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Source: S2214254953 Repository: #R2194757135 Title: London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.Original data - Board of Guardian Records, 1834-1906 and Church of England Parish Registers, 1813-1906. London Metropolitan Archives and Guildhall Library Manuscripts, London.Images p Note:
Source: S2214255729 Repository: #R2194757135 Title: London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.Original data - Church of England Parish Registers, 1754-1921. London Metropolitan Archives and Guildhall Library Manuscripts, London.Images produced by permission of the City of Lond Note:
Source: S2215272737 Repository: #R2194757135 Title: 1901 England Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.Original data - Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives, 1901. Data imaged from the National Archives, London, England. The National Archi Note:
Bertha M Russell was my grandmother. She adopted my father Bryan John With when his birth mother died of pneumonia a week after he was born. Bertha never married, possibly because of my father. Bertha was a nurse. She travelled to Europe looking after patients when they travelled there for health reasons. She stopped travelling after adopting my father.
She died a very painful death,caused by cancer, at home looked after by my father. My father, who of course loved her very, much was devastated by her incurable illness, terrible suffering and death.
When my father was a child she would often take my father to Woburn Abbey to play and visit there.
I have three pictures,one of Bertha, a picture of their home on Burcott road in Purly and a picture of Woburn. I have a few momentos of her besides the photos, a silver service canteen,a silver/crystal inkwell with her name engraved along with the date Sept. 14th 1903, other silver pieces and a goliath cased watch she was given as a thank you gift by a patient.
I also have two pocket knives she gave to my father, one silver, one gold. The silver watch, part of the knife/watch set, she gave him for graduation(?) was stolen from him while he served in the RAF during WW II. He felt the loss of it all the rest of his life. I never met her and wished I knew more about her. My father did not share much about her as it was always painful for him to look back.
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She died a very painful death,caused by cancer, at home looked after by my father. My father, who of course loved her very, much was devastated by her incurable illness, terrible suffering and death. When my father was a child she would often take my father to Woburn Abbey to play and visit there. I have three pictures,one of Bertha, a picture of their home on Burcott road in Purly and a picture of Woburn. I have a few momentos of her besides the photos, a silver service canteen,a silver/crystal inkwell with her name engraved along with the date Sept. 14th 1903, other silver pieces and a goliath cased watch she was given as a thank you gift by a patient. I also have two pocket knives she gave to my father, one silver, one gold. The silver watch, part of the knife/watch set, she gave him for graduation(?) was stolen from him while he served in the RAF during WW II. He felt the loss of it all the rest of his life. I never met her and wished I knew more about her. My father did not share much about her as it was always painful for him to look back.