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Bedfordshire / Flemming Family from Bedfordshire relocating to South Africa
« on: Friday 30 June 17 20:36 BST (UK)  »
William James Flemming (b1872, d1936 in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire), married Margaret Annie Impey Bates (b1871 Northall) in Aylesbury in 1891.  (Margaret, Annie, and Impey, are all given names; she and my father were second cousins).  William James and his and Margaret's youngest son, Leonard Eric, traveled back and forth to South Africa in the 1920s and 30s.  After William passed away in 1936, Leonard moved (in 1938) with his wife and children, a sister, and mother Margaret to South Africa.  They were Leonard Eric Flemming (b1906 Leighton Buzzard); his wife Beatrice Nellie Child (b 1907 Leighton Buzzard, probably married in South Africa); children Joan Margaret (b1929 Coventry, Warwickshire), Sylvia Alice (b1930 probably in South Africa), Gwendoline (b1933 probably in South Africa), and Hugh S. (b 1934 Leighton Buzzard); sister Dora Agnes Flemming (b 1904 Leighton Buzzard); and mother Margaret Annie Flemming.
One paid website for South African data indicates that they have death records for Dora Agnes, and for Hugh S. 
Any information on these Flemming family members in South Africa would be most welcome. 

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Louth / Who was Ellen from Dundalk, Louth, married to Walter T Fitch
« on: Monday 11 May 15 00:14 BST (UK)  »
My great aunt, Annie Kate Simmons married Walter Thomas Fitch in 1890 in Epping, Essex. They had four children, Arthur George 1891, Edgar Percy 1894, Reginald Alfred 1898, and Dorothy Kate 1901. Walter and his first wife Ellen had five children, Walter Thomas 1872, Mary M 1875, Richard Edward 1876, Frederick W 1879, Albert C 1880, and Ernest Paul 1881.  Ellen died in 1883.
From the 1881 UK Census, we know that Ellen was born in 1853 in Dundalk, Louth, Ireland, but we do not have her maiden name.  I've scoured the available digital resources (birth records etc.) and they all list her as "Ellen", but without a last name attached.  If anyone here on RootsChat has information on this part of the Fitch family that might point in the right direction, or if someone might have a recommendation on how to find a birth record in Dundalk 1853 without a surname (good luck with that) I'd sure appreciate hearing from you.

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