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From: "Tremblay, Susan" <>
Subject: RE: [WarBrides] Introduction and request for possible information sources
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 08:48:43 -0400


I think this email was sent to me in error.
Please check and pass it on to the right person.
Thanks,

-----Original Message-----
From: Debbie Beavis [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 8:46 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [WarBrides] Introduction and request for possible
information sources

Hi Sue

I will try to help you, even if it's just with advice not answers. I
know
there are others on this list who will also try to help, but there are a
few
anomalies that perhaps we should look at.

> From: [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 10:52 PM

> I have a clipping from a newpaper which says that Mrs Teddy
> Lawrence is also on the ship, going to Ilsford England to
> join her husband's
> family there. I don't have the clipping right in front of me
> right now, but do know there is no date on the clip, but it
> goes on to mention that troops are also sailing on the ship.

I misread your first one. Sorry, I see now that you said Ilsford.
However, I
think this is a misprint in the newspaper - this will be Ilford, a large
town in Essex. I don't see an Ilsford anywhere in Essex.

I'm still hoping that someone on the list can confirm my belief
(Melynda,
Annette?) that Canadians were not permitted to travel out by sea during
the
war. Again, I am not sure how much her marriage to a British serviceman
would have impacted on that.

> > Can you tell us her name?
>
> Sorry...her name is Marion Knickle.

> know so far by putting together a lot of little pieces of
> information that I have. I know they resided in Halifax for a
> few years since the city directory lists Teddy Lawrence in
> Halifax.

A couple of curious points which perhaps you can clear up. For which
years
was he listed in the Halifax directory? A British serviceman wouldn't
have
been listed in a Canadian directory so I am a little unclear about when
this
would have been - as you were unsure about whether he survived the war,
presumably it was prior to that. So at what point are we thinking he was
a
serviceman on board HMS Rampura? I am guessing that he migrated to
Canada
well before the war, and joined the Royal Navy on the Rampura during the
war? We then have a question that we have wondered about before on this
list
- did he _choose_ to be demobbed in Britain, and is that why your mother
travelled to England?

What date was her marriage to your father? I'm trying to get a time
frame
you see.

>I also have pictures from England of Teddy's family
> but the only note on one of the pictures states Dad, Mom, Robert and
> Kenneth Lawrence. So I think this is Ted's parents and
> brothers. The date on the picture states 1941. There are

What does it exactly say on the photograph? Does it specifically say
"Mom"
and "Robert and Kenneth Lawrence" ?? Is it in your mother's
handwriting? I
ask because a British man wouldn't have written "Mom," he'd have written
"Mum." And I am curious about the addition on the photo of the surname
Lawrence.... would he have written his brothers' surname? I just wonder
if
that is a red herring and they are not his brothers at all - you might
be
chasing up the wrong garden path there.

> I am not sure I would want to try to trace Teddy, since there
> was a tragedy which caused the separation as far as I can
> tell. Then again, perhaps someone else in the family knew
> her...so I am a wee bit wobbly I suppose on that one.

I'm not sure that you aren't going to have to try to trace family (which
is
why the wording on that photo is important) in order to sort this out.
Younger generations tend to be more ready to accept such things whereas
yes,
if you found Teddy, he might not be too receptive. It's always hard when
you
don't know what happened.

Debbie Beavis
Warbrides



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