tracing family of lillian woolgar

lillian woolgar emigrated to canada in 1899. I am trying to trace family history.I have a family picture of her taken in reigate. If anyone could help me in this matter please contact me at e-mail address, claymar@shaw.ca. Many thanks.

Good day to you,

I am trying to trace information on an Irene Woolgar. That is the name I knew her by. She was a frequent visitor at my adopted families home in Sussex.

Having completed a tree of my birth family on Ancestry I decided to put one on of my Adopted family. I was always told that Irene (This may have been her middle name) was the niece of my adopted fathers first wife, Helen Power. My adopted parents names were Aleck Bernard and Helene Hazel. Helen Power married Aleck hazel in 1917 at Pancreas and he was attached to the cables and Wireless in Argentina. I have traced several voyages that Aleck and Helen made together.

I believe Irene worked for Barkley's Bank. I remember spending several holidays with her on her farm in Reigate where I believe she had a dairy herd during the war years or maybe just after. I know she sold it and took off for the Argentine. Some time after she returned she lived in a bungalow complex somewhere in the south of England, possibly Sussex and I recall many visits to her there. As a young married women with 2 small girls we also used to pick her up once a year for a couple of weeks and she stayed with us. At that time she was wheelchair bound with osteoarthritis. I know she died shortly after we came to South Africa in 1981.

I have not been able to trace a record of her birth or death for that matter because I don't know her date of birth (I presume to be around 1910 - 1920) or correct name. It could be Lilly Irene Woolgar. That was the only journey I could find on the migration records that fitted the age.

Can you help me at all?

Kindest regards

Tess Cawley
tesscawley@telkomsa.net

clay richardson wrote:

lillian woolgar emigrated to canada in 1899. I am trying to trace family history.I have a family picture of her taken in reigate. If anyone could help me in this matter please contact me at e-mail address, claymar@shaw.ca. Many thanks.

Was your Lillian Woolgar related to Samuel Bridger Woolgar 1865 - 1951. Some of his family lived in Reigate. tesscawley@telkomsa.net