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Surnames: Deal, Challis, Whiting, Evans, Warner, Hamblion, Orrin, Gallifant/Galafant
Classification: Query
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Hello List
My grandmother was Nellie Marie CHALLIS, born about 1884 in Castle Camps, Cambridge the
place where her mother and siblings were also born. By 1901 her family had moved to
Haverhill in Suffolk, the place where her father had been born. In 1910, Grandma married
grandad, Stanley DEAL of Halstead in Essex, which is where she stayed for the remainder of
her life, they had 4 children, and my father Sidney DEAL was the eldest.
All of that is background in case anyone has a connection with my Challis/ Deal line and
would like to write.
The main focus of my present query is on her father, Frank CHALLIS/CHALLICE who was
married to Mahala and they had (to my knowledge) 6 children, Lily, Nellie (my
grandmother), Walter, Frank, Arthur and Dorothy.
However, in the 1881 Census Frank CHALLIS lived with his mother Emma, stepfather Boaz
WHITING and half sister, Mary Ann.
I just wonder if anyone has any further information on Frank, or, indeed, any of the
family.
Thanks
Pat
(Australia)