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Cork / Re: Desperately seeking to find Monica Rosina Griffin - Cork
« on: Friday 05 September 14 08:00 BST (UK)  »
The information is sparse because the Irish family have been so fragmented.

The assumption is that she did come over to England. If she was alive now she'd be 88 and would definitely have children, and possibly grandchildren. My nans nieces and nephews, it would be a blessing to find them.

Having done some research last night I think I also found the 1999 death record to the same woman but with the surname Harris. I then started to look for marriage records from 1944 onwards between Griffin and Harris but nothing. The belief is that she ran away with a South African Sailor...
So in essence she could have gone anywhere and got married anywhere. Or this may just be a family myth held onto.

But this man she was with is really believed to have been South African and a Sailor. This is the most closely solid piece of information I have, and it could just be one of those things that turns out not to be the case, a case of mixed wires.

Around the mid 40's she cut off all family, but to be honest no one knows why. Perhaps she was a truly free spirited adventurer, perhaps she only wanted to live for herself? Perhaps she really did fall in love with a Sailor and she travelled and couldnt keep in touch?

Thank you for the piece of info on 'There are London Electoral Register entries 1948-1950 for a Monica R Griffin living with a Doneux family' - Doneux looks to be a French name. This could have been a French Huguenot family living in London, which could be a way of finding the South African link.

All suggestions welcome  ;D Thanks, Jemilla

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Cork / Desperately seeking to find Monica Rosina Griffin - Cork
« on: Thursday 04 September 14 22:24 BST (UK)  »
Hello,

I'm looking for help with finding a woman called Monica Rosina Griffin, born 1926 in Cork to Timothy Griffin and Kathleen O'Driscoll. Monica is my Great Aunt, she is my grandmothers sister who hasn't been heard off since the mid 1940's. My grandmother has tried searching for her through records, at Somerset House and was unable to find anything. I know my grandmother would love to know what happened to Monica, it broke her heart to lose her.
The only thing the family know about Monica is that she possibly “ran away” with a South African Sailor in the mid 1940's. She was 18 years old in 1944, so it was likely to be after that.
Despite lots of research on my part, I am unable to find much on her. I think she may have been using her middle name, dropping the Monica. And I think she either went to South Africa or America.
A record I have found which might relate to her is a death record for a woman with similar details in 1999 in Hillingdon, Essex. However it doesn't make sense why no records could be found on her previously if she had been living in England.
Monica's disappearance is something that has stayed with family members, and something they would like to find out more about. We don't know if Monica had any children, it would be utterly amazing if she did and we could make contact with them. She was loved a lot by my grandmother.
Any help someone can give if they have found anything on her, are connected to her through family, or otherwise would be extremely appreciated. It would be strange for a woman of that era to not have married and to have had children, so I hope with this I can track down her living relatives, we are family afterall.
Thanks, I hope to hear from someone soon. Jemilla Russell.

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Ireland / Definitions of Irish occupations
« on: Thursday 24 October 13 22:55 BST (UK)  »
On my Great Grandfathers death certificate for being in Cork it states that his occupation was 'Traveller'.

When I was asked a family member if there is a connection there to the travelling community, he said that this grandfather was a travelling butcher, who would work for some months in Ireland and some months in England as a butcher?!

Seems like a strange occupation, and surely if he was a businessman his occupation would have been travelling businessman.

Was this type of work a regular occurrence for Irish people from that area? Or perhaps I'm not being told the whole truth?!

Is it certain that a registrar would put traveller on a travellers death certificate?

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Australia / Re: Searching for Thomas Evans - from Earsdon Northumberland
« on: Saturday 24 August 13 15:56 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for your reply. I have contacted the cousin who has the valuable letter - once I've got more information hopefully this will help with clues.

Thanks again.

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Australia / Re: Searching for Thomas Evans - from Earsdon Northumberland
« on: Saturday 24 August 13 15:11 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for the link - the other post is also mine, I am trying to cover all bases.

A first cousin, once removed who was his great niece said she had read a letter from him as he would write to his great nephew. He had a son. But no marriage can be found.


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Northumberland / Searching for Evans family from Earsdon Northumberland
« on: Saturday 24 August 13 14:10 BST (UK)  »
Hello,

I am looking for the siblings of my great grandmother Catherine Ann Clough (nee Evans). Her parents were James Evans and Mary Robson Hornsby.

