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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: WORTHINGTON family ? Bradford area
« on: Monday 02 September 19 22:11 BST (UK) »
Thanks very much for your help Stan. I'll contact him
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Yorkshire (West Riding) / Re: WORTHINGTON family ? Bradford area
« on: Tuesday 27 August 19 22:02 BST (UK) »
I appreciate that this is four years after the event but I believe Hendry (Harry) is my grandfather.
During the weekend I was going through some old papers from my nan and found a letter Harry wrote to her during the war. At the top was his service number which I then searched for in the Commonwealth War Graves commission web site and from there put in a google search for his name and came up with these posts.
After Harry died my nan, Margaret remarried Denis Jones and Denis adopted my dad Christopher who took his surname. Denis was from the Cheetham Hill area of Manchester and the moved across the Pennines and lived in various places over the years. My dad joined Manchester police where he met my mother Valerie in 1965. They had two children, me and my sister, and we eventually moved down to Devon in the early seventies.
My grandparents eventually followed us down and Margaret passed away in 1981. Denis had a good long life passing away in 2006 but my dad sadly passed away in 1998. Amazingly he also died on 6 June which is same date Harry did and the same date of the story in the newspaper!
I always knew that Denis had adopted my dad but the story passed down was that Harry had been lost at sea? My wife is from West Yorkshire and with my mother's side from Manchester we have maintained some connections with the north.
I'm not sure what happened with the street naming in Colchester but I have looked up the cemetery and will get in touch with them.
During the weekend I was going through some old papers from my nan and found a letter Harry wrote to her during the war. At the top was his service number which I then searched for in the Commonwealth War Graves commission web site and from there put in a google search for his name and came up with these posts.
After Harry died my nan, Margaret remarried Denis Jones and Denis adopted my dad Christopher who took his surname. Denis was from the Cheetham Hill area of Manchester and the moved across the Pennines and lived in various places over the years. My dad joined Manchester police where he met my mother Valerie in 1965. They had two children, me and my sister, and we eventually moved down to Devon in the early seventies.
My grandparents eventually followed us down and Margaret passed away in 1981. Denis had a good long life passing away in 2006 but my dad sadly passed away in 1998. Amazingly he also died on 6 June which is same date Harry did and the same date of the story in the newspaper!
I always knew that Denis had adopted my dad but the story passed down was that Harry had been lost at sea? My wife is from West Yorkshire and with my mother's side from Manchester we have maintained some connections with the north.
I'm not sure what happened with the street naming in Colchester but I have looked up the cemetery and will get in touch with them.
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