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The Janetta Leslie family are back in Scotland I believe going on a free search of 1911...All names with correct ages come up in same household.

Here they are.

Robert Leslie..Commercial traveller of machinery...Age 54
Janette age 49..Married 24 yrs .6 children born..6 living.
Alexander m>>>>>>>Law clerk
Stewart 18.........Clerk
Evelyn m 23>>>>>Clerk
Hilda M..15
Janette 12
Margaret M ..6..Born Scotland

19 Duthie Place...Aberdeen.
District...St Machar.




I used Hilda as my basis and each time there was only one match with other names in same house.

Hands up whoever has a bruise on their forehead from hitting a brick wall.... :-(

Longshots are possibly the only chance we have.....:-(



Takes deep breath - looks at the sunshine - hey! it's another day and who knows what we may find :-D :-D

Hello Folks,
I am full of bumps and bruises caused by all the brick walls that I have hit, I am puzzled as to where to look now as most stones seem to have been turned. Diane certainly made a good job of hiding her origins, just wish I knew why.
Sadly as I have said before there are no papers and photo,s etc of Dianes past as we were bombed out several times during WW2 and all that kind of thing was lost , there were times when we we so poor we didnt have a pot to p**s in as the saying goes, but at least we survived.
Have any of you ever come up against such a puzzle before?? or is the Diane story quite common??
Love to all
Evelyn X

I think the biggest problem Evelyn is that you are looking at relatively recent times. If she had been born 50 years or so earlier, there would be easier access to records. You wouldn´t have existed as you, but that´s irrelevent.
I have a great Uncle who was born in 1873. He disappears in the 1901 & 1911 census & believe me, I have searched endlessly. But then he re appears in 1926 electoral registers, living with a woman whom he never married. No idea why except that he could easily have married someone else in the "blank" years.This woman must have left him, because he married in 1936 to someone else & only lived 6 months after the marriage. What a fiasco, but where the h**l was he for the missing 20 years.
None of this helps your search for Diana of course. Just thought I´d mention it to show that your mother wasn´r really exceptional.

I have been working (on and off)on a couple of others Evelyn....Like Wisechilds uncle and your mother they too are missing for at least a 20 year span and one of them seems to have vanished off the face of the earth after 1891,except for a pic taken C1901 in Liverpool,but being a Elizabeth Evans makes her harder anyway.
But I still search for a couple of births for another lady everyso oftenwith no joy...Got her grandma on census and birth places she says...But no Reg office for miles around have found her under her given name on census and marriage nor under what I know to be her mothers maiden name.

Found a death of someone the other day under her maiden name..She was married just one month when she died and it says wife of..On her headstone so why reg her in maiden name???
Some of these things are only to keep us occupied I fear and make us tear our hair out.

I am going to get to Dorchester as soon as I can but was unable to go when I wanted before due to a little ill health...I will get there before Xmas though and search for that Article that is supposed to be "Aunt Kate"...

I have now found out exactly where the Dorset Evening Echo backcopy newspapers are held.......Dorset History Centre.
Got opening times and been told that they are all on microfiche now..
They are shut on Mondays and between Oct 20th and Nov 12th for refurb....Soooooooo...Gonna try and get there before Oct 20th Obviously...

Am already at the planning stage....

But being a daily paper I may be gone some time..
:-(
I do hope your memory serves you correctly Ev cos if its a different newspaper and not the DEE you will be getting a thank you card...NOT.!!

Hope you is feeling a little better now.

Fan..xxx

It was that paper Viv, thats the only paper that we used to get except on Sunday,s,it was in that same newspaper that my engagement to my first love was announced in 1948, had I married him I would have been a very young widow as he died in 1966.

How can I ever thank you for all your kindness to me Viv, you are a true friend, I am very grateful to you.
I am O K at the moment. Ian is still hanging on but the prognoses is not good.

Love to everyone
Evelyn X

So was it prior to your engagement announcment on "day".."month"1948 then Ev or after??

