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Trying to find Searle

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Victoria

Victoria Report 6 Feb 2003 16:41

Looking to find anyone related to This particular branch of the Searle tree. My mother was one of four girls (Amanda (my mum), Barbara, Patricia and Jocelyne. Her mother, Glenys Searle (maiden name Cornish) died in 1965 when my mother was 10. My mum's dad was Stanley Searle, who had been a captain (I think) in the Army during WW2. In civvy street he worked for a spark plug manufacturer. Grandfather Stanley was a member of the Freemasons. He had two sisters, Gwen and Kate (Kate now deceased) who live in the Oxford area. I had started a lot of work on my family tree but unfortunately lost most of it. I do know that the Searles in the 1700s lived in the Essex/Suffolk area in Bulmer and Gestingthorpe and the other local villages (ironically only a few miles from where my mum and dad now live). They then moved to the London area. On my grandmother's side, I know that the Cornish's lived in the Shoreditch area of London and worked mainly as French Polishers. If anyone can help on the small amount of information I've put on here, please get in touch.