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

[jess5athome]

A great result!! I've been following this and had a tiny bit of input regarding the colours on the bears feet, well done, I think it's great, well done Karen.
Frank.

[Maggie.]

I'm also following but coming in too late to add much.  Well done to all - it's absorbingly fascinating.

I would support the theory that Bear's feet have been renovated with deck chair material - it stuck me immediately I saw his coloured photo.

Keep up the good work.

Maggie

[myluck!]

I went to bed on page 29 and woke up with 20 minutes of reading to catch up!
All the research has been wonderful here and hopefully it is the correct family you're following

It is difficult to understand how some one could leave a bear and a photo
and not have worked out by now where they may have left it
unless this poor bear was not wanted??
I wonder was it a gift to a visiting relative after a funeral perhaps?
that was graciously taken but then abandoned?
If this is the case he/she may never come forward as they would have to admit to this!!!

Or could it have been a gift that was never officially exchanged at the airport?
Then person giving the bear away may think the new owner has it
and the intended new owner is oblivious to not having it??

Anyway I am in agreement with a comment earlier there is a novel in this
a modern Paddington Bear shall emerge, or maybe another Importance of being Ernest?!

Great work everyone - waiting for next chapter!

[Chrissie4]

I haven't had time to read the whole thread but, in case this hasn't already been mentioned, I think I can explain why people can't understand what appears to be a discrepancy with the boys birth.
I have been working on this teddy bear question on another site and the message on the photo stumped people because of the way it was written too. It was my husband who set me off looking for a Dora - born March or June quarter of 1914 (in the 5 or 6 areas where the studio was based). Unfortunately there were so many that I only cross checked with Glyn (and variants).

His understanding of the writing was that it was Dora's birthday and as she was the first born was nicknamed baby. We guessed that she looked as though it would be her 4th birthday and that the younger child would be Glyn - aged 1 year and 5 months when the photo was taken.

p.s. So sorry - I meant to say well done on a brilliant piece of detection

[Treetotal]

After many hours of research on this Family line...and the lack of people researching this Baker Family I feel that the line has died out.
If this was a treasured family heirloom I feel the person who left it at the airport would have moved heaven and earth to trace it's whereabouts...equally...I don't think it would have been transported so casually in a carrier bag.
A more likely scenario could be that the person had time to kill in Bristol before their flight and bought it in a junk shop or charity shop out of interest in old things or as a collector of bears. This being the case...it probably wouldn't be worth the time, money and effort to claim ownership.

Just sharing my thoughts on the matter.

Carol

 

[Murphester]

If the last person to have the bear is not interested in having it back (left it at the airport on purpose, lost it but couldn't be bothered looking for it), it will be lovely to reunite him with a family member.  Otherwise, what will become of him?   

Well done to all the researchers - a great team effort!

[lizdb]

I do doubt that the bear was just from  a junk shop or similar, as if so it is highly unlikly the family photo would still be with it.
If someone had been turning out a house, maybe after the family were deceased, and had no sentimental attachment to the bear so as to send it to a second hand shop, they would hardly have linked it up ith a family photo and kept them together.
I think the fact they are together might suggest it was still in the possesion of someone to whom that had some meaning.
I may be wrong - it is just a feeling, no evidence!

[MaureeninNY]

What a fascinating thread with (as usual) great detective work by Rootschatters.

Did we ever find out just what sort of carrier bag the bear and photo were left in? Probably doesn't matter...but you never know.

I'm totally stumped with Dora. If that IS she marrying George STEELE then where the heck did they go? Looked at ship's lists,etc.,but nothing is standing out unless they left after 1960.

Thanks to Berlin Bob for that handy tip on seeing the entire thread by using the Print button. Very useful indeed!

Maureen

[hepburn]

The request for someone having access to 192 directory yield anything....Maybe they are closer  relatives than the Canadian lady?