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Offline jayaydee

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Re: Is There a Helpful person in Eastbourne
« Reply #9 on: Friday 13 April 12 19:41 BST (UK) »
If anyone needs any photos taken, send me a pm and  I can nip over and take some  :)

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Re: Is There a Helpful person in Eastbourne
« Reply #10 on: Monday 23 April 12 10:08 BST (UK) »
If anyone needs any photos taken, send me a pm and  I can nip over and take some  :)

Hi jayaydee,

I just wanted to thank you for this kind offer. That really is good of you.  I have not found out the locations yet of the burial plots in Ocklynge but when I do I hope to make a visit myself as I would also like to visit the area to examine old newspapers.   Should I not be able to do so, I may avail myself of your kind offer and ask you to take a pic.  Thanks again!

Glynis

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Re: Is There a Helpful person in Eastbourne
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 29 May 12 11:16 BST (UK) »
Thanks to all the above,

I obtained a cemetery map and location of my Gt Grandmothers grave back in 2004, and Magrat very kindly went along and photographed the headstone at her own expense (refusing all offers of recompense).

I eventually discovered that my Gt Grandmother died in Croydon where she was visiting her husbands sister, (who I had also lost after she disappeared from the Northeast). Croydon library very kindly looked in their records and confirmed that a Jane Davison died there in 1927 at the address my Grandfather moved to from Scotland in 1914. The death certificate confirmed that it was indeed my Gt Grandmother, and the reason for her visits to Croydon as her death was reported by her niece.

My father knew nothing of this, although he was 9 at the time.

Anyway, thanks all.

Bob
Scotland - Blaikie, Carr, Jamieson, Alexander, Chisholm
Nottinghamshire - Smith, Gabb, Simpson, Dyer
Gloucestershire - Gabb, Davies
Norfolk - Nelson
Northumberland/Durham - Davison, Scott
Wales - Shaw
USA - Pratt
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