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Caroline
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I've sent a message to following users on Ancestry to draw their attention to the article so will see if we get a response.
jandaveow
owenkdullea
Carole Grice
kdnorton66
Don Stephens
There are others but they have not got as much on them. None of the trees come very far up to date.Caroline
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Just because it's interesting - Number 9 - the Chipper family apparently lived there until 1958:
Caroline
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Originally posted by GallowayLass View PostMaybe Ambrose and/or Elizabeth were married more than once?
Probate Calendar: http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/19...d=&usePUB=trueCaroline
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Originally posted by maudarby View PostI can't work out who Vera Banfill was. According to the 1911 census Ambrose (50) & his wife Elizabeth (51) have been married 12 years, children "none", so how could Vera have been a great great granddaughter of Ambrose?
MoggieCaroline
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Jack and Vera Banfill seem to be husband and wife, and according to an Ancestry tree ( I was looking up Jack), Edna Vera Peto seems to be descended from Ambrose's sister Louisa.
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So, certainly not any sort of granddaughter but a great niece.
They may have had 4 children all registered in the Worthing area between 1936 and 1952 (FMP)Caroline
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Originally posted by Caroline View PostJack and Vera Banfill seem to be husband and wife, and according to an Ancestry tree ( I was looking up Jack), Edna Vera Peto seems to be descended from Ambrose's sister Louisa.
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So, certainly not any sort of granddaughter but a great niece.
They may have had 4 children all registered in the Worthing area between 1936 and 1952 (FMP)
Edna Vera Peto/Banfill died in 1996 so she isn't the Vera who died in 2012. Agree about 4 children, 2 sons. 2 daughters neither called Vera. She could be the daughter of one of the sons, I haven't looked these up yet.
Moggie
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Luke Chipper 1911: http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/23...d=&usePUB=true
I have to go out for the evening, so have fun everybody!!Caroline
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Carried on digging.
Edward Chipper married Dorothy Sharp and had a son Guy, who died in 1981. He had married and they had 4 children .. he died in east Preston district too. I still need to confirm the details and look up the children but I MUST go now!! They all still seem to be local so I reckon they may well see the paper!!Caroline
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I have had a reply from jandaveow and they are contacting the Paper. I have replied asking whether they are the closest living relative or if we need to keep digging, but that we would like to know the outcome anyway.Caroline
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Thought you might be interested to know that they are having a get together this Monday of two of the descendants and the chap with the books and I've been invited to join them. According to the reporter, the hostess thinks she knew me back in the '70s - I assume she may have recognised my maiden name from Ancestry and I was a trainee teacher in Chichester then so we'll see!!Caroline
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Originally posted by Jill on the A272 View PostWhat a pleasing outcome Caroline.
I had a very pleasant couple of hours yesterday. Our hostess was the person I had contacted via Ancestry so that was good since the others didn't reply. I was privileged to see two second cousins meet for the very first time (descended from Luke above) - they had both lived in the area all their lives but don't remember ever meeting before although one of them remembered their mother talking about the other's mother!! Both of them had a lot of information about the family and had a couple of identical photos but also one of them is contact with another Chipper branch who went to Australia.
Simon, the reporter, interviewed all of us, even me so I gave FTF a big boost of course. I gave them all our "business" cards. He's planning a double page spread on genealogy generally but focused on the Chipper family and the books, so they even brought a photographer and though I tried to stay out of them, I didn't get away with it.
Given that the family seem to have been in the Worthing/Littlehampton/Sussex area for centuries, I wonder if there will be other cousins who see the article when it comes out. I am not sure exactly which paper but I think the Worthing Herald and/or the Littlehampton Gazette.
Here is the link to their surnames - maybe they match up with your West Wittering ones Jill? http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/679682/listofallpeople
P.S. The donor did bring the books but I am not sure who got them as I wasn't listening at the time and he was still there when I left them all. I am also not sure how Simon had found the other cousin - presumably from the original article either in print or on FB. :DCaroline
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Brilliant outcome Caroline and we may be in for an influx of new members with research queries too, thanks to your advertisingLast edited by Chrissie Smiff; 01-03-16, 09:36.Chrissie passed away in January 2020.
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Originally posted by Caroline View Post
Here is the link to their surnames - maybe they match up with your West Wittering ones Jill? http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/679682/listofallpeople
P.S. The donor did bring the books but I am not sure who got them as I wasn't listening at the time and he was still there when I left them all. I am also not sure how Simon had found the other cousin - presumably from the original article either in print or on FB. :D
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Caroline
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