Alice or Ted Preston

[Schoch]

Thank you River Tyne Lass,

"when covid is over" ...if that ever happens   I may well take you up on that offer if this has not been solved.  I have been knocking my head against this offer for a number of years but the recent discovery of the names in an  old letter has me trying again.


Regards

Richard

[Schoch]

Pennines,


Sorry about that ... just my sense of humour (or lack there-of).  Gets me in trouble from time to time.

[Pennines]

Schoch -- please don't apologise -- I thought it was very clever!

[River Tyne Lass]

Hi Richard,

Just being pedantic but I didn't write "when covid is over".  I wrote when it is dealt with more and things are better as in better than they are now. 
Hopefully, at some point after mass vaccination our country might get back to functioning a bit more normally again and things will reopen.
I do hope you get your answer soon but if you don't then the offer is definitely there from me to check things out for you at the library at some unknown later date.   

I thought the pun was clever too - I also didn't immediately pick up on it.

Good luck with this, Richard.

[Schoch]

Thanks RTL (the other is rather long  ),

I may well take you up on this at a later time.  In the mean time I shall continue my slow plodding in hope that something turns up.

I am a little familiar with the area.  Born in Tynemouth Royal Infirmary. Lived on Dale Rd. Grandparents lived on Claremont Rd. Still have a cousin on Valley Gdns.  But I have been gone from the area for a long time now so my knowledge is a bit like my memory (fading fast).

I gave Pennines the full story (which she thought was hilarious ...and it is), which has made my searching rather difficult indeed.

Regards

Richard

[Pennines]

Can I just point out that it wasn't the fact that I thought the story hilarious, which has made Schoch's searching very difficult indeed!!

(He's just trying to blame me now.)

No -- it is a very complex research case.

Just in case Alice Preston was married - I am about to start looking if a male Preston married an Alice. Then see if that Alice had brothers named Edward and John.

[Schoch]

Oh but it is rather amusing though.  Film to follow