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Topic: Long shot from NZ! a SAUNDERS - SHEPHERD connection from 1911 (Read 421 times)
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Sue Lancashire
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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My grandmother Irene Mary Saunders was born in Whippingham Road Brighton, 6 FEB 1911, to Elizabeth Saunders of Fisherton Anger, Aldebury in Wiltshire. Elizabeth's birth is about 1889 to Frank and Catherine Saunders . My grandma was adopted out as a baby, or infant, by an "aunt and uncle"..... Mr and Mrs Shepherd. No first names are known. The only concrete info that I have is that Mr Shepherd (not sure of spelling) was in the Royal Navy and he (plus wife and child) were stationed in Hong Kong for about 13 years, returning to England around 1936-39. There are possible links to Mt Victoria Hospital. Gran had a southern england accent and possible links to Weston Super Mare. There is little else to go on, to gain further information about her adoptive parents. Just hoping that someone in the Wiltshire area may have a few drops in the bucket before I start trying to swim this ocean of research from NZ. Irene Mary married John Read of Salford, Lancs in 1939. He was stationed at Colchester military base and I think they met in Brighton. Thank you for reading ...any clues, tips or advice will be gratefully taken on board.
Sue
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Baxter, Kellet, Jennings, Marsden, Read, Speakman in Lancashire
Read, Roberts in Denbighshire
Saunders in Wiltshire, Sussex
Batchelor, Whalen in Sussex
Sheppard in Wiltshire, Hampshire
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Sue Lancashire
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Posts: 30
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Thank you Jan and Judith for your helpful replies. I will look at marriage witnesses again for the Shepherd connection.
I know that mother Elizabeth and baby Irene Mary were at Whippingham Road but I did not know who the rest of the household was... thank you, I can now elimate this address for clues.
Just to confirm, I am looking for the adopting parents...I have been able to collect birth parent information. I will order Elizabeth Saunders birth certificate, however, so that I can look for a possible marriage and other children.
As you say a "Shepherd" in Brighton could be a needle in a haystack. I am hoping that a 'Naval employee, 13 years serving in Hong Kong in the 1920's and 30's and having an adopted daughter Irene Mary' may ring someone's bells.
Irene used her birth name of Saunders for her marriage. She probably had to... adoptions were not formal and official until the 1920's. Marriages required a birth certificate, I think.
Thanks again, I really appreciate your time and thinking, SUE.
Thank you both once again
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Baxter, Kellet, Jennings, Marsden, Read, Speakman in Lancashire
Read, Roberts in Denbighshire
Saunders in Wiltshire, Sussex
Batchelor, Whalen in Sussex
Sheppard in Wiltshire, Hampshire
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stannarp
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Posts: 322
Lady Godiva - 2006
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Sue,
I know you're not specifically looking for Saunders information, but I may have a link with your Saunders family - was the Frank Saunders you mention possibly Frank Saunders b 1857, Boscombe; parents: Robert Saunders & Sarah Webb?
If so, and you are interested in building links to other people researching this family, please PM me as I've done a fair amount of research in this regard also.
Regards,
Patricia Stannard
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ABBOTT:dorset; somerset
BENNET: south africa
CAVE: hampshire
EUDEY: redruth, cornwall
FELTON: borley, essex
HARTILL: bilston, staffordshire
HERMANSSON/HERMANSON: sweden; SA; usa
INGS: wiltshire
MERCER: wiltshire
MINCHINGTON: somerset, dorset
PHILLIPS: australia
ROSE: somerset; wiltshire; SA
SADLER: somerset
SAUNDERS: wiltshire
SELLER: staffordshire, devon, australia, SA
STANNARD: norfolk; victoria, australia; SA
STREET: wiltshire
VINCENT: wiltshire
WARE: somerset
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