 Violet Hoblyn and Mary Dunford VAD, Any information would be welcome. |
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 Nov 6 2009, 10:26 PM
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Lieut-Colonel Group: Old Sweats Posts: 1,508 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Dorking, Surrey. Member No.: 6,480  |
Doug,
many thanks for your sterling efforts. Interesting to note the St Columb connection for Richard Peach in the 1911 census. Simon |
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Nov 6 2009, 10:34 PM
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Sergeant Group: Members2 Posts: 46 Joined: 5-February 07 Member No.: 18,847 |
Carina's father Reginald Phibbs Thurburn appears in Burke's Landed Gentry.
All these photographs seem to be of very well-heeled, upper class individuals. |
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Nov 7 2009, 12:18 AM
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Lieut-Colonel Group: Old Sweats Posts: 1,109 Joined: 8-July 07 From: Hoppers Crossing, Victoria, Australia Member No.: 23,198 |
QUOTE (high wood @ Nov 7 2009, 09:26 AM)  Doug, many thanks for your sterling efforts. Interesting to note the St Columb connection for Richard Peach in the 1911 census. Simon Hi Simon, Yes I had noticed that. Looks like they may have formed friendships in Cornwall though not necessarily having been born or raised there. Doug |
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Nov 7 2009, 11:25 AM
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Lieut-Colonel Group: Old Sweats Posts: 1,133 Joined: 1-November 06 From: Salonika Member No.: 16,303 |
YOU'VE GOT HOLD OF THE WRONG VIOLET! (as the bishop said to the flowergirl
 )The Joan Winifred HOBLYN that procat found in post #7, born Isle of Wight 1893, daughter of Lt-Col Edward Florance HOBLYN of the RGA Staff, had a sister Violet Alice HOBLYN, born Rondebosch, S.Africa, in 1896. And another sister Kathleen Elizabeth (born Gibraltar 1901). See http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ig...g&id=I39695 In 1911, Violet and Kathleen are boarders at a private girls' school at 16 Clarendon Road, Southsea. Their parents are with the army in Singapore, but the family home was Ashford Lodge, Halstead, Essex (also stated on E.F.'s MIC). Violet Alice seems to me much more likely to be mixing with the company shown in the album! Note also that the father of the JENOURs (post #22) was an RGA Major in South Africa. Adrian |
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Nov 7 2009, 02:53 PM
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Lieut-Colonel Group: Old Sweats Posts: 1,508 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Dorking, Surrey. Member No.: 6,480 |
"Oh dear, I have been a silly boy" as the bishop might have said when caught with the flower girl. In my defence, I hadn't imagined that there could be two Violet A Hoblyns of around the same age. Thank you for setting the record straight. It now appears that Violet followed her sister Winifred into the VAD, BRCS, but unlike her has no medal entitlement, probably because she disembarked in France after the armistice was signed.
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Nov 7 2009, 03:22 PM
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Lieut-Colonel Group: Old Sweats Posts: 1,508 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Dorking, Surrey. Member No.: 6,480 |
Thomas Hoblyn, Midget the pony and Edward Florance Hoblyn.
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Nov 7 2009, 09:28 PM
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Lieut-Colonel Group: Old Sweats Posts: 1,109 Joined: 8-July 07 From: Hoppers Crossing, Victoria, Australia Member No.: 23,198 |
QUOTE (apwright @ Nov 7 2009, 10:25 PM) YOU'VE GOT HOLD OF THE WRONG VIOLET! (as the bishop said to the flowergirl )Adrian A not unusual experience when tracking ancestry. Well found Adrian. I note that there is an email address on that link provided by Adrian Simon. Well worth making contact I reckon. Doug |
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Nov 8 2009, 04:22 PM
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Lieut-Colonel Group: Old Sweats Posts: 1,508 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Dorking, Surrey. Member No.: 6,480 |
Violet Alice Hoblyn worked in postal censorship at Strand House, room 137 which dealt with German prisoners of war, B.E.F. sections.
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