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Hello J.J.

Sadly my wife Suzanne is no longer with us; aged 53 she passed away last December after having been diagnosed with cancer some eighteen months previous.
Good luck with your Bearman genealogy,

Regards, AN.

Oh Wow,
twice in one month - ROOTSCHAT you have excelled yourself!

Hello Cousin,
this is so spooky, your Alice Dorothy is on the marriage certificate for the first marriage of Frederick Charles Bearman and his descendant Bill Bearman who lives in Canada contacted me through this site earlier this month.  Bill also was a newbie to this site and to family history research.

I had found Alice's marriage to John A Willy in 1934, but didn't know what had happened to her after that.
I use a system called dropbox www.dropbox.com to share files, I'll send you an invite to my Bearman genealogy file, which is how I am sharing files with Bill.  Also if you go on facebook and look for Bearman Genealogy Forum, you'll find a group I set up on there; some of the members of which are related to you.  Bill - Frederick Charles Bearman's descendant, Brandon - Ted (edmond) Bearman's descendant, me, my kids, my cousins descended from William John Bearman and also the descendants of one of their uncles William Bearman, Jan Bearman Brown who I am sure will want to say hello.

I am Suzanne Newell nee Bearman and we live in Staffordshire, lovely to meet you

Hi Bill,
couldn't wait to  get up this morning to see if you replied, normally you can't shift me from my bed!  Brandon Ted's great grandson being a typical teenage lad, (I've got 3 myself) said yes I am related to you, I'll get you more information and then school, cars & sport took over and he hasn't or we might have known about the connection sooner. Brandon is the grandson of Doug.

I love that photo of Frederick Charles as I have no pictures of my great grandfather Willliam John and how it came to me was such a fluke, as the girl who had it not even being a blood relation to him.  She, Debbie didn't know much about FC only that he married Eva Wilson her nan on August 20th 1921 at All Saints Church, Shooters Hill London, he was 30 and she was 23. His profession was labourer. He lived at 27 Eglinton Road, she lived at number 23. His father's profession was a fitter as was her father. As well as two male witnesses, a third name is squashed down the side of the certificate apparently and it is Dorothy Bearman.  FC had a sister called Alice Dorothy.

I have information on this family going back to c 178ish and could spend all day collating it for you - unfortunately I have a massive deadline at work and must resist the temptation today.  I will say Bill you are from long line of William's.
William Bearman c 17?? father of William Bearman c 1812 in Bocking Essex, (who married Jane Pine) father of Frederick William 4/4/1859 who married (Martha Ross) who was father to your Frederick and my William.  The eldest son of William c 1812 and Jane was called William and his decendants live in Peterborough UK, I am in touch with them and one of them (Derek Duddington) believes that he has found the parents of my first William, he says:

"William Bearman was born in Bocking on 7th Jan 1808 and baptised @ St. Mary's church on 1st April. He was the Son of William Bearman and Rhoda Burman, who where married on 8th Jan 1804 @ St. Mary's. Other children are Mary brn 29 Mar bap 17 Apr 1805 : Eliza brn 8 May bpt 24 Jun 1809 : Elizabeth brn 25 Oct 1815, PR states fathers occupation in 1815 was a Wheelwright."

Suzanne

Thanks China, one possible is Lily Alice M Bearman born 1884 in Greenwich.  Another is that she is my great grandmother Lily Winifred Greene born 1886 in Kentish Town and that someone wrote Lily Bearman on the photograph some years later when she was married to William John Bearman, as the photograph was passed to me by Lily Bearman nee Greenes grandson.

Regards
Suzanne

Hi this photograph is marked L Bearman, so she is likely to be Lily - unfortunately there are several Lily Bearman's in my tree, some who are Bearman's by marriage.  Though to me she looks a young girl with the loose hair and all and not likely to be a married lady so that rules her out for my great grandmother, I am thinking she might be the sister of my great grandfather.  help dating the photo might narrow down which Lily she is

Thanks
Suzanne