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Oh heck Cynthia I feel as if I have run a marathon, I have finally managed to put Diane,s photo on here, thank you for your help.
Still no trace of the elusive one,she certainly has done a good job hiding her roots,I wonder why

Glad to see this thread is very much still alive. I've just renewed my membership after a few years off but I continued to check this thread. Evelyn, hope your well and I was sad to read your husband has gone to sleep.

I'm going to re-read the full thread again just to refresh my memory and see whats been found.

Evelyn a while back I had a dream that your mother was sent to Scotland during the war( I actually had several weird dreams about your mother a few years ago), I wonder if this actually happened!!! If taking her year of birth 1905/06 or even earlier it would tie in with her age of being about 12/13 years of age and being out in the peat fields with her cousins, she could of been sent away in 1914 age 9.

Hi Traciey - nice to see you :-D


Things have been quiet on here for a while but, fortunately, I am in contact with Evelyn most days. I will let her know that you have posted again.


Unfortunately that old bat FBG, suffered a slight stroke last week and is taking things easy at the moment. How many times have I told her that hanging upside down will do her blood pressure no good at all...... ;-)


So, I suppose, this thread will gently tick over until someone comes up with another idea......and then off we will go again.........



:-) :-) :-)

Hi Cyn, awe poor FBG get well soon. Glad the thread is ticking over, something will crop up one day that will lead us to Diane. In the meantime I'll have a read over it all again.

sorry to hear that fbg welcome to the club

but get better soon
sally w <3

Thank you for your well wishes...I am getting along OK ish now,but early days yet...

And sorry to hear that you have also suffered the same Sally.

But you cant keep a good woman down for long no matter what that Old Baggage Cynfia says..:D

And I am NOT going to be overdoing it with searching for DLM for A WHILE...

i HAVE WEIRD DREAMS THAT ARE OFTEN TRUE TRACiEY SO i WOULD GO WITH YOU THERE FOR A TREK..
Sorry..I forget me caps wotsit now and then but cant be bothered to retype.. :-P :-)

Happy Easter to all those" looking" for Diane xxxx :-)

Thanks Jan.

I'm waiting for a copy of Evelyn's baptism certificate just to see if anyone else is named on there. If they are, we will chase them!! :-D :-D

leaving no stone unturned then ;-)

Sorry if I´m repeating things, but just been looking at the Electoral Registers & saw
Captain Robert Macleod 10 Ovington Gardens Kensington in 1920?
Could it be "our"Robert?

1919 electoral roll at that address was Alice Olivia Macleod!

1911 ?Alice says married 14 years 4 children but then has a red line through it
no husband on census
Name:
Alice Oliver Macleod
Age in 1911:34
Estimated Birth Year:abt 1877
Relation to Head:Wife
Gender:Female
Birth Place:Pitlochry, Perthshire
Civil parish:Hendon
County/Island:Middlesex
Country:England
Street Address:
The Rookery Farm, The Hyde N W
Marital Status:Married
Registration district:Hendon
Registration District Number:130
Household Members:
Alice Oliver Macleod 34
Beryl May Macleod 8
Murice Gilbert 25
Euphemia Johnson 52
Florence Rox Harrold 22
Ida Sityler 34

Elec.roll with Alice Olivia and a Nina Macleod
Name:
Beryl May Macleod

Year:
1929
County or Borough:
Kensington and Chelsea
Ward or Division/Constituency:
Chelsea
Street Address:
14 D'Oyley Street

Thanks Wisechild - to be honest, we have looked at so many Robert MacLeods, that I would need to go through the thread again to see those we have eliminated.

Alice and Olivia aren't ringing any bells though.....I will check and see how Viv is and if she can remember anything.


Thanks.... :-D :-D

Cynthia.
Don´t I know!!!
That´s why I didn´t get too excited. The street name vaguely rings a bell, but I´ve got London ancestors too & at my age I get very confused with who is who.
Happy Easter to all anyway.
Marion

well would you beleive it
iwent to school at the hydeiit is now a council estate but lots of open space not far from hendon flying drome :-0

not that it helps

sally w <3

Has anyone tried searching www.London-gazette.co.uk?


I am now hooked after reading the thread for hours....so far I am up to page 51.....so quite a way to go.

Hello Susan and welcome aboard... :-D


Has anyone tried search the London Gazette? To be honest, I really don't know but it would certainly be worth a try. Thanks for the idea.....as you can see, we try absolutely anything on here.


I have been down the route of trying to find out who Evelyn's other Godparents were in case they were relations...............(one lives in hope).

Anyway, after a couple of attempts, I discovered which church has Dafforne Road in it's parish (most baptisms in those days took place in the local parish church).

I have had two very pleasant phone calls with the incumbent, who has personally looked through the records for me. Nope.....no sign....but we had a very nice conversation :-D


He has suggested another parish which may be likely, so I am getting onto that later. I had wondered if her parents had taken her back to the place where they were married but, as it was in a registry office, I was out of luck there too.... :-(


I am making a note to go online with the GR expert tonight!!!

Cynthia. Just a thought. Maybe she was baptised in India as she said she was born there.
My 3xg grandfather was baptised by the army chaplain in France at the end of the Peninsula war, having been born there, but was re baptised with 2 of his younger siblings when the family returned to Birmingham.
So maybe the parents didn´t bother with 2 sets of godparents if she´d already been baptised once.
They seem to have been a funny lot anyway. It beats me how someone can suddenly appear in their 20s leaving not a trace of any previous life.,

yes you have to ask the question "is this her real name"!! :-)