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just to add,

I am the other family member who supplied the ethel mildred briggs information.

I can't find my original sources for this info, but i had found it afaicr on a NZ archive website search in september 2010..

DCE NZ married Ethel Mildred Briggs (born in London in 1885) in 1920, Ethel had been divorced the previous year - she had married Herbert Walter Saunders (born Hoo, Kent, England in 1886) in 1910 at Mt Eden, Auckland, NZ. Herbert also remarried in 1920, to Adelaide Edith Baigent.

Ethel died in 1965 (as Ethel Easson, widow) and her ashes were scattered in the same cemetery as DCE.

Herbert died in 1970 and is buried in the same cemetery, his profession is listed as "clerk".

not sure if this helps or further muddies the waters.

thanks.

gordon

thanks all, helpful information here for me also..

(not wanting to hijack thread....)

Does anyone know how I can find more information on specific missing ships, is a visit to Kew/NMM a  must?

I also have an ancestor missing at sea ( robert morrison, ship : MEXICAN 47599   Liverpool, 1863, Steam Appropriation Books, RSS  Liverpool, Steam, Missing since 15/9/1877 : from CLIP site)

thanks

gordon

Hi,

I'm looking for (another, NZ this time!) David Colville Easson.

born in about 1883, I believe he died in 1959, can anyone tell me where?

thanks

gordon

I'll have to check back the details I have - looks like I may have picked up the wrong eassons in 1912.

A quick check on Scotland's people confirms the children you've found were born in Friokheim, unfortunately there's no image of DC's birth certificate. It looks like the original DC may have been the death at sea after all.

I'll also have to check back photographs I have as there is the occasional one named andy, velma afaicr.

thanks and best wishes.

gordon

Interestingly from Wikipedia;

"Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Guthrie of Guthrie was the last chief of Clan Guthrie to live at Guthrie Castle. Born in 1886 he became a distinguished soldier, commanding the 4th Battalion the Black Watch and was awarded the Military Cross."

However, his MIC shows him as being in Indian Army/Cavalry, no mention of Highlanders/Black Watch.

And I can't find any mention of him in connection with the Black Watch....

Any military experts hazard a guess as to whether i'm barking up the right tree or just barking?

thanks

gordon