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Gen 1: John Sexton & Sarah

A long time ago in a tiny village called Coltishall in Norfolk there lived a couple called John and Sarah Sexton.

John was born in 1765 and was buried 10 Mar 1833 in Brinton, Norfolk in 1833. He married Sarah Bugg, and their banns were read on May 20, 27 and June 3rd and on the 3rd June 1789 they married. Sarah, the daughter of John and Mary Bugg was baptised 4 Nov 1765 in Catfield, Norfolk – that’s 11 miles from Coltishall. She died in Aug 1816 and was buried at St Martin at Oak, Norwich, although I also have a Sarah Sexton b 1766 bd 6 Aug 1816 at Michael at Coslany, Norfolk. Both John and Sarah were illiterate.

map of the Catfield area

Coltishall is a pretty village on the River Bure, in the Norfolk Broads, near Horstead. It stands at the highest navigable point of the river and thus is known as the Gateway to the Broads. Coltishall has a long history of brewing, and old malt. There are two riverside pubs on the banks of Coltishall Staithe; the King's Head and the Rising Sun. The Kings Head was built in the 17th century and stands beside the large common. The Rising Sun began as a granary, where river wherries would unload sacks of grain for storage and transfer.

John and Sarah had:

Sarah Bugg Sexton 1788-94
John Sexton b 1790
Mary H Sexton 1792 - 1811
George Sexton 1797 - 1848 See Gen 2
Sarah Sexton b 1797
Sophia Sexton 1799 Coltishall; died Oct 1873 Smallburgh, Norfolk - 1873 married Jonathan Bond 19 Oct 1819 Swafield, Norfork. She died 8 Dec. 1873 in Swafield aged 73. Jonathan and Sophia had 7 children
Elizabeth Sexton b 1833

Gen 2 George 1794-1848

George Sexton was baptised 20 Sep 1794 at the parish church of St John the Baptist in Coltshall, Norfolk.

We don’t know very much about this man but we do know that he married a girl called Elizabeth Ann Nobbs (who used the Ann name more often) on 30 May 1814 St Helens Norwich. This is a very old church and quite beautiful.

Elizabeth was baptized 3 June 1792 in Norwich. She was the daughter of Peter Nobbs and Mary Brown.

George and Sarah had the following children:

Christmas Sexton b 25 Dec, bap 31Dec 1815 St John Sepulchre Norwich
James William Sexton b 10 Jul. bap 16 Jul 1820 St John Sepulchre Norwich. Shoemaker and moved to Southwark married at St James to Ann Goodfellow, dt of William Goodfellow, deceased. He was literate, she was not.
Susanna Maria Sexton b19 Sep.bap 22 Sep 1822 St John Sepulchre Norwich.
William Sexton b 10 Nov. bap 12 Nov 1826 St Bartholomews, Heigham, Norwich.
Samuel Sexton b 28 Feb. bap 1 Mar 1829 St Giles Norwich.
Charles Frederick Sexton b 24 Sep.bap 25 Sep 1831St Bartholomews, Heigham, Norwich.

Although within the city walls, St John Sepulchre Norwich was the medieval church which was furthest from the castle and the cathedral, the heart of a fiercely independent parish, South Conesford, near to the Berestrete gate. Even in the Middle Ages, it was the first Norwich church that visitors from London saw. St John today is home to the Norwich branch of that curious denomination, the English Orthodox church. Hardly a denomination at all really, since its churches are, appropriately in this case, fiercely independent of each other. The church is now rededicated to St John the Theologian, the Orthodox name for the Saint we in the west call St John the Divine.

It’s hard work giving birth to 8 children in the conditions that existed in those days and women had a tough time surviving. Ann died aged just 39 after giving birth to Charles and she was buried 9 Oct 1831 St Margaret’s. George desperately needed another wife to look after all the kids and on 2 Feb 1834 at St Bartholomew’s church, Heigham he married Mary Ann Goodman. Mary Ann was a widow – her maiden name was Fortune. Mary Ann had been born in Ireland and had married Stephan Goodman on 25 Dec 1818 and had four children – Steve Goodman, Mary Ann Goodman and George Goodman and Elizabeth Goodman. Elizabeth Goodman was with George Sexton at Bells Yard on the 1841 census and Mary and George were with their mother now Mary Sexton a few houses away on Wellington St. Sophia, Charles and Albert from Georges first marriage were also there.

