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In case Bob wants to see the trees -- Anc'y trees are all mirrored at

http://www.mundia.com

Sign up, search trees ("Find People" button), send private messages, all free.

Most people who have trees at Anc'y don't know that Anc'y reproduces them at Mundia;
there's some tiny little fine-print notice someplace about this.

Whoops! I have a strong suspicion that my brother in law is the author/owner of the Ancestry tree! I have copies of his work and at first sight he knows something we don't know and doesn't know something that we do. (smile). I'll sort it out and report again.

Incidentally, he has yet another date for grandad's death - 1926 according to the register at Chard.

Bob (refer my photo of great grandma - RGD's mother - above)

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Wow, Ladies! You've got my head spinning. I hope it's clear that I had no wish to hijack JiminWales's query and only threw in my little bit in case it helped him. Since then, things have got somewhat exciting - and who am I to want it oherwise? Warm thanks to you both.

I had no plans to seek a certificate, Deb. The truth is, I'm very green at this

Just to keep the pot boiling, here is a photo of grandfather's grave at Wambrook, near Chard, Somerset, taken a few days ago. Until my aunt died and wished to be buried with him there was no stone and he was actually the first to be buried in the extended churchyard which is distinguished with a low ridge. The church contains a bier on which he was conveyed from the cottage where he died in Higher Wambrook.

Bob

(edit: I've reduced the already small photo to conform with Forum rules)

Thank you again. I have no other record except what (I think) mother told me. When I am that way I'll check his gravestone. There was no stone until my aunt wished to be buried with him and my cousins provided the stone with both names, father and daughter. I'll see what name(s) they gave him.

For what it is worth I'll try to append his signature on the survey form, I hope there's no harm in that.

bp

My grandfather, Robert George Dunn was born and christened in Bradninch and died and is buried in Wambrook, Somerset when my mother was about 14. That would be about 1924. Mother told me her dad was around 40 when he died, so born around 1880 (pneumonia?). In the 1911 Census he is recorded as 'waggoner on farm'. My mother is listed as a baby (b. Nov 1910) with two older sisters and wife Jane (nee Kingsland). The address was given as Cottleigh, Ottery St Mary; whether that fits with mother's statement that she was born at Tipton St John (only a few months earlier) I don't know. The only Cottleigh I have found is further east and hardly Tipton or Ottery. The middle sister told me she was born at Great Well, Ottery

Later on there was a son, William who died in his early 20s, about 1942, buried with his mother at Rockbeare.

I recall checking the Bradninch church registers in Exeter Records Office some years ago and found that a large number of young people including grandfather were christened together on Christmas Day (local tradition?). I am now 76 and another Robert, and may have lost the notes I made then. If we had the date that might help - but maybe the children were of different ages...

If any of this seems relevant, please leave a note here and I will try to find any other information that may have survived. Judging by my mother's account of their many homes I would guess that RGD was in the habit, choice or necessity, of moving on pretty regularly from farm to farm but that does not necessarily mean that his father, whoever he was, was of the same inclination.

Good hunting!

BP