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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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1919-09-19 p1
Donald Bearman letter to his father
1919-06-28 p1
Donald Bearman to his father
The will of
Hannah Stuart (neé Vertue) 1826, page 1
Gearing
Roberts, mentioned in Simon Vertue’s 1742 will, burial record from 1783 aged 78.
Probate for
Stanley John Vertue in 1979
David Peters
Beatrice Norton
and Phillip Clark
John Tagg,
Clara’s first husband
Four
generations: Margaret Roberts, her mother Elsie Ivy Roberts, grandmother Hannah (Barnes) Tappin and great-grandmother Susan (Hawkins) Barnes. c.1938
Kate BEARMAN
1873-1958
Ethel Webb
attended Totteridge Road Sunday School in Edwardian times. Image from Google’s street view
The last will
and testament of Georgius Vertue, 1669 in which he confirms names of children and wife Mary as well as showing his ownership of a shipbuilding business and various land/messuages. Page 1
Donald Boyd
BEARMAN, 1890-1975
Envelope of
Fred’s last letter to Ethel
Leah SANDELL
nee Davis. Joseph Pagett SANDELL’s wife
William and
James Burry baptisms in 1905 transcript if Allcannings parish registers.
Eliza
Lilley’s Christian letter outlining her beliefs probably written when she was around 15 (1864) – page 1
Margaret Judd
on her way back to England in 1950. Husband Norman and Muriel are listed on a separate sheet.
Sidney Norton
with Beatrice Mary and Sidney c.1926
From the London
Gazette May 5 1828, Kevan partnership dissolved perhaps due to death of Samuel Kevan
Top L-R: Brian
Smith, Florence Ada (Barnes) Poynter, Patricia Poynter (daughter of Arthur Poynter); and in front Martin John Smith and Anthony Poynter
Charles Tappin
was an inmate and William Tappin was a pauper perhaps there to help his brother in 1891. Islington workhouse pictured in 1863.
1919-08-16 p3
Donald Bearman letter to his father
1919-11-30
carte postale letter by Donald Bearman
Samuel Bridge
Kevan, venetian blind maker in the 1903 Kelly’s directory for Herne Bay, Kent
Wine merchant
Eusebius Rodway in 1846 before marriage to Maria Fidler
Catherine Boyd
christening record 1814, from London birth and baptisms, ancestry.com
George Vertue
1874 probate
Page 2 of Eliza
Lilley’s Christian notes
Anne Salmon
Portway, probate 1929 naming George Webb Portway tanner, Joseph Herbert Portway and Robert Benson portway merchants.

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The 60 most recently modified parents/partners:

Sarah Rimmington (b.1846) 11/05/2026 Constance Talbot (b.1935) 30/07/2025 John Gough Roberts (b.1878) 31/12/2023
Henry Higgins (b.1818) 16/12/2025 Wallace J Gray (b.1895) 28/07/2025 Edward Charles Sandell (b.1767) 30/12/2023
Eliza Higgins (b.1840) 16/12/2025 Harriet Emma Elborn (b.1872) 26/07/2025 James Henry Higgins (b.1854) 07/12/2023
Mary Taylor (b.1821) 16/12/2025 George Seguin Portch (b.1869) 26/07/2025 Esther Davis (b.1827) 07/12/2023
Dorothy Leah Haines (b.1899) 01/12/2025 Florence Alice Seguin Portch (b.1894) 26/07/2025 William Higgins (b.1822) 07/12/2023
John A Russell (b.1901) 27/11/2025 Harriett Maud Seguin Portch (b.1895) 26/07/2025 Emma Elizabeth Hikman (b.1834) 10/09/2023
Rose Edith Haines (b.1893) 27/11/2025 David Seguin Oliver (b.1928) 26/07/2025 John Henry Sterne (b.1830) 10/09/2023
Charlotte Ellen Forster (b.1862) 27/11/2025 Laurence Seguin Oliver (b.1924) 26/07/2025 Maria Alemena Sterne (b.1864) 09/09/2023
William Frederick Haines (b.1863) 27/11/2025 Joseph Pagett Sandell (b.1812) 15/04/2025 Charles Guy Peters (b.1904) 09/09/2023
Joseph K Higgins (b.1893) 27/11/2025 Eithne M Sterrett (b.1945) 09/04/2025 Martha Hannah Hales (b.1878) 29/07/2023
Roger M Langmaid (b.1944) 27/11/2025 Elizabeth Sandell (b.1847) 12/11/2024 Dorothy Edith Roberts (b.1915) 29/07/2023
Arthur William Langmaid (b.1914) 27/11/2025 Peter Guillebaud (b.1773) 04/06/2024 Ellen Louisa (Nellie) Roberts (b.1908) 29/07/2023
Irene M Haines (b.1919) 27/11/2025 Marie Anne Guillebaud (b.1771) 04/06/2024 Albert George Roberts (b.1902) 29/07/2023
Mary P Russell (b.1895) 27/11/2025 Marie Anne l’Heureux (b.1740) 04/06/2024 Evelyn Harris / Morris (b.1865) 14/07/2023
Walter John Haines (b.1897) 27/11/2025 Ann Vertue (b.1742) 04/06/2024 Thomas Bearman (b.1846) 13/07/2023
Hannah Barnes (b.1883) 06/08/2025 Peter Guillebaud (b.1739) 03/06/2024 Rhoda Sandell (b.1855) 13/07/2023
Winifred Ethel Tappin (b.1912) 06/08/2025 Irene Beryl Bungard (b.1913) 20/05/2024 Donald Boyd Bearman (b.1890) 13/07/2023
Elsie Ivy Tappin (b.1908) 06/08/2025 Stanley John Vertue (b.1911) 20/05/2024 Keturah Sandell (b.1851) 13/07/2023
William Charles Tappin (b.1882) 06/08/2025 John James Vertue (b.1880) 20/05/2024 Linda Jordan (b.1945) 23/04/2023
Charles Henry George Oliver (b.1895) 01/08/2025 Ellen Rosabelle Ann Ellard (b.1880) 20/05/2024 Florence R Barnes (b.1912) 23/04/2023