Frank Edward EAGLES 1890 -1985 Littledean -> Florida (General)

by Paul Beard , Sunday, April 08, 2012, 10:38 (4691 days ago) @ Paul Beard

It shows the worth of posting on this forum. Back in 2010 I appealed for information about Frank Edward Eagles - son of Henry Thomas Eagles and Fanny Eagles (nee Shearman). Frank was a younger brother of my paternal grandmother - Edith Emily Eagles. He vanished from my grandmothers house in Surrey around 1920 and was never heard of again. 'Slow Hands' found a divorce case in which Frank was a co-repsondent but the trail eventually went cold.

Recently I acted on a chance finding of an American death in Florida and found that Frank had died in Broward County, Florida in 1985. The death certificate was brilliant as it gave the full names of his parents and that of his widow. That led me to find their marriage and that they had tied the knot in 1970, when Frank was 80! I have since found that a month prior to his marriage he had divorced his previous wife.

Anyone researching the descendants of Henry Thomas Eagles and Fanny Eagles (nee Shearman) are more than welcome to contact me. To date I have traced over 250 blood descendants of theirs in many parts of the UK, a number of areas in the USA and Australia.