Tag Archives: evacuees

Part 7: Unknown lives. Guesses, Slivers of Information and Cul-de-sacs

Posted on September 19, 2015 by bookvolunteer

W Adams, died June 30, 1941, 64 yrs Pembroke Dock Leah Hunt, died April 28, 1942, 76 yrs West Bromwich Mary J Albrow, died Nov 2, 1942, 87 yrs Stepney Annie E Smith, died Sept 11, 1943, 73 yrs Paddington … Continue reading →

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Part 6: Friends

Posted on September 18, 2015 by bookvolunteer

JESSIE A PRESS, DIED JULY 5, 1945, 83 YRS, STEPNEY The last name on the gravestone is that of Jessie Amina Press who was born in the East-end ward of St George in the East in 1862 – the same … Continue reading →

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Part 5: German Immigrant Families Bombed by the Luftwaffe

Posted on September 17, 2015 by bookvolunteer

AMELIA E BERNING, DIED AUG 29, 1944, 83 YRS, STEPNEY The ninth name on the gravestone is Amelia Caroline Berning. She was born in Yorkshire in 1862 to parents (Ludwig and Caroline Herman) who were recent immigrants from Hannover in … Continue reading →

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Part 4: A Royal Connection

Posted on September 16, 2015 by bookvolunteer

MARY MOULAN, DIED JUNE 8, 1944, 86 YRS, STEPNEY Mary Moulan, the seventh name on this headstone in the graveyard at Nevern, proved difficult to find until we realized that the final ‘n’ of her name, as written on the … Continue reading →

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Part 3: The Landlady

Posted on September 15, 2015 by bookvolunteer

ESTHER A LOH, DIED MAY 4, 1943, 83 YRS PADDINGTON The fifth name on the head stone is that of Esther Anne Loh. She was born Esther Anne Jones, on September 9th 1860 and although her married name might appear … Continue reading →

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Part 2: A Christmas Wedding

Posted on September 14, 2015 by bookvolunteer

SARAH ALLEN, DIED JUNE 16, 1941, 81 YRS STEPNEY The first name on the memorial in Nevern’s Churchyard is that of Sarah Allen who died in 1941, at Llwyngwair. Sarah Jane Lawson was born to James Lawson and Mary Ellerton … Continue reading →

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Part 1: Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me

Posted on September 13, 2015 by bookvolunteer

My next posts will be published one a day during this week so that I can share with you our research into a puzzling list of names on a gravestone in Nevern. I’ll be writing of the lives of the ladies that are listed and the circumstances … Continue reading →

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Evacuees remembered

Posted on September 11, 2015 by bookvolunteer

There are plenty of clues that tell of the evacuation of people from the cities to our part of North Pembrokeshire during the early days of the Second World War. We know that our area  welcomed young evacuees. They are smiling at … Continue reading →

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Dinas County Primary School 1946

Posted on February 6, 2015 by bookvolunteer

Back Row:- From the left in each case D.T.Lewis ( Master), Roy Davies, Derek Thomas, Meurig Harries, Norman Morris, Rhydian Harries, Denzil Rees, Selwyn Harries, Alfie Clark (evacuee staying at Cwm yr Eglwys), Noel Murrow, Roy Jones, Gareth Francis (son … Continue reading →

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Our blue-eyed boy (and another mystery solved)

Posted on January 9, 2015 by bookvolunteer

It would be churlish to ignore totally the little man on the left. He was the Secretary of State for Air, Howard Kingsley Wood, and his visit to RAF Kidbrooke in 1939 occasioned the arrival of the photographer and hence … Continue reading →

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IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR DEAR EVACUEES WHO WERE BLITZED DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN 1940

Posted on November 21, 2014 by bookvolunteer

Who were these evacuees with a memorial in Nevern? Up to now I had always thought that evacuees were school children who left the towns for the countryside with their teachers, but this seems to point to something different. The Bowens, … Continue reading →

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