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Hi All!

Wow!! Thank you so very much for your wonderful replies to my post.  It was 8 years ago I made it so it was a lovely surprise to get a notification I had replies to read!

Thank you Jaydon, for the lovely photo of the Lodge as it is today. Sadly I didn't get to meet my Grandma so I only had the stories my Mum told me and a few photo's passed down from her.

David, I have since found out that Lilian was Dorothy's cousin, Florence Lilian, but preferred to be known as Lilian. My Grandma used to look after both girls. The 1921 Census shows my Grandma living with William Stevenson and Florrie (Lilian's parents) at Pen-Sylva on London Road, Oadby. Dorothy married Ernest Andrews in Spalding during 1935 and died there in 1988 aged 90 years.

Thank you again for all of your lovely replies, I do have a FindMyPast subscription so I will have a renewed look at the newspapers as there have been quite a few additions since I last looked.

Best wishes

Wendy

Hi there,

Please be gentle with me as I am new to researching Irish Ancestors 

I am looking for a birth record for Harry Wray born in November 1939. His parents were Harry Wray b 1905 Leicester, England and Laura Maud Florence Kerr b 1908 in Banbridge.  They were married in Ballyroney Presbyterian Church on 10th July 1935 so I am hoping Harry junior would have been born in this area? At some point (possibly after the was as Harry snr was a POW) they moved back to Leicester as they both died there.

Any information would be gratefully received,

Many thanks
Wendy 

Hi Both!

Thank you for your replies.

Elizabeth was living alone in Corby, Northamptonshire in 1911 (one of the reasons it has taken me a while to track her down) When she died in 1918 she was living with her youngest daughter (who at one point proved to be nearly as elusive as her mother!) Elizabeth's son in law was living in Widmerpool, Nottingham as a shepherd in 1911 so I assume (not always a good thing!) that the resident shepherd at Sheepfold had retired (he was 72 in 1911) and George had take his place?
In 1921 Elizabeth's daughter (Mary Ann) was living with husband George, on Kirk Lane, Ruddington, Nottingham but I have not got a number for it.

Wendy

Hi Mac,

I've just spoken with Richard's partner and we wondered if I gave you Richard's email etc it may be easier and more personal if you communicated directly to him?

I am very interested but feel as it is quite personal perhaps I should step back, plus he can probably tell you a bit more about the man himself than I can?

Thank you again for the contact I'll send you a pm with details

Best Wishes
Wendy

Hi,

Oh gosh I had completely forgotten about this post! Yes thank you the Dorothy we were looking for was the one buried in Shenton on 22nd March 1617. It was odd as it suddenly appeared on FindMyPast a while back and completed the jigsaw!!

Thank you for taking time to reply
Best Wishes

Wendy