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Australia Lookups completed / Re: Hilda VARLEY
« on: Wednesday 02 November 11 21:27 GMT (UK) »
Hi new to this site and found all this from doing a google on my grandfather! Susan Barnett (nee Bennett) is my second cousin as I am the daughter of Derek Reginald Willmott, son of Albert Reginald Willmott and Alice Mildred Holden (Bob's first cousin). I remember Doris, Connie and Hilda in our back garden when I was a kid in the 60s, likewise they are all my great aunts. Hilda went to Australia in later life to join her sisters after trying to live with my grandmother after my grandfather's death. Prior to that she married a Varney in Eastbourne UK but I don't know what year, only that he begged her to look after him until his death so she married him. Sorry I should listen more intently to the family story for the facts, but if you want to know more just ask as Derek Willmott my father is still with us and long term memory in tact (short term not so good) and my mother knows the family history pretty well as well.
Freeman you say that your father is Hilda's first cousin.. gosh that makes you my second cousin once removed! (you being my father's second cousin) and same for Susan Barnett. Was your father from the Willmott or White side of the family? Did you know that the White side goes back to Mercy in my great great great grandmother's family, going back to Louis XIV of France! Descendants from the wrong side of the sheets.
Freeman you say that your father is Hilda's first cousin.. gosh that makes you my second cousin once removed! (you being my father's second cousin) and same for Susan Barnett. Was your father from the Willmott or White side of the family? Did you know that the White side goes back to Mercy in my great great great grandmother's family, going back to Louis XIV of France! Descendants from the wrong side of the sheets.