Anything that cuts down the years I will be searching is good. :-D

And my son (No 2,Mr Hs dad)tells me the road from him to there is now a good one and approx 45mins journey...May be able to talk him into coming too to have help...He is bright enough(just)to at least be able to read.

Now for the arm breaking talk.to him :-D

Fans?

Somewhere on this thread, IF one had bothered to keep up to date with it of course, one would have found that I knew it was the Dorset History centre where the newspaper fiche could be found as I had been in touch with them. They said it was too wide a search of date for them to undertake the search themselves so I asked ages ago if anyone was going that way.


Sheeeeeeesh....can't get the staff these days. At least it will keep you out of mischief for a while :-P


Tell your son that he would be helping a lovely elderly lady - naturally, I mean Evelyn, not you - although you ARE elderly.


Evelyn? For heaven's sake, don't hug Fans........she works much better when we're horrid! ;-)


Glad you're okay but you must be worried about your brother. Take care and, hopefully, we will be able to stop knocking our heads against those brickwalls soon. <3

Just a silly question.
Would Whateverernameis have had to produce a birth certificate or any other proof of age/parentage etc when she married Evelyn´s Dad.?
I know that Evelyn doesn´t have the cert, but it would help to prove that one existed at the time.
Just our luck for it not to have been required.

Hello All,
Sorry Viv I dont remember the dates, not much help am I ?
I doubt that a birth cert. would have been needed for Diane and my dads marriage as both were over 21, I could be wrong.
I must remember not to be too soft with Viv wont I Cynthia, but I find that hard as she has been so kind to me as have you and lots of others on this thread, I love you all and feel like you are my family.
Viv I hope Ishbel is being good if not you had better send her to me.
Love to all
Evelyn X

Son says he will help with the search :-D

And drive me there and back from his when I go....Two pairs of eyes make half the work.

My son CAN be nice to me sometimes unlike a certain person called SIN.. :-P :-P

Are you still looking for Kate/Catherine Maclean?

this could be her death

Surname Given Name District Volume Page
Deaths Mar 1951
MACLEAN Kate Bournemouth 6b 251
age 82

Bournemouth and it spans the boundaries of the counties of Dorset and Hampshire;

sorry found death of Murdo MacLean 1949 stornoway says he was widower of Catherine Stephen,

probate to Peter Mitchell Pope Maclean of 72 Keith Street Stornoway

address was 24 lewis street stornoway

catherine died 9 Sept 1947 stornoway

Not to worry but thanks for joining in Vicci.


We are waiting for Fans to go obituary hunting.........until then.......?????


:-S :-D

i am going to the place on 18th Oct and also 19th Oct if I have to as its a lot of papers to go through even with 2 of us..
Health permitting me to make the drive to Somerset first of course...

Most of my plans get health in the way so I try hard not to make hard and fast plans nowadays...
But I gotta get there before 20th Oct before they shut for refurb...Now you can all go hold yer breaths till I return from Somerset...
I may post if I do find summat...But maybe I shall just keep it all to myself if I do just to drive you lot even more nuts. :-P

Oh you are naughty Viv, but we all love you lots (I think )
Love to all
Evelyn XX

In the first half of 1948 the Weymouth theatre put on a production called

Gaslight............. :-D

Did all of 1948 and the second half of 1947 today of the Echo with help from R ,my lovely DI.L.....Found a story about a lady called Jane age 105...But she was from Weymouth and still alive at time of article.

I go back tomorrow on my own to do more...Didnt get there till 1pm today as I had to take Mr H to dentist first but will get in earlier tomorrow..

They threw me out today at closing time..But I marked my place ;-)

And Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeesh...They say crime/murder and worse are rife today...Some of what we read through made your hair wanna stand up...That was some of the prob...We got engrossed in other stuff at times....

1948? Speed up dear do! And please concentrate on the matter in hand.


She's so easily led astray folks! sighs..........shakes head.......sighs again.