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Just a couple of corrections to my previous message, for the record:

Joan Daw (Eastwood) died in Inverness in 2015, not 1995.

Alan Eastwood was living in Ascot, Berkshire but did pass away whilst on a trip to Portsmouth, Hampshire in 1990.

Thank you for the extra sorry I didn't get back before now

I think everything is covered in the thread, but to fill in any gaps:

Frank Eastwood: b. York 1901, d. Dundee 1975
Aminto Eastwood (Sneddon): b. Darlington 1901, d. Kirton, Boston 1993
Married: Darlington 1922
Children
Alan: b Darlington 1923, d. Ascot 1990
Joan: b Darlington 1926, d. Inverness 1995
Another Son: b. Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires 1937

The Eastwoods' were a Yorkshire family and the Sneddons' were originally from Dunfermline.

Frank was Principal Engineer of Argentine Sud Railways. He also did work in Bolivia and was made a freeman of York in 1960s. Frank and Aminto moved to Dundee following their retirement to join their daughter Joan. Aminto later moved to Pinchbeck (near Spalding) Lincolnshire following Frank's death, to be with Joan and family.

Joan married Graham Braithwaite Daw (b. London 1921, d. Inverness 2008) in Lomas in 1949 and moved back to the UK that year. They had four children (two daughters and two sons) between 1950 and 1955.

Graham was a factory manager who spend most of his working life with Smedley's, a fruit and vegetable canning and freezing company. The family lived in Blairgowrie, Coupar Angus, Dundee and Spalding, where Smedley's had factories. Joan and Graham’s retirement eventually took them to Inverness where their eldest daughter lives.

Incidentally, Fieldhouse (my actual birthplace!) was the factory manager's house in Coupar Angus.

Hmmm - interesting.

Margarita is the Marjorie listed on their inward journey in July 1959, posted earlier.

They must have been moving around relatives - arriving first at "Fieldhouse", Coupar Angus, then moving on to the Daws.


Poor old Field House, (looking at Google Maps) must have been literally a house in a field, out in the country, at that time. Now it's jammed in a corner of a field, hemmed in on one side by a housing estate, and on another side by the huge food processing factory in Coupar Angus which had to close in mid August because of a Covid-19 outbreak among its workers.

Passenger Lists Leaving Uk 1890-1960


First name(s) Alan
Last name Eastwood
Gender Male
Birth year 1923
Birth day 6
Birth month 10
Marital status M
Occupation ENGINEER
Departure year 1959
Departure day 3
Departure month 10
Departure port London
Destination port Buenos Aires
Destination BUENOS AIRES
Country Argentina
Destination country Argentina
Ship name Highland Princess

Travelling with Margarita Eastwood 2/9/30
Virginia Eastwood 1953
Ricardo Eastwood 1956
Martin Eastwood 1958

Address in UK had been c/o G B Daw, 278 Strathmartine Rd, Dundee, Angus.

British Armed Forces And Overseas Banns And Marriages

Gro Article 6/ Article 18 Marriages (Up To 1955)

First name(s) Graham B
Last name Daw
Sex Male
Marriage year 1949

MarriageFinder ™

Graham B Daw married one of these people

Joan Eastwood
Marriage place Buenos Aires
Place type Place
Country Argentina
Type Consular/Overseas
Source Gro Article 6/ Article 18 Marriages (Up To 1955)
Records year range 1949
Archive reference ART1
Page 190
Line number 100
Archive
General Register Office
Record set British Armed Forces And Overseas Banns And Marriages




~~DEATH~~

DAW
GRAHAM BRAITHWAITE
87
MMN CHANDLER
2008
240/ 635
Inverness

Frank is a railway engineer or an engineer in many of the travel records.


A couple of mentions of him in other documents:

Associate Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
Frank Eastwood, Buenos Aires
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1243/PIME_PROC_1940_144_019_02?journalCode=pmea


Frank Eastwood: Workshop Gadgets in Railway Shops, 1946.
On apparatus and tools employed and produced for replacement and manufacture of spare parts.
https://www.fcbap.ca/railways/other.htm

FMP has outward journeys from UK to B A. 1929, 1934,1939,1948 and 1958
On all except 1958, his home address was in Darlington. In 1958 it was Fieldhouse, Coupar Angus

In 1939 And 1948, Aminto and three children accompanied him
His D O B is given as 27.01.01

These are text only - as are all such records.

Don’t take ‘image’ to mean a person’s photograph - it means a photographic image - of anything. In this case,. documents

Births Sep 1926 (>99%)
Eastwood Joan Sneddon Darlington 10a 17


According to a tree on Ancestry, she married Graham Daw, who died in 2008 in Inverness, and Joan died in Inverness in 2015.

