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Martha Hannah Hales (1878-1957)
John Gough Roberts (1878-1957)
Hannah Barnes (1883-1972)
William Charles Tappin (1882-1971)
Keturah Sandell (1851-1930)
Thomas Bearman (1846-1921)
Sarah Fidler (1862-1952)
Alfred Robert Webb (1861-1948)

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Stephen Charles
Tappin birth certificate 1889
Simon
Vertue’s will of 1742
Baptism 25th
September 1836 of a John Vertue to Hannah and William, St Mary Magdalene Bermondsey. William was a tanner and they lived at Willow Walk.
1905 Transcript
of All Cannings parish registers showing deaths of Alice and Hannah Swanborough in 1712 and 1714
1920-01-18 page
3 letter by Donald Bearman
1920-02-17 page
2 letter by Donald Bearman
Letter from
Charles to military in 1916, to ensure his foster mother was properly addressed.
1920-03-14 p1
Donald Bearman letter to his father
Nathaniel KEVAN
1919-08-19 p1
Donald Bearman letter to his father
Gearing
Roberts, mentioned in Simon Vertue’s 1742 will, burial record from 1783 aged 78.
A Hayfield at
East Bergolt, 1812 by John Constable.
Robert Blair,
sentenced to two months hard labour for assault, August 3rd 1887, on Emma Langdale as reported in the Leicester Chronicle 10 days later.
Thomas and
Sarah Bearman listed as beneficiaries of Rebecca (neé Barker, Mrs T. ) Balls will, in the Essex index online at FMP
Population of
Springfield in 1810, 875, number of dissenters and the cost of getting married, etc. Parish registers online at seax
Birth record
for Richard Vertue Hale, showing parents and maternal grand parents
Donald Boyd
BEARMAN, 1890-1975
1920-01-14 page
1 letter by Donald Bearman
1919-06-28
Letter Donald Bearman to his father
Record of the
marriage banns of Thomas Bearman and Catherine Boyd in 1845
Was John Goss
imprisoned in 1857? Not sure as there were other men called John Goss in Bedfordshire.
Colonel Samuel
Wilson (1792-1881), Lord Mayor of London (1838) by Charles Martin. Oil on canvas, City of London Corporation
The Honeyborne
family on board the Dominion from Liverpool to Montreal, June 25th 1908
James Roberts,
buried 3rd June 1723 in the 'middle' St Margaret Rothbury, London
1919-12-31 page
1 letter by Donald Bearman
Ethel and
Donald Bearman and children Peter, Rosalind and Pippa presumably in their gardens at Noonsun, Broxbourne, Herts
Death of Ann
Vertue on 29th November 1852, in the Ipswich Journal 4th December
Taken at the
funeral of John Baird in November 2011: Stephanie Thompson, Gay Ennis (eldest daughter of Jim and Grace Booker), Chester Philip Norton Clark (Stephanie’s brother), Merilee Beatrice Clark (Stephanie’s sister) and Linda Baird (nee Ennis) - wife of John Baird and daughter of John and Gay Ennis
Probate for
Charles Oliver in 1957
Florence Eliza
Clark (née Hales) at the Burrows wedding

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The 60 most recently modified parents/partners:

Dorothy Leah Haines (b.1899) 01/12/2025 Florence Alice Seguin Portch (b.1894) 26/07/2025 Emma Elizabeth Hikman (b.1834) 10/09/2023
John A Russell (b.1901) 27/11/2025 Harriett Maud Seguin Portch (b.1895) 26/07/2025 John Henry Sterne (b.1830) 10/09/2023
Rose Edith Haines (b.1893) 27/11/2025 David Seguin Oliver (b.1928) 26/07/2025 Maria Alemena Sterne (b.1864) 09/09/2023
Charlotte Ellen Forster (b.1862) 27/11/2025 Laurence Seguin Oliver (b.1924) 26/07/2025 Charles Guy Peters (b.1904) 09/09/2023
William Frederick Haines (b.1863) 27/11/2025 Joseph Pagett Sandell (b.1812) 15/04/2025 Martha Hannah Hales (b.1878) 29/07/2023
Joseph K Higgins (b.1893) 27/11/2025 Elizabeth Sandell (b.1847) 12/11/2024 Dorothy Edith Roberts (b.1915) 29/07/2023
Roger M Langmaid (b.1944) 27/11/2025 Peter Guillebaud (b.1773) 04/06/2024 Ellen Louisa (Nellie) Roberts (b.1908) 29/07/2023
Arthur William Langmaid (b.1914) 27/11/2025 Marie Anne Guillebaud (b.1771) 04/06/2024 Albert George Roberts (b.1902) 29/07/2023
Irene M Haines (b.1919) 27/11/2025 Marie Anne l’Heureux (b.1740) 04/06/2024 Evelyn Harris / Morris (b.1865) 14/07/2023
Mary P Russell (b.1895) 27/11/2025 Ann Vertue (b.1742) 04/06/2024 Thomas Bearman (b.1846) 13/07/2023
Walter John Haines (b.1897) 27/11/2025 Peter Guillebaud (b.1739) 03/06/2024 Rhoda Sandell (b.1855) 13/07/2023
Hannah Barnes (b.1883) 06/08/2025 Irene Beryl Bungard (b.1913) 20/05/2024 Donald Boyd Bearman (b.1890) 13/07/2023
Winifred Ethel Tappin (b.1912) 06/08/2025 Stanley John Vertue (b.1911) 20/05/2024 Keturah Sandell (b.1851) 13/07/2023
Elsie Ivy Tappin (b.1908) 06/08/2025 John James Vertue (b.1880) 20/05/2024 Florence R Barnes (b.1912) 23/04/2023
William Charles Tappin (b.1882) 06/08/2025 Ellen Rosabelle Ann Ellard (b.1880) 20/05/2024 Edward Whyman (b.1761) 05/01/2023
Charles Henry George Oliver (b.1895) 01/08/2025 John Gough Roberts (b.1878) 31/12/2023 Thomas Whyman (b.1799) 05/01/2023
Constance Talbot (b.1935) 30/07/2025 Edward Charles Sandell (b.1767) 30/12/2023 Ethel Carrie Webb (b.1894) 18/11/2022
Wallace J Gray (b.1895) 28/07/2025 James Henry Higgins (b.1854) 07/12/2023 Eirene Myra (Pippa) Bearman (b.1926) 01/11/2022
Harriet Emma Elborn (b.1872) 26/07/2025 Esther Davis (b.1827) 07/12/2023 Stanley Fairhurst Cave (b.1924) 01/11/2022
George Seguin Portch (b.1869) 26/07/2025 William Higgins (b.1822) 07/12/2023 Mary Ellison (b.1900) 01/11/2022