Edgar John COLWELL outside their home at THE MORSE, DRYBROOK 1922

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My father Edgar John Colwell is fourth from the right on the top row.

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Son of Raymond George PRICE and Elizabeth 'Cissy' SLEEMAN (1879).

The family EMMIGRATED to New South Wales, Australia.
His daughter, Wanda still lives there.

He had a brother William James (1903) and a sister Elizabeth Sophie (1904)

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This picture taken after my brother's (Michael COLWELL)
christening in Gloucester 1947/48.

My mother Mavis 'Bobby' COLWELL is holding my brother.
My father Edgar'John'Colwell must have held the camera.

To my mother's right is 'Aunty' Blanche, below her 'Uncle' Bill
(they may be foresters but I'm not sure).

On Blanche's right is Elizabeth 'Sophie' PRICE
daughter of Raymond George Price, grocer).

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Left to right:
Elizabeth SLEEMAN (1879)
Edgar SLEEMAN (1887)
Frank John Parson SLEEMAN (1884)
Isaac James SLEEMAN (b 1887?) died in the war
Frederick William SLEEMAN (1885)
Ethel (baby b 1889)
Elizabeth Ann (PARSONS) SLEEMAN (1855-1929) daughter of Isaac Parsons and Elizabeth Hale

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Charles Stephen Clark 26 December 1911 to the 3rd August 1939 from Woolaston
Sargeant in the RAF stationed at Halton, Buckinghamshire

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Newland Churchyard

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This gravestone is on the north side of Newland church,
right next to Thomas Burgham, Ironfounder

The interesting point is that the shape for both stones is identical.
Also, the date of death for Sarah gives a birth of 1821.

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Christchurch Churchyard

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William Martin and Hubert Gwatkin both drowned (with two others) in the Union Pit Disaster 1902

William is on the left of the pic (with his wife) and Hubert on the right

In the middle are my GG parents William Martin Snr. and Hannah (ne Teague).

The inscriptions are actually on the back of the stones presumably to face the
pathway so technically the locations I have described are reversed hope this
makes sense? William jnr was my great uncle. Burial Ground is Christchurch

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[See the Christchurch Memorial Inscriptions on this Web site for transcripts of the headstones]

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Year: 1929
Month: Aug
Day: 15
Grooms_Surname: MERRETT
Grooms_Forenames: Frederick
Grooms_Age: 25
Groom_Condition: bachelor
Grooms_Occupation: collier
Grooms_Residence: Cinderford
Grooms_Fathers_Surname: MERRETT
Grooms_Fathers_Forenames: Hubert
Grooms_Fathers_Occupation: collier
Brides_Surname: DAVIS
Brides_Forenames: Evelyn Florence
Brides_Age: 23
Brides_Condition: spinster
Brides_Occupation:
Brides_Residence: Cinderford
Brides_Fathers_Surname: DAVIS
Brides_Fathers_Forenames: William
Brides_Fathers_Occupation: collier
Licence_or_Banns: Banns
Date_of_Banns:
Signature_or_Mark: Both sign
Witness_1: Iris M Davis
Witness_2: William Davis
Other_Witnesses:
Officiating_Minister: Mark S Perfitt vicar
Event: Marriage
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P85/1 IN 1/7
Page_Number: 22
Parish_Chapel: Cinderford St John

We can name most of the pupils, can anyone help with the missing names?

Front Row:- John Newman - Robert Dowle - ? - Alfred ? - ? - Dennis Peril - Roland Gould

2nd row:- Julia Eccles - Pauline Jones - Brenda Stait - Valerie Reade - Mary Walding
Wendy Williams - Annise Winning - Maureen Martin - Judith Harris - Barbara Hale

3rd row:- Penny Galler - ? - Jennifer Hale - Ann Roberts - Josephine Baldwin
Anita Knox - Heather Marshall - Margaret Simmonds - Pauline Walford -
Christine Thompson - Sheila Currie

Back row:- Godfrey Phillips - John Ridler - Anita Martin - Vera Jones - Margaret
Currie - Carol Meek - Marlene Ward - Pamela Cowmeadow - Graham ? - ?

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Drybrook Churchyard

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My grandmother, Ethel, and dad looking very adolescent on, what looks like an
outing with the charabanc behind.

Ethel (SLEEMAN 1889-1946) was married to Tom COLWELL (1882-1939 son of John Colwell).

Dad, born 1920 left the forest to join the Fleet Air arm to be a navigator and
lived in Surrey after the war working as an aeronautical engineer. He died in
November 2000.

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First from the left Frank Reed born 1919.

First person sat down we believe is Harold Sladen. Second person sat down is
Archie Sladen, Harold's brother.

Frank Reed married Phyllis Sladen, Archie Sladen's sister.

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Tom COLWELL (1882-1939) worked at the saw mills, Longhope as a saw doctor and
where he died of heart failiure age 58.

He married Ethel SLEEMAN (1889-1946) when he was 37 years old (1919) and they
had one son Edgar John (1920-2000).

They lived at the Morse, Drybrook.

The COLWELL family are buried at the Forest Church, Drybrook.

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Taken circa 1944

The only person I know on this photo is my father Tom Meek, he is second in from
the left. Would hope that other Foresters could name some of the others.

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Abenhall Churchyard

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