facebook account

I tried sending her an email. I'm just hoping she's still around. Is there any other way to contact or find her descendants?

Hi Amanda welcome to the boards

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Hi Cherry,
My grandfather was your mothers brother! He immigrated to New Zealand around 1920. We would love to know about his family as he never told us anything.....
Hoping to hear from you.
Amanda Pink

Thanks Cherry, bit far too come from the Wirral to compare the slide South of all our bits! Lots of brass monkeys waiting in A + E up here too....Helen

Oh Helen, you'd be so welcomed! I live on the sunshine coast, Eastbourne! but today it's cold enough to freeze the..........brass monkey!

ROFLMHO! Meet you down there! Helen

Well trouble is Helen I've got what my Uncle from Ooop North called a 'cap rack nose' so you can hang anything on it! Only thing these days that faces North! Rest of the body is going South rapidly

you are doing fine....as well as the rest of us anyway....both Tracy and me gave you your own Mum's birth ref....shows how much we read the first sentence in your request!! LOL It is sometimes the 'twigs' that lead me off for weeks at a time because they are so fascinating....I have pages and pages of info about my GG Grandads first wife and family and I am related through the second. To do this hobby well I think you just need to be plain nosey...lol Good Luck Helen

Aw.. sorry Helen - Tracy did! Perhaps I'm not cut out to be an apprentice genealogist but I've got such a yearning to know who they all were! Cherry

Cherry, glad to help....less intuition and more use of the website....lol Tracy already found the birth for you 'found these births... Birth Mar 1920 Hallett Josephine Reed Steyning.2b 631' Helen

Yes, Georgina, thank you, that was Grandma Priscilla! Again someone is spot on! I can remember her - just - and researching her history, the family are absolutely fascinating! Thanks for your time, all of this has meant a lot to me. Cherry

Oh my goodness - what wonderful sleuths you all are! Yes Helen, that could be the mistake, Josie died when Mum was 13 not Josie died when she was 13. Both my Mum and my Aunt said that Grannie fed Josie bread and milk with brandy , honey, butter and vegetables from Granddad's allotment but it didn't help the poor little kitten, sad isn't it when you think that today she could have perhaps been 'mended' And thanks Orangeblossom that's my Mum's birth Sept quar 1912, she was born 3/08/1912! and her Dad was Hallett and her Mum Reed. I'd be so appreciative if Helen would look for the birth for me but I feel it's a lot to ask after all you guys have done for me today. Don't think I can ever aspire to being as 'intuitive' as you lot! Thanks so much for all your help Cherryx

Thanks Tracy think that is the birth Helen

I found these births... Birth Mar 1920 Hallett Josephine Reed Steyning.2b 631 Birth Dec 1914 Hallett Kathleen Reed Isle Of Wight.2b 1013 Birth Jun 1913 Hallett Hedley Reed Isle Of Wight.2b 1118 Birth Sep 1912 Hallett Bertha M Reed Steyning.2b 444 Don't know if the middle two are yours though. Helen, I think you're right about the ages :)

Just thought that would be when your Mum was 13....think that could be the mistake???? Helen

ok got death reference and this may explain the birth problem... Josephine Hallett Steyning 2b 313 JAS 1925....AGE 5! Want me to look for birth? Helen

Hallett Bertha M Reed Steyning.2b 444 Birth JAS THINK THIS IS A SIBLING....ooops sorry....don't know if this is your mum

Cherry this looks like Priscilla in 1901 she is a Cafe Waitress, living alone.... Priscilla G Reed abt 1882 Brighton, Sussex, England Head Brighton Sussex 1891 census... Read, Lilie D abt 1882 Brighton, Sussex, England Daughter Brighton Sussex Read, Louisa E abt 1842 Astbury, Sussex, England Wife Brighton Sussex Read, Mina C abt 1880 Brighton, Sussex, England Daughter Brighton Sussex Read, Pricilla C abt 1882 Brighton, Sussex, England Daughter Brighton Sussex Read, Thomas abt 1841 M Murfards, Leicestershire, England Head Brighton Sussex Read, William G abt 1877 Allalabad, India Son Brighton Sussex Source information: RG12/808 Registration district: Brighton Sub registration district: St Peter ED, institution, or vessel: 27 Folio: 68 Page: 38 (click to see others on page) GSU Number: 6095918 Georgina

Oh er Helen, never done that before! Guess I've got to put on my rain bonnet and galoshes and catch a train to Brighton then and make a day of it! Do they let you take your dinner in with you? No, guess not, these places can't have the hoi polloi dropping crumbs all over the shop, whatever next. Seriously though, is that what I do? Perhaps I'd better have a trawl through the Tips Board to see if I can find instructions. Thank you all once again. Cherry