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Surnames: Cairns Ellis Green Rigdon
Classification: Query
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William Cairns died at age 77 and was buried at Holy Trinity Church, Newtown (Nr. Fareham,
Hants) Diocese of Portsmouth on 1st Feb. 1940, so he must have been born in 1862 or 1863.
I had an e-mail a little while ago from the Church secretary! Absolute luck!
William Cairns and ????? ????? had 3 children (as far as I know! - maybe more!) They were:
Mildred, Kitty and Will. I know nothing of Kitty and Will except my uncle Bill's
recollection of a "Kitty" and an "Uncle Will". Mildred Cairns was my
grandmother.
Mildred Cairns (born approx 1894 in Southsea) married Arthur "Titch" Ellis. He
died about 1932. Grandmother died in 1936 or very early 1937 at the latest.
I don't know if they met in London, or moved there.
They had 5 children, Mildred (my mother), Kathleen, Violet, William and Peter, and 2
stepchildren, Arthur and Mina, from her husband's previous marriage to an Annie
Scrutton who may have died in childbirth.
I suspect I may have a few distant cousins somewhere, if Kitty or William had children