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Mrs F H Durant. 'Alan's great-grandmother'.
Alan who? Well, let's try.
I don't think Mrs Durant was a milliner. What IS she wearing on her head? A gerbil?
Answer.
And look! The next day Mr Gerbil proferred a second photo. 'Alan's grandfather'. P W Durant. OK, that's the second son: Percy William (d Frinton on Sea 27 November 1947)...
An hereditary butcher. Meat runs in the blood, it seems, as well as vice versa.
Well, Percy married Rose Maria Tricker, and I see them in 1911 living in Leyton, with a four-year old daughter, Doris Louie (b 10 November 1906, d 2000) ... only one child? Well that makes things easy!
Here's the mysterious Alan! Alan Roger Devereux (b Tendring 18 April 1933; d Strathblane 1 February 2019).
Doris married Donald Charles Devereux (1898-1989), a builder, and brought forth Alan and Janet Rose (Mrs Radcliffe-Smith, 1938-2005) ...
I guess the photo was inscribed by Alan's wife, Gloria Alma née Hair (b Brentford 28 January 1933; d Newton Mearns 1985) ...
Alan himself became DNB material as an Industrialist and a CMG in Scotland .. but that's all on google ... I'm just happy to have linked him to his ancestors, and identified the mysterious 'Alan' ...
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