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Hi Suz thank you so much for getting back to me with all the information. However from Arthur Sparham down, these were the children of Ada and Arthur :
Elizabeth his first wife and first cousin had money and owned a fleet of cabs and horses. Arthur worked as an Auctioneers Porter - he loved horses and rode 4 abreast along Southend Seafront.
They employed a servant, Ada Fellingham to look after the children. Arthur and Ada fell in love. When my Gt Uncle Arthur was born, Elizabeth asked Ada if she would pass him off as a soldier's child. Ada did not do this.
Elizabeth died in 1910 of a double hiatus hernia and Arthur had Ada up the aisle within weeks of the death of Elizabeth.
Ada Millicent Victoria Blandon was my much beloved grandmother. I can find no reference to her anywhere in 7 years of research. I cannot find Mr Dorice anywhere - it is like she did not exist. Family lore has it that her parents worked for Lord and Lady Blandford and he was Head Groom. I have contacted Blenheim Palace but unfortunately they never kept names of servants only occupation. My Grandmother was put in a convent when her parents died. We think she was born in Sussex, I have tried all the local convents, to no avail. She spoke with a cut glass accent (not passed down to me I may add). I loved her very much but it is as if she never existed. Perhaps she supplied a false name who knows.
Thank you so much for your help. Any info on the Sparhams Probate would be of great help Suz.
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