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I'm contacting everyone who may have researched the CLEGG family in the hope that I might turn up further clues to my own elusive grandfather...I've been looking for three years now and am totally suck!!! I have 15 yrs experience in record research but still can not get over this stumbling block. it's time to take desparate measures... here's my story....
I'm hoping you can help me solve a mystery!
My grandfathers' name was John Francis CLEGG. According to his Army records he was b. 16th September 1909 - The Army gave me a clue to his place of birth, New Zealand. Now, this is where it gets complicated...
He worked in Hereford, England as a 'Draper' during 1935, there he had and registered his first born daughter, Patricia Maureen CLEGG (MY MOTHER), but he put his name on the birth certificate as John Cameron CLEGG, the next 3 children were born in Reading, Berks., Pamela Mary in 1937 he was John Francis CLEGG along with subsquent children (nameless)'Girl' CLEGG (adopted) in 1938 and Brenda Marlene CLEGG (adopted) in 1939. The outbreak of War saw him in the R.A. His wife Hilda took Pat & Pam to Bristol and left them in a Childrens' Home. They were never claimed by either parent nor did my mother ever see or know what happened to her father. In the last three years I have discovered this...
All her life my mother was told her fathers name was Frank CLEGG, he was Welsh and known as Frank the 'taffy'. She was shocked to learn his real name was John, that she and Pam had another two sisters she had not known about and that 'Frank' & Hilda weren't actually married until 1940!!! despite Hilda declaring herself as Mrs CLEGG on ALL of the childrens birth Certificates. The couple were split by 1941 and never saw eachother again, Hilda went on to marry another man in 1950. He disappeared as mysteriously as he appeared in 1935 - He wasn't killed during the war and I can find no birth or death certificate in England/Wales or New Zealand. All I have to go on is old family recollections as clues... Despite his nickname he spoke with an Australian accent, he said his parents had been killed in a bush fire, he was from Wales (I now assume that to be actually N.S.W.) and the information on his eventual marriage certificate when he and Hilda BIRD married. His declared his own father to be a Polo Pony Breeder who was deceased. His Army Records are the only evidence of his existence as a person but they are closed to us for 100yrs soon to be raised to 110 unless we can prove relationship and have his death certifcate. Apart from his alleged date of birth and a clue to look towards New Zealand we have nothing!!! All avenues of enquiries have proved fruitless. My mother has waited 68 years to find the truth, living under false information and The Army are adament they will not tell us anymore. My Mother always believed his name was Francis Cameron CLEGG and was shocked to learn otherwise.
Can you help? Do you know of any one else that may have come across him or provide us with information? A Birth Certificate so I can continue tracing her family tree? Anything!!!
Yours sincerely,
Michaela Crampton & Patricia CLEGG Crampton
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