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Lucinda Peck
Family Contacts
Largo dell'Olgiata
Italy
I am appealing for help to trace any family members/godparents or friends of my mother who I believe spent her early childhood in Easton in Gordano before being orphaned and sent to live in Wolverhampton.
From what I know she lived in a black and white timber framed cottage called 'Magpie Cottage' - do you know of this - at the start of the Second World War. She attended a very small village school and her house backed onto open countryside. She was called Ann Margaret Hughes, born in London on 1/10/1937, she moved to your village shortly afterwards with her parents Beatrice and ? Hughes. Beatrice Hughes was a theatre nurse in a Bristol Hospital.Her father whose name is unknown had a car business.
Both parents died during the 1940s and my mother was adopted by a family in Wolverhampton. Her birth certificate was changed to reflect her new name so the original can't be traced without her father's name. Could you suggest any elderly residents in your parish who might remember her parents or indeed my mother. She is still alive and lives in Dorset.
When she left Easton in Gordano as a child she was told that she had no family,godparents etc which seems odd. She is aware that some letters sent from friends in the Parish were never given to her. Obviously I can try to contact the North Somerset Record Office, although not very easy from Italy. So I thought I'd write to you instead. Maybe I could write a letter in your parish magazine?
Hope you can help
Many thanks
Lucinda
Andrew Paisey
Pill Internet Group
Pill,
Somerset.
Dear Mrs Lomas (clerk to the council),
It is my intention to put a note in the Pill Paper about the setting up of an embryonic Internet group to share "current information" amongst the residents in the two villages who are on the internet.
By utilising the MSN Community facility the feasibilty of such a group can be tested at no cost. THe site in it's conceptual format can be found by visiting;
Do you have any comments you wish to to make ?
Yours sincerely
Andrew Paisey
PGA Eyre
Gordano ?
near Marlborough, Wiltshire
Dear Mrs Lomas (clerk to the council)
Can you kindly tell me what is the origin of the word 'Gordano' ? I have asked various local people, and not one of them could give me the answer.
With thanks,
Yours sincerely,
P.G.A. Eyre
Robert Thomas
Dartmouth
Subject : Minutes
Would it be possible to have the Council Minutes
published on the web site a little sooner?