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Hi

Will  try  and make it easier for you to read.  Just spoke to my friend to let him know where I
am up to.  The only thing he can remember about the London connection was the family
story about Dorothea being a in service at one point and then living with 2 old ladies called
Aunt Crit and Aunt Etty. Goodness know who they are, he doesn't seem to think they were actual
aunties.

Hope this camed through better
Take care

Sue

Hi
Many thanks for taking an interest in my search and sending me your thoughts. Sorry, did forget to mention W T Hilliam. I have put a story of my thoughts on Ancestry along with the tree.  Believe it or not my friend did not know his grandmother;s birthday but given her age when she died it would coincide with the birth of Ethel Conington.  My friend also remembers his late mother once telling him that she had relatives in Lincolnshire but like so many of us he never really took any notice and never asked questions. On my friend's late mother's birth cert her mother's maiden name was given as Conington (also the same on her brother's birth cert).  One further mystery is that when Dorothea married F W Gower she gave her name as Clarke and she was a widow (have checked all marriage records and never found one between Clarke and Conington but Dorothea did have a daughter Edwina Anne b 1934 (prior to her marriage to F W Gower). The mystery is that when Edwina married 31/10/1953 at Finchley to Derek Sydney Robinson, she married under the name Edwina Anne Clarke and gave her father's name as Edward Albert Clarke (deceased). I cannot find a birth for her (don't know where she was born).  My friend did tell me that Edwina fell out with her mother, Dorothea, as she found out in later life that there was no father named on her birth cert and I believe she also lied about her age and had in fact been born prior to 1934.  I have spent months going round and round in circles each time hitting brick walls, I can't get over how many lies have been told around this lady.  The only other piece of info I have is from Dorothea's marriage cert where she names her father as William Thomas Conington, his profession is listed as Barrister.
Again thank you so much for your interest

Hi to all

I don't know if anyone can help me but after 9 months of searching I am giving it a go. I am trying to find my friend's grandmother, she died in 1968 and was born end 1905/beginning 1906 and her name is DOROTHEA ETHEL? and thats all I know (sorry).  The story through the family was that her mother died in childbirth and her father soon after and she was then "adopted out" to the Conington family.  Dorothea married in 1936 in Ampthill to Francis William Gower, she married under the name Dorothea Ethel Clarke - widow, and her father was named as William T Conington. The family tend to think that Dorothea was'nt a widow as her daughter was born in 1935 and no father was named on the birth cert. Dorothea and Francis had 2 children and the mother's maiden name was again listed as Conington.  Also Dorothea E Conington appears on 1931/32/33 London electoral role as living in Hackney.  Stories passed down by the family also state that she was one of the first ladies to attend Oxford Uni.  I have been in touch with the Uni who have tried their best to try and discover who this lady was.  They have failed to find anyone with the names Conington/Clarke with the correct birth etc. I have tried to find marriages between Conington/Clarke but to no avail. I can't even find the man named on her marriage cert as her father.  I have,however, found an Ethel Conington born at the correct time in Lincolnshire, no father was named on her birth cert and Ethel appears on 1911 census with a "monthly nurse" whilst her mother appears on 1911 census living with her family (her mother went on to marry and have several children, the whole family then moved to Ampthill). There are no records of Ethel Conington born 1905 after the 1911 census.  Is this Ethel Conington the Dorothea Ethel ? I am searching for.  There are quite a few coincidences with the Conington family from Stamford.  It is a stab in the dark, but does anyone out there ever come across, what could possibly be, the lady I am searching for. It is so frustrating no to be able to find someone's grandma whom we know did exist.  Fingers crossed someone may know something

Hi

Can anyone help me find the  parents of Patricia Constance Burrows)es, she was born 8/1/1925 in Christchurch New Zealand.  I have not really done any research in NZ and was wondering if they had census returns and in what years they cover.  Also interested in finding the marriage of ^(*)who was born in Christchurch 2/11/1955.  Thanking you


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