She had three younger brothers:
James B 1905, Thomas B 1906 and William B 1908; I think Thomas moved to Australia and William possibly owned a pub in Blyth, Northumberland.

I am looking for the families of these 3 men, I hope they had wives and children (who would be my second cousins).

Catherine is very important to me, my cousins and my aunt and it would be so fantastic to find out more from other family members who are out there but we have yet to be in touch with. Even if they don’t want to be in touch it would be so wonderful to speak to them to hear what they know about the Evans family, and especially the relationship between James Evans and Mary Robson Hornsby.
We think James had a child out of wedlock and also had an affair with someone in the Blyth Orchestra as he was also part of that.

If you are one of these people related to these men please contact me, my email address is: *

I would love to hear from you, and would be very happy to share any information on the family I have if you were interested.

Catherine is the only one from my entire family that I look like – I would be interested to see if this familiar similarity continues to my great grand uncles and their potential families.

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Australia / Searching for Thomas Evans - from Earsdon Northumberland
« on: Saturday 24 August 13 14:08 BST (UK)  »
Hello,

I am looking for the siblings of my great grandmother Catherine Ann Clough (nee Evans). Her parents were James Evans and Mary Robson Hornsby.

She had three younger brothers:
James B 1905, Thomas B 1906 and William B 1908; I think Thomas moved to Australia and William possibly owned a pub in Blyth, Northumberland.

I am looking for the families of these 3 men, I hope they had wives and children (who would be my second cousins).

Catherine is very important to me, my cousins and my aunt and it would be so fantastic to find out more from other family members who are out there but we have yet to be in touch with. Even if they don’t want to be in touch it would be so wonderful to speak to them to hear what they know about the Evans family, and especially the relationship between James Evans and Mary Robson Hornsby.
We think James had a child out of wedlock and also had an affair with someone in the Blyth Orchestra as he was also part of that.

If you are one of these people related to these men please contact me, my email address is: *

I would love to hear from you, and would be very happy to share any information on the family I have if you were interested.

Catherine is the only one from my entire family that I look like – I would be interested to see if this familiar similarity continues to my great grand uncles and their potential families.

All the best, Jemilla
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South Africa / Re: Looking for relations of Norman Arthur William Radford - Durban / England
« on: Friday 26 April 13 17:40 BST (UK)  »
Hello,

Thank you for your pointers and advice, it's appreciated. However, I'm confused about this. Could there have been two Esme Audrey Carlson's born at the same time in the same place?

This woman is my partners great aunt, she is the sister to his grandma who is still living.

His grandma came over to England in 1949 to work. So did Esme, they lived at the same address in Sussex. On the immigration record they are listed differently because Esme was already married at this point and was known as 'Radford'. She was 24 then and arrived in Southampton on the 16th Sept 1949, along with her sister Dulcie Carlson and they lived in Sussex.

Dulcie was only in England for 6 months, on the immigration record it states that Esme's place of home is England, which would make sense for Dulcie to come over as she was 18.

The only way Esme could have got a British passport / visa would be to marry an English man. But Norman Radford died in South Africa and was born in South Africa.

A mystery! Thank you again

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South Africa / Looking for relations of Norman Arthur William Radford - Durban / England
« on: Tuesday 23 April 13 13:09 BST (UK)  »
Hello,

I am looking for relations of:

Norman Arthur William Radford
B:13 MAY 1922 in Pietermaritzburg, KZN, South Africa
D:19 JUL 2009 in Durban

He married Esme Audrey Carlson.

From the records I have it appears that they lived in England from 1925 onwards, they lived in Portslade. Esme is now Radford and is listed as a housewife. I don't have Esme's death date, so I am unsure if Norman remarried if Esme died before him.

I got his details from another family tree and ancestry, so there must be people out there who are researching these two people.

If any relations of this couple are out there and read this please get in touch (email address removed to stop spam email, please use the Private Message system for exchange of information)

We have just found that we live around the corner from the house they lived in in England, if any of their relations are in England, Esme is my partners great aunt. It would be wonderful to be in touch with them.

Many thanks,

Jemilla

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