Hi Tara and everyone else
Thanks for your message Tara. I cannot seem to reply to it directly as I get an error message when I try. Elizabeth Mauger's only daughter was Freda Maud Tilbury (nee Brown) and is my grandmother. Elizabeth had a brother called Peter James Mauger who was the one who died at Gallipoli aged 23 in 1915 (to correct what I said in my earlier post). I have his WW1 war medal. Their mother was Betsy Mauger who lived in St Martins, Guernsey. I remember my grandmother telling me that Betsy Mauger could not speak English. She also wore an eye patch, at least in the photos that I have of her. I think that Betsy's father was called Nicholas Mauger, born 1824. He is in the 1881 census as living at Bel Air Cottage, St Martins. One of my oldest photos is of Elizabeth Mauger as a girl standing outside Bel Air Cottage.
Of Elizabeth's children I know that there was Bill, Tom, Arthur, Herbie and Freda (photo 1 attached from 1920), and also Fred (photo 2 attached). Is one of these your grandfather? Have you found the name of Elizabeth's father yet? As you can see most of my information comes from the box of photos that were left to me by my mother, most of which were taken in Guernsey from the 1880's to the 1950s. I would really like to know more about the people in the photos and their relationships to each other. And also about the Mauger's of St Martins, Guernsey.
Best wishes
Tim
