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Latest New page for Patston scalemakers of Bethnal Green Updated pages for Moore/Fox (London and Wiltshire) and Wollaston/Pollard (Wing, Bucks) Apologies for the lack of updates - normal service will be resumed eventually! |
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left - photo without date or names - photographer A Searle, Marple Recent updates |
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Memories of Crewe Do you remember Dick Barton, the Ovaltineys and the Odeon cinema club? So did a little girl from Crewe!... Wartime memories from Cheshire
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Lawley
mysteries
Joseph Lawley was born in Warwickshire, married a Shropshire girl, and died in Cheshire. His occupation was variously shown as watchmaker, shoemaker and police officer?! Why were his daughter Louisa and son living with confectioner Vincent Crump? See new Lawley page
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New page for Eglon and Gray family from Whitby, Yorkshire above - Richard Eglon, lifeboatman with bravery medal |
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Hulse Mystery continues Other news - was the elusive James HULSE, really a Hulse? New information suggests he was born James EGERTON, before his mother married Thomas Hulse. |
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left Geoffrey and Cyril Waine in the sea cadets in 1940s. Waine family from Cheshire
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Edna Waine left (born 1921) was descended from Samuel Waine Margaret Hulse (right) was born in Crewe Cheshire, picture taken about 1915. Margaret was the daughter of Samuel Hulse and Mary Ann Barley (Hulse family) Mary Ann was daughter of Henry Barley a shoemaker from Wolverton, Bucks (Barley family) Many of the family were attracted to Crewe (Coppenhall), working in Crewe railway works |
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Right approx 1910, centre is Gladys Baker born Tottenham 22 April 1894. (Baker family) Her father Samuel (born 1864) and grandfather Robert (born 1835) were born in Bethnal Green, East London |
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Robert
Baker's mother Mary Wright born 1806 came from Aston in Hertfordshire. Her
father was a blacksmith
Gladys' mother was Emma Emily Moore, the Moore family came from Tottenham. |
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John
Pepper was born in 1852 in Great Dunmow, an Essex
town famous for the Dunmow Flitch. He married Charlotte Cant from Little
Maplestead. (Cant family)
John had a building business in Dunmow which was taken over by sons Frank and Harry. (Pepper family) (left Leslie Pepper, born 1928, son of Harry Pepper and Gladys) Some of Leslie's memoirs from the 1940s can be read here. |
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Henry Bass was born in 1820 in St Pancras. His son James Bass was born in Islington in 1863 James Bass a compositor /printer (pictured second right) back had nine children in St Pancras. |
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Last but not least, there are some very special people, not on our family tree, who are never the less, remembered as a special part of our family. If you have any interest in any of these families or subjects , please get in touch |
| This page was last updated: | September 17, 2006 |
