« Reply #18 on: Monday 25 May 20 19:56 BST (UK) »
Hello louloubelle and thanks for your story and memories! I'm sorry that I had not been checking the email account where I get thread notifications, recently, and just saw this.
It's interesting to read anything about the history of our ancestors' home grounds. Until I posted this question I had not really been aware of how tremendous the devastation Plymouth suffered was, and your grandparents' story is one more of the many personal tragedies it caused.
HILL, HOARE, BOND, SIBLY, Cornwall (Devon); DENNIS, PAGE, WHITBREAD, Essex; BARNARD, CASTLE, PONTON, Wiltshire; SANKEY, HORNE, YOUNG, Kent; COWDELL, Bermondsey; COOPER, SMITH, FALLOWELL, WILLEY, Notts; CAMPION, CARTER, CRADDOCK, KENNY, Northants; LITTLER, CORNER, Leicestershire; RUSHLAND, Lincolnshire; MORRISON, Ireland; COLLINS, ?; ... MONCK?
