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Have you tried searching the Singapore Newspapers?
http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/default.aspx


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Jack A Piper born Oct 1925  Basingstoke Hants  Ref 2C 368 Mother's surname Dear.
Other children:
PIPER    Ronald W H  Dec Q 1936  2c 340
Piper    Doreen M  Sept Q 1938   2c  408
Piper    Eric G  March Q 1942  2c  571

Parents:
Piper Albert C
Dear Olive G
Mar Q 1917 Basingstoke 2c 374

Dear Olive Gladys
Birth: Dec Q 1897 Wandsworth 1d 681

I can confirm he sailed from the UK to Singapore at least three times , 20.4.1953  from London, 9.11.1956 from Southampton  &  22nd April 1960  also from Southampton
His birthday given as  29th Aug 1925  and is listed as an Engineer

If he worked as an engineer for a particular company, it might be worth trying to contact the firm's archivist......
This site has some information on the firm
  http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Thornycroft:_Shipbuilding

I think Southampton Archive will hold dome info. See here
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F169629

gene.genie

Hi,
I can't find a David Holland/Huilland in Chedworth.  Don't know if this helps, but the only male Holland of the right birth date I've found is this one: 
IGI:
Name:
   Holland
Gender:
   Male
Christening Date:
   24 Jul 1737
Christening Place:
   CREWKERNE,SOMERSET,ENGLAND
Father's Name:
   Robt. Holland
Mother's Name:
   Martha
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: P00267-1

I have found a Frances Robins  dau John & Mary Robins  bap  6 July 1734  Stratton Audley Oxfordshire.

Following the Berkshire clue - there were Robins in Berkshire:
A Frances Robins was bap in  Wantage Berks in 1727 dau to Thomas and Mary Robins.  However, I believe this Frances later married  Benjamin Church in 1744 West Hanney Berkshire.

Hi  Dawn,
I've just found a Rosa Hayes Green on IGI:

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:9V73-MHH

Born England 1879 - must have emigrated as she married William Henry Kennedy in Utah June 7 1907 and died in 1971.

The IGI also indicates though doesn't say why,  that her name was Rosa Hayes Green or Evans
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:1:MM9J-5TQ

I am not 100% sure this is your family as  IGI  shows this Rosa Hayes Green Evans is listed as having been born in Stapleton to Cornelius and Katherine Evans. (Interesting it's Stapleton though.)  However, the thought strikes that Cornelius and Katherine may have adopted Rosa Hayes Green, hence she would have been Green or Evans.  That theory would hinge on finding a Green Family or even a Hayes link to Cornelius and Katherine Evans.

Have you sent for her birth certificate?  It might give the father's name.

Rose Hayes Green  birth registered Barton Regis  1879 Sept Q  Volume    6A   Page    203

Baptism:
First name(s)    Rose Hayes
Last name    Green
Baptism year    1879
Baptism date    31 Jul 1879
Baptism place    Easton, St Mark, Gloucestershire, England
Father's first name(s)    -
Mother's first name - Elizabeth
 Have you checked Elizabeth on the Census?  My guess is that Rosa's Father's surname was Hayes. If you are lucky you might find the name Hayes or Evans either in the same household (if she was say, a servant) or living nearby.

I have found a death for a Rosa Green aged 1 in 1881
Birth year    1880    Age    1
Death quarter    2
Death year    1881
District    BARTON REGIS
County    Gloucestershire
Volume    6A    Page    85

A final thing to check is to see if a Bastardy Bond was ever issued by Elizabeth Green against the father.  Bristol Records Office can advice on that.

Gene_genie

Hi Martin,

I have found a Thomas White b 1851  Somerton, Langport  on the 1851 census, living Kirkham Street Somerton, Langport.  Is this your family?   I think it is, because he is a cooper by trade and is the father of William White b 1900.  Sent a PM.

Do you have any link to Johnathan White b 1816 Mapperton Dorset (shopkeeper)  who married Mary Ann Planford b 1821  in Wells in 1834?  This family appears in 1851 to be living Isle Brewers Langport.   The family links into mine when Annie Louisa White (b 1878  dau Johnathan White Jr & Lucy) married Henry PIPPEN in Langport in 1899.  Their son was my grt uncle.

I am having a bit of trouble tracing Johanthan and Mary through the Census - I was told of the rumour that the White line had Romany origins....Do you know if there is any truth to this?  They seem to have had their children in Dorset, Somerset, but also seem to have had a child George in Middlesex in 1860  (though I haven't found the family in 1861 yet)....