George and Mary Ann set to with a will and brought five more children into the world:

Catherine Sexton b 23 Aug. bap September 1834 St Giles Norwich
Charles Sexton b 23 Aug. bap September 1834 St Giles Norwich
Sophia Sexton b 16 May. bap 3Jun 1836 St Giles Norwich.
Charles Sexton b 4Jan.bap 7Jan 1838 St Giles Norwich.
Albert Sexton b 10 Feb St Giles Norwich.

After such a herculean life, George, aged only 53, was worn out an\d died in 1848 and buried 22 Mar 1848 St Margarets Norwich. Mary Ann his widow continued to look after the family with help from some of the other siblings. She died on the 8 Apr 1861 and was buried in Earlham Cemetery Norwich 2 Apr 1861.She also aged 53.

Gen 3 George 1818-1886 & and Sarah Sexton 1812

There is some hanky-panky going on here because other family researchers state that our George was actually baptised as John on 8 Feb 1818 at St John Sepulchre Norwich. Or perhaps the priest was a bit under the influence of the hard stuff. So our John, called George grew up surrounded by many relatives and working in the shoe trade.

Sadly there came a time when nobody bought George’s shoes anymore and the family had become poor. One day, before 1834 with little material left to make any more shoes and sadly, no elves in the area, he and his wife Sarah decided that the time had come to follow their dreams.

The 1841 census is interesting. George was living in Southwark at Castle Street. Sarah, his wife, gave her occupation as a binder. There were two small kids – James aged 2 months and George 3 months! And I believe that George’s brother and cousin were there as well - James Sexton aged 20 and John Perfect aged 20, a gardener

The picture below was drawn in 1810 by Hign Chessell Bucklerand shows Castle Street – now Thrale Street.\

Like all children, George loved fairy tales and so as a teenager and with no prospects left in his hometown he spread his wings. He took his meagre possessions and shoe making tools and set off for London where the streets were “paved with gold” according to popular belief. Just like Dick and his cat he found the streets were in fact were even more grimy and poverty stricken than the home he had left. But there was opportunity. The picture below shows Thrale Street in 2020.

George liked London and he fell in love with a sprightly girl called Sarah Dye Kettle. Sarah was also from Norwich (she was born 29 Aug 1812 baptised 30 Aug at All Saints, Norwich – the church was decommissioned in 1993) and I believe they probably knew each other before George moved to London. Interesting that Sarah was 6 years older than George. At the time of their marriage, George was a shoemaker and Sarah was a bender. What’s a bender you may ask? A bender is someone who cuts leather. Sarah’s dad was James Kettle a sawyer. At the time of their marriage they lived in Henry Street.

On a warm sunny day (26 August 1845) in the teeming metropolis of Shoreditch at the ancient parish church of St Leonards he married Sarah, and as the happy young couple emerged from between the pilloried portico, they little knew or could have believed of the tumultuous life that awaited them, or where their descendants would end up.

Note that George was literate and signed his name on the marriage certificate, but Sarah signed with her mark – a cross. There were two witnesses – George Yarrow and Elizabeth Wrigglesworth. Wikipedia: St Leonard's, Shoreditch, is the ancient parish church of Shoreditch, often known simply as Shoreditch Church. It is located at the intersection of Shoreditch High Street with Hackney Road, within the London Borough of Hackney. The current building dates from about 1740. The church is mentioned in the line "When I grow rich, say the bells of Shoreditch" from the nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons [1] and is noted as being the resting place of many actors from the Tudor period.”

In the 1851 census we see that George and Sarah were living at 8 Park Place in the parish of St Peter Walworth. The area has been completely demolished and rebuilt. George was a cordwainer and Sarah a shoe binder. They had a growing family:

George Sexton – bc 1838 - see Generation 4
James Sexton
Elizabeth Ann Sexton bc 1842
Sarah Sexton bc 1844
Mary Sexton bc 1846
Harriett Sexton bc 1848
Susan Sexton bc 1840
Rebecca Sexton b 24 Feb 1852 bap 28 Aug 1867 St Swithins, Norfolk
Alfred b 8 Jan 1854 bap 28 Aug 1867 St Swithins, Norfolk
Alfred bc 1857 Norwich check this

It’s interesting and a mystery why there are two names in the St Mary Magdalene register for the baptism of Elizabeth Ann and James both bap 45 Dec 1847 and then both crossed out. George & Sarah were living at 15 John Street, East Ham. In 1881 we see that George and Sarah were living in Haslips Buildings in Norwich with their son Alfred now aged 24.He was a currier – a leather cutter. George and Sarah are buried in the same grave in Earlham cemetery (not marked but it is plot 37-328). George died in Norwich aged 68 in the winter of 1886 (vol 4b p129).

