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I'm glad to have found this subject. I was tracing my family and had obtained all the details of my grandmother's 12 siblings, including copies of each of their birth certificates, newspaper cuttings and WW1 records. But then I discovered other family trees with just some of the siblings and other people with the same surname registered in the same district who were nothing to do with my gran's immediate family. I messaged the two individuals with the correct details, but they neither acknowledged my messages or corrected their trees. I merely use other people's information as a guide that needs verifying.

Hi Spades,
I'm certain that Marion Gardner is deceased, but as for Norman Brooksbank who was 30yrs old in 1948 and son I do not know. With regards to*, she is alive, a neighbour, and I said that I would see if I could help her get started in researching her family. I thought that someone might recognise the names and know ancestors?
Do we have to be certain that individuals are deceased before we can make a request. If so, I apologise. I erroneously thought the rule was that a living person must not be sought. Sorry, obviously I cannot be certain.

Hi Al,
Just to say, thank you again for all your help. I purchased a marriage certificate for Hilda Whiddett/Dadd that confirms that it was her that married George E F Harvey in 1946, but the birth certificate of Jeffrey Harvey 1947 revealed mere coincidence. His parents were not Hilda and George. They were Geoffrey Harvey and Ivy Olive nee Dadd. Shame.
I hope you are getting these messages. I would send more Whiddett photos but the website's system will not upload, they are too big, (whatever that means).
Best wishes
Howard

Hi Al,

Thanks for your message. I know of Roy L Stanford. He contacted my mother many years ago and later sent her 4 sheets that contains Whiddett family tree in great detail. My mother was not over interested beyond her mother's generation and later gave them to me.
My sadness with all the work that dear Roy put in, is that when I started to investigate my gran's siblings, (John and Emma Whiddett's children), I discovered that it was full of inaccuracies. He had not only listed 12 children instead of 13, but inserted two Whiddetts that were not John and Emma's children and missed out three who were! The two he inserted were registered at Blean as were most of J&E's children, but they belonged to another family. With so many errors in such small part of this mammoth work, I was left wondering how many more errors had been made. I verified everything with birth certificates etc.
I have discovered errors in a number of other people's records of J&E's family. When I point out the errors, some correct their trees and others ignore me. It seems to me that there is a lot of misinformation being passed on from one tree to another.
I have a record of your ancestor Alfred. He was one of 11 children of Henry and Mary Ann Whiddett. I guess John (my great granddad), had my gran named after his mother for she was Mary Ann Maud.
Do you live anywhere near Canterbury? If so you will see four Whiddetts on the war memorial outside the Cathedral gates. One isn't related, but three are sons of John, brothers of my gran.

Hi Al,
Here attached is a photo of John Whiddett.