Can Rootschat members help? - Lost Teddy Bear 'Seeks' Owner

[AngelFish]

Why would they leave a photo?

MJB

Same reason they left the bear?    

[millymcb]

Hampshire Lass's Nichola Glyn and Dora are good suggestions but I think we should be careful about saying we have actually found the children in the photo at this stage... They can be offered as a suggestion but we'd need confirmation from a descendant to be sure.

There could be other Glyn and Dora children combinations we just have not found yet (There are A LOT of Glyns born in S.Wales around that time)

Milly the Cautious 

[Hampshire Lass]

Yes of course I agree with you there Milly.   All we can do is come up with possibilities and exclude them one by one. That was all my info was meant to be.  I assumed that Trystan would pick up on it and contact a descendant to exlude that possibilty and then we can move on.

If it was our own research we'd send for certificates, not just add people to the tree because "oh, that person will do"

As far as the bear goes, I still don't think it looks like the same bear but I guess time will tell.....if we're lucky   

[AngelFish]

I was just about to say (but Milly the Cautious has beaten me to it) that I'd be very surprised if there was only one family that the names and dates relate to.  But WELL DONE! Hampshire Lass for what you've found!  I'm amazed how many replies have been made to this thread, just as I was starting to think it was a lost cause.  A glimmer of hope, and it's lovely to see the enthusiasm and skill of fellow Rootschatters in action

I didn't know how we could take it from here, I hadn't thought that far ahead! - but thank you Tristan for coming up with the answer and passing on the details to Bristol Airport for them to follow up.

There is a point that I *think* no one has mentioned yet - sorry if it already has...
Even if living relations of Dora and Glyn are contacted, there is still the possibility that they are not the rightful owners of Bear.  We will have to wait and see 

In the meantime, if anyone comes across other candidates for Dora and Glyn please share 

[mare]

Well done to Hampshire Lass for her excellent detective work and finding Baby Kenneth, Dora and Nicholas Glyn and to everyone one else who investigated. This has been a interesting thread! I hope it's proved to be the Baker family's bear.
Would doubt that anyone would dream up such an elaborate PR stunt just to publicize a children's theatre show. I think the Dora the Explorer show is just an uncanny co-incidence.

Looby

I agree, thumbs up to Hampshire Lass and thumbs down if Dora the Explorer is a big spanner! ( D the E even makes it to NZ Sprutorch9  )

If the family is the correct one I'll modify my p12 view just slightly from the clearer vantage point    ...with birthday of baby being locket baby ... rest still same thoughts, photo taken 1918, 4 March birthday of baby,  Sonnie/Glyn the age mentioned and older sister/loving daughter Dora.

[Rena]

In the meantime, if anyone comes across other candidates for Dora and Glyn please share 

I'll hazard a guess that quite a few of us where searching freebmd in an effort to find if siblings Dora and Glyn had the same mother and additionally were searching the medal cards & CWGC for their father.  I found the former site extremely slow in giving the results.

Congratulations to Hampshire Lass for her persistence.

[firefly74]

Yup, she's a star So is everyone else that added a piece to the puzzle.

I was also searching for a Dora and Glyn with a mother with the same maiden name on Ancestry and came up blank.

[Erato]

Even if it is the right family [and it does look like a good possibility], it doesn't mean that the bag containing the bear and the card was lost by a descendant.  They could be things that some unrelated person purchased in a junk shop or found abandoned in the attic of an old house.  If they were lost by an actual descendant then they would have been of sentimental value and you'd think that the person would have contacted the airport to report the loss.  That makes me think that the bag dropper was not a family member.

I admit, I'm still suspicious of D the E, though how a scam could have been worked without some collusion at the airport is hard to figure.

[Rena]

I've just watched the Bristol Airport's video and learnt that the "Departures Lounge" isn't a simple room with a row of seats, it transpires that the cafe and all the shops on the Departures Lounge Floor are classed as the "Departures Lounge".

Knowing this fact, I can see how somebody using the facilities could mislay some hand luggage and might even have made enquiries about the loss at the time.   If the response to the enquiry was negative it might have been assumed that some light fingered person had thought the antique bear had value and had walked off with it.