From Christine Bate’s file titled Bob Barrie.rtf From: Christine Bate <batece@yahoo.com> Subject: Bob Date: January 15, 2015 at 3:09:24 PM PST To: “dhemer@shaw.ca” <dhemer@shaw.ca> Cc: Christine Bate <batece@yahoo.com> Hello Morag, Thank you for your prompt email. I have delayed a couple of days to give me time to think things over – old memories are ..
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From Christine Bate’s document titled Geoff in WW2.doc Geoff’s War Experiences There was an article in the San Jose Mercury last week about Bob Burgess who was at school in England near St. Neot’s during WW II. His school was near an American Air Force Base. The article mentioned the ATC or Air Training Corps, saying that ..
From Christine Bate’s document titled BateBatchford.doc The Batchford Family Geoff’s mother was born Beatrice Batchford on July 17th 1897. Her parents were John and Annie Batchford née Watson. Annie Watson came as a young girl by boat from Aberdeen to Hull with her parents, John and Elizabeth. John Watson was a comb maker in Aberdeen. Annie Watson ..
From Christine Bate’s document BateBatchford.doc The Bate Family Geoff’s father, Harry Bate, was the only son of John and Naomi Parnham Bate. John Bate and Naomi Parnham were married at the Parish Church of East Retford on August 3rd1886. On the copy from the church registry that I have from Dorothy, John is described as ..
From Christine Bate’s document titled BateBatchford.doc Geoff’s father, Harry was born March 22nd 1890. I also have a birth date of March 21st 1889. His early history is unknown to me and the first information I have about him is that he was employed at Craven’s Motor Works in the days when cars were built from scratch. ..