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First name(s) Alan
Last name Eastwood
Gender Male
Birth year 1923
Birth day 6
Birth month 10
Marital status M
Occupation ENGINEER
Departure year 1959
Departure day 3
Departure month 10
Departure port London
Destination port Buenos Aires
Destination BUENOS AIRES
Country Argentina
Destination country Argentina
Ship name Highland Princess

Travelling with Margarita Eastwood 2/9/30
Virginia Eastwood 1953
Ricardo Eastwood 1956
Martin Eastwood 1958

Address in UK had been c/o G B Daw, 278 Strathmartine Rd, Dundee, Angus.

Hmmm - interesting.

Margarita is the Marjorie listed on their inward journey in July 1959, posted earlier.

They must have been moving around relatives - arriving first at "Fieldhouse", Coupar Angus, then moving on to the Daws.


Poor old Field House, (looking at Google Maps) must have been literally a house in a field, out in the country, at that time. Now it's jammed in a corner of a field, hemmed in on one side by a housing estate, and on another side by the huge food processing factory in Coupar Angus which had to close in mid August because of a Covid-19 outbreak among its workers.

I think everything is covered in the thread, but to fill in any gaps:

Frank Eastwood: b. York 1901, d. Dundee 1975
Aminto Eastwood (Sneddon): b. Darlington 1901, d. Kirton, Boston 1993
Married: Darlington 1922
Children
Alan: b Darlington 1923, d. Ascot 1990
Joan: b Darlington 1926, d. Inverness 1995
Another Son: b. Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires 1937

The Eastwoods' were a Yorkshire family and the Sneddons' were originally from Dunfermline.

Frank was Principal Engineer of Argentine Sud Railways. He also did work in Bolivia and was made a freeman of York in 1960s. Frank and Aminto moved to Dundee following their retirement to join their daughter Joan. Aminto later moved to Pinchbeck (near Spalding) Lincolnshire following Frank's death, to be with Joan and family.

Joan married Graham Braithwaite Daw (b. London 1921, d. Inverness 2008) in Lomas in 1949 and moved back to the UK that year. They had four children (two daughters and two sons) between 1950 and 1955.

Graham was a factory manager who spend most of his working life with Smedley's, a fruit and vegetable canning and freezing company. The family lived in Blairgowrie, Coupar Angus, Dundee and Spalding, where Smedley's had factories. Joan and Graham’s retirement eventually took them to Inverness where their eldest daughter lives.

Incidentally, Fieldhouse (my actual birthplace!) was the factory manager's house in Coupar Angus.

Thank you for the extra sorry I didn't get back before now

Pleased to be of assistance.

Just a couple of corrections to my previous message, for the record:

Joan Daw (Eastwood) died in Inverness in 2015, not 1995.

Alan Eastwood was living in Ascot, Berkshire but did pass away whilst on a trip to Portsmouth, Hampshire in 1990.