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« on: Saturday 03 September 22 11:21 BST (UK) »
Commonwealth War Grave Commission are appealing for blood relatives of Member Nesta Mary Looker - Women's Royal Air Force - Service No 6099 - died 9/2/1919 - buried Poole (Parkstone) Cemetery.  Died of appendicitis

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2JCT-479

Daughter of John and Mary Looker, of 82, High Street, Poole.

The private memorial marking the grave of Member Looker no longer provides adequate commemoration, the commission are in the process of producing a new headstone to mark her grave.

FIND A GRAVE

Parkstone Cemetery
Poole, Poole Unitary Authority, Dorset, England  Show Map
PLOT L. "C." 42.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/222534220/nesta-mary-looker

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« Reply #1 on: Saturday 03 September 22 11:23 BST (UK) »


1901 census Glastonbury, Somersetshire.

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9 High Street Warwick 1911

John Looker   40 Booksellers Manager.
Mary Looker   41
Nesta Looker   14
Arthur Looker   9
Phyllis Looker   1 month

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« Reply #2 on: Saturday 03 September 22 11:35 BST (UK) »


Brother - Arthur W Looker marriage 1927 Doris M Young
Registration District:   Poole Dorset
Volume Number 5a Page Number 673

Arthur Willoughby Looker 15 October 1901 - 1989  (aged 87 years)
Registration District:   Surrey Mid-eastern   Surrey
Volume 17 Page 184

Doris Kathleen Looker 19 February 1901 - 1972  (aged 71 years)
Registration District Poole Dorset
Volume 7c Page 181

Could be one daughter born in 1933.

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« Reply #3 on: Saturday 03 September 22 11:41 BST (UK) »

Sister - Phyllis L Looker - marriage 1934-  Battersea London. John W Longhurst

Volume Number 1d Page Number 958

Phyllis Laura Longhurst - 26 February 1911 - 1980  (69 years)
Registration District Poole Dorset
Volume 23 Page 0748

John William Longhurst 4 October 1908 - 1990  (81 years)
Registration District Poole  Dorset
Volume 23 - Page 699

There was two births in Poole - one female - one male - 1938 and 1941
There is another female birh in Bournemouth which might be a possible :-  1945

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« Reply #4 on: Saturday 03 September 22 11:48 BST (UK) »

Father John Looker - John Looker 1872 - 1942  (aged 70 years)
Registration District Poole Dorset
Volume 5a Page 614

Mary Looker  1869 - 1956  (aged 87 years)
Registration District Poole Dorset
Volume 6a Page 469

A few ancestry trees, one New Zealand and some have not been online for a year or so.

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