What we have discovered is that ECG was not a nice man - (a friend of King John's I believe - A.A Milne!
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Edna it seems, is very unlikely to be his as he'd left the family almost before Olive was born - e.g. before he sailed to Aus on the Suffolk in 1908, possibly. Understandably enough he wasn't talked about much!
Edward's children didn't hit it off with George Forsyth much either - so they had a pretty hard time of it. Claude grew up in Barnardos homes for much of his childhood. I found Olive living with her aunt and uncle in 1911.
Can't find death of Claude - but for death of Edith, the hunt should be at the beginning of the war - 1940-41 and in Faraday Street where the family had been living for some time. Don't know much about Edith's Forsyth family, but the Gaunt part - (with Edna) seemed to stick together, and have kept in contact - though they lost contact with Claude after a bit. Think I have this right.
Olive and family migrated to NZ as did Edna and family. They did not know about the Tasmanian connection - so Idleart has a host of new rellies to get his head around!
I will leave it to Idleart to add any more history which he feels might be for public scrutiny, as this is his own family - (and we are now moving into the region of the living rellies - so verboten!)
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( that's the best bit - I am now in touch with one of Edward's great grandchildren!)Thanks to you all for your searching and your contributions to this hunt!
Wiggy
