my CASTLE family come from the oxfordshire area.
My Great gandfather = George Richard Castle born 1832 in Bicester
Oxfordshire
married Florence May Austin born 1851 in Farthinghoe Northampton England
they had children
1. George Edward Castle born=1875
2. Elizabeth E Castle born =1877 Bicester
3. Dorothy Florence Castle my grandmother born =1881 Bicester oxfordshire
4. John austin Castle=born 1883
George was an Land agent and Auctioneer and well know in that area.
he died in May 1894.
Florence remarried a Theordore Arthur MERRY.
I am desperately trying to find out what happened to my grandmother and her
siblings.
as she divorced my grandfather Reginald Gibbs and one year later told the
children all 6 including
my mother that she was leaving and going to Australia.
She was never heard from again . my mother was placed in a orphange until
adulthood.
I have been able to piece some of it together , from divorce records we know
that grandfather gibbs
was very abusive and got the nanny pregnant and married her. and so my poor
grandmother was left
and i am sure had no money to support the children or herself by this time
as he spent alot of her money
she inherited , so she left as a last resort and they had no welfare back
then and she probably thought
his family would take the children in , some did ,but the younger ones were
placed in a orphange.
i have also found when my Great grandmother Florence died in 1912 in Suffolk
and one sister was
living with her Elizabeth. but we have not been able to find her brothers .
if anyone has any knowledge of this family or any help
it would be most wonderful.
thanks
Pam
phendy(a)shaw.ca
http://www.stardate.bc.ca/pmhendy/
family and adoption researcher
A member of Assoc of Professional Genealogists
researching family names Beaumont, Rowley,
Blackett, Craigie, Hendy, Angerstein, Locke, Chapman
Castle.