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Offline Liz_in_Sussex

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Re: find my godmother
« Reply #9 on: Monday 27 August 18 15:22 BST (UK) »
You can get a copy of the will from this website: https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk - just remember to click on the tab for wills from 1858-1996

She was born 4 December 1876 in Turleigh (Turley), Wiltshire to Julius (a farmer) and Blanche - in a village neighbouring my ancestors  :o

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Re: find my godmother
« Reply #10 on: Monday 27 August 18 15:25 BST (UK) »
Hi Liz, that is a great result. What is crazy about where she dies, Bournemouth, that is where i live!
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Re: find my godmother
« Reply #11 on: Monday 27 August 18 15:27 BST (UK) »
You could look at your baptism register entry. Was it C of E? Some later C of E baptism entries included the names of godparents. I've seen C of E baptism records with godparents names included from the 1940s. If it was an RC baptism they usually include the names of godparents.


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« Reply #12 on: Monday 27 August 18 15:27 BST (UK) »
Has to be the right one, she is living at 8 Broadway, Coventry in 1939.
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Re: find my godmother
« Reply #13 on: Monday 27 August 18 15:28 BST (UK) »
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If that is the right lady she would have been quite old for a godmother.

I think my last post went astray ... the lady I found was living at the address given in the op during the 1930/40s but I may be wrong ... agreed, rather old, but then the Duke of Edinburgh became a godfather the other day at the age of 97!  ::)  ;D

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Re: find my godmother
« Reply #14 on: Monday 27 August 18 15:30 BST (UK) »
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What is crazy about where she dies, Bournemouth, that is where i live!

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« Reply #15 on: Monday 27 August 18 15:41 BST (UK) »
I have just thought - you say your father died in 1961 but also that he cashed in the Bonds - that wouldn't have been possible if she didn't die until 1963?

Looks like you may need to get the will to see what exactly you were left  perhaps - or did she give them to you for a birthday or something?

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Re: find my godmother
« Reply #16 on: Monday 27 August 18 16:34 BST (UK) »
great result. thanks to all
Trailor,Traylor.Jones. Morgans. Griffiths, Evans.

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Re: find my godmother
« Reply #17 on: Monday 27 August 18 17:25 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Liz_in_Sussex on Monday 27 August 18 15:41 BST (UK)
Looks like you may need to get the will to see what exactly you were left  perhaps - or did she give them to you for a birthday or something?
Or as a christening present, held in trust for OP by his father?
Seeking: RC baptism Philip Murray Feb ish 1814 ? nr Chatham Kent.
IRE: Kik DRAY[EA], PURCELL, WHITE: Mea LYNCH: Tip MURRAY, SHEEDY: Wem ALLEN, ENGLISHBY; Dub PENROSE: Lim DUNN[E], FRAWLEY, WILLIAMS.
87th Regiment RIF: MURRAY
ENG; Marylebone HAYTER, TROU[W]SDALE, WILLIAMS,DUNEVAN Con HAMPTON, TREMELLING Wry CLEGG, HOLLAND, HORSEFIELD Coventry McGINTY
CAN; Halifax & Pictou: HOLLAND, WHITE, WILLIAMSON
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