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Family History Beginners Board / Re: My great-grandmother Annie Laura White
« on: Saturday 07 December 13 20:00 GMT (UK) »
Hi Keith, off topic but I wanted to reach out to you about something you may be interested in..
I have an old 1st edition of Bernard Bosanquet's "Philosophical Theory of the State" the inside of which has an inscription "Cyrillo Waltero Gurner" (and some more latin.) The book appears to have been in the possession of Cyril Walter Gurner at Oriel College Oxford (and subsequently in the possession of Richard Robinson.) Even more interestingly, my mother in law was flipping through the book and found an old photo in it. The photo is very faded but shows for men standing in front of what looks like a cottage. On the back is an inscription which is hard to make out but is something like "Wi??sey Hill Farm ??rcestershire Xmas Vac. 1910-11."
Googling Cyril's name, I came across your RootsChat post about your grandfather.
I have an old 1st edition of Bernard Bosanquet's "Philosophical Theory of the State" the inside of which has an inscription "Cyrillo Waltero Gurner" (and some more latin.) The book appears to have been in the possession of Cyril Walter Gurner at Oriel College Oxford (and subsequently in the possession of Richard Robinson.) Even more interestingly, my mother in law was flipping through the book and found an old photo in it. The photo is very faded but shows for men standing in front of what looks like a cottage. On the back is an inscription which is hard to make out but is something like "Wi??sey Hill Farm ??rcestershire Xmas Vac. 1910-11."
Googling Cyril's name, I came across your RootsChat post about your grandfather.