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Hi Helena,

Thank you for your kind reply. I have tried to reply with a private message but the web site says it can't find my email address! so doing it this way.

My only interest in the Chatt Ramsey family is in this entry on Durham records on line.
http://www.durhamrecordsonline.com/searchresults.php?page=5

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I have not been able to find a birth entry for this child.

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Tess Cawley
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South Africa

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Thank you. The person I am trying to trace back is ........................ born in 1956 (Easington) and Christened in 1957 in the  Durhamonline.com records.

I can not find a birth entry for ........................and wondered if he may have been adopted. I believe him to be the son / adopted son of  Edwin Chatt Ramsey (b Oct/Nov/Dec 1920) and Mary V Quinn (b 1921) married in 1955 in Durham.

Edwin Chatt Ramsey’s parents were Mary Thomas (b 18 August 1898) and Ernest Edwin Chatt. They married in 1915.

In 1920 Mary Chatt nee Thomas had a son Edwin Chatt (born at South Shields) and Mary Chatt nee Thomas went on to marry Robert Ramsey in 1924  (South Sheilds) which is when I believe Edwin’s name was altered to Edwin Chatt Ramsey therefore also taking on his step fathers surname.
   
What happened to Ernest Edwin Chatt ? I can not find a death in the UK for Ernest Edwin Chatt  and wondered if he was many of the people who did not return at the end of WW1. Although for Edwin to have been born in 4Q of 1920, Ernest must have been around towards the end of 1919 / early 1920.

There are 2 births for the name Ernest Edwin Chatt.
1880 in Newcastle
1882 in Gateshead. The Gateshead one died the following year in 1883

I am presuming the forefather  is the Ernest Edwin Chatt born in 1880 so he would have been 40 in 1920 when he seems to have disappeared.

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Thank you for your reply. I have Googled Chatt-Ramsey and did not find one Richard Chatt-Ramsey.

Phyllis May Cherrett was born in Poole in 1917, Dorset England. Her first marriage was to George Christodoulou. They parted around 1950. Phyllis traveled to Montreal leaving on the 9th April 1954 aboard the ship Empress of Australia. Her occupation was listed as Housekeeper. She traveled under the surname Christodoulou but was known in Canada by her maiden name of Cherrett.

At some time in 1955 Phyllis married Ernest J Scott, a widower. Ernest was born 2nd November 1897 in Parry Sound, Ontario. We believe that they may have met in Huntsville and either married in Huntsville or Dwight but I can’t find any records as I believe they are sealed. The address where they lived was 25 McCamus Ave, Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada.

Ernest died in 1973 in Parry Sound

The next address for Phyllis was as Phyllis MCRAE at 6-225 East 3rd St, North
Vancouver, Canada. This address turned out to be ANVETS housing who confirmed that Phyllis had lived there and was then moved to frail care but did not know where.

It is thought that Mr McRae’s first name was John and that they may well have met at Gravenhurst. We know Mr McRae had a son but not his name. We know the son visited Phyllis in the Vancouver flat and may well have arranged for her to go into Frail care.

Whilst I appreciate that Phyllis must be dead I am trying to find out about her life and possibly contact Mr McRae’s son.

Phyllis was my birth mother.

From what I can gather the hotel where the mother and father worked in Bournemouth was bombed out close to the beginning of the war and from all accounts the whole area went. After that London address I have several more addresses in London from George's army pay book. The LMA also turned up Helen in care in 1942 in London after both she and mother Phyllis were in hospital for a protracted stay. I guess more bombs. It is after that that Helen was sent to her grandmother in Dorset but they were already a full house and so she went to foster parents in Parkstone, Dorset, where she remained until she married and subsequently died in 1971.