Are you sitting comfortably ? then I'll begin !!

[MaryA]

Eshe Road is definitely sheldered accommodation with occupants seemingly having individual rooms and their own bells.  At some time in the past it has been joined to the house on the right to make larger premises and the little white door set in there is where the bells are, I did go inside the first door and there was another, locked, seemingly to the office, nobody at home 

The last is where the witness Alice M Chaddock lived, in Nicholas Road.  Although it's a more modern building, probably built around the 1950's I would think, it's still in the same general area and occupants of these flats probably have a "few bob" as we say 

[liverpool annie]

14 Victoria Road, Waterloo where Elizabeth Hurst died.

If walls could talk huh Mary ?? ............ I've been just staring at that photo .... willing it to tell us something !! 
They are all great pictures !

It seems I've been on the same path as you today .... everywhere I tried - has been a dead end !! 

Glad you had a good time ... at least you didn't have far to "roll home " ......... 

[liverpool annie]

I wonder where Robert's medals are ? and I wonder if Robert's will is available .......

I've been looking for photos .... but I can't find anything in my resources .... yet !!

He was commissioned into the MGC on 26-1-1918

http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/archiveVi...;selHonourType=

I'm still looking ! I did find a picture of the MGC plaque !

Albert was the main town behind the lines for the Allies nearest to the 1916 Somme Battlefields. It lies on the main D929 road that runs east to Bapaume across the Somme battlefields, and west to Amiens in the other direction (although the D929 now diverts to the south around Albert, the original road still runs through it).

For a town at the heart of the Briitsh activities in this region, there are surprisingly few Great War sights to see in Albert. Devastated during the war and rebuilt afterwards, it has to be said that it is not as attractive a city as Ypres. As a base for battlefield touring both accomodation and restaraunts are fairly limited. However, it is an important location on the battlefield, and this page describes what there is to be seen. In terms of the history of the war, Albert came to be associated with the British when their troops took over the lines here in the summer of 1915. After the war, Albert was 'adopted' by Birmingham.


Not far from the Basilica is the Hotel de Ville, and on the wall by the entrance is a plaque commemorating the Machine Gun Corps. It was unveiled just before the Second World War, and commemorates the 13,791 of the Machine Gun Corps who died, and the 48,258 wounded or missing during the Great War.

http://www.ww1battlefields.co.uk/somme/albert.html

[tisgrannie]

Morning Annie, Catching up with were you are all up to on your quest. Can't open the Gazette link. can you verify the link for us interested rooters,
well done
tisgrannie

[MaryA]

Morning All, Monday is with us again.

In response to my letter to Robert Crease's widow I received a telephone call from her this morning.  She has advised me that so far as she is aware there are no Creases left.  Her husband Robert who was born in  Cannongate, Edinburgh had no children, nor did his three sisters.

She has been through her husband's documents and has discovered nothing which might help us.

We had followed the correct line as his parents were Robert Crease and Euphemia Keay.

Robert Crease had a cousin, also Robert, whose father had taken over the music business - yes they were the Creases who had the music shop on County Road, Walton - and this cousin and his wife lived in Maghull, unfortunately she believes that they are also now deceased and that they didn't have any children.

She has my contact details and if she comes across anything at all she will get in touch.  She was interested to hear of the search and had looked a little at the Crease family history without much success in the past.

I have to say that I think following up the Arthur Edward Dobell line is pretty far away from our original Robert William Stead.  If he had been the child of Norah May Stead I would have agreed that he be classed as "family" but this is her brother in law and his children so no blood relation at all.

I've nevertheless asked Anna about obtaining the Will of Arthur Edward Dobell which she has agreed to do sometime during this week but I would appreciate the opinion of others as to whether this really would be worth it or not so that we can confirm whether she should or not, asap.

Unless Annie's article for the Liverpool Echo throws up an unexpected lead I'm afraid that I now feel we have exhausted all the avenues I can think of.

I would appreciate input from anybody following this thread as to whether you agree with me, alternatively I would welcome your suggestions as to where we can go from here.

Mary

[tazzie]

   Hi Mary......

 To be honest I think that the Dobell line is now too far removed from the family line we needed. So I think we should leave off the will for Arthur as I do not believe we need to go down that line.

 We have alot of info but I think we must now open it up to the newspaper to follow leads.
 It seems a pity that the whole line seems to have dwindled around this time with very few of the marriages leading to children...we could have hit the one thing that bugs us all ...a brickwall..

                     Tazzie

[nanny jan]

Hi Mary,

If all the publicity fails to find anyone; would a local museum be interested?


Nanny Jan

[michel51]

hi Mary,

I agree completely with you

Michel

[michel51]

Hi nanny Jan,

as soon as I understood that Robert William STEAD and his sister Norah had no child, I already thought, if I did not keep the wrist tag, of giving it to a museum in England.

Michel