by D J Wiseman
Paul Donald
2 Violet Hannah Joslin
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Birth Date: 9 Jul 1934
Birth Place: Tooting
No record of Violet has been found, other than her birth record.
1.3 Rose Elizabeth Joslin
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Birth Date: 21 Apr 1936
Birth Place: Tooting
Apart from her birth record, the only possible mention found of Rose is in a passenger list of arrivals in New Zealand in 1962. It appears that this Rose Joslin was killed in a motor accident a few months later.
Henry Myers (who married a distant cousin of yours) and their family
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Birth Date: 1856
Birth Place: Braintree
Death Date: 5 Nov 1928
Death Place: Chelmsford
Occupation: Shopkeeper
1891cen Braintree, age 34, shopkeeper’s assistant, recorded as Dix-Myers, with his wife Martha (32) and son Henry aged 6 months born Coggeshall.
1901cen Braintree, age 44, shop manager, recorded as Dix-Myers, with his wife Martha(42) and sons Henry(10) and James(8) born Braintree.
Spouse: Martha Dix (your 1st cousin ‘four times removed’)
Birth Date: 1858
Birth Place: Coggeshall
Death Date: 3 Jun 1929
Death Place: Chelmsford
Spouse Father: James Dix (1815-)
Spouse Mother: Prudence Jolly (1817-1890)
Marriage Date: 2 Jun 1886
Marriage Place: Coggeshall
Children:
1 Henry Dix Myers
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Birth Date: 22 Oct 1890
Birth Place: Coggeshall
Death Date: 1916
Death Place: Paschendale
Henry is standing on the far right at the back in the 1911 Longlands photo.
2 James Dix Myers
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Birth Date: 4 Jul 1892
Birth Place: Braintree
Death Date: 2 May 1968
Death Place: Braintree
James is standing in the back row, second from the right next to his brother Henry in the Longlands 1911 photograph.
Spouse: Barbara Vaughan
Birth Date: 1892
Birth Place: Colchester
Death Date: 14 Jul 1920
Death Place: Braintree
Marriage Date: 1919
Marriage Place: Colchester
Children: Bertram Albert Dix
Other Spouses Alethia Joslin (your great aunt)
Birth Date: 2 Sep 1892
Birth Place: Bocking
Death Date: 10 Jul 1970
Death Place: Braintree
Spouse Father: Albert Joslin (1851-1923)
Spouse Mother: Pitternell White (1858-1931)
Marriage Date: 8 Mar 1922
Marriage Place: Chelmsford
Children: Henry Dix
Verity Dix
Bertram Albert Dix Myers (a distant relation ‘third cousin twice removed’) and his family
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Birth Date: 12 Jul 1920
Birth Place: Braintree
Death Date: 1 Nov 1971
Death Place: Chesham, Bucks
This is ‘Bertie’ from the ‘RAF’ album of photos. After the war he moved to southern Africa, possibly Rhodesia, where his son Andrew was probably born. Bertie was captured at an airfield in France in 1939 and spent almost the whole war in POW camps. He was in the well known ‘Stalag Luft 3’, which was the one that the film The Great Escape was based on.
Spouse: Helen Fox
Birth Date: 15 Aug 1922
Death Date: 2 Nov 1975
Death Place: Chesham, Bucks.
Marriage Date: 12 May 1947
Marriage Place: Amersham
Children: Andrew Stephen
1 Andrew Stephen Myers
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Birth Date: 19 Dec 1949
Birth Place: Rhodesia
Death Date: 4 Apr 1992
Death Place: Oxford
Andrew died after a long illness in hospital in 1992. According to his death certificate he was born in the old Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He had an address in South Africa when his father died in 1971. By the time his mother died in 1975 he was living in Chesham, Bucks. Andrew possibly worked in Oxford as an advertising copywriter.
Spouse: Susan Dorcas Ingleby (who was also a cousin of yours, a ‘2nd cousin once removed’ – her mother being Ethel Joslin)
Birth Date: 22 Sep 1952
Birth Place: Aylesbury
Death Date: 3 Jul 2006
Death Place: Oxford
Spouse Father: Frederick Ingleby (1924-1975)
Spouse Mother: Ethel Beatrice Joslin (1929-1972)
Marriage Date: 4 Apr 1976
Marriage Place: Abingdon, Oxon
Children: Simon (died in 1978 as an infant)