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<p>[QUOTE="Owliza, post: 4308696, member: 20298"]Wow! Thank you so much for the time and effort! Good tip to to work backwards like that. I do it with genealogy but never thought to use it like this. I will going forward!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Speaking of genealogy, I too was curious and looked for a bio. No dice. I was going to check Ancestry tomorrow but, since insomnia is playing with me, I think I will now.</p><p><br /></p><p>ETA - I am pretty sure I found her. There was a Hilda Cooke 1910-1982 or 1994, born and died in Stoke-on-Trent, who married a Wilmot Brown in 1933. In 1939 she is listed as a pottery freehand paintress in the England and Wales register. Will have to look further for an obit tomorrow.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the meantime, this is apparently Hilda and Wilmot circa 1955!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]350113[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Owliza, post: 4308696, member: 20298"]Wow! Thank you so much for the time and effort! Good tip to to work backwards like that. I do it with genealogy but never thought to use it like this. I will going forward! Speaking of genealogy, I too was curious and looked for a bio. No dice. I was going to check Ancestry tomorrow but, since insomnia is playing with me, I think I will now. ETA - I am pretty sure I found her. There was a Hilda Cooke 1910-1982 or 1994, born and died in Stoke-on-Trent, who married a Wilmot Brown in 1933. In 1939 she is listed as a pottery freehand paintress in the England and Wales register. Will have to look further for an obit tomorrow. In the meantime, this is apparently Hilda and Wilmot circa 1955! [ATTACH=full]350113[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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