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London and Middlesex / Re: Bemused
« on: Sunday 16 April 23 11:50 BST (UK)  »
So interested to read this.  My grandfather, Herbert Alfred Hollis, was cost accountant with Wilkes in SE London, near Blackfriars I think.  He lived in Camberwell then.  The firm moved in abt 1936 and he moved to live in Harrow to be nearer.  In 1939 although aged 46 he enlisted, having had a very bad Great War, and took leave from Wilkes until he was demobbed.  My grandmother met him at Wilkes in SE London, she was a paper folder then a despatch clerk. I would love to know a bit more about the printing firm. My late mother said Mr Harry Wilkes was a lovely gentleman.

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Surrey Completed Look up Requests / Re: HOLLIS Rotherhithe pre 1900
« on: Tuesday 27 September 05 01:29 BST (UK)  »
Sure will.  My Hollises seem to have been in/around Bermondsey and Rotherhithe back to 1800 - as far as I have got! Will keep an eye out for a Longmuir connection!  Happy hunting...

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Surrey Completed Look up Requests / Re: HOLLIS Rotherhithe pre 1900
« on: Monday 26 September 05 12:32 BST (UK)  »
Hi HH alas no, no yet anyway, no Ada.  Thanks for your interest,  :)

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Gloucestershire / PEGLER/PEGLAR Bermondsey, London and Stroud, Glos
« on: Friday 17 June 05 02:51 BST (UK)  »
My Peglers (or Peglars) appeared in Bermondsey about 1835 with the christening of Henry at St Marylebone.  They swiftly departed to Bermondsey!  The farthest back I have gone is Thomas, a hatter, who reveals on the censuses that he was born in Stroud, Glos about 1812.  There the trail goes cold!  Any help gratefully received...
 :)

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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / PEGLER/PEGLAR Bermondsey and Stroud
« on: Friday 17 June 05 02:49 BST (UK)  »
Sorry - this is wrong bit of surname forum, but the site doesn't seem to let me delete the post.  Oh well!

My Peglers (or Peglars) appeared in Bermondsey about 1835 with the christening of Henry at St Marylebone.  They swiftly departed to Bermondsey!  The farthest back I have gone is Thomas, a hatter, who reveals on the censuses that he was born in Stroud, Glos about 1812.  There the trail goes cold!  Any help gratefully received...
 :)

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Surrey Completed Look up Requests / HOLLIS Rotherhithe pre 1900
« on: Friday 17 June 05 02:46 BST (UK)  »
My Hollis family were clerks at the rice mills on the Rotherhithe docks.  They can be traced in this area back to George Hollis married at St John Horsleydown in 1828.     :)

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