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« on: Sunday 06 June 10 22:04 BST (UK) »
Hello
I am new to this site but I was searching my family history and came across this written on this site by TJW in July 2008
I have some other newspaper cuttings......The death of my great grandfather George Alfred in 1942 and another cutting about the wedding of Mr. Herbert Turner to Miss Violet Whittle, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Whittle the well known show people of Blackwater in 1933. Gifts included a Musquash coat and a Wolsley Hornet car.
I am the granddaughter of Mr Herbert Turner and Miss Violet Whittle. They were cousins and had two sons, William Herbert and Edward Arthur. I am Edward's daughter - whom they called Arthur since birth.
My father knows loads about the whittles and I think is still in contact with a few of them. We have lots of photographs of my grandmother at the coconut shy and other stalls. My grandfather famously claimed that he lent Billy Butlin £200 to start Butlins - he has passed away so we don't know if its true but its a great story!
I will question my father and try to find out more.