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Touching the past
I have posted this before,but I come back to it because it fascinates me… the fact that I’ve indirectly had contact with someone born almost two hundred years ago. I suppose it registered because the story I have been writing is about a family in search of their roots… but in order to make their […]
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My grandfather’s family had lived for many generations on the south coast of England, settling eventually in Littlehampton in Sussex where some cousins still live even today. My grandfather’s brother, Wilfred Henry, married a young woman Edith May Kinch, who had been born and brought up in Portsmouth where my husband’s family, the Sparshotts come from. Edith’s father Edwin was a shipwright working […]
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My mother’s paternal family name was Matthews; she was the youngest of four children, William Alan, Audrey, Rene Beryl Lois and Phyllis Monica. William Alan, always known as Alan was the eldest son of my grandfather William Reginald, always known as Reg, who in turn was the eldest son of William Henry Matthews. William Henry was always known as Billy […]
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