Genealogy Chat

I am watching the recording from The Black Country Museum.
Did anyone else wonder about Catherine Short, who as a child of 12 set a treasure hunt and said her health was poor. ?

Catherine wrote clues on 12th April 1940 and said she lived with her parents and brother at 64 Bullsmore Lane.
A photograph suggested that the brother was possibly a couple of years older than Catherine.

The finder would love to know what became of Catherine, who wrote that the doctor has advised that she moved away, so she was going to stay with an aunt and uncle by the sea.

Anyone with access to 1939 enlighten us?

Well done for noting it Gwyn, i was just watching.

There are no results coming up for Bullsmore lane :-(

There's a Catherine born in Romford and a Bullsmoor Lane Enfield??

In 1939 she seems to be

Short Household (6 People)
577 Field End Road , Ruislip-Northwood U.D., Middlesex, England

Catherine L Short 25 Feb 1928 Female At School Single 2 5
Henry M Short 01 Jan 1899 Male Builders General Forman And Clerk Reinforced Concrete Specialty Of Work Married 2 1
Elizabeth Short 12 Aug 1899 Female Unpaid Domestic Duties Married 2 2
Sorry, this record is officially closed. Check if you can open a closed record.
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Sorry, this record is officially closed. Check if you can open a closed record.

Parents to that Catherine married in Sunderland, and there are possibly two older brothers born Sunderland.

Father may have remarried in 1943? Sunderland

EDIT maybe not as they seem both to have died in Norfolk?

First name(s) ELIZABETH
Last name SHORT
Gender Female
Birth day 12
Birth month 8
Birth year 1899
Age -
Death quarter 1
Death year 1978
District Norwich
County Norfolk
Volume 10
Page 2223
Country England


First name(s) HENRY MALLETT
Last name SHORT
Gender Male
Birth day 1
Birth month 1
Birth year 1899
Age -
Death quarter 1
Death year 1974
District Norwich Outer
County Norfolk
Volume 4B
Page 2549

Thank you for finding all that.

Enfield was the area I kept finding, although from the programme I got the impression it was an event in Black Country or West Midlands.

I can't see the death of Catherine, at a young age, as the clue finder suspected............................

I can't see a death either, both parents are on the probate list.

Brother Roger died 1944

First name(s) Roger Lee
Last name Short
Birth year 1923
Age 21
Death year 1944
Death date 17 Jul 1944
Number 1333690
Rank Flight Sergeant
Unit 41 Sqdn.
Regiment Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Grave reference Plot O. Row 3. Grave 80.
Cemetery or Memorial Hawkinge Cemetery
Burial country United Kingdom
Additional information Son of Henry Mallett Short and Elizabeth Short;

1953, she's still at 577 Field End Road, with Elizabeth and Henry M short - also a Roger Lee.

Still at that address at least until 1963, with Elizabeth and Henry M.


EDIT:

Just noticed Norwich above, where her parents died.

She's on the Norwich ER 2003-10. Unmarried.
Address shown on Ancestry.
Still there, per BT phonebook.

On face book bb c antiques roadshow say the programme has had a lot of interest and they will look into all the info and post any info if they can permit