A web log of my family history research
Edward Meredith absent voter list 1918-1919 Originally uploaded by timsunter A lucky break meant I stumbled on the list of absent voters in 19-18-1919 in Stourbrige. Included in this was grandfather Edward Meredith ending the mystery of where he did his war service during the Great War…
Wendy Walsmsley, also descended from the Winnall family and living in New Zealand, kindly sent me this document which her aunt has in her possession. Unfortunately the author of the document isn’t known. What it does doe is take the Winnall family history further back to the first half of the seventeenth century. Winnall Famil […]
Winnall Family Tree – from Wendy Walmsley Originally uploaded by timsunter This picture was provided by Wendy Walmsley who lives in New Zealand. Wendy is also descended from the Winnall family. The picture shows the family tree for the Winnalls going back to the first part of the 1600s. There is an accompanying document which […]
Our cousin Ian (one of Frank’s son) emigrated with the family to Australia in the 1920s. He became a pilot with Qantas and has an interest in the RAF in the second world war. As part of the quest to find a photograph of Keith I contacted Ian at the beginning of the year. Unfortunately, […]
Fred met Keith when she was working with him at the Midland Electricity Company (MEC) in Tipton. Apparently they shared the same bus journey in. Their time together was very short and confined to leave…so I think she saw him for about two weeks of married life. She told me a sad story of how […]
Sft H. K. Harper and Miss F. M. Meredith The wedding was solemnised n Saturday, at St Thomas’s Church, Sturbridge, of Harold Keith (sergeant air gunner, R.A.F.) only son of Mr and Mrs W H Harper 27 Brook Street, Stourbridge and Freda May, younger daughter of Mrs and the late Mr E. Meredith, 6, […]
HKHarper War 2 Originally uploaded by timsunter This is the front page of Keith’s war record
HKHarper War 1 Originally uploaded by timsunter This is Keith’s RAF war record…a transcript will follow