Comments for Whatever happened to Evelyn?

Comment on The Quest by tristiwoerz

tristiwoerz — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:51:35 +0000

Sandra and Norman,
I have sent a personal reply to your hotmail email addresses. I am very excited to say the least!
Talk to you soon.
Tristi
PS I haven’t published the comments that have personal details in them for your privacy on the internet.

Comment on The Quest by sandra badman

sandra badman — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:28:54 +0000

On checking the log today I can se norman has contacted you I telephoned him last night and told him all about your log he was as interested as me. Hope to hear from you soon sandra

Comment on The Quest by Norman Philip Cavill

Norman Philip Cavill — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:34:19 +0000

I can add to your search. For there are a whole host of relatives here in the uk who are decendants of Lily Ridgeway.
When Lily’s mother, with her children , came back from Australia, she remarried and as Mrs Pring settled at Tanpits Farm at Bathpool just outside Taunton. Lily married Ernest Fredrick Gready and tookon the Farm next door, Bawlers Farm. They had three daughters, Eva, Hilda and my mother Phylis.I have various Photos of all concerned.

Comment on The Quest by sandra badman

sandra badman — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:16:35 +0000

I have hear that you are looking for relatives of Sarah who was married to Herny Pring they were my great grand parnets and lived at tanpits farm at Bathpool nr Taunton in somerset There is alot of thing I know about the family but also a lot I dont if you wish to email me I will help if I can.
yours sandra

Comment on Wait and Hope… by Kathleen

Kathleen — Sun, 04 May 2008 11:40:20 +0000

I think you have been very sensitive in your approach, and everything I have read leads me to believe they will, in the end, be receptive and welcoming. My family went through this in the past few years, when several of us were approached, including my father, by his half sister. He was not at all welcoming and in fact never told us about her. One of her daughters found us and contacted us. The difference was that the half sister was bout 5 days younger than my dad. This happened well before your great aunts were born, and in no way could it impact on their relationship with their mother, I think. Please keep us posted.

Kath (from Rootschat)

Comment on The Phone Call. by tristiwoerz

tristiwoerz — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:05:05 +0000

Leonie,
I have more details about what happened to Oliver and a little about what may have happened to Ellen. However, I am restraining myself from posting about them just yet.
1) because I’d like to do a little more research to find out more of the story first
2) because my new-found great aunts may not be very happy about me writing about their grandfather, whom they remember.

At the moment, what happened to Ellen and Sarah are real mysteries – they really do seem to disappear into thin air. But I have a sneaking suspicion that there’s some major skeletons in the closet when it comes to at least one of those two.

Over the next couple of days I’m concentrating on the direct Ridgway line, just so I can provide as much documentation as possible in the letter to Evelyn’s daughters. But after that I’m going to let loose and try to find as much as possible about all the names I found. And I’ll keep on posting…Evelyn may not be missing anymore – but there’s still a hell of a lot of information that is.

Stay tuned and thanks so much for your help and interest.

Cheers, Tristi

Comment on The Phone Call. by Leonie

Leonie — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:22:50 +0000

Hi Tristi
So glad you found out what happened to Evelyn. But what about the rest of the family. What happened to Evelyns father OLIVER? What happened to Evelyns mother ELLEN?
What happened to Olivers mother SARAH. I dont think any of these questions have been answered. I know you were tracing the family for medical reasons, which dont appear to be on the RIDGWAY line, but I hope you continue to trace the RIDGWAY family to find out the whole story.
Best wishes
Leonie from Rootschat

Comment on Just pick up the phone… by Kathleen

Kathleen — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:00:21 +0000

Tristi,

So tactful and thought out. How could she not want to be part of your family.
Kath (Kathmc from RC)

Comment on Acknowledgements by tristiwoerz

tristiwoerz — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:11:40 +0000

Amanda, I’m not sure this reply will get to you, but here goes anyway.

When my grandmother started to become demented (official word the doctor’s used)in her late 40’s, the doctors did a heap of tests and then proclaimed it early-onset Alzheimer’s. Whatever she had then progressed for 20 years until she finally regressed to a vegetative state for 5 years and died. No autopsy was ever performed. However, whenever we talked to doctors and nursing home staff, it was always Alzheimer’s they talked about. I don’t know how much more definitive they could be under the circumstances. I’m not a medical professional. Far from it.

My father has always been concerned that he would have Alzheimer’s, and when he started to misplace things he did a heap of tests (lots of brain scans), and the doctors then told him he had nothing to worry about – he didn’t have Alzheimer’s.

I am going to follow up Olwyn’s adopted family – as there is some speculation that Olwyn may not be so ‘adopted’ after all. Stay tuned for that speculation in later posts…

Thanks for your thoughts and offers, Cheers, Tristi

Comment on Acknowledgements by Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:00:11 +0000

Hi Tristi
I have followed the course of your family search with fascination and such an exciting read. If I can be any help I have the British subscription to Ancestry, just email me any requests.
Was Alzheimers ever diagnosed or was it assumed? There are many types of dementia, all are classified as Alzheimers unless they are specifically diagnosed by scans etc, Alzheimers can only be diagnosed at a postmortem. Other forms of dementia are not necessarily inherited and I believe (but I am no expert) that Alzheimers is autosominal dominant so it doesn’t skip generations. Hope that helps in your concerns about contacting these relatives.
But do keep searching even if it isn’t to research the medical condition. Have you thought of following up Olwyn’s adoptive parents’ tree too? I am sure they will have contributed to your grandmother’s character too!
Keep up the interesting work.
Best wishes
Amanda