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Died on HMS Exeter during the battle with the Admiral Graf Spee in the south Atlantic.

"In the south Atlantic, the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, fights an action against three British cruisers, HMS Achilles, HMS Ajax and HMS Exeter, which results in serious damage to both sides, with HMS Exeter rendered a blazing hulk and the Graf Spee withdrawing to the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo for repairs."
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John and family lived in Charity Farm, Woodland Rd Raydon, near Hadleigh. The farm is still there (nearer to Chattisham than Raydon) In 1869 John was recorded as a Farm Bailiff.
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Thomas Charles emigrated to Canada, and during World War II used to send us food parcels. Anna's parents were farmers at Plains Road, Aldershot, Ontario, Canada, where Thomas presumably took over on their death, and the farm on his death passed to his son-in-law, Douglas Thomborrow. It is believed that Thomas was at one time a police officer. - Richard Green
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Edward Charles GREEN was an engineer. As a child at school he enjoyed taking part in amateur dramatics, and returned to it in Playford in his retirement
At first apprenticed as an engineer in Ipswich he became a draughts man in Rugby then returning to Ipswich to be a designer in gas and fluid controls. He designed the control systems in the midget submarines which destroyed the German battleship in the Norwegian Fjords. He was in the Home Guard first as a private, then a sergeant and finally a second lieutenant. His great interest was bird watching and spotting butterflies, and he loved dogs, although until the fifties he had only cats.

He smoked a pipe, and was hardly ever without it in his hand or mouth - and from the beginning of the war grew and cured his own tobacco. He claimed not to like gardening, but his results were always good, and took most of his spare time. On his retirement he took up oil painting very successfully, commanding a high price by the time of his death from a second heart attack caused by ischaemic heart disease.
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Molly OLDMAN was educated at St John's School in Harleston, set up by a Miss Winifred NUTTALL after a request from Mollie's father and a friend who also had a daughter of the same age. The school survived as a private institution until after the 1939-45 war. Mollie was an accomplished musician and taught elocution before she married. She sang in the Ipswich Choral Society and frequently accompanied on the piano.
Later in life she became secretary of the Suffolk Naturalists, and was invited to Buckingham Palace on the strength of this for an afternoon tea (along with hundreds of others) She painted in oils. During the last 11 years of her life she was organist at Playford Church and was heavily involved with the village W.I.. She died of cancer of the uterus.
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Richard GREEN worked at first (1950) for ‘bus companies as a scheduler in Northampton and Chesterfield, then in 1953 became a production planner at Chesterfield Tube Investments. He ran a printing business part time from the late 50’s till 1966, and became trained as a chiropodist starting in 1962 which he did part time from 1964 then full time from 1965 in Clay Cross, until 1967 when he went to the NHS as transport manager.
After getting NHS management qualifications he had various administrative jobs starting in Mansfield, then at Attleborough, Norwich (where he ran a national computer pilot scheme) and Ormskirk where he was District General Administrator for West Lancashire. He took early retirement in 1986, worked for MIND for two years running services for the mentally ill, then went to Guernsey in 1988 where he became Director of Community Services for Guernsey and Alderney in the Channel Isles and concurrently over 4 years ran the Public Health Dept for Guernsey. He retired in 1995. He was a Fellow of the Association of Medical Records Officers and a qualified member of the Institute of Health Service Managers
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Details of Elizabeth Miller married to Thomas Cosen mentioned in her father's will March 21 1633

617. R(W) GEORGE MILLER (X) of Semer, yeoman. 21 March

1633/34.

Bequeaths soul to God looking for salvation through Jesus Christ. I give my eldest son John my house and land in Whatfield and Semer, now occupied by Hugh Wright, on condition he makes following payments: £5 p.a. to my wife Alice at Michaelmas and Lady Day, and legacies to my other children: £12 to daughter Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Cosen of Whatfield, within 20 days of Michaelmas 1636; £12 to my daughter Martha 2 years later; £12 to son Thomas 2 years after that and £12 to daughter Mary 20 days after Michaelmas 1642. Also £12 to daughter Sarah in 1644; £12 to son Edward in 1646; £12 to daughter Anne in 1648 (to be paid by my wife); £12 to son Richard in 1650; 20 marks to youngest daughter Susan in 1652. Wife and childen have power to distrain. If my wife desires to dwell in the house and land left to my son John, she is to enter them as a tenant at Michaelmas next, paying £7 p.a. to John as long as she remains a widow. She must not fell any trees and must keep buildings in repair with thatching and daubing. I give my wife any 2 of my cows and 4 of my ewes which she pleases to choose at Michaelmas next, all the household stuff she brought to me, the cupboard and table that stand in the hail, a pair cobirons in the parlour, my warming pan, a dozen of my best trenchers, the bedstead in the parlour chamber, a pair of the best sheets and 1 odd sheet. I give Anne, my daughter by my first wife, the bed 1 lie on in the chamber and all that belongs to it and a chest that stands between the 2 beds in the chamber. I give my daughter Sarah the other bed in the chamber where I lie, 3 table napkins and 2 buffet stools. I give my daughter Mary 2 forms in the parlour and 3 table napkins. All the rest of my goods and chattels I give to my son George provided he pays my debts and funeral charges, and pays my daughter Anne 40s at Michaelmas next and £10 when 21. George must pay my son Daniel £12 when 24. Exor: son George. Wit. John Brunning, Richard Chapline, John Harvie (X). Pr. at Bury 27 March