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rusty : The records appear to show Anne B had two daughters, both born in Barnet (6 miles north of Hampstead) G born 1957 and J 1958.
Barnet was in Middlesex then, but now a London Borough

Hello, Jazzgirl!
Thank you for the info!
That ties in with what she said.
She started her Dictionary in 1957 when she was pregnant.
And, I did not know that Barnet was now part of London!
She lives in North London, but where I do not know.
I know Spurs and Arsenal play in North London but not too much more!

I had to check to make sure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Borough_of_Barnet

It looks likely she may have had more children (born in Barnet) with the same surname B and having the same mother's maiden name) : (boy and girl) in 1960 and 1962 but cannot confirm

Hello, Jazzgirl,
It looks as if she keeps her private life, "private".
And rightly so.
There is almost nothing on the internet about her.

Yes rusty
I purposely haven't shown actual names.
I will leave her to her low profile.
I am trying to trace another "lost soul" and this one is proving as difficult as the last one (not listed in any online phone book) The person emigrated and I have the ship, but it will be hard work... enough from me for today.

Good luck with your search, Jazzgirl!
I told Elle about an author I really liked, who I first came across many years ago.
Her name was Lillian Beckwith.
She is dead now.
But she wrote a series of books about her life as a single woman living on Skye.
The books were very popular and had a lot of humour in them.
But on recent research, it appeared that what she wrote was simply not true.
This "single" woman had a husband living with her all the time, and he never got a mention in her books.
And she had children.
For thirty or more years I had thought of her as a spinster!
And then came the internet....!

rusty, that is similar to my last "lost" person. She had not told anyone of her divorce and had remarried and was not in phone book ! I had to think outside the box

Good evening, Rusty!
We are just back from the vets ......
It is not particularly good news....
The cat's temperature is still high - it was 40.3C this morning - the normal temp for a cat is apparently 38C - it had dropped a little bit this afternoon to 39.7C
He is still having antibiotics through a drip, which is now encased in an ice-pack.....
He also has a fan focused on him now.
The cause of the fever is remaining somewhat of a mystery.
But on the plus side, he is eating , peeing and pooing!
And purring loudly when I arrive!
We shall see what tomorrow brings!
(Hopefully the biopsy results!)
Barnet used to be in Hertfordshire!
My parents lived there before a bomb destroyed their house in the war!
Whereupon they moved back north to Bolton!
(I narrowly escaped being a Southerner!)
I am thinking that Miss Peckwitt may have "lied" simply to preserve her anonymity?
(is that spelt correctly?)

hi Elle
To avoid any confusion, birth registrations in the years I mentioned were registered in, and shown as "Barnet (Middlesex)"
The borders for neighbouring counties changed over the years