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Trying to find Lewis

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Julia

Julia Report 16 May 2004 15:05

I am trying to research my father's side of my family tree. My grandmother was called Ivy Lewis and she may have had one or two brothers and sisters. She was born in about 1880 - 1890, possibly in New Scarborough, Wakefield, West Yorkshire. Her father was a newspaper reporter in Leeds. Ivy Lewis married a school teacher, Herbert Knaggs and later they both became a headmaster/headmistress team at various small village schools, including Horseley in Derbyshire. Ivy had two children, Herbert Vivian Kirkham and Marjorie. Herbert Vivian or H.V.K. was born in Cardigan Terrace, Kirkstall, Leeds in 1917. He became a lecturer in Fine Art and Sculpture. Marjorie married a doctor called Laurie Oxenham and they emigrated to Canada. Herbert and Ivy retired to the West Country. Herbert died in Bodmin Hospital in 1960. I was two years old when he died. After that Ivy moved back to Yorkshire and ended her days at a nursing home, Farfield Hall, near Addingham, Skipton. I don't know exactly when she died, as my father left the family home in 1971 and I have no contact with him. He is now 87 and as far as I know, I am his only child. I would really like to find out if I have any relatives on his side of the family, before all those that might remember are gone. Many thanks, Julia.