I will from time to time leave notes here on what I’ve been up to as far as updating the tree.

Most recently, I’ve done some work on basic entries for the family of Richard William Perrin (1857).

I also had a fresh look at Richard Miller and Anna Ward, parents of John Miller (1797) whose sister Anna married Richard Bayley, whose 1813 schoolboy copybook we still have, in bureau with ’secret drawers’ that was made for or belonged to Richard Bayley.

Richard Miller, “of Halesowen” when he married Anna, is something of a stumbling block. Anna Ward offers at least her parents. Richard and Anna had seven known children.

In 1972, while I was living and working as a young teacher in Kenya, my mother sent me her handwritten copy of a cutting from a 1914 Abingdon, Berkshire, newspaper:

Among those who lost their lives consequent upon the wreck of the hospital ship ‘Rohilla’ which struck a mine and was blown on to the rocks off Whitby when trying to regain the shore, was William Perrin, son of Richard W Perrin, formerly of Abingdon, and nephew of Mr Robert A Perrin of Ock Street, Abingdon. 

The report was of his funeral and listed among the mourners:

Mr Robert A Perrin (uncle of the dead man) has now left serving their King and country the following relatives:

SONS

Robert A Perrin and George H Perrin (Pay Corps); Alfred A Perrin (Coldstream Guards); Clement E Perrin, Sergeant, and Norman C Perrin, Private, both of the 4^th (Foreign Service) Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment.

NEPHEWS

Basil Perrin, of the Admiral’s flagship ‘Prince of Wales’, now temporarily attached Signaller, HMS Crusader.

Ernest G Cooper, Gunner, Royal Field Artillery.

NIECE

Dorothy Collett, training as a Red Cross Nurse  

 

 From this my mother, with Dad’s help, made up our first family tree. So began a lifelong interest. One result, today, is this website.