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Pembrokeshire / Re: COUSINS of Freystrop, Wales
« on: Wednesday 15 November 23 22:44 GMT (UK)  »
Rees, I have just read your this evening's replies and thank you
As I said earlier I need to shuffle a lot of past papers to get up to speed again.
What I do remember is that my great grand parents were Nicholas and Elinor GRUNNAH of Freystrop and that their eldest daughter married a COUSINS.
VDP

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Pembrokeshire / Re: COUSINS of Freystrop, Wales
« on: Wednesday 15 November 23 17:00 GMT (UK)  »
my great aunt Beatrice(Bevan) married a William James Cousins(b.1900 m.1924d.1968) lived in Bryn-y-garn Freystrop.

Hello mrsb06 ... I have only just seen your message about Beatrice and William James COUSINS and apologise for not replying before now. Are you still in touch with Rootschat? i hope so.
In the meantime I need to do a lot of paper shuffling as I haven't touched my family history for quite a while.
VDP


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Armed Forces / Re: HMT Robert Bowen sunk 9th October 1940
« on: Sunday 23 October 22 12:25 BST (UK)  »
I had contact with Seaweed but it looks as if he is no longer of this world (I hope I have misunderstood the line under his name).
Yes, sadly he died in August 2022.
I had contact with Seaweed but it looks as if he is no longer of this world (I hope I have misunderstood the line under his name).
Yes, sadly he died in August 2022.
How very sad
Sasha

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Armed Forces / Re: HMT Robert Bowen sunk 9th October 1940
« on: Sunday 23 October 22 12:15 BST (UK)  »
Hi Andy and thank you for your very prompt reply.
To be fair I am already in touch with the Hopkin and Turrell descendants and my father was Arthur Stanley Wilson (the Australian but living in the UK!).
I shall certainly get onto that link you have sent me and am very appreciative.
In the past I had contact with Seaweed but it looks as if he is no longer of this world (I hope I have misunderstood the line under his name).
Again many thanks and take care
Sasha

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Armed Forces / HMT Robert Bowen sunk 9th October 1940
« on: Sunday 23 October 22 05:16 BST (UK)  »
Amazingly the wreck of HMT Robert Bowen (a converted trawler) has recently been discovered by divers off the Aberdeen coast.
I have a list of the crew and would very much like to contact other descendants, after all these years, if possible. Any suggestions how I could do this would be very helpful.

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Hertfordshire / Re: Birth father's grave in Bishop's Stortford
« on: Thursday 15 September 22 11:53 BST (UK)  »
Hi LizzieL ... many thanks for getting back to me with your two suggestionss.

I have now 'phoned the BS cemetery office and the lady there has no record if the holder of the grave deed is still alive. However, she did suggest I follow his sister's line to see if there are any living descendants I could try and trace ... I can see this will be my week-end task🤣

Again many thanks ...
Sasha
Many thanks
Sasha

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Hertfordshire / Re: Birth father's grave in Bishop's Stortford
« on: Thursday 15 September 22 10:41 BST (UK)  »
Hi LizzieL ... many thanks for getting back to me with your two suggestionss.

I have now 'phoned the BS cemetery office and the lady there has no record if the holder of the grave deed is still alive. However, she did suggest I follow his sister's line to see if there are any living descendants I could try and trace ... I can see this will be my week-end task🤣

Again many thanks ...
Sasha

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Hertfordshire / Re: Birth father's grave in Bishop's Stortford
« on: Thursday 15 September 22 08:58 BST (UK)  »
If somebody else owns the deeds to the grave, you would not be allowed to erect a headstone without their permission.   The Cemetary office cannot release details of that person to you - privacy rules.

If he died in 1954 you would have to trace living members of his family yourself to find the deed holder

Thank you for getting in touch with your advice. I am hoping to speak to my great-niece tomorrow in the hope she has some suggestions.
Sasha

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Hertfordshire / Birth father's grave in Bishop's Stortford
« on: Wednesday 14 September 22 15:46 BST (UK)  »
I have only comparatively recently discovered where my birth father is buried and to my surprise there was no gravestone so decided I would arrange to get one and have it placed in the designated place.

This morning I rang the cemetery office to find out how I should proceed and was told that the details are with his family (he died in Bishop's Stortford in 1954) but the person I spoke to could not give me any details of who to contact.

Has anyone else found themselves in a similar situation and, if so, how did they proceed, please?

I shall look forward to hearing from you ...

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