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Hi everyone. Haven't heard from Evelyn for a while so I hope she is okay.........sending love to her.... <3


About 18 months ago, I sent a message to person on FB who had the surname Goddard-Fenwick, in the hope that they were related to Evelyn's Godmother and could help.


Just this week they have replied with apologies and asking how they can help. I have filled them in (very briefly) with the details of our search for DLM and hope that they get back to me soon. If no-one from the family can recall anything about Diane, then that avenue may be closed for a while.


Meanwhile.........we keep on beavering away...

:-D :-D :-D

ScotlandsPeople now has wills up to 1925. Might be worth searching them!

Hi Evelyn.
Hope you are OK because it´s been very quiet on the thread for a couple of weeks, although I know that several people are beavering away behind the scenes.
Marion

You've done well Fans..............for your age of course! Shouldn't you be putting your feet up and all that??? ;-)


We won't give up Evelyn..........hope you are feeling brighter today <3


:-D

Thank you Chris Ho...I will take a bow...I like a bow in my hair for parties..

But didnt do as good as all of us would have liked though.....

Quick change and shouting at granchers to get to bed and here party I come. ;-)

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You did good FBG, have a big pat on the back, lol.

(if Evelyn reads through those old letters, well, you never know!)...

Chris :)

I went back yesterday and found nothing....I admit I had to look at front pages only and scan read others...I have done from 1945 through to 1949 bar a few months and some missing issues...But found nothinbg that could have been the story.

Please would you email or PM me with All of that memory please Ev?
And maybe take some time to think on the most likely time?
I have some poss surnames I will send you,not from that paper from elsewhere...
But not tonight Josephine..

I aint given up yet...Not quite...

I shall return there after they reopen when I visit this crew again....

I am short on time now as I have had lots of family commitments too since getting here...Lumbered with the Twin girls..Toddler Fee and Mr H every time I turned round ...Talk about make use of the Nan thats staying..!!

I now have to put em to bed and make my way to my Sister Out Of Laws 40th surprise party as soon as they are alsleep and the child sitter turns up..

Son and DIL long gone as they are doing the disco..

WOE is a grandmothers life..

Back home on Sun night and my own puter Mon..Will be back then.

On Mr Hs lappie and I dont like it much..
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:-(

Viv you are a gem,wish I could be there with you.
Things are not too good at the moment, more friends popped their clogs, has anyone got any good news???? I could do with some joy in my life, who knows what tomorrow will bring
Been trying to clear out years of clutter from the attic, takes a lot of time as I tend to read every letter etc.
Love to all
Evelyn X

It's a very lengthy search - it's so kind of you to do it but I really feel it will take much longer than you think!

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.

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....

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

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

Not to worry but thanks for joining in Vicci.


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


:-S :-D

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

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;

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

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

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.

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