Gen 4 George Sexton 1838 & Harriet Perfect

George Sexton b 2 Apr 1838 grew up in both London and Norwich. He married Harriet Perfect in 1860. Harriet was the daughter of Jabez Perfect a basket maker of Norwich and his wife Elizabeth. Witnesses at the ceremony were Eliza Grief and Daniel Read (vol4b p246). Harriet was born in Newington in St Mary’s parish.

A year later in the 1861 census he and his young wife are lodging at 27 Pilgrim Street Walworth. Interesting that in the same house there is the Hill family – 8 members and dad Thomas Hill is a cordwainer. And there are three other people. So 12 people living in this house.

Look at Montford Street on this map and you can see that it butts up against the gas works. These are located right next to the Oval cricket ground. In George’s day this would have been a hive of industry. George would recognise very little, but the pictures below show that there are a couple of structures that would have been there in his day.

Above left: 27 Pilgrim Street, Walworth. Twelve people could easily fit in here

George was listed as a shoemaker. The term "cordwainer" is an Anglicization of the French word cordonnier, which means shoemaker, introduced into the English language after the Norman invasion in 1066. The English term cordwainer first appears in 1100. Since this date the term cordouan, or cordovan leather, has been applied to several varieties of leather. Today cordovan leather is a vegetable tanned horse "shell," and like the Medieval cordwain is used only for the highest quality shoes. A distinction preserved by cordwainers since the earliest times is, that a cordwainer works only with new leather, whereas a cobbler works with old. Cobblers have always been repairers, frequently prohibited by law from making shoes. http://www.thehcc.org/backgrnd.htm

Interesting that in 1871 in the census we find that Harriet has moved back to Norwich. Leather working was very important to Norwich at this time - http://www.norwichshoes.co.uk/index.asp .See also the book called The History of Shoemaking in Norwich introduction by H J Sexton by https://blog.vandalshoes.com/2012/01/26/the-story-of-shoemaking-in-norwich-by-w-l-sparks/

We think of Norwich as a pleasant, clean town but at this time, like all 19th century towns Norwich was dirty, overcrowded and unsanitary. There were epidemics of smallpox, typhoid, cholera and diphtheria during the century. In 1819 there were 530 deaths from smallpox.

The leather trade must have picked up because by the 1871 census they have moved back to Norwich. They were living in Nelson Street – sadly no numbers are given. And they had been very busy in the bedroom because there were seven children. They must have moved there between 1861 and 1863.

In the house we find George now aged 32 and with the title cordwainer, Harriet his wife aged 30. The children are:

George Jabez Sexton bc 1862 St Mary’s Newington – see Gen 5
Mary Sexton bc 1864 b Norwich
Adelaide Sexton bc 1865 b Norwich
Harriet Sexton bc 1865 b Norwich
Phebe Sexton bc 1865 b Norwich
Octavious Sexton b 1867 3rd qtr b Norwich. He married Ellen (Ayling) aged 24 - banns were called on May 13, 20 and 27 and the couple were married 4 Jun 1888 at St John the Evangelist, Walworth. On the marriage certificate his occupation was labourer. They were living at 19 Aylesbury Street Ellen’s father was William Ayling, a coachman. Octavius and Ellen had issue:

Ellen Sexton b 1879
Kate Sexton b 1880
Ada Sexton ch 18 Nov 1898 Camberwell
George Sexton ch 19 Nov 1902 Camberwell

In the 1881 census we find that Octavius had a wife called ????? and was living at 2 Crawford Street, Lambeth together with two daughters – b 1879 and b 1880. He was working as a stone mason. The area has changed substantially but the family would recognize the two pubs, that they no doubt relaxed in after a hard week cutting stone.The 1891 census shows that his mother in law Wliza Ayling aged 58 b Sussex was there as well as his brother in law aged 17 – Fred Aylin.

