William John DREW, Mylor Bridge - The Saga Continues
Well, it appears that we're back where we started with this gentleman. "Our" William John DREW did marry Julia A CAPLE. A personal message in my B_G Forums inbox this morning. I quote:
Dear GeoffD
By accident, I found your 'Cautionary Tale of William John Drew x 2' yesterday and nearly fell off my chair!
I am the great great grand-daughter of Edward George Drew who was born at Mylor approx 1829/30 and son of Elizabeth Dingey (with his father possibly Edward Drew born circa 1810). Elizabeth shows in the records as unmarried.
Edward George Drew (1829/30) was employed mainly as a carpenter and a sawyer at Mylor and married Mary Reid. They had numerous children one of which was William John Drew, also a sawyer of Mylor and, later, a shipwright, working at HM Dockyard, Devonport, Plymouth, and born circa 1864 at Mylor.
William married Julia Annie Caple, born 1866 (her father, Robert Caple, a copper miner, married Jane Trevean of Wendron). William and Julia Drew, who lived at Mylor and later at Torpoint, Cornwall (near HM Dockyard) had 5 children (William Reginald - killed on HMS Hawke in First World War; Winifred - died in childbirth; Julia - my grandmother; Cecil; and Gladys -her son still lives in Cornwall).
Do let me know what you think of the above. I would be delighted to hear from you as we are obviously distant relatives.
With good wishes
Gail
All the descendants of William John are the same as those that the previous informant listed. So, for the second time, B-G Forums has come good with people reading one of my 'stories' and responding. Chris was the other, of course.
Dear GeoffD
By accident, I found your 'Cautionary Tale of William John Drew x 2' yesterday and nearly fell off my chair!
I am the great great grand-daughter of Edward George Drew who was born at Mylor approx 1829/30 and son of Elizabeth Dingey (with his father possibly Edward Drew born circa 1810). Elizabeth shows in the records as unmarried.
Edward George Drew (1829/30) was employed mainly as a carpenter and a sawyer at Mylor and married Mary Reid. They had numerous children one of which was William John Drew, also a sawyer of Mylor and, later, a shipwright, working at HM Dockyard, Devonport, Plymouth, and born circa 1864 at Mylor.
William married Julia Annie Caple, born 1866 (her father, Robert Caple, a copper miner, married Jane Trevean of Wendron). William and Julia Drew, who lived at Mylor and later at Torpoint, Cornwall (near HM Dockyard) had 5 children (William Reginald - killed on HMS Hawke in First World War; Winifred - died in childbirth; Julia - my grandmother; Cecil; and Gladys -her son still lives in Cornwall).
Do let me know what you think of the above. I would be delighted to hear from you as we are obviously distant relatives.
With good wishes
Gail
All the descendants of William John are the same as those that the previous informant listed. So, for the second time, B-G Forums has come good with people reading one of my 'stories' and responding. Chris was the other, of course.
posted by Geoff_D @ 7:21 am
2 Comments:
At 6:43 am,
Anonymous said…
Geoff, Gail,
looking at the blog over Christmas I was amazed to find this connection. I am descended from Irene Jane Drew, Father Edward George Drew b. Mylor. Irene Jane was an avid postcard and picture collector, the collection dating from around WWI is now in my possession. The postcards mention many of the Drew family and amongst them I have a newspaper clipping about William Capinal Reginald Drew son of William John Drew, he died on HMS Hawke when it was attacked by the German U boat U9 on the 15th October 1914. (I will try to upload the obituary to the blog.) The memorial to HMS Hawke is in Chatham Kent (my parents hometown) overlooking the town hall I have taken some photos of the plaques on the memorial and hope that these are of interest to you.
Regards
Andrew
At 10:32 am,
Geoff_D said…
Andrew, if you see this, you can send the obit and anything else you think interesting to me bye-mail and I'll post it.
Geoff
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