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Hello Mikejee, Thank you so much for all that information - I think there is a connection with my Haywards as the elder William is the father of my gt.grandmother, Elizabeth who married Henry Blackham - you may not rememver but I have been looking for a Hayward -? accountant and my gt.aunt Emily...

Hi Ray, thank you for your reply - so interesting as my early Haywards were bellows makers close to Snowhill. I wonder if someone would look this William Hayward up on earlier and later directories - I looked him up on 1861 and 1871 census but couldn't find one that seemed to fit. Any...

Is Crooked Lane/Bull St anywhere near Snowhill please. Sheri

smtr, thank you very much - an excellent site but no sign of Len sadly. Sheri

I met my former husband at the Tower Ballroom in July 1957 - he was in the RAF (not in uniform that night) having returned four days before from South Australia and Christmas Island where he witnessed the atom bomb tests - I'm sure many of you will have seen the photos of young men with their...

Hi Jennyann, thanks for message. I hope the link is useful. And Lencops, thank you for the link - had a look but I don't know what medals Len had. Do you know any where else I can look for him besides Kew. Sheri

Thank you Alberta - yes I've got that Sheri

Hi Polly, yes it was a good thought and it is a mystery - no I haven't seen his birth certificate but I'm positive of his parents. My only thought is that he left the country and no haven't seen passenger lists either. My only other thought is that he stayed in Africa after the Boer War...

Thanks Polly, no i didn't think about that but on the census he is Leonard and the letter to my man iis signed Len - and found him in 1901 at Shorncliffe barracks before he went to the Boer War and that's the last of him - disappeared!! Thanks for the suggestion, Sheri

This link may have been posted before but its useful for anyone researchin g the Boer War - https://www.brishmedals.us/kevin/intro.html - (didn't find gt.uncle len though) Sheri

Hi Terry, thanks for your reply. I don't know anyone with his service medals. All I know is that he trained at Shorncliffe Camp at Folkestone. I have a letter written to my grandmother (his sister) from Zululand and a picture of him in Calvary uniform that my dad said was Uncle Len. He...

Hi smtr, thank you so much for looking - my Len was born in Worcester in 1883 - he was my gt uncle. Sheri

Hi Shera, Thank you so much for looking - Uncle Len seems to have disappeared - I don't think he was killed in the Boer War - I wonder if he went back there after he was discharged but don't know when that was? Another mystery!!! Sheri

Leonard Bray - my great uncle born 1883 in Worcester - his father was James Bray and his mother Selina. I know he fought in the Boer War in 1901 when he was 19 - but where did he go then. In 1914 he would have been about 32 so young enough to be in WW1. I can't find him anywhere after 1901...

Thank you Shera, I'll remember to that next time there is a cutting. There dosen't seem to be any doubt as to James Scott's guilt but it does seem funny that he didn't hang. Sheri

Wendy this is so interesting - but I couldn't read the newspaper articles - does anyone know why John Pryse killed his boss?? Sheri

My five year old grandson went rushing into his mother when he woke up yesterday and said - 'we're going bowling today, I heard it on TV' - he dosent understand 'polling'!!!!!! Sheri

Re: re birth of John Hayward/wood Thank you for that info Alberta I was going to ask you to look. At last something that takes at least this family back before 1795. Sheri

In those days people with TB flocked to Bournemouth/Boscombe if they could afford it, for the fresh sea breezes. A big convalescent home (now flats) was built - but there were also huge houses so it is entirely likely that mr Rippingille was there for his health. Sheri

Re: re birth of John Hayward/wood Shera thank you so much for looking. And Alberta, I have been looking for John Hayward's parents on and off for years and I suspected he had a brother so thank you very much. Sheri