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London and Middlesex / Re: Poplar Workhouse inmates
« on: Sunday 24 February 19 21:58 GMT (UK) »
Hi
I have just joined this forum (and Rootschat) I found this site after discovering that my father was born at 86 Poplar High Street on 23rd May 1911. My grandfather was a boilermaker at the docks and it apparently took some time before he married my grandmother. They had 8 children with my father being the eldest. He did fine - and taught electrical engineering at Westminster Tech, was a MIEE and made a good life.
3 of the family moved here to Canada (two as war brides) and made a good life here on the west coast.
Many thanks for all who have posted here
I have just joined this forum (and Rootschat) I found this site after discovering that my father was born at 86 Poplar High Street on 23rd May 1911. My grandfather was a boilermaker at the docks and it apparently took some time before he married my grandmother. They had 8 children with my father being the eldest. He did fine - and taught electrical engineering at Westminster Tech, was a MIEE and made a good life.
3 of the family moved here to Canada (two as war brides) and made a good life here on the west coast.
Many thanks for all who have posted here