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Hiya Ros! YES!!! You have come up with names that are on the obituary. I've had some insight into the census records too and have managed to come up with the same things so this confirms it nicely for me. Names, places, dates...all match! I've also found that Matilda Jones / Nash was a servant at one point called Matilda Nash, and she was a widow. Ten years later she's living with her husband, John Jones (am I remembering the names correctly? My head is buzzing!) and there was also a step daughter to the head called Gertrude Nash. It seems that Gertrude was Ethel's half sister - Matilda's daughter. We're still trying to find out where she was in the earlier census because she had been born at the time.
I see you've included the summary from murderfile.net. I contacted the author last year and he kindly sent me the full chapter that he'd written in the book and pointed me in the direction of the British Library. It was a shock to find out just what had happened. My father was a very distant, eccentric man (we put it down to being a POW of the Japanese) and never talked about his family. It was my mother who let slip a few years ago that his mother had been murdered and his father hanged. Up until last year, that was all I knew.
Dad died December 2004 and my goal, if at all possible, is to return his ashes to Wales and maybe even scatter them where his mother is buried. The obituary from the newspaper clippings says where she's buried. It's a long way off yet though as I'm in New Zealand and my children are still young. But one day....
I must write this down correctly! I have scraps of paper with notes scribbled down everywhere!
Thank you so much for looking into it for me. You've been VERY helpful!
God bless
Angela
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