Crawford Street is a street in the Marylebone district of the City of Westminster, London. The street contains two grade II listed public houses. The street was laid out from 1795. It is named after Tarrant Crawford, a property in Dorset owned by the Portman family who owned much of the property in the area. The Duke of Wellington public house at No. 94a Crawford Street is a grade II listed building as is The Beehive at No. 126.[3] There are a number of other listed buildings in the street. Wikipaedia

7. Albert Sexton b1870 b Norwich

8. Frederick Sexton bc 1875 Heigham, Norwich

9. Beatrice Sexton bc 1st qtr 1877 Heigham, Norwich. In 1901, aged 14, she was not living with mum and dad but was in the home of Jane Parker (b Seaford, Sussex), 61, living on own means at 24 Stafford Road, Newington. Also at that address was her sister Elizabeth Parker aged 59. Beatrice Sexton (scholar) was a niece and there was another niece Eliza Clark, 15 b Sutton Surrey (dressmaker’s apprentice).

In the 1901 census she is in Newington workhouse, but thankfully not as an inmate but working as a nurse– see below

10. Blanch Sexton bc 1879 Heigham, Norwich

11. Amy Sexton bc 1881 Heigham, Norwich

Right: 27 Pilgrim Street, Walworth. Twelve people could easily fit in here.

George is listed as a shoemaker. The term "cordwainer" is an Anglicization of the French word cordonnier, which means shoemaker, introduced into the English language after the Norman invasion in 1066. The English term cordwainer first appears in 1100. Since this date the term cordouan, or cordovan leather, has been applied to several varieties of leather. Today cordovan leather is a vegetable tanned horse "shell," and like the Medieval cordwain is used only for the highest quality shoes. A distinction preserved by cordwainers since the earliest times is, that a cordwainer works only with new leather, whereas a cobbler works with old. Cobblers have always been repairers, frequently prohibited by law from making shoes. http://www.thehcc.org/backgrnd.htm

Gen 5 George Jabez Sexton 1861- & Isabella Harwood

George Jabez Sexton (who I will refer to as GJ, since there have been so many Georges) was born 21 Apr 1861 at 27 Pilgrim Street, Walworth to George Sexton, cordwainer and Harriet. When GJ was about two years old the family packed up and moved back to the ancestral home of Norwich and lived in Nelson Street. But by ?, GJ was back in London.

At this time, London was booming with thousands of people moving in to work in the factories and service industries. GJ chose a different profession to his forebears and became a bricklayer. From a collection of small villages London was being transomed into a sea of suburbia. George had a hand in this change.

I don’t where GJ was in 1881. But on 13 Apr 1884 at the age of 23 he married Isabella ‘Bella’ Harwood, aged 24 at St Stephens church, Walworth. Bella was the daughter of John Harwood. Neither John or Elizabeth were literate and signed their names with a cross on the marriage certificate. John Harwood was also a bricklayer and was born c 1830/40.

At the time of their marriage GJ and Bella lived at 56 Clandon Street, now Gaylord Street. As the family grew and they could afford to move out from home, they moved across the Thames to the bustling new building program going on at Stratford. The docks in London now covered a huge area and all sorts of businesses were springing up. Stratford, for so long a village on the road to London, was becoming a “new town”. It needed hundreds of bricklayers. For a more detailed picture of industry in the area see British History Online.

GJ and Bella had seven children:

George Albert Sexton – see Gen 6.1
John Henry Sexton b 1896 – see Gen 6.2
Albert E Sexton – In 1921 he lived at home at 31 Ranealgh Road Stratford, his occupation is invoice clerk, and he was unemployed at 60Lincoln Inn Fields with a telephone manufacturing company.
Blanche Sexton b 1889 West Ham, was a collar curler and married firstly to William Dyer 14 June 1914 died 22 Jan 1918 and second to George Foster married 1919. Children:
- Blanche Irene Foster. Blanche served in the Womens Land Army in WW2. She married Johgn Clack
- Queenie Foster
Alice "Cis" Sexton. In 1921 she lived at home at 31 Ranealgh Road Stratford, her occupation is that f a despatch clerk, but she was unemployed. She married Edward Vincent. Issue:
- Blanche Irene Foster 12 Mar 1920-1977 worked in bookbinding and married John Clack
- Queenie Foster b 28 Oct 1921 married ? Allen
Isabella Sexton worked as a book folder and then married Bill Blaber b 1895 Issue:
- Isabella Blaber
- Elsie Blaber
- William ‘Bill’ Blaber
- Doris Blaber
- Vera Blaber
Lilian Sexton died young

GJ and the young family moved into 48 David Street Stratford. Like so many places, this area was severely bombed in the war and afterwards was deemed slums. However when I visited there in the late 70s, there was still a street still that showed what the area would have looked like. But all of that has gone now and it looks very respectable. David Street had a row of garages in it.

