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The Lighter Side / Re: What Brought you to Genealogy?
« on: Tuesday 06 March 07 19:46 GMT (UK)  »
Over 50, eldest child and now only one.
I remember visiting "aunts" and "uncles" during hot school holidays of long ago. I suppose I got a bit curious and wanted to work out who they were. I've found it totally addictive but I'm lucky in that I live reasonably close to where most of my ancestors lived so if you see someone wandering around churchyards in Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire then please say "Hello" because it's probably me!
It gives me a hobby, gets me out in the fresh air and has brought me into contact with cousins all over the world. Also, I suppose I think I'm laying something down for future generations - particularly pleasing as my son has got quite interested too!

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Gloucestershire / George Fredrick Charles Shirley
« on: Tuesday 06 March 07 19:37 GMT (UK)  »
Looking for information on the above who was killed in an RAF bombing raid over Hamburg in 1944. He was married to Kathleen and they lived in Cheltenham at the time.
His father was Major Edward Charles Shirley who died in 1942 and is buried in Chorleywood Herts.
Any clues gratefully received. 

Ian

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Hertfordshire / Re: Little Otterspool, Bushey
« on: Sunday 04 March 07 17:15 GMT (UK)  »
Indeed - Otterspool was the name of an old house used for student accommodation in the days of Wall Hall College of Education.
When I left in 1974 there was a golf course being built between Otterspool house and the main site. From the College we could walk the lane past Otterspool and take the short cut into Watford. I think there might have been a short cut to the M1 around there somewhere too.  You could see the hostel from the M1 at one time. Alas Wall Hall (or University of Hertfordshire) no longer exists on this site - The "Mansion" has been converted into appartments and expensive houses errected on the site.
Pity......it's called progress I suppose!
Ian

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Buckinghamshire / Re: Verdon and Euan Pearce
« on: Friday 02 March 07 13:09 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks again.....I'll start looking!

Ian

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Buckinghamshire / Re: Verdon and Euan Pearce
« on: Friday 02 March 07 12:37 GMT (UK)  »
wow thank you!  So Gordon was Verdon then! But what about Evan (Euan)?

Gordon's death was recorded in the family Bible but no mention of the others!

Thanks again!

Ian

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Buckinghamshire / Verdon and Euan Pearce
« on: Friday 02 March 07 12:02 GMT (UK)  »
I'm looking for a Verdon Pearce, born in about 1872 at Hyde Heath, Great Missenden Buckinghamshire. Euan Pearce was born in about 1878 also in Hyde Heath. Their  parents were Daniel and Frances (aka Franny or Fanny) Pearce These two produced 6 children, one of whom Ernest Henry was my great grandfather.
Neither Verdon nor Euan were particularly common names so I thought these would be easy to trace.  Not so - both were living at hime at the time of the 1891 census but Verdon then seems to disappear - I can't find any record of his death and no mention in the 1901 census.
Euan (or Evan in the 1891 census) is still at home at the time of the 1901 census but thereafter disappears apart from a possible marriage in 1902 (can't confirm this) again no record of a death.
Does anyone know where they went? Has anyone come across these two in their own research?
Any information gratefully received.
Thank you
Ian

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