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John Winchurch - a life story

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The Beginnings This is intended to be my story – John Victor Winchurch, born on 27 September 1942 up to the present day, but as an amateur family historian, I feel the need to begin with the basic details of my origins. My main vehicles for recording family history are Ancestry.co.uk where you will find my family tree under the user name John Winchurch and the tree name is John Winchurch 20170730 and also my blog sites :- On Wordpress the URL is  https://jonvic42.wordpress.com/ with various sub headings leading to different family branches. On Blogger you can find similar material on http://winchurch.blogspot.com/ . This tends to be updated more often and is now the site I use most after Ancestry. Here is a basic pedigree version of my family tree as it currently stands M y Grandparents When I was born in 1942, three of my grandparents and also, unusually, three of my great grandparents were still alive, as you can see from the family tree. Since all of my grandparents had a si...
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John William Brown b 1850, Westminster, London.

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Update 11 Feb 2023 His life after 1889 was a mystery, until Tessa Readman discovered that John Brown had a parallel existence as Philip Gordon a fairly well known late 19th century comedian and Shakespearean actor/Stage manager . Details to follow John William Brown was a mystery to members of his family in America. He was known to have been born in England, but after the death of his wife Elizabeth in 1889 in Philadelphia USA, he apparently disappeared from the lives of his family including his children.  I (John Winchurch) only knew of his existence from family history research done by my father Vic Winchurch. There was no record of John in Britain after the UK census of 1871 when he was 21 and living with his mother in Birmingham (UK) Vic's mother, my grandmother, was born Marion Brown and was John's niece, but I do not recall her ever mentioning him, even though she and her sisters Nora and Millie had a good deal of knowledge about their family history.  The pieces of the ...
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Chapter 5 Cardiff, London and Evesham 1961 to 1968

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  Cardiff University 1961 - 1964 I started my degree course for a B.Sc in electrical engineering in September 1961 at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire (as it was known then - later it became simply Cardiff University) The family had left Tenby during the summer of 1961 and moved to Halesowen in the West Midlands. To the house that Percy had bought after Jeanne's death, which was where my grandmother, Marie had lived since 1950. David transferred to Halesowen Grammar School and I moved to Cardiff in September 1961 to 'digs' (shared bedroom and breakfast and dinner supplied for about £3 a week !) in Summerfield Avenue on the north side of the city centre. I can't say I was happy there, I missed Tenby and family life . I had also built quite a lot of audio equipment, such as amplifiers, loudspeakers etc which had been moved to Halesowen. My degree course was in Electrical Engineering, which involved a lot of work and was rather boring at times. I did...
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