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zabel lones is the relative

MY mother died recently and in her possessions was a letter from the Secretary of State thanking her for her service ,she was born in 1926 so would have been just 18 ,this seems very unusual as the criteria seemed to be women over 50,its not something she mentioned until very late in life.Does...

thanks i have read it all and it ties in with what she told me about having to take an exam etc to get into the school, see some Manders on the Board.Her mother remarried and i think she was at home by 1906 and married 1915.She always said it was very strict and she was trained as a short hand...

Probably Elias Lones i know nothing about him or any of the Lones apart from that fact that my grandmother said she was related to the first mayor of Smethick.

My grandmother was the twin daughter of Alias Lones and Sarah Jane Hills ,her father died when she was very young and she ended up in an Orphanage which was sponsored by the Manders Family,i think its now the private boys school in Wolverhampton.She subsequentley married William Hayward in the...