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Re: Looking for birth date of Sheila Gale in India to British parents in 1924
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 14 August 16 13:22 BST (UK) »
Death notice has middle name as Glasford-
http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/204856/gale

For reference, here's earlier Gale thread-
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=722734.0
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Re: Looking for birth date of Sheila Gale in India to British parents in 1924
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 14 August 16 13:25 BST (UK) »
Looks like Glassford comes in from Alexander family. Wonder if Sheila's brother Alan's family have more family details?
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/the-gale-family-of-queens-county-and.html
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Re: Looking for birth date of Sheila Gale in India to British parents in 1924
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 14 August 16 13:33 BST (UK) »
Hi Ray,
Glassford had come down from her great grandmother.

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Re: Looking for birth date of Sheila Gale in India to British parents in 1924
« Reply #12 on: Sunday 14 August 16 13:42 BST (UK) »
Hi Aghadowey,
     It  was spelt wrong in the notice.  Glassford is a family name, Sheila's Great Grandmother's maiden name before marriage. No-one in the family knows, I only discovered the year of birth today searching the Internet. My second mum will be going to the UK in about 3 weeks, so I am hoping to find a bit more for her to research while she's there.


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Re: Looking for birth date of Sheila Gale in India to British parents in 1924
« Reply #13 on: Sunday 14 August 16 14:06 BST (UK) »
Did you read this page which mentions a grand-daughter of Sheila's brother Alan?
Looks like Glassford comes in from Alexander family. Wonder if Sheila's brother Alan's family have more family details?
http://alison-stewart.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/the-gale-family-of-queens-county-and.html
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Re: Looking for birth date of Sheila Gale in India to British parents in 1924
« Reply #14 on: Sunday 14 August 16 14:34 BST (UK) »
Hi Aghadowey,
    Yes I have read this article, I helped with some of the information in it.
    Thanks.

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Re: Looking for birth date of Sheila Gale in India to British parents in 1924
« Reply #15 on: Sunday 14 August 16 14:59 BST (UK) »


There is a divorce (1909) of a Marion Glassford Gale (nee Marion Glassford Roberts) from William Tyers Gale.
[ Married 1897 / Together in 1901 ]

Are they part of the wider family?


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Re: Looking for birth date of Sheila Gale in India to British parents in 1924
« Reply #16 on: Sunday 14 August 16 15:15 BST (UK) »
Hi Ray,
    It doesn't ring a bell, but that middle name wouldn't be a common choice!!
    I haven't gone that deep into the outer families as yet.
    But a good pickup by you.
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Re: Looking for birth date of Sheila Gale in India to British parents in 1924
« Reply #17 on: Sunday 14 August 16 15:29 BST (UK) »
Marion Glassford Gale was played by Diana Quick in the TV mini-series "Dandelion Dead" in 1994 (about the murderer Herbert Rowse Armstrong).
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