I don't see the marriage, but this is her death:

DAW
JOAN
88
mms SNEDDON
2015
240/ 38
Inverness


ADDED:

Re the marriage, it may have been in Argentina.
The tree says they married on 19 May 1949, but doesn't say where.

Here they are arriving in the UK on 13 Dec 1949:

UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960
Name
Graham B Daw
Arrival Age
28
Birth Date
1921
Port of Departure
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Arrival Date
13/12/1949
Port of Arrival
London, England
Ports of Voyage
Buenos Aires
Ship Name
Columbia Star
Shipping Line
Bleu Star Line Ltd
Official Number
167259

Travelling with Joan.

Alan's birth, with mms transcribed wrongly:

Alan Eastwood
in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007
Name: Alan Eastwood
Registration Date: Oct 1923
[Nov 1923]
[Dec 1923]
Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration District: Darlington
Inferred County: Durham
Mother's Maiden Name: Snaddon
Volume Number: 10a
Page Number: 31

Thank you Yes your possibly right about the children I found the birth for Joan in England

Remember you can't put living people on your tree without their permission.



However, Alan is deceased;

Alan Eastwood
in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: Alan Eastwood
Death Age: 66
Birth Date: 6 Oct 1923
Registration Date: Jul 1990
Registration District: Portsmouth
Inferred County: Hampshire
Volume: 20
Page: 817

In the 1959 record, I imagine Marjorie is Alan's wife, and Virginia, Richard, and Martin are their children.


No the travel records don't give birthplaces.

Just noticed the age gap between the children does it say where they were born
may be had more children who didn't travel with them

Aminto could be the closed record with Frank in 1939, if her death hasn't been picked up.

Here she is arriving in the UK just before the 1939 Register was compiled:

Aminto Eastwood
in the UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960
Name: Aminto Eastwood
Arrival Age: 38
Birth Date: abt 1901
Port of Departure: La Plata, Argentina
Arrival Date: 27 Jul 1939
Port of Arrival: London, England
Ports of Voyage: La Plata; Montevideo; Santos; Rio de Janeiro; Las Palmas and Lisbon
Ship Name: Highland Monarch
Shipping Line: Royal Mail Lines Ltd
Official Number: 148158

Travelling with Frank, Alan 14, Joan 13, Ian 21 months.

All going to 25 Geneva Cres, Darlington.

Thank yo so much for that I'm trying to bring my tree forward which is difficult when they immigrate I can put their children on my tree now

Thank you

Aminto Eastwood
in the England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
Name: Aminto Eastwood
Death Age: 92
Birth Date: 21 Mar 1901
Registration Date: Dec 1993
Registration District: Boston
Inferred County: Lincolnshire
Register Number: 64B
District and Subdistrict: 6101A
Entry Number: 202



Aminto Eastwood
in the UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current
Name: Aminto Eastwood
Birth Date: 1901
Death Date: 1993
Cemetery: All Souls Churchyard
Burial or Cremation Place: South Ascot, Windsor and Maidenhead Royal Borough, Berkshire, England

Glad your on it I didn't know what to think of that record, thought it was a male??

Just one more of many travel records:

Aminto Eastwood
in the Florida, Passenger Lists, 1898-1963
Name: Aminto Eastwood
Nationality: British
Age: 60
Birth Date: 21 Mar 1901
Birth Place: Darlington, England
Arrival Date: 26 May 1961
Arrival Place: Miami, Florida, USA
Airline: PAA
Flight Number: 80


Birth:
SNEDDON, AMINTO mms WATSON
GRO Reference: 1901 J Quarter in DARLINGTON Volume 10A Page 9


Marriages Jun 1922 (>99%)
Eastwood Frank Sneddon Darlington 10a 75
SNEDDON Aminto Eastwood Darlington 10a 75

for example:

Aminta Eastwood
in the UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960
Name: Aminta Eastwood
Arrival Age: 58
Birth Date: 21 Mar 1901
Port of Departure: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Arrival Date: 10 Jul 1959
Port of Arrival: London, England
Ports of Voyage: Buenos Aires; Santos and Rio de Janeiro
Ship Name: Uruguay Star
Shipping Line: Blue Star Line Ltd
Official Number: 9509/01

Travelling with Frank, and also Alan 6/10/1923, Marjorie 2/9/1930, Virginia 1953 (not posting full DOB as she may be living), Richard 1956, and Martin 1958.

All going to "Fieldhouse".