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Hello both,
I just came across this post, I know it is years later but maybe you will read this. I am too a relative of the Papworths. Janet was my second cousin twice removed. My great great grandmother was Dorothy May Papworth. It was her sister Beatrice who gave birth to Frederick who married Phyllis having Patricia, Janet, Jennifer and Susanne. He left Phyllis after the war and moved to Australia. She was left to work a hard life in an old peoples home to be able to raise her 4 daughters alone. Janet survived the floods because she went to a party that night and the flood prevented her getting home. I have two newspaper article cuttings about the flood. One calls Janet the saddest little girl in Britain and the orphan of the storm, the other is a picture of her with her dog Trixie. That is all she had left from the flood, no family nor belongings. I was happy to see she married and moved to Washington to start a new life, but I was saddened to read your post that she passed away from breast cancer.

I have a lot of information on ancestry about them and other Papworth's, if you're interested I can share this information with you. Or we could swap emails.

Hope to hear from you,
Nikita