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    Quote Originally Posted by Rob Poole View Post
    The family names occur through Gertrude's children.
    Thomas Charles brook
    William Poultney
    Gilbert Peachy
    Leonard Lacey
    Beresford Page
    Dudley Edward Lindsay .
    I am at a loss at the moment as all my info on ancestry uk has disappeared off my i pad.they are contacting the USA to see how they can retrieve it.but thanks for your great help.i will try and persevere in the mean time,fortunately I have a lot of info on hard copies but I don't relish trying to load it all back in.
    Thanks once again
    Rob
    There are records on NAAIRS for some of these children. Those marked NAB (Natal Archives) can be ordered at minimal cost from eggsa and e-mailed to you (go to eggsa.org and follow FAQ under Document Ordering on the home page)

    BROOK, WILLIAM POULTNEY. 1945
    BROOK, GILBERT PEACHEY. ILLIQUID CASE. 1960 JUDICIAL SEPARATION. HILDA FRANCESS BROOK, FORMERLY SAMUELSON, FORMERLY VAN DYK, BORN PEEK. MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE INCLUDED.
    BROOK, DUDLEY EDWARD LINDSAY. BORN IN MERRIVALE, NATAL MINOR DECEASED ESTATE. 1952
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    Google sent me to this thread when I asked about Peachey + Africa. This was prompted by what I read on https://www.rensch.com/book1/samp-013.htm

    Google had sent me to THAT page when (five years ago) I found mention of Peachey in my mother's diary for 23rd April, 1941, when we lived quite near there.

    "Went to see Peachey's house before we went home. Lifeguards, Swan & Edgar, disgustingly rich, twice married, 37, daughter of 10, & lives in this very pleasant house with magnificent gardens & lawns, completely alone. Spends �120 a month on wages! ... Is frightfully mean ... He has monograms on all his cigarettes! Just vulgar; and on the chips for gambling & on everything. He had a lovely house in England, a showplace & the bathroom cost �1,000 & is completely walled in mirrors, including the Bath and the loo seat! Stupid. It does make one angry at this sort of real waste. Think of the good one could do with all that money, & then that creature is given it & doesn't know how to use it."


    Also
    https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin...273&recoff=8+9

    and
    https://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issu.../3125/page.pdf

    and also
    https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/s...na&gsln=Slater

    not forgetting
    https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/s...achey&uidh=000

    nor
    https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchi...0-%202707.html

    nor
    https://www.ab-ix.co.uk/airspeed%20prewar.pdf

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    Dear Rob - I hope this info helps you! Regards, Isobel

    James Brook married Hannah Wilkinson on 10th March 1825 at St Peter's Church, Leeds.
    James worked as a clothier.
    Their son was John Wilkinson Brook born in 1825. John married Ellen Cliff on 9th May 1867.
    in Leeds. John was a cloth dresser he died of a stroke in 1902 in Yorkshire.
    John and Ellen's son was Thomas Shackleton Brook (b.5th Oct 1847) who worked as a coal miner at age 13 later a cloth dresser. They also had a daughter Ann who died of thyphoid aged 13 in 1868 and a son William Brook born in 1852.
    Thomas Shackleton.Brook married Emma Benn on 14th February 1869. He remained in England.
    William emigrated to South Africa before 1881 to a farm at Phoenix called Sunderland.
    He married Elizabeth Margaret Peachey on 6th December 1884 at Inanda Durban, South Africa.
    Apparently he had advertised for a wife, and EMPeachey came out from Yorkshire to marry him, by ship, with her sister. She and her sister were orphans. (sister's name unknown) I do not think she is related to the other Peachey's mentioned in the blog. Elizabeth Margaret Peachey's grave is at West End Cemetery in Durban.
    William and Elizabeth had 3 sons.
    Thomas Peachey Brook (Tom), Fred Brook and Percy Widmore Brook.

    Thomas Peachey Brook married Gertrude Emmie Poultney on 5 August 1915. Records show that they had three sons (up to 1922). I think they had 5 sons - Dudley Brook drowned whilst swimming at Umdloti beach as a teenager. (My father spoke of his cousin who drowned) My father was the son of Percy Widmore Brook)

    Thomas and Gertrude's sons were
    (1) Thomas Charlie Brook born 1916
    (2) William Poultney Brook born 1918
    (3) Gilbert Peachey Brook born 1920
    (4) Dudley Brook +
    (5) ??

    The family travelled to England in 1922 and their address where they stayed was given as Brooke Street, Dudley. (Gertrude had been born in Dudley in 1893.) and Thomas’s occupation as government official.
    Thomas and his wife separated (or divorced) in the 1930s and in 1936 Thomas came to England again on a visit.

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    Thomas’s son, William Poultney Brook, served during the Second World War and was a prisoner of war. The plane in which he and his fellow prisoners were returning to South Africa crashed into Lake Victoria on take off from Kisumu in Kenya on 11 July 1945. He is buried in Grave 295 at Kisumu Cemetery, listed in the records as aged 27 son of Gertrude E Brook of Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa. Corporal in the Technical Service Corps of the South African Forcesi.

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    I managed to get a photograph of his gravestone in a small cemetery near the airport through the SA war graves commission
    Did you know that TP was swindled out of a lot of money in London ?

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    Updated information on ELIZABETH MARGARET PEACHEY
    She was born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire in 1849. Seems to have moved about a bit, was in Lancashire in the 1871 census and Kent by 1881. Her parents were called James and Frances. The father was a soldier, and he was born in Godalming, Surrey! His father, also called James was a grocer here.

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