Catching up on Fages

After a long period of inactivity, the Christmas break has given me a chance to get back to my family history research - albeit briefly. Mostly I've been re-running searches, trying new sources or following up information provided by people who have contacted me via this weblog, to fill in gaps in fairly recent history.

A really helpful contact (Merv) re: the FAGE family back in Spring 2007 has provided some lovely family photos of my FAGE great-grandparents (John William and Alice, nee CADE), and additional information about one of my grandmother's brothers, Jesse William FAGE, and his descendents. My grandmother Elizabeth Sarah FAGE married Horace BROWN. Elizabeth's brother Jesse married Horace's sister Emily BROWN on 1 August 1925. So Merv and I share two sets of ancestors.

Merv was also able to shed more light on the death of my great-grandmother Lavinia BROWN (nee SEABY) - Emily BROWN and Horace BROWN's mother. Coincidentally I had finally found her death recorded in the indexes and received a copy of the certificate which showed that she died 29 May 1944 at 11 South Road, Sandy. The cause of death was bronchopneumonia and exhaustion and her son George BROWN registered the death. That this is the 'right' Lavinia BROWN is confirmed by her 'occupation': "widow of Charles Brown, Railway Platelayer". Merv's copy certificate was issued at the time of Lavinia's death and has stayed in his family, further confirmation, if needed, that this is the right one.