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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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

Just to add to Jan s


Name: Evelyn Leslie
Age: 7
Birth Date: 13 Oct 1889
School: Belleville Road School
Address: WEBB'S ROAD
Borough: Wandsworth
Admission Date: 1 Mar 1897
Parent: Robert
Notes: Belleville Road School (0405) opened in 1877. Remodelled in 1900. Became Belleville Primary School in 1951
Reference Number: LCC/EO/DIV09/BEL/AD/005
Name: Eveline Milne Leslie
Record Type: Baptism
Estimated Birth Date: abt 1888
Baptism Date: 25 Mar 1888
Father's Name: Robert Berney Leslie
Mother's Name: Jannetta Leslie
Parish or Poor Law Union: St Pancras St Paul
Borough: Camden
Register Type: Parish Registers

****Had to post this!!
perhaps she was older than she said and didn't like her given name (edit sadly she died in 1903)

Name: MCLEOD, Blossom Flower
Registration district: Wandsworth
County: London
Year of registration: 1902
Quarter of registration: Apr-May-Jun
Mother's maiden name: Not available before 1911 Q3
Volume no: 1D
Page no: 721
:-) :-) :-)

a really long shot but not finding this family after 1901 census

RG number: RG13
Piece: 459
Folio: 23
Page: 37
Reg. District: Wandsworth
Sub District: South West Battersea
Parish: Battersea
Enum. District: 25
Ecclesiastical District: Wandsworth Common St Michael
City/Municipal Borough:
Address: 64, Bramfield Road, Battersea
County: London
Name Relation Condition Sex Age Birth Year Occupation , Disability Where Born
LESLIE, Robert B Head Married M 42 1859 Traveller Granite & Marble
Scotland
LESLIE, Jannetta Wife Married F 38 1863
Scotland
LESLIE, Evelyn M Daughter Single F 13 1888
Kentish Town, London
LESLIE, Alexander M Son Single M 11 1890
Battersea, London
LESLIE, Stewart Son Single M 8 1893
Battersea, London
LESLIE, Hilda M Daughter Single F 5 1896
Battersea, London
LESLIE, Netta Daughter Single F 2 1899
Battersea, London

Hello Evelyn..... :-D

So glad to know that you are still alive and kicking!! All I can think of at the moment is, perhaps, for you to look through any papers you have on your mum - maybe old photographs - anything from back then. Sometimes things just scribbled down can shed light on a mystery.


Stay well dear friend........ :-D

Hi Evelyn.
Good to know you´re OK even if a bit sad. When friends start popping off, it makes you aware of your own mortality.
Have a Mr Grumpy of my own at the moment & he´s only had a hernia repair.
You´d think it was major surgery.
So I´m keeping my head down & spending as much time as possible quietly on the PC.
Marion

Hello Everyone,
I am still alive and kicking though rather sad as I have lost 2 dear friends within 3 weeks of each other, both to the big C, this of course reminds me of the horrid year I had last year watching my beloved Mr Grumpy suffer with the same outcome. At the moment folk seem to be dropping like flies soon I shall have no friends left, guess I need to shake my feathers get on with life and think of other things.
I hope you are all well and happy. I would be a lot happier if we could solve the puzzle of Diane, the woman of mystery, I just do not know where else to look for any clues, every one of you have been so helpful in trying to solve the mystery and seem to have left no stone unturned and still the darned woman has beaten us.
Must have some lunch, tummy rumbling
Much Love
Evelyn XX

Thanks Cynthia.
Where to look next? 64000 dollar question.
Beginning to feel pretty sure that she lied about her age too. So many things just don´t add up. :-| :-| :-| :-|

Hi wisechild,

I don't know how Evelyn is as I haven't heard from her since she last posted. Must do a check and see that she's okay.


I don't think the quietness is due to the holidays, I think it's because we're not sure when to turn next.

Haven't a clue as to whether Dinah is short for Christina or not to be honest. The only part of our Diana's name that we're fairly certain of, is the Leslie bit. She was very specific about that according to Evelyn. But....Leslie as in a man's name or Leslie as in a surname or Leslie in Fife?????

What does anyone else think about Christina/Dinah?? Possible?


Where next folks?

Evelyn.
Hope you are OK.
It´s been vety quiet on this board for 2 weeks.
Everyone on holiday??

Just seen a post on Living Relatived board from "Theresa with Irish blood in me veins"
Nothing to do with your family Evelyn, but she refers to a relative as Christina Known as Dinah????
I wonder if this was a common pet name for Christinas.

Sorry folks - got side tracked :-(


Evelyn, sorry you have been a bit under the weather - hope you feel lots better now.

I can't even remember where I was up to on this....had better go and do some swotting up.......