A web log of my family history research
County archives now confirm that Lofty entered children’s home in January 1921 (his three siblings had been admitted a year earlier). On 8th December 1931 he was moved to Medomsley Cottage Homes from where he was discharged from ‘Daisy House’, to Church Army Training Farm, Hempstead on 25 June 1934. He seems to have been […]
Previously held theory of Charles Sunter having died in hospital in 1918 in Scotland has been disproved. News from the Durham archives shows that from February to July 1920 he was alive and well…and in Durham Prison, for amongst other things stealing two horse rugs.
http://www.pendletoday.co.uk/columnists/Flashback-to-halcyon-years-of.4449797.jp
16th June 2009…some interesting thoughts from Rick McGarry on the life of Joseph Sunter. What were the goings on in Bishops Auckland in the early 1880s? Did the Hulls do something decent for Jane Snowball? Read on… Re Joseph SUNTER (b.1849). I am a little puzzled about Joseph SUNTER. As you know, he was born at […]
By popular request, here is the family tree as it stands at present, going backwards in time from me.
Deaths Index 1978 Q1 – Emma Sunter b 16 Aug 1892 Ref Durham West 1 1773
I have searched through all the Deaths Index from 1918 to 1983. No sign of “Charles Sunter” b 1882.
Found in Deaths Index Q1 1956 the death of Charles Sunter recorded. Ref Hackney 5c 906
Rick McGarry has just replied to an enquiry I sent to him. It makes fantastic reading. Maybe we don’t know who we are after all!
So what happened to Charles Sunter? Why did he disappear? What reasons could there be? Marriage failure…an affair? Job away and just decided not to come back? Poverty…did he go to a workhouse too? Did he commit a crime? Did he die? Was he hospitalised? Did he go away to sea? Where would you go? […]