On reading your e-mail it just struck me as strange how names are so often repeated when you think you are or know the only one. My Mum was Phyllis Evelyn Nibbs - all completely different spellings of course and born about 10 years later. Chris(tine) Atkins (nee Nibbs) > Message date : Sep 27 2004, 10:00 AM > From : "Don Knibbs" > To : KNIBB-L@rootsweb.com > Copy to : > Subject : [K/NIBB/S] Phillys KNIBBS b.1904 Basingstoke, Hampshire > Last month marked the centenary of the birth of my aunt, Phillys Eveline > KNIBBS who was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England on 11th August 1904. > > Imagine my surprise and pleasure when I was asked by The National Grid For > Learning (Cymru/Wales), if one of the photographs I use of Phillys on my web > site could be used for an online lesson for GCSE level education. They are > constructing lessons relating to 'Women and Employment in the 20th Century', > and the photograph maybe used in the section related to Domestic Servants. I > believe it will be used simply as a backdrop to some questions. > > The photograph at > http://knibbs.family.users.btopenworld.com/Photos/f-edmunds.htm shows > Phillys (front left) in her first employment as a Domestic Servant, working > at St. Edmunds School, Grayshott, Hampshire, England, which is still a > school today and coincidentally, just half a mile from where I now live. > > So here we are 86 years after the photograph was taken, and Phillys is still > doing her bit for education! > > Don > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > -- Whatever you Wanadoo: http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/time/ This email has been checked for most known viruses - find out more at: http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/help/id/7098.htm

It's quite amazing isn't it Christine. My greatest surprise was when I cam across the obituary of one of Ana Rizzo's grandparents (Ana you probably know as a subscriber to this list) - her grandparents were Harold and Pearl Knibbs, They were a different generation and across the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, yet they shared the same names as my parents, also Harold and Pearl Knibbs Don ----- Original Message ----- From: <paulchris@atkinseb.freeserve.co.uk> To: <KNIBB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 10:21 PM Subject: Re: [K/NIBB/S] Phillys KNIBBS b.1904 Basingstoke, Hampshire > On reading your e-mail it just struck me as strange how names are so often repeated when you think you are or know the only one. My Mum was Phyllis Evelyn Nibbs - all completely different spellings of course and born about 10 years later. > Chris(tine) Atkins (nee Nibbs) > > > > > > > > > > Message date : Sep 27 2004, 10:00 AM > > From : "Don Knibbs" > > To : KNIBB-L@rootsweb.com > > Copy to : > > Subject : [K/NIBB/S] Phillys KNIBBS b.1904 Basingstoke, Hampshire > > Last month marked the centenary of the birth of my aunt, Phillys Eveline > > KNIBBS who was born in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England on 11th August 1904. > > > > Imagine my surprise and pleasure when I was asked by The National Grid For > > Learning (Cymru/Wales), if one of the photographs I use of Phillys on my web > > site could be used for an online lesson for GCSE level education. They are > > constructing lessons relating to 'Women and Employment in the 20th Century', > > and the photograph maybe used in the section related to Domestic Servants. I > > believe it will be used simply as a backdrop to some questions. > > > > The photograph at > > http://knibbs.family.users.btopenworld.com/Photos/f-edmunds.htm shows > > Phillys (front left) in her first employment as a Domestic Servant, working > > at St. Edmunds School, Grayshott, Hampshire, England, which is still a > > school today and coincidentally, just half a mile from where I now live. > > > > So here we are 86 years after the photograph was taken, and Phillys is still > > doing her bit for education! > > > > Don > > > > > > ============================== > > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > -- > > Whatever you Wanadoo: > http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/time/ > > This email has been checked for most known viruses - find out more at: http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/help/id/7098.htm > > > ============================== > You can manage your RootsWeb-Review subscription from > http://newsletters.rootsweb.com/ >