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Thanks Thelma, will do.

Betty

Ronald F Cole appears on the electoral role for Bristol.
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States who else lives there.
Wife and daughter still there 2013

Thank you Thelma for that. I had sussed out that Ronald and Clifford had died, but did not know that Ronald had a daughter. That gives me a lead to now research.

And thank you also Maureen, but according to my records my Catherine Annie Griffin was born in 1887 and married a Rowland Edgar Griffin Adkins, so your record would appear to refer to the wrong Catherine.

I have sent a message through GR to someone mentioned as having my Frances on their tree, but so far no reply. That could be because it is the wrong Frances or that they are no longer interested in researching this family. I know my searches go in fits and starts, but I have had this photo of Frances for so long I thought I would never work out how she was related to my father, but I think she is the right one as in one of the records it refers to the husband as being connected to the railways (as was my grandmother's father, William Griffin) and that would presumably be how Elizabeth Agnes from Fulham could meet someone from Somerset.

Thanks you both once again for all your help.

Betty

Hi Betty


I have membership to Ancestry, one of the trees mentioned is active if you want me to send a message to tree holder if you don't have access I will do.

They have in the tree sister of Frances E Derrick, as Catherine A, b 1915 married to George Issac Manfield with a son Derek Is this your family?


Maureen

Very many trees on Ancestry some with photos.
A quick scroll suggest that. Frances had four sons,two have died.
Ronald Francis Cole(photo)
Birth 20 May 1933 in Backwell, Somerset, England
Death Mar 2004 in South Gloucester
Married one daughter. edit ,2 daughters
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Clifford J Cole
Birth Dec 1941 in Weston, Somerset, England
Death 6 Jun 2010

GR participants always amaze me with their prompt and useful researches. Now I will try and contact the descendants of Frances, but I am so grateful for the help you have given to set me on the right road. Some of the info. provided is just assuming it is one and the same, but as dad's picture is taken at Backwell it must be the right one. Thank you all once again.
Betty

The tree also says that Francis Sandford Derrick was the son of Henry Sandford Derrick, (1848-1917) and Fanny Jane Cottle, (1854-1935).

A tree on Ancestry says that she was born July 1910, daughter of Francis Sandford Derrick, (1879-1937) and Elizabeth Agnes Griffin, (1883-1970).
It says she married Harold Francis Cole, Dec. 1932, Long Ashton, Somerset. and had children Ronald Francis Cole, (1933-2004) and Clifford J. Cole, (1941-2010).

Somerset Monumental Inscriptions Transcription

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First name(s) FRANCES ELIZABETH
Last name COLE
Birth year 1911
Death year 1963
Death day 2
Death month May
Age 52
Dedication St Andrew
Place BACKWELL
Type of memorial Stone
County Somerset
Country England
Notes -
Reference 114
Record set Somerset Monumental Inscriptions
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Deaths & burials
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Possible death??


Name:Frances E Cole
Birth Date:abt 1911
Date of Registration:Jun 1963
Age at Death:52
Registration district:Weston-super-Mare
Inferred County:Somerset
Volume7c
Page:278


Andy

England & Wales births 1837-2006 Transcription

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First name(s) FRANCES E
Last name DERRICK
Birth year 1910
Birth quarter 3
Registration month -
Mother's last name -
District LONG ASHTON
County Somerset
Country England
Volume 5C
Page 503
Record set England & Wales births 1837-2006
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory Births & baptisms
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Please can anyone help me locate the above-named since she appeared in the 1911 census, showing her as 8mths and being born in Flax Bourton, Somerset? Her father is Francis Sandford Derrick and her mother is Elizabeth Agnes Griffin. I have a photo taken by my father of "Frances at Backwell in 1930". She doesn't appear to be wearing a wedding ring so I presume she is still single. Her mother is the sister of my paternal grandmother, but I don't seem to be able to find any proof of a middle name for Frances Derrick, and the only marriage I find is for a Frances E. Derrick to a Mr Cole. I have had the pre-mentioned photo for many years, but as my father died when I was young and my mother had no idea of any of his cousins, it has been a mystery up to now who she was. There appear to be numerous Derricks in Somerset so I'm not too sure where to look now and would be grateful for any help I can get. Thank you.