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From: jim jenner [serang@squirrel.com.au] Sent: 05 September 2002 01:31 To: colin@linetype.net Subject: g'day
hi colin
I gave those two photographs to Ian when he was out here and I have had them for years ,you are quite right about only a few photos taken of my mum,when mum was alive I made a album of the chighton side of the family for mum and when she died the album disapeared,on our last trip to the uk. we went up to the border country where my cousin jim lived and aunty peggy(mums sister) brings out the family album,yes, the one I made up I did not say anything as she was an old lady jim died ,and aunt peggy died a few months later in an retirement home and all was lost.
MUMS SIDE OF THE TRIBE
FATHER-JOHN CRICHTON.BORN GLASGOW.DIED FALKIRK 24 th.april 1935.1 CAN REMEMBER HIM PLAYING HIS VIOLIN.
mother-flora mc.millian.born dunbarton shire.died grangemouth 20th,april 1943.a nice grandmother. son-william(jackie) died falkirk,Ido not know when,had a daughter named nesta. daughter-isabella(bella).died christchurch nz.22nd.may 1959.in nursing all her life, daughter flora died as a infant.know nothing of this.
daughter.jesse,died 1st febuaryl974.at devonport nz.our mother,your grandmother,I still miss her,had two sons james albert.john crighton jenner.
daughter-margret.(peggy) died Cumberland ukl997.children-mona diedjames died,Ian died.william,lives in broadstairs kent member of the workingmans club?.
your dad was born 1937 at 57 or 75 millward road hastings.I pointed the house to your mum,the family lived in hasting because of work necessity.
I will look out photos of the jenner side of the family as my dad sent me a few and I will try and remember as much as I can,and send them to you when you sent me your adress.
love jim,sue and alex |
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