Hi all I am looking for any descendants of a seaman (RN), Alfred Moore PRITCHATT, born Birmingham in 1848, and his wife Jessie Bruce ANDREWS, who married in Portsea in 1877. They had 4 children, Amelia Bruce who married William J McCarthy in Portsmouth in 1915, Jessie Matilda who married in 1910 (husband unknown), Alice Mary and Alfred Joseph. Alfred Moore Pritchatt and his family were all living in Portsea in the 1901 census. He retired from the Royal Navy in 1886 and seems to have remained in the Portsea area for the rest of his life. I would love to make contact with living relatives or with anyone who is connected to this family in any way. Alfred Moore Pritchatt's brother Edmund immigrated to Australia in 1890. Thanks Leonie Oliver Binna Burra NSW Australia

Leonie, My father Richard W.L. Gawn, known as Dick, was born in 1893 in Clive Road, Fratton, parish of Portsea. He had a lifelong friend Alfred J. Pritchatt, known to me as "Uncle" Alfie. I suppose they met when they were children, or perhaps at the youth group known as the White Company run by St Boniface Mission Church, a satellite of the parish church of St Mary, Portsea. Here's what little I know about AJP: - In 1914 living at 20 Walton Road, Woking, Surrey - Served in the Army in WWI (1914-1918). I think I have a note of his unit address somewhere - Married and children, but I don't know their names - Was a dentist - Moved to Ipswich, Suffolk, perhaps in the 1930s - A good amateur artist: my father kept a watercolour of his over his bed - They had a mutual friend "Bersey" NORRIS, whom I can't identify - My younger sister visited the Pritchatts in Ipswich in the late 1940s or early 1950s. I may have other snippets buried in my father's diaries or my own - I left England for Canada in 1954. Could Alfie Pritchatt be your relative? Best wishes, Peter Gawn Sechelt, B.C., Canada. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leonie Oliver" <gloliver@bigpond.net.au> To: <ENG-HAM-PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 4:02 PM Subject: PRITCHATT family-Portsea > Hi all > I am looking for any descendants of a seaman (RN), Alfred Moore PRITCHATT, born Birmingham in 1848, and his wife Jessie Bruce ANDREWS, who married in Portsea in 1877. They had 4 children, Amelia Bruce who married William J McCarthy in Portsmouth in 1915, Jessie Matilda who married in 1910 (husband unknown), Alice Mary and Alfred Joseph. > Alfred Moore Pritchatt and his family were all living in Portsea in the 1901 census. He retired from the Royal Navy in 1886 and seems to have remained in the Portsea area for the rest of his life. > I would love to make contact with living relatives or with anyone who is connected to this family in any way. Alfred Moore Pritchatt's brother Edmund immigrated to Australia in 1890. > Thanks > Leonie Oliver > Binna Burra > NSW > Australia > > ______________________________