Vera J PHILLIPS (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Sunday, October 07, 2012, 23:24 (4432 days ago) @ slowhands

Thanks for that Slowhands,
so it seems probable that Lena passed her later years in the same Berkshire area as at least one of her sons, there may even be some living relatives still there for Judy to consider searching.
Re the quoted records, is it just me that gets annoyed that Ancestry still seem to think Westbury On Severn, as per your quoted Marriage record, is "in Shropshire" where I accept another "Westbury" but not "Westbury S" also is ??

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Judy,
thanks so much for adding to the thread re Lena, especially wrt the Burgh name, sorry for my asking so many questions it's not just down to my noseyness honest !. Last night I started searching FreeBMD on the assumption that Burgh was perhaps a surname she'd "gained" from a previous marriage, but my searches were without much success. I knew it was a surname as near us in West Drayton Middlesex is the De Burgh Arms pub immediately next to the old GWR mainline station, apparently it was an important family name locally. #

HOWEVER as per my earlier post the GlosBMD site have her name at marriage as "Beryl" !?; I therefore concluded that "Burgh" was a redherring due to an Ancestry transcription error, apologies for my mistake.
It would perhaps be good to know where GlosBMD got "Beryl" from.

During my searches of FreeBMD I found many mentions of the Newman name in the London area, which is along the GWR railway route from the Forest thro' Berkshire, which nowadays is commuter country down the socalled Thames Valley Corridor from London.
Perhaps this London "link" maybe why Lena lived in Berkshire ? Maybe she had links with Eton School, just across the Thames from Windsor. All speculation of course, altho this seems more likely than Stroud, perhaps.

Am I right in recalling the Ancestry searchpages suggested that Edward has military links ?, if so were these in Berkshire ??

# Re the De Burgh Arms pub, if like me you have a love of British comedy films not to mention all things 1950s then you may know the film "Genevieve" about the London - Brighton veteran car run. This website gives an interesting background to the making of the film, virtually all done not far from here ie Pinewood Studios. If you track down this site it shows photos of the pub as featured in the film.
http://www.donbrockway.com/Filming%20Locations.htm