Is there anyone in Butler who would go to the Library for me and get into the Butler Paper's films for Oct 1944? Will pay for the time it takes them to do this including gas parking ect... This is why I ask ... For abt 6 yrs I have been hunting the 'nephew' of my Ggrandmother who was RAF in WW2 and was killed..My aunt remembers Ggranny receiving a V Mail/V Letter telling her of his death...thats it..no name.... Last Friday my cousin and his family in England were doing the usual thing and walking the St Helens Cemetery in St Helens Lancs England ...they were cking out a few more HOLDEN burial plots to see if there were Momenument inscriptions on any...they found on the one HOLDEN family we have been researching for quite a long time Monumental Inscription for Section 14 Grave 611 various Holdens who had died and under their names the following Also Sgt John Derbyshire R.C.A.P. Killed in action October 12th 1944 aged 28 years When I cked the UK Commonwealth Graves website I found that his mother's maiden name was HOLDEN...when I went to the DERBYSHIRE surname website message board I found a post from July 2000 from a man in Canada asking abt his mother in laws family from St Helens Lancs England giving her parents names as Frances Derbyshire and Ellen nee HOLDEN...[not heard from him so far] We have John's mother Ellen Holden's family in St Helens census info ect...so far we cannot connect to this HOLDEN family ....The family emigrated to Canada in 1912. John Derbyshire is the first Holden connection in 6 yrs that we have been looking for ggrannys 'nephew' [I say 'nephew' as this person was not her nephew but a younger cousin and it was common in this family for the older cousins to refer to their younger cousins as niece and nephew... We have no idea if he is family or not... Sgt. John Derbyshire was killed in a training crash that killed him and a crew of 10 including 5 air gunners for fighter affitiation training about 1 mile East of Hemswell airfield Lincolnshire ...the Lancaster PD227 was in a collision with Hurricane LF390 of 1687 flight...his info at the Commonwealth Graves site showed him to be a Air Gunner. I am wondering if any mention of GGrannys 'nephews' death would be mentioned in the Butler papers...could John Derbyshire be the 'nephew' we are looking for? Cousin in England has been going over all the Holden info we have and its quite a bit but we don't have that 'connection' we need to place John's mother in the family .... if there is mention in the Butler paper on Ggranny's 'nephew' and it connects to John Derbyshire then we got the connection we have been over a yr trying to get... The time period for mention in the paper might be from say from after October 12th to end of Oct 1944... If anyone would be interested in doing this for me please email me at mailto:slc33@texas.net Thank you SLC