19 Dec 2001
Wife: Bertha RUSS died at age: 91
Born: 9 Mar 1881 at 27 Clifton Hill St John's Wood 1
Died: 1973
Religion: Quaker
Father: Christian Carl Gottfried RUSS
Mother: Emily CALLAWAY
Husband: Frank WELCH
Married: 1906 in Pinner Middlesex her age: 24 2
Education: Shebbear College Devon 3
Occupation: Paper trade 4
Father:
Mother:
F Child 1: Margaret WELCH age: 88
Born: 9 Jun 1913 in Pinner Middlesex
Spouse: Charles NEILL
Married: 1948
F Child 2: Christine WELCH age: 86
Born: 11 Mar 1915
Spouse: John ASHBY
Sources:
(1) Emily Callaway, Day Book, 'Bertha born March 9th 1881 at 27 Clifton Hill
christened at St George's registered'.
(2) DK, 'Bertha had married a Quaker stationer in 1905'.
(3) ABR, 'Shebbear College.....had been attended by my [ABR] father and all six
of his brothers, who, depsite the spread in their ages, had managed at least one
year of residence all at the same time, enabling them to take over one complete
dormitory for themselves. Frank Welch was more or less adopted into the tribe
in those days, and was later to marry Aunt Bertha', 18.
(4) Doris Withers letter to Gerry Fisher 10 Aug 1969: "Uncle Frank Welch was in
the paper trade - left over £100,000"
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