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Thank you Pedrocut. I guess these "children's migration groups" had the best of intentions but it is mind boggling the number of children, some very young, who were sent overseas. It is estimated that from 1912 to the late 1960s about 7000 children, mainly from Britain, and some from Malta were...

Once again, many thanks aston lad. I sent Helen a message, and received a lovely reply. I look forward to hearing about George Frederick Robert and sharing family history with her. She also told me that I share DNA with her mother. That is very nice to know.

Hello MWS. Many thanks. I had not got around to figuring where Helen and I sit in the family. She has told me that her mother and I share DNA. That is always nice to know, as so often I cannot find the link of others with whom I share DNA. Cheers, Patricia

Hello aston lad, Thanks for your response. I agree that David did not commit suicide. It makes me wonder how much investigation the Middlemore people actually did. As you said, maybe it was a pose to get him into the children's immigration program. Very sad. Thanks for the information on...

Hello aston lad, George Frederick Robert Huntley was my great grandmother Florence Maud Liggett's nephew. His mother Sarah Ann (nee Cox Liggett) was her sister. Sarah Ann and David Robert Huntley were the witnesses at Florence Maud's marriage to Charles Pendrey in 1885. What an intriguing and...

Thanks you so much brummy-lad. I really appreciate this information, and the map. I am very happy to know where my g g grandparents Frederick and Ann Liggett (various spellings) lived. It seems when they moved from Wellington, Shropshire sometime between 1861 and 1866 just about their whole...

Thank you so much Pedrocut. This certainly adds to my "picture"of where my g g grandparents lived. So sorry if I posted in the wrong place.

Hello, I am new to the Forum so I hope I am posting in the right place. Thanks to posters who have mentioned Whitehead Street in earlier posts. I now know exactly where it was located. In the 1871 census my 2xgreat grandparents Frederick & Ann Leggett, five of their children, a grandson and a...