DLI in Guernsey?

[Ranolki]

Oh that's interesting! I must look, did they declare the one who had died?  The story about going to Guernsey is quite detailed, she even had a postcard her mother had sent home from the trip which she passed on to a great grand daughter...  I'll read on in case he's mentioned again...

[Ranolki]

So it must have been the nickname of one of the older brothers and she mistakenly thought he was younger?

[rosie99]

Yes, there is mention of one having died before 1911

[Ranolki]

The next youngest was Alfred Jonathan, who seems to have died in Australia and according to a census report may well have had a wife named Emma. There is a medal record for Alfred J Wilson in the DLI too.   I wonder...

[rosie99]

Alfred Jonathan went to Australia in 1921,  there is an Emma Hamelin Wilson mentioned a few lines further down

There are also some Veal children mixed up amongst them

[rosie99]

There is an Emma H Veal in Guernsey in 1901 / 1911 with children that match those records - she is married to Mr Veal

[Ranolki]

That's interesting as she says this in the memoir... "And then Patsy took them to Vale farm and I forgot to ask how he did that." Could she mean Veal?  Emma's relatives perhaps?

[Ranolki]

I can't see those records, can you see any details (her age, etc?)

[rosie99]

When they sailed to Australia Alfred was age 36 occ Grower
Emma Hamelin Wilson was 47

Veal Children
Emma 26
Alice May 22
Wilfred Redvers 20
Gertrude May 17
Frank Rowe 15
John Walter 14