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Author: kbirbeck1
Surnames: Cattermole, Bedford
Classification: queries
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Normandy, France, July 26 2011
Hi Paula, Thanks for your message posted 22-07-2011 concerning the Mabel Cattermole née
BEDFORD who figures in my personal tree. I have no new information on this lady since my
posting in 2006. Here are my notes :The only clue we have of this Mr Cattermole was that
an American attorney's letter mentioned Mabel Cattermole as being an interested party
in the Will of Thomas Benjamin Bedford who died in the state of NY USA. The attorney gave
Mabel Cattermole's address as : 27 Ambleside Gardens, (off Redbridge Lane), Ilford
Essex, UK.
Her family no longer live at this address, and the new owners did not reply to my request
for information.
We think Mabel Cattermole was born Mabel Alice BEDFORD, but as of July 2009 we have no
proof that this is so.
Mabel BEDFORD was the daughter of Daniel and Eliza BEDFORD, but it seems she did not
emigrate to the USA with her father when he separated from Mabel's mother. Daniel and
Thomas BEDFORD were 2 of 5 brothers who settled in the USA before WW1.
Thomas BEDFORD died in 1962 leaving nothing to his UK family. His Will left all he had to
a couple who had looked after him during the last few years of his life, after his
widowhood.
ALSO :
Mabel's mother is thought to have kept a sweet shop in North London, England.
Mabel's husband's surname was mentioned in NY attorney's letter advising death
of Mabel's uncle Tom Bedford bequeathing nothing to his heirs.
Message to Ronald Cattermole (SW Devon) on
www.candoexchange.org/exchange (August 20,2005). No answer received.
The US probate records in the Surrogate's Court, for Thomas Benjamin Bedford who died
in the state of NY USA, gave Mabel Cattermole's address as : 27 Ambleside Gardens,
(off Redbridge Lane), Ilford Essex, UK. That would have been in 1962 or thereabouts.
English postcode IG4 5HH
(A Google search indicates that this house was last sold in July 2006 for £280 000. It is
a terraced house, see
http://www.zoopla.co.uk/property/27-ambleside-gardens/ilford/ig4-5hh/1105...
Letter sent to the occupier, 27 Ambleside Gdns on Sept 1st 2008.
Messages to Jane Lowndes in Oz and Margaret Smith in NZ on Sept 20,
2005.
Below, I planned to check if there is a possible link :
England & Wales, Death Index: 1984-2005
about Mabel Hilda Cattermole
Name:
Mabel Hilda Cattermole
Birth Date:
6 Oct 1901
Death Registration Month/Year:
Jul 1996
Age at death (estimated):
94
Registration district:
Depwade
Inferred County:
Norfolk
Register number:
18C
Entry Number:
195
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Propose to contact G. Cattermole in Dagenham (from White Pages on BT directory. He may be
a relative ??
G Cattermole
Tel: (020) 8593 1213
8 Stamford Gdns, Dagenham, RM9 4ET England
LETTER SENT 25/01/2008 BUT NO REPLY RECEIVED AS OF 26-07-2011.
If anything hereabove ties in with your data I would be most pleased to hear from you via
kenneth.birbeck(a)wanadoo.fr
Best wishes,
Ken Birbeck
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