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I knew that I should have compiled a tree from all these super notes. So apologies for getting my Herbert's/William's in a muddle.

And you're right GreyGhost, I should indeed order Gundred's will.

Watch this space.

:-)

Easy to get confused with so many names being ‘thrown’ at you ;-) ;-)

The member with Cleora Bennett in his tree also has all the Haig names, so let’s hope he still has the same e-mail as when he registered with GR. And that he responds

Wolseley’s first wife was an American widow Katherine Chittenden Emery, 10 years his senior, daughter of. Charles Augustus Murray of Vermont

Ancestry tree has:

Katherine Chittenden Murray-Emery-Haig
1874–1951
BIRTH 28 JAN 1874 • Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont, United States of America
DEATH 8 MAY 1951 • Durban, South Africa

Cleora Helen Bennett was the daughter of Thomas Henry Bennett and Cleora Helen Hudson, who married in Bengal in 1844. CH Hudson was born in 1822

HAIG, PERCY DE HAYA DICK
GRO Reference: 1850 S Quarter in ST GILES IN THE FIELDS & ST GEORGE BLOOMSBURY Volume 01 Page 63

Update:

Have contacted two GR trees and one of them has responded. We are only distantly related and don't share the same descendandy.

I'm still hopeful that I can return these beautiful family paintings to the family.

:-)

Perhaps you're the most appropriate person to have them..................

William and Cleora have no known living descendants, and you did know their son, and seem to have been fond of him

Name Goda Patricia Cobban
Marriage Registration Date 1950
Marriage Registration Place Victoria, Australia
Spouse
Humphrey Andrrew Firkins
Reference Number 13606

Name Goda Patricia Haig
[Goda Patricia Cobban]
Gender Female
Marriage Date 27 Sep 1950
Marriage Place Toorair
Father Henry Cobban
Spouse Humphrey Anarew Woodyatt


Name Goda Patricia Firkins
Death Age 73
Birth Date 15 Jan 1926
Death Date 23 Dec 1999
Burial Date 30 Dec 1999
Cemetery Coomera
Section M01
Cemetery Location Coomera, Queensland
Grave Place Grave 270
Remarks In Loving Memory of Goda Patricia FIRKINS 15.01.1926 - 23.12.1999 in one of the stars I shall be living in one of them I shall be laughing and so it will be as if all the stars were laughing when you


Name Goda Patricia Firkins
Gender Female
Electoral Date 1963
Electoral Place 825, Hampton Street, Brighton, Balaclava, Victoria, Australia
And Humphrey Andrew Firkins


Name Goda Firkins
Gender Female
Residence Place Melbourne
Death Date Abt 1999
Obituary Date 24 Dec 1999
Obituary Place Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Newspaper Title The Age
Spouse Julie

No other info on Ancestry

I doubt very much whether even Goda had any knowledge of William and Cleora. When she married, she named Henry Cobben as her father.
There is no record of her living with her birth parents as far as I can see

No mention on her headstone of ANY relations

??????????

FIRKINS, HUMPHREY WOODYATT MOORE
GRO Reference: 1925 M Quarter in WORCESTER Volume 06C Page 170

Thank you again ErikaH and others for all your hard work on this one.

It seems that we've reached a dead end in the search for any possible living descendants to whom I could pass on these lovely mementos.

Thank you everyone.
:-)

Goda's mother didn't keep her with her

1939 Register
Blade Bear Hotel South Street, Wareham, Wareham M.B., Dorset, England
Valerie I I De Haga Fairclough (Haig) 24 Mar 1906 Female Lace Interior Decorator Widowed 82 11

There are simply NO direct descendants of the couple in question

Lied about her age in 1939

Name Valerie Isabel Ida Hudson
Baptism Age 0
Birth Date 24 Mar 1900
Baptism Date 29 Jun 1900
Baptism Place Billingford (near East Dereham), England
Father Robert Hudson
Mother Olive Maud Hudson

Photo on Ancestry

Name Valerie De Haga Haig Later Fairtlough
Maiden Name Hudson
View Person on the National Portrait Gallery Website
https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp148026
Gender Female
Birth Date 1900
Occupation Former Wife of Rollo De Haga Haig, and Later Wife of Geoffrey Fairtlough; Daughter of Robert Hudson
Description Photographs
Artist Graphic Photo Union
Date Created 7 May 1924
NPG Number X45054

Second husband died 1992 in Laois, Ireland

Gosh, what a tangled web we weave ......................

:-S

Thank you everyone.

I've closed the thread.

:-)