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Somerset / Re: Agnes FROME
« on: Sunday 15 August 10 19:51 BST (UK)  »
Hello,
We are wondering if this Agnes was the children's author we are looking for.Do you have any more news on this family and who is the lady in the picture?
Did Agnes have a son called Paul born in London when she was about 26yrs?. 
Did she move to London about 1916-17?
Did she return to her home in Frome?
Did she possibly emigrate to Australia?
Be grateful for any help
Anne Collard Kember

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Somerset / Re: COLLARD - Lydeard St Lawrence
« on: Saturday 14 August 10 21:47 BST (UK)  »
Hello Sally,
Are you related to the Wivilescombe Somerset Collards the piano manufacturers?
Anne Collard Kember

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The Common Room / Re: half brother & family
« on: Thursday 05 August 10 20:29 BST (UK)  »
Hi Andrea,
Sorry about that I guess you are referring to my son who is the only living person in the message. He wouldn't mind but I understand the relevance of your message.
Anne

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The Common Room / Re: half brother & family
« on: Thursday 05 August 10 16:40 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for your input. I am aware of most of the points you mention.
However, since my last posting I now think Norma D Sparey is nothing to do with my family. I had a son out of wedlock and registered him under his father's name, which he is still using. so Agnes could have used either name to register my half brother. My friend now has tracked down an address where we think it is possible my half brother lived. As my father who lived in the same vicinity met him accidentally in a pub, this is another possibility it is the same Paul who also went by the name of Collard.
Regards,
A C K

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The Common Room / half brother & family
« on: Tuesday 03 August 10 12:55 BST (UK)  »
I am trying to trace the history of the following families of Paul Wheeler born 1917 in Marylebone to Agnes Wheeler born 1891. His father's name was John F Collard born 1894 who was my father. I think Agnes, who was a children's author and had books published by The Oxford University Press, came from Frome and she took the pseudonym Frome for her books.
Agnes had a sister called Emily born in 1901. The Wheeler family came from Frome in Somerset. I think. Paul or Paul Edward Wheeler married a Norma D Sparey in 1953 in Frome. It appears Paul's birth was registered twice in Marylebone, one with an E & one without the E. Perhaphs this was so the name Collard could appear if needed on one of the registrations. So Paul may have used the surname Collard & Wheeler.
There is a Paul Wheeler who died in Portsmouth aged 70 but no trace of Norma D Sparey. There is no trace of the Paul & Norma having had any children.
There was a Paul Collard living in Maida Vale in the 1980s near where we lived and maybe the was the person my father bumped into in a pub to discover the person he was talking to turned out to be his son but he would not say more. I want to check out this strange past family history as the actors will likely all be deceased by now.
Be so grateful for any help.
Anne Collard Kember

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