ALICE ESTHER EMMA PITTS 1903-1978 Permission required to reuse photograph. . I have started to write this blog post many times but given up on each occasion. My immediate family’s relationship with my grandmother was not the easiest. She was not the happiest of ladies and had become increasingly bitter as the years past. But there are many circumstances within her life that could have contributed to this, my own memories of her are not the happiest. But to counterbalance this when speaking with my cousins that met her have fonder memories. Alice was the 2 nd child and eldest daughter of William Richard Pitts and Eliza nee Deaney born on the 29 th Jun 1903. Until I began researching my family tree, I was unaware that ‘Granny’ was 1 of 7 children, being aware, only of a younger brother Bill, who I remember visiting in his grocery shop in Rickmansworth. My mother, however, vaguely recalled Granny mentioning a sis...
PERRY FAMILY PHOTO Having completed the 52 Ancestors challenge in 2021, many of the stories within those themes show how I identified many of my ancestors and those I have yet to authenticate the identity. So for this weeks theme I thought I would talk about the first photograph I received of my paternal family taken around 1931/2. As the photograph has been passed amongst the family so names have been agreed and suggested. Looking at other family photo's, some other names can be guessed at and through knowledge of family deaths and relationships other may be attributed but not necessarily correctly. So working from left to right, on the back row, of 5 men, I can identify:- ?Percival David Perry ?Ernest Perry My Grandfather Maurice Frederick Perry Hubert Jay Leslie Mark Perry not visible on this copy of the photo but on another there is possibly Edward Perry and why Percy and Ernest may also be in this photo. The middle row of women and children:- Dorothy Jay nee Perry My Grandmot...