Trying to make contact

[Nifty1]

That is copied from a current thread - in fact the one above in the access list.  Not a great step forward ? 

One small step for man.

I feel a bit like the young Dutch Boy in the tale of him having his finger in the dyke.

[Nifty1]

sarajayne3001
Attached to   Percy Oliver Kirtland
Birth   10 Jun 1898
Death   Apr 1993

I have had a bit of a breakthrough and would like to make
contact with anybody with an interest in the above family.

There is a tree ‘owned’ by this person - ‘Burrell- Paisley family tree’ but they have not been on Ancestry for 3-11 months.

Thanks for that. Not great news but not the end of the world, nor my quest.

[crisane]

Percy's middle name appears on his marriage certificate 21 Dec 1921 to Florence Ellen Gertrude Razzell..

He's just baptised as Percy - no middle name. He's Percy O Kirtland on the 1939 register

[Nifty1]

Thanks Crisane.

That was probably where I got my info from, though I am in possession of copies of family letters and documents he may have been mentioned there. I think that there was another birth in the family who had the same name, unfortunately that died as an infant. George H. Kirtland had two wives. The first lost a child giving birth to it. Apparently that was a baby girl, so it looks like there was more than one death amongst the Windsor Kirtland family.

[Biggles50]

Good ole snail mail.

I was trying to make contact with descendants of a family and found on Ancestry the Electoral Roll addresses of some of the family members.  The dates on the Electoral Rolls were from 2010 - 2018 so it would be a bit of a long shot.

6 brief letters sent, worded to offer intrigue, had responses from 3.

[Nifty1]

So, I think Percy was born When George HK was at Church Terrace (or was it Lane) opposite the southern entrance to the castle. He seems to have lived in two houses there. Is the number of house given?

This is one of GHK’s carriages. My late uncle pictured restored it in the mid 1960s.
He sold it and subsequently sold it. He saw it at an auction in the 1980s or earley 1990s when the pic was taken. At the time it was in very much worse condition. He wrote to Country Life about the history of the carriage. I think it may be possible to know where it originated.

# I notice that there is a lot number on the carriage. The auction would probably have been in the Windsor area. Perhaps it would be possible to get a look at the auction catalogue?

https://share.icloud.com/photos/01fG83aXpPP2xKazuQOZm0paw

In 1898 GHK was living at 50(?) Bolton Road, Windsor. Probably managing one of his father’s shops.

Seems that there was probably a connection with my bookie grandfather. He had a house or flat there before he died in 1960. Rewind. At least his wife was there in 1956.

[heywood]

There is a tree ‘owned’ by this person - ‘Burrell- Paisley family tree’ but they have not been on Ancestry for 3-11 months.

That tree only mentions one sife. Other trees show both.

In 1901, when Percy is 2 yrs, the family are at 6 Oxford Terrace.

[Andrew Tarr]

Where did you get the Kirtland info in your post?
Ancestry. My sub has lapsed hence I can not make contact.

I don't know how strapped you may be for cash, but a month's sub is only about 15 quid ? 

[Jool]

Where did you get the Kirtland info in your post?
Ancestry. My sub has lapsed hence I can not make contact.

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