> >John  >  >Thank you for posting this - I have some similar silk cards from an elderly aunt, one of those is from a gentleman admirer who Grandma disapproved of and obviously she did not go on to marry him. >  >I managed to find that Alfred married Ada Mary Meredith WHITEHEAD about Dec 1876. >  >There is a Berridge family tree on ancestry showing that the Whiteheads go back to Worsop, and  before that to Harthill, Yorks  if anyone is interested.  Some of them moved into Nottingham. >  >Several of the surnames on that tree suggest they intermarried with families that appear on mine. >  >There is a Berridge Road in Nottingham very close to where I was born which made me take a look! >  >Regards >Mavis > > >From: John Palmer <johnpalmer@wirksworth.org.uk> >>To: DERBYSGEN-L@rootsweb.com >>Sent: Thursday, 4 April 2013, 10:58 >>Subject: [DBY] GISBORN Benjamin sent WOODFORD Nancy 2 love-cards. >> >>Hello Folks, >>Does anyone have GISBORN, WOODFORD, GREENHOUGH or STEANE in their family >>tree? >>See www.wirksworth.org.uk/X642.htm "Love from France" >> >>On Ebay I won two silk-embroidered love-cards, from a soldier 'Ben' in >>France WW1 >>to his girl 'Nancy' in Wirksworth. One card has dried flowers. >>Due to girl's unusual surname, managed to work out quite a large tree with >>dates for both families. >>Soldier survived the War, they married in 1923, had a daughter in 1923. Very >>romantic. >>See 'Research', which was exciting. Worked out how they met, also how her >>parents met. >>Soldier sent cards when Nancy was under 16, they married when she was 21. >>They had a daughter Jean E GISBORN in 1923. >> >>Regards to all, >>John Palmer, Dorset, England >>Author of Wirksworth website >>www.wirksworth.org.uk >> >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DERBYSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> > >