In 1891 he was a builders labourer aged 29 living at 13 Ranelagh Road, West Ham with 12 people (3 families). Terraced houses are still there but they are the product of the 1950s.

The photo shows 129 Harcourt Road, which has been modernized. This would have been the home GJ knew.

On the census night of 1901 it would have been a noisy house as there were 17 people there.

Ten years later in the 1911 census we find that GJ and Bella were enjoying a household with only 8 people!!! Magic! Little did they know of the horrors that were awaiting them just 3 years from now in 1914.

Gen 6.1 George Albert Sexton 1885 & Florence Ad Horncastle

George Albert Sexton was b 5 Feb 1885 in Stratford. He was born disabled with polio and always had a built up shoe. He grew up with the family at 129 Harcourt Road, West Ham and was still at home in the 1911 census aged 26. He trained to be a lithographer (printer). I am grateful to Lilian Smith, his daughter for the following information:

"George Albert Sexton, my father, wore leg irons up to his stomach, the result of polio when he was young. The irons were strapped to his stomach with a leather belt. One of his legs was shorter than the other and he walked with the aid of a stick. He used to pump iron. He worked somewhere in Stratford but moved to St Albans in 1914 and worked at Richardson’s in London Road. This later became Staple’s Press. He worked for them from 1914 to 1939. He was a strong unionist, a member of the printers’ union (NATSOPA) and secretary of the St Albans branch and was able to give work to other men. He was a very keen reader, especially books about socialism and communism."

In 1939, at the outbreak of WW2, he was laid off. He then worked for His Majesty’s Stationery office (HMSO).

Albert was a very ‘upright’ man He nearly always wore a bowler hat in winter and a straw boater in summer. He took great pride in his appearance and before he left home he would always ask me (Lilian) to “brush me down”.

He was a member of the Labour Club in Alma Road and when he was leaving home to attend the Club, he would always say “I’m going to see a man about a dog.” He was very strict with his children, like all Victorians. Once he wouldn’t let me go to a Girl Guides camp in case I caught tonsillitis.”

He married Florence Ada Horncastle on 25 December 1911 at the age of 26 and moved in with mum and dad. The house would have been crowded! Florence was the daughter of Charles Horncastle (dc 1930), a carpenter and packing case maker and Emma Hassell who, according to family legend, had been a lady in waiting to the wife of Lord Elkington, the silver baron. Lilian told me "once when walking with mother through London, we passed a big house with a grapevine in the front and my mum said she had worked there. Another time there was an advertising hoarding displaying a wine advert and some faces. Mum said "those are my brothers." My mum was a real lady and never swore. She always wore spectacles."

Charles had been married previously to Elizabeth Browne, whose father, Charles Browne, had been a ship worker.

Emma was born about 1883 in Bethnal Green and in 30 years of research I have found NO trace of Emma’s birth.

George and Emma had three children:

George William Sexton b n 5 January 1913 in Stratford, Essex and grew up in St Albans.. He married Kitty E Burgess in March 1948. He died in January 1995 in Hertfordshire at the age of 82. George died in January 1995 in Hertfordshire when he was 82 years old. he followed in his father's footsteps and entered the printing trade.

Gen 6.2 John Henry Sexton 1896 - 1948

John Henry Sexton b 1896 West Ham and was training to be a warehouse man in a tea manufacturer’s warehouse. By the time of the 1939 register he was working in Pewsey, Wiltshire in contruction - a seeel erector. living in Woodland View. Also in the house at this time was

In 1917 while still living at home he was conscripted into the British Army on 29 June 1915. More than 100,000 men from West Ham served in various units. In the three months before John joined up, this was happening

22 Apr 2nd battle of Ypres; Germans use poison gas for the first time
25 Apr Beginning of the Gallipoli campaign
7 May RMS Lusitania sunk causing serious anti-German behaviour in the East End
23 May Italy joins the war against the allies
31 May first zeppelin raid on London. Passed right over John’s head and killed

Left: Chelmsford Chronicle 30 Apr 1916. When John joined, more than 25,000 men from West Ham had volunteered and the Borough Council agreed to pay £10 to the dependents of those killed or wounded in action.

