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Worcestershire / Re: Dingley family of Cropthorne
« on: Saturday 19 August 17 21:00 BST (UK) »My great grandfather was Edwin Dingley of Cropthorne. He moved from Cropthorne to Birmingham and he married Annie Barnes, they had children named Edwin and Ivy. My mother was evacuated in WW2 to Cropthorne with her sister. They stayed with Norah Dingley in the black and white cottage at the bottom of the hill.Hello
We must be related. Norah Dingley was by that time called Norah Forester. She was a widow and my mother's beloved aunts. My Mum's 100 years old now with Alzheimer's. But she still talks often of aunty and my daughter has started recording tales of cropthorne. I took her back there when she was 93 for a weekend and she met up with a childhood friend who had married her second cousin George Massingham. It was a weekend of memories. Unfortunately I didn't record them.