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Gloucestershire / Re: Harry Douthwaite born 1913 Stockton on Tees
« on: Wednesday 31 December 25 20:47 GMT (UK) »
Thank you for your findings. Always find it extraordinary how people vanish.
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Gloucestershire / Re: Harry Douthwaite born 1913 Stockton on Tees
« on: Wednesday 31 December 25 18:50 GMT (UK) »
Without a will or death certificate I summarise that there are family issues that would be private but an assumption he returned north is feasible.
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Gloucestershire / Re: Harry Douthwaite born 1913 Stockton on Tees
« on: Monday 12 May 25 21:57 BST (UK) »
Further investigation revealed a lot I hadn’t been told, so as he doesn’t appear on Find My Past Immigration, I decided to let it rest.
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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Adoption or not in 1918
« on: Monday 12 May 25 16:47 BST (UK) »
They said in the 1930’s it was the second best in Kent. I was surprised there wasn’t a preservation order on it. WW1 used as a hospital. Odd times around 1900 as I found before people created different names as the old Percival was a Sands.
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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Adoption or not in 1918
« on: Monday 12 May 25 14:19 BST (UK) »
Richard. Harbourne Hall.Historically.
In 1934 it opened as a country guest house. By April 1942 the Bank is taking the mortgagee to court for repayment of £22,000. Then in May the estate is for sale. My impression is it was taken over by the Ministry of Agriculture and used to train the Land Army, this with reference to an announcement of the many irksome war issues such as binder twine being in short supply. Which doesn’t explain Robin’s position there.
In 1934 it opened as a country guest house. By April 1942 the Bank is taking the mortgagee to court for repayment of £22,000. Then in May the estate is for sale. My impression is it was taken over by the Ministry of Agriculture and used to train the Land Army, this with reference to an announcement of the many irksome war issues such as binder twine being in short supply. Which doesn’t explain Robin’s position there.
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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Adoption or not in 1918
« on: Sunday 11 May 25 18:39 BST (UK) »
I would imagine south of the Thames which was the stamping ground of Percival and Robin’s father. In the great scheme of things it’s incredible that Percival ended up an Air rank and Robin a Captain. Robins wife’s second marriage was into serious money. The daughter of Robin herself married twice and died 1997. Percival the son, his daughter married well in Australia. If your interest look up Frank Bustard died 1974.
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London & Middlesex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Adoption or not in 1918
« on: Thursday 08 May 25 11:01 BST (UK) »
To Pluckingpheasant.
all the information regarding Robin John Wilkinson Sands is on line and covered in the earlier pages on this site. The family connection was although not uncommon was probably from Percivals early upbringing when he was taken in by his mothers family in 1899 on his fathers death. His father was a Wilkinson and his mother was a Sands. Percival died of bowel cancer 29-9-1954 in Exmouth and is buried in a village church nearby. its a very complicated family.
all the information regarding Robin John Wilkinson Sands is on line and covered in the earlier pages on this site. The family connection was although not uncommon was probably from Percivals early upbringing when he was taken in by his mothers family in 1899 on his fathers death. His father was a Wilkinson and his mother was a Sands. Percival died of bowel cancer 29-9-1954 in Exmouth and is buried in a village church nearby. its a very complicated family.
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The Common Room / Re: FindMyPast Subscription Renewal
« on: Friday 14 March 25 15:29 GMT (UK) »
14/03/2025 I have a yearly full subscription runing till November this year. Yet they want me to pay for another version and I am stuck in a loop. Just e mailed them to ask why as there prices are getting ridiculous.
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Gloucestershire / Harry Douthwaite born 1913 Stockton on Tees
« on: Thursday 20 February 25 12:11 GMT (UK) »
From 1948 to 1951 Harry Douthwaite was secretary Cirencester HMC, Watermoor Hospital. Regularly appearing in newspaper advertisements for nursing staff in newspapers from Cornwall to Belfast. Then he disappears and no newspapers or ancestry sites have any mention of his death, likewise i have not found any immigration or name change. Just a note he is not the H Douthwaite at Truro Hospital in 1951 as the dates clash Any help appreciated.