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    Where is This #203?

    Hi, is your thumbnail photo of St Gabriels church, My grandparents married there.
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    Hop-picking

    Lovely reading Graham, makes you feel peaceful imagining warm late summer days in the country.
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    My granddad's, John Sheldon, birth certificate.

    Hi Graham & Freddy, finding you both so quickly was amazing I just googled grandad's name and year of birth and I went straight to this web site. I've told a lot of people about the site. I don't think I could have given Pat happier news when I told her I had been in contact. All the aunt's...
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    My granddad's, John Sheldon, birth certificate.

    Hi Freddy, yes there was another little girl, her name is Julie she was born in 1965. Pat has put a photo on FB when all the family were together after many years of not seeing each other. Julie is on the left standing next to me. She unfortunately never met all the aunts , uncles and cousins...
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    My granddad's, John Sheldon, birth certificate.

    Hi John, thank you for getting back to me so quickly, my granddad was a POW and died in Germany. I do have some info about him now. Kind Regards Rose
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    My granddad's, John Sheldon, birth certificate.

    Hi, my aunty was Lily Sheldon who later became Mrs Webb. Regards Rose
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    My granddad's, John Sheldon, birth certificate.

    my grandad John Sheldon was born 1882/3, according to the 1911 census he was born in Walsall. He married my grandmother Florence Ellen Butler in 1905. There were three children on the census at that time, my father William Arthur Sheldon was not born yet the address for the family was in Greet...
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