He started his service on 28 Jun 1915 with the Royal Artillery aged 20 at Stratford. Service No L29844. British army records are excellent for minor details. So we know that John was 5’6.75” tall, weighed 147 pounds and had a chest measurement of 39 inches and an expansion of 2.5”. He had a vision pf 6/24 in each eye. He had acne scars on his left cheek and small scars on his left shoulder, calf and buttock!. He had brown hair, green eyes and was dressed plainly.

The records tell us that he was injured – but not in the trenches. He was in the stables on the 14 Nov 1915 at 11am and was kicked by one of the horses and subsequently admitted to Aldershot hospital with a fractured fibula. He spent 46 days in hospital, being discharged 21 Dec 1915. On the 3 Mar 1916 he was sent to France with the British Expeditionary Force. He was a member of the178th East Ham Howitzer Brigade of the RF. he embarked from Southampton on 2 Jun 1916, landing in France the next day. Sadly the records of his active duty are almost illegible

The unit war diary is at The National Archives: 178 Brigade Royal Field Artillery June 1916 - March 1919 Ref: WO95/2598 would be worth a look

Jack reached the rank of corporal but in April 1919, still in the field he was severely reprimanded by Major A Wilkes for irregular conduct whilst on duty. The date is illegible but he was transferred to Woolwich barracks in the Class 2 Army. That would be today’s Territorial Army – the reserve. He served for 4 years and 299 days and was discharged on 31 Mar 1920. He was entitled to a pension lasting 4 years and 1 day

He married Ellen Queenie Malcolm. Like his dad, Jack was also in the building game and specialised as a steel erector in Stratford and West Ham. He lived at 31 Ranelagh Road, West Ham. At some stage, probably during or after the war the family moved to St Albans. In 1921 the family had noved to 31 Ranelagh Road. Interesting thatJack was working as a carman for AE Symes, builders and contractors, in Building Road Stratford.

John and Queenie had:

Queenie Isabella Sexton who married Victor Butt from Yorkshire. They had
- Linda Patricia Butt and she married Thomas Galliers of London. I believe they live in Cambridgeshire. Their issue is
  - Sachelle Luan Galliers
  - Mark Galliers.

Florence Ann Sexton b 20 May 1927 married Stanley Alfred Westrope. They had 9 children:
- Stanley Westrope b 26 Feb 1949 married Lesley Foddam in 1969. Children:
  - Sean Westrope 1969 md Paula Smit. Issue:
    - Corral Westrope b 1991
  - Unknown Westrope b 1971
  - Unknown Westrope b 1972
  - Unknown Westrope b 1975
  - Unknown Westrope b 1978
  - Unknown Westrope b 1981

Barbara Westrope b 13 Jan 1951 md Dave Claridge 1971. Children:
- Wayne Clarridge b 1975
- Scott Claridge b 1976
Geoffrey Westrope b 14 Jun 1952
Michael Westrope b 7 May 1954 md Sandra Kidd 1975. Children:
- Matthew Westrope b 1977
- Daniel Westrope b 1978
- Amy Westrope b 1979
Angela Westrope b 9 Mar 1957 md Peter Walker 1976. Issue
Carl Walker b 1976
Kelly Walker b 1979
Colin Westrope b 5 Apr 1959 md Tracy Ling 1988. Issue:
- Kerry Westrope b 1984
- Lee Westrope b 1986
David Westrope b 29 Nov 1961and partner Jenny Gow had issue:
- Jade Westrope b 1987. Jade has been with KDW since 2012, where she works on reception, greeting and assisting clients as the first point of contact for KDW. Prior to joining KDW, Jade has previously worked behind the bar at pub and in various offices as a general administration assistant. jade@kdw.co.uk
Pamela Westrope b 15 Aug 1963 md Peter Kermerrick. Issue:
- Caroline Kermerrick b 1987
- Nicola Kermerrick b 1989
Tracy Westrope b 13 Nov 1965 and partner Geoff Hicks. Issue:
- Aaron Hicks b 1986

The 1939 register is a good source of information. Part of the family was living at 21 Ranelagh Road. So we can see that George and Blanche Foster were there, and daughters Blanche Flack and Queenie Allen, but not their husbands. George was working at a business in Canpenters Rd, Stratford

But another part of the famiy was based in Pewsey, Wiltshire - John Henry and his daughter Florence.

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