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Help finding newspaper article from handwritten note order of service.
« on: Wednesday 28 October 20 12:37 GMT (UK) »
Good afternoon and thank you for any help that can be given.  i have attached an extract from my maternal grandmother's (My mum's mum)order of service which mentions a family story about how good a singer my Nan was and the opportunities she was unable to take.

It is also seems to imply that the original article can be found in the February 1937 Daily Mirror but despite many hours and days of searching I keep drawing a blank.

I would be grateful if there is a miracle worker out there who is able to find this original newspaper article please?

Many thanks,

Nic
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Re: Help finding newspaper article from handwritten note order of service.
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 28 October 20 13:44 GMT (UK) »
I suspect she was unmarried in 1937 (golden voiced at 12) but you have not given her maiden name/birthyear/ where she was from etc.  If you are searching for an article under Eustace then perhaps that's why you can't find it.  Did she marry in 1945 - nee Davies?  Born 1924 - Died 2016 Berkshire

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Re: Help finding newspaper article from handwritten note order of service.
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 28 October 20 14:06 GMT (UK) »
I'm wondering if the report is in a Welsh newspaper.  If she was 12 in 1937 that makes her born 1924/25.

Do you have any idea of where she was living at the age of 12?
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Re: Help finding newspaper article from handwritten note order of service.
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 28 October 20 14:56 GMT (UK) »
You say it is in the Daily Mirror but it looks as though it says 'or Daily Mirror'
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Re: Help finding newspaper article from handwritten note order of service.
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 28 October 20 15:02 GMT (UK) »
I think the words before 'Daily Mirror' are in Welsh.

Chwefror is February.
I think Torrwyd might be something like 'cut' (i.e. cutting from)

We need Trystan.

Edit: sorry, the OP has already said it's from a February article  :-[

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Re: Help finding newspaper article from handwritten note order of service.
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 28 October 20 15:11 GMT (UK) »
Yes, nee Davies - I can just see it on an enlargement of the article.  And she is referred to as Hattie.

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Re: Help finding newspaper article from handwritten note order of service.
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 28 October 20 15:12 GMT (UK) »
It looks as though Harriet, referred to as Hattie in the snippet, was living at Gwyddelwern.  I enlarged the section after downloading and there is a place called Gwyddelwern.
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Re: Help finding newspaper article from handwritten note order of service.
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 28 October 20 15:14 GMT (UK) »
The Daily Mirror is searchable for 1937, but, like the OP I can find nothing. There are lots of pages about people being 'golden voiced' but none about Harriet/Hattie that I can see.
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Re: Help finding newspaper article from handwritten note order of service.
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 28 October 20 15:21 GMT (UK) »
I think this may be Harriet's birth record:-

Births Sep 1924

Davies    Harriet E    Evans    Corwen    11b   552

Corwen covers Gwyddelwern

She is in Merionethshire with her widowed mother and others in the 1939 Register.  Her date of  birth would match the birth registration given above.

Ashford: Somerset, London
England: Devon, London, New Zealand
Holdway: Wiltshire
Hooper: Bristol, Somerset
Knowling: Devon, London
Southcott: Devon, China
Strong: Wiltshire
Watson: Cambridgeshire
White: Bristol
Windo - Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire