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Hello Pat.

I went through ancestry all Baptism &Christening results for Eugene Morgan.

I,m not sure if i went into London,England,Births and Baptisms 1813 1906.

Priscilla.

Not quite sure what you found, Janet, as Ancestry doesn't give me an easy reference, but pretty sure any Canadian query/information about Lancelot Rogers and family would have been from me. Some years ago I had a query published in a Weston Super Mare newspaper too. (No family members replied.)

Diane Rogers, British Columbia, Canada

Which site are you looking at for the Parish Records for England and Wales 1813 through 1906?  Are you looking at Parish Records or Family Trees?

I know you have a marriage certificate which gives John SHEEHY as the father of Eugene MORGAN and that at least one census gives Eugene's birth place as Ramsgate in Kent in 1835, as you say, before civil registration started.  If you could tell us exactly where you have seen this new information we could also have a look to see what is there and perhaps advise you better.

Pat

Yes, the Southerns twins' father was a Methodist minister, and in those days Kingswood was solely for the sons of Methodist ministers. WG was the second of the Methodist schools to be established and, for a while, acted as the lower school to Kingswood - not ideal considering the distance between the two! While his twin, Charles, was Vice Principal at Lewisham School, Alfred Southerns (known as 'Sam') was Second Master (i.e. Deputy Head) of WG. Sadly Charles passed away in 1916 and Alfred / Sam in 1921. Both are buried in Sheffield, where their father retired.

Interestingly, the other day while doing a search for Lewisham School (and coming across this website in the process) I found an old postcard of Lewisham School being advertised on eBay. Although no longer for sale, the seller put it back up again for me, so I bought it and it arrived today. The postmark is dated 1909 and the building looks practically unchanged from how it looks today.

But most intriguing of all was the fact that, on the reverse, the sender of the postcard was none other than Charles Southerns! It was a true "wow!" moment for me.

The postcard was mailed by Southerns to France. As the family had strong connections with the ex-pat British community in Rheims, I wonder if it was to someone Southerns knew through that. (Southerns' Great Uncle was Sir Isaac Holden, the woolcomber from Scotland and later Bradford who set up a woolcombing factory in Rheims which had its own Methodist chapel (Holden was a Methodist). Southerns' father was the minister there in the 1860s which was how he met his wife-to-be whose family lived as part of the community in Rheims.

Hi

Just found that qoute via Ancestry search on Lancelot Rogers.

Periodicals etc etrc

I believe it was put on (in a Canadian journal) by a Diane.

If you are not in Ancestry I will send the direct link but that is a little more complicated.

Regards

Janetp

For those of you who are interested in the history of Eastern House click here for a brief history of the school and the building.