--=_005B264C.B8D9B5E6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline G'day Malcolm, I'll forward your msg to the loccal Townsville List. You might get = someone with some information for you. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Hi John, How's Townsville? My friend in Canada has asked again if any info has come to light with respect to the Townsville school question of a couple = of=20 weeks ago? If not I'll let him know attached below is the original request Thanks in advance, again Cheers Malcolm Goddard > >From time to time I get asked by the Ontario Government to help them = out in >locating possible beneficiaries to the estates of people who have died >here intestate or whose will was invalid. The fee is ridiculous - = probably >works out at about $2 per hour but I find the cases interesting and so I >take them on. > >Most of them involve disfunctional families who for one reason or another >have not had any contact with one another for decades. I won't bore you >with all the details of this particular case but basically we have a = couple >named Bruce and Elizabeth BROWN who suddenly disappeared from High = Wycombe, >Buckinghamshire on February 11, 1973 leaving a crowd of creditors fuming = in >their wake. The family heard nothing further from them until about 1984 >when the brother of Bruce was contacted by Bruce, apparently from his = death >bed. The brother died 4 years ago and so I am getting this from his = widow >but according to her he went out to Townsville, Queensland only in time = to >arrive for the funeral. In 1984 Bruce would have been about 58. The news >that got back to England was that the wife Elizabeth had died 2 years >before that in 1982 when she would have been 50. The story is that they >had been living in Townsville under assumed names both working at a = school >for handicapped children with Elizabeth helping with the children and = Bruce >acting as caretaker for the school. > >It seems to me that there would not be too many handicap schools in >Townsville and I am hoping that with your contacts in the Queensland >educational establishment you might be able to point me in the right >direction. Surely somebody there would be able to recall a Limey couple >whatever they called themselves. What I have to do is to establish = beyond >doubt that Elizabeth is dead. She was born in Edinburgh on 5 September, >1932 as Elizabeth Irene GLENFIELD and seems to have been generally called >Irene. She married a William FAIRBAIRN in London in 1952 and Bruce = Ronald >BROWN in High Wycombe in 1965. > >If you could find out the names of the schools they might have been at, >this would be most helpful. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D ooroo Bad typists of the word, untie. --=_005B264C.B8D9B5E6 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Received: from melia.qut.edu.au by ipc.ipc.qld.edu.au; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:02:25 +1000 Received: from hertz.eese.qut.edu.au ([131.181.4.7]) by melia.qut.edu.au (PMDF V5.2-33 #40788) with ESMTP id <[email protected]> for [email protected]; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:00:22 +1000 (EST) Received: (from [email protected]) by hertz.eese.qut.edu.au (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eAE40LJ24856; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:00:21 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 14:00:51 +1000 From: "Malcolm L. Goddard" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: The Townsville School question X-Sender: [email protected] To: [email protected] Message-id: <[email protected]> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Hi John, How's Townsville? My friend in Canada has asked again if any info has come to light with respect to the Townsville school question of a couple of weeks ago? If not I'll let him know attached below is the original request Thanks in advance, again Cheers Malcolm Goddard > >From time to time I get asked by the Ontario Government to help them out in >locating possible beneficiaries to the estates of people who have died >here intestate or whose will was invalid. The fee is ridiculous - probably >works out at about $2 per hour but I find the cases interesting and so I >take them on. > >Most of them involve disfunctional families who for one reason or another >have not had any contact with one another for decades. I won't bore you >with all the details of this particular case but basically we have a couple >named Bruce and Elizabeth BROWN who suddenly disappeared from High Wycombe, >Buckinghamshire on February 11, 1973 leaving a crowd of creditors fuming in >their wake. The family heard nothing further from them until about 1984 >when the brother of Bruce was contacted by Bruce, apparently from his death >bed. The brother died 4 years ago and so I am getting this from his widow >but according to her he went out to Townsville, Queensland only in time to >arrive for the funeral. In 1984 Bruce would have been about 58. The news >that got back to England was that the wife Elizabeth had died 2 years >before that in 1982 when she would have been 50. The story is that they >had been living in Townsville under assumed names both working at a school >for handicapped children with Elizabeth helping with the children and Bruce >acting as caretaker for the school. > >It seems to me that there would not be too many handicap schools in >Townsville and I am hoping that with your contacts in the Queensland >educational establishment you might be able to point me in the right >direction. Surely somebody there would be able to recall a Limey couple >whatever they called themselves. What I have to do is to establish beyond >doubt that Elizabeth is dead. She was born in Edinburgh on 5 September, >1932 as Elizabeth Irene GLENFIELD and seems to have been generally called >Irene. She married a William FAIRBAIRN in London in 1952 and Bruce Ronald >BROWN in High Wycombe in 1965. > >If you could find out the names of the schools they might have been at, >this would be most helpful. --=_005B264C.B8D9B5E6--