Russell Saunders
14-10-2004, 9:55 PM
Hi All,
My research has gone well except in my fathers paternal line. I am wondering if anyone has suggestions that could help me.
What I know......
My father was born on 22/12/1929 in Poole, Dorset. On the birth cert only his mother is listed ( Lily Olwen Williams ) she married my Grandfather in 1932. So I can't be sure that my grandfather is a blood relative. He would have been 39 by this time, so this may have been a 2nd marriage. Grandmother was 25 at my fathers birth and 29 when married.
Anyway, if we assume that he was, I have only been able to find out that his name was either Henry Russell Saunders or Harry Russell Saunders. He was born c 1893 on board a ship coming to the UK from America.
Possibly Virginia as my parents first house was called this.
My Grandfather worked as a gardener and lived locally. I don't understand why an American would settle in England , in Dorset and work as a gardener.
Mind you my grandmother was a maid in a house in bournemouth, so I wonder if he was a gardener at the same place.....
Something tells me that his parents were perhaps returning to the UK, but this is only a feeling.
I have no clue how to proceed..... any ideas gratefully received.
TIA
Russell
My research has gone well except in my fathers paternal line. I am wondering if anyone has suggestions that could help me.
What I know......
My father was born on 22/12/1929 in Poole, Dorset. On the birth cert only his mother is listed ( Lily Olwen Williams ) she married my Grandfather in 1932. So I can't be sure that my grandfather is a blood relative. He would have been 39 by this time, so this may have been a 2nd marriage. Grandmother was 25 at my fathers birth and 29 when married.
Anyway, if we assume that he was, I have only been able to find out that his name was either Henry Russell Saunders or Harry Russell Saunders. He was born c 1893 on board a ship coming to the UK from America.
Possibly Virginia as my parents first house was called this.
My Grandfather worked as a gardener and lived locally. I don't understand why an American would settle in England , in Dorset and work as a gardener.
Mind you my grandmother was a maid in a house in bournemouth, so I wonder if he was a gardener at the same place.....
Something tells me that his parents were perhaps returning to the UK, but this is only a feeling.
I have no clue how to proceed..... any ideas gratefully received.
TIA
Russell