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It gets more bizarre....

someone has now directed me to various sites that tell of the
'ghost of Spon Street'...thought to be a little girl killed in the Blitz in the old club...which apparently doesn't exist anymore - it's now a restaraunt.

I've found the family ghost...all the best families should have one!!!

OK - I'm open to suggestions...not knowing much about Scottish  sherrifs or records that may exist of them.

A cousin of my grandmother - William Chamberlain left Wales and settled in Scotland somewhere (don't know where sorry!) with his wife Dolly and children Byron and Dorothy Jnr.  They ran a cinema and he became the High Sherrif of whatever town it was they settled in.  Will And Dolly were killed in a car accident but the family think the two children many still be alive and in Scotland.

Judging by the photograph I have  the children were born around 1940-45.

Any suggestions how I could set about finding out more...are there central records of appointed Sherrifs?

Hi

I know that my Grandad's sister and her young daughter  - Annie Amelia Roberts (nee Woodward) and Anne Patricia, were killed at their pub/club on 14 November 1940 and that the husband Tom Roberts survived.

I have just discovered that they are definately listed on the London Road Cemetery Memorial.

What I'm really curious about though is the name of the pub/club they were publicans of - none of the letters etc I've inherited name it but a letter from a few days after the Blitz states that "Roberts is still serving 'midst the ruins' "...any suggestions?

Tweety

Hmm

I wonder what sort of connection there could be?   I know very little about Middlesbrough.

In my research I have come across a cluster of Woodwards who trace back to Bradford on Avon  and end up in the Welsh Valleys but no other Middlesbrough connections.

Except....I remember when we were kids an uncle and his family would turn up every so often in a battered old camper van and they were Geordies (and Woodwards)!

Tweety

Thanks

Both possibiliilties..I think the first one is more likely given the info on the 1881 census - I've found previously that Valleys mining families seem to stil be in the area of origin up to about 1870 - then the coal boom takes off and they turn up on the Rhondda census.

Rhondda families are interesting (and difficult) because of the sheer variety of areas (and countries) people migrated from to find work there all at the same time.  I've also found that its the men in the family who are the incomers and they all seemed to marry native Welsh girls as my female lines go back to Powys/Pembroke and Camarthen and the men come from Gloucester, Cornwall, Wiltshire, Devon etc, although within one generation they were all God fearing, Welsh speaking Baptists!

...sorry off topic, but I'm a sociologist and I find the whole concept of social and family change fascinating -

Thanks again

Tweety