Gertrude Ayton, actress of some renown?

[MonicaL]

Hi Tracey

Welcome to RootsChat 

RedMystic will be thrilled for sure.

Can't believe how this story and searches have expanded over time.

Monica

[Emmeline]

Yes Monica......... As one who has followed this story I can't wait to hear RedMystic's reply to this

news 

[RedMystic]

Hi Tracey, welcome to RootsChat ... and welcome to the family.

I would LOVE  to see the letters!  You need to make 2 more posts on this thread before I can send a personal message to you with my e-mail. (Just post "Hi" and then start a third post.) 

I'm not sure if Howard still has a live link to this page, but I stay in touch with him. He's Gertrude's grandson in Scotland & I met him through this search. There is also a cousin in eastern Canada (I'm in the west).

Was your grandmother in the performance field? Both Howard & the eastern Canadian cousin have photos with people we can't identify - one never knows if your grandmother was one of the beauties.

So nice to meet you. I look forward to chatting more about your grandmother & how she might have met Gertrude.

[Alantra]

Hi Tracey, welcome to RootsChat ... and welcome to the family.

I would LOVE  to see the letters!  You need to make 2 more posts on this thread before I can send a personal message to you with my e-mail. (Just post "Hi" and then start a third post.) 

I'm not sure if Howard still has a live link to this page, but I stay in touch with him. He's Gertrude's grandson in Scotland & I met him through this search. There is also a cousin in eastern Canada (I'm in the west).

Was your grandmother in the performance field? Both Howard & the eastern Canadian cousin have photos with people we can't identify - one never knows if your grandmother was one of the beauties.

So nice to meet you. I look forward to chatting more about your grandmother & how she might have met Gertrude.

Hi

[Alantra]

Hi Tracey, welcome to RootsChat ... and welcome to the family.

I would LOVE  to see the letters!  You need to make 2 more posts on this thread before I can send a personal message to you with my e-mail. (Just post "Hi" and then start a third post.) 

I'm not sure if Howard still has a live link to this page, but I stay in touch with him. He's Gertrude's grandson in Scotland & I met him through this search. There is also a cousin in eastern Canada (I'm in the west).

Was your grandmother in the performance field? Both Howard & the eastern Canadian cousin have photos with people we can't identify - one never knows if your grandmother was one of the beauties.

So nice to meet you. I look forward to chatting more about your grandmother & how she might have met Gertrude.

Hi

Hi Tracey, welcome to RootsChat ... and welcome to the family.

I would LOVE  to see the letters!  You need to make 2 more posts on this thread before I can send a personal message to you with my e-mail. (Just post "Hi" and then start a third post.) 

I'm not sure if Howard still has a live link to this page, but I stay in touch with him. He's Gertrude's grandson in Scotland & I met him through this search. There is also a cousin in eastern Canada (I'm in the west).

Was your grandmother in the performance field? Both Howard & the eastern Canadian cousin have photos with people we can't identify - one never knows if your grandmother was one of the beauties.

So nice to meet you. I look forward to chatting more about your grandmother & how she might have met Gertrude.

Hi

Hi Tracey, welcome to RootsChat ... and welcome to the family.

I would LOVE  to see the letters!  You need to make 2 more posts on this thread before I can send a personal message to you with my e-mail. (Just post "Hi" and then start a third post.) 

I'm not sure if Howard still has a live link to this page, but I stay in touch with him. He's Gertrude's grandson in Scotland & I met him through this search. There is also a cousin in eastern Canada (I'm in the west).

Was your grandmother in the performance field? Both Howard & the eastern Canadian cousin have photos with people we can't identify - one never knows if your grandmother was one of the beauties.

So nice to meet you. I look forward to chatting more about your grandmother & how she might have met Gertrude.

Hi

Hi RedMystic,
Hope I have done this right !!!
No my Grandmother was not in the performance field, from what I can gather she met Gertrude at one of her performances, the first letter from Gertrude is very formal starting Dear Mrs Parkinson, the later two letters use her first name, they must have become friends.
I remember seeing somewhere my Grandmother and another lady I do not know in a photograph, taken quite late on in life, my Nan was 79 when she died in 1983. I will try and find it and see if it resembles Gertrude. My nan and family, myself too, lived just outside Blackpool in a small village now town called Poulton-le-Fylde.
Hope to speak soon.
Tracey.

[RedMystic]

How great it is to hear from you Tracey. It sounds like Gertrude was quite a loving, cuddly sort - except for the relationship with her first husband. 

One more post from you & we can exchange e-mails using the personal messaging system. I'm looking forward to it.

If I'm a bit slow responding over the next 48-72 hours please forgive me.  I'm packing up one house, then driving 1100km on Friday & unpacking Saturday.  I will check in from time to time. 

[Alantra]

Hi Redmystic,

I have recently moved from UK to Ireland, so I know exactly what you are going through, they say moving home is one of the most stressful times of your life !!

Great to hear from you and put a picture to the lady my nan used to be friends with, I have wondered for a while who she could be...the letters were with my Dad's papers which I have only just gone through since he moved in with us due to illness.

If it wasn't for modern technology we would all be left in the dark 

I will leave you to your packing and look forward to hearing from you when you are more settled, good luck on the move and I hope I have done this right this time   

Tracey

[Alantra]

Hi RedMystic,

Letters sent 

Tracey

[RedMystic]

Awesome.  Thank you.