Just FOUR days to find the owner of this ring!

I found this I Jackson in Kingswood in current British Telecom phone book:
I Jackson
Tel: (0117) 967 8643 - Text Number
125 Court Road, Kingswood, Bristol, BS15 9QP - Map

There was another Ian Jackson in 1977 in Wellsway. This current one at Keynsham may be connected:
J Jackson
Tel: (0117) 986 7999 - Text Number
102 Wellsway, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 1JB - Map

also:
Patricia E Haines, Tibberton, Gloucester, GL19

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• Patricia E Haines in GL19

Address: Tibberton, Gloucester, GL19 XXX – full address available on Whitepages

Telephone number: Reveal phone number

Other occupants: Juliet Ashwell, James Ashwell, Sally Ashwell, Edward Ashwell, Clive Haines
I can't follow up this with phone calls because I am in Sydney Australia - Good Luck!!

 

Congratulations Peter on initiating a very lively discussion drawing in contributions from new members/first time posters

 

Yes there are ways to make cheaper calls (skype) but one of problems with direct contact between the countries is the time difference with 9 to 12 hour difference they are sleeping/working etc when we are not!

 

How about contacting Radio Gloucestershire for the Newent relations 01452 308585 ?

 

If all that fails there's several family trees on Ancestry for the mother Ethel Annie Oliver born 1891 in Compton Martin to Mark ans Sarah Ann Oliver .They seem to be put online by one of her eleven siblings.
One of them may know the address or phone number of closer kin.
There seems to be nieces and nephews of her younger sister Eva.

Ciderdrinker

 

Peter's splendid initiative has certainly inspired great energy by many of us ! I wouldn't want to discourage that energy in any way . However, this is just to point out that a couple of recent contributors are still looking at ways of contacting the Patricia E Haines in Newent , Gloucestershire . Please note the earlier messages by myself ( Number 28 in this discussion ) and by Howard S ( number 30 ). It seems unlikely she can be a descendent because her age ( as stated in one website ) is not consistent with birth in 1961 .Also , HowardS has found it is quite possible , sad to say , that Patricia E Jackson died at the age of 3 .

 

If the Police admin staff won't help you could go straight to the Police and Crime Commissioner, Sue Mountstevens. She could do with some favorable publicity.

 

Maybe true for Oz but way different for NZ. Before emigrating, I used to call from UK at less than 1p/min using 18185 service. Then in NZ, I found that the cost back the other way was about 15-20 times that! I am now finding that there are cheaper call companies but many use prepay cards which is not very convenient. My brother in Scotland tells me that he has FREE international calls (up to 1 hr duration) using TalkTalk. We could do with them out here to provide a bit of competition.

 

Thank you Peter and all contributors for a pleasant diversion on an extremely hot (for England) day. I have enjoyed it all, and perhaps should have signed into the Forum much sooner.

But - (there's always a but or two, isn't there?) - in the cooler light of day I have a niggling feeling that perhaps we have been a bit carried away by the fun of the challenge.
Reviewing all the posts, I ask myself what evidence have we that any of the people whose phone numbers have been found ARE direct descendants of the owners of the ring?

1. First fact is that Peter found only one marriage of a couple with the initials on the ring, and the date matched.
2. He suggested two possible sons, and as they are both mentioned on the death report from a newspaper, this matches.

Now the But: what evidence have we that either of those two sons did get married, and to whom?
Computer indexes show many possible marriages, and subsequent children. Possible is not the same as proof. And Jackson is a common name.

Family trees on Ancestry are not proof either!

I think that one Cousin made a good suggestion. (I would like to go back and check their name, but do not know if this message would be saved if I left the page.)
That was to look for obituaries of the two sons, to find the names of their family members.

Sorry if I am being unduly pessimistic. I hope to be corrected.
Pat

 

You are quite right, a lot of supposition...just possibilities to confirm or reject, as is often the case for us 'detectives'.

 

I found some of the info already mentioned and also found a Colin Jackson age 45-49 resident 32 St Marks Road Bath Avon BA2 4PA in 2002
(on UK Companies House Directors 2002-2014 Trans) , is it worth trying to ring him????? maybe a relative, it looks as if Ethel Annie Oliver had at least 8 siblings
so there could be a good few cousins around.

 

Herbert & Ethel Jackson were living at Whitehole Farm when they died. The farming community tends to be close knit, so it maybe worth ringing current owners?

Current Owners 2013
Application No 2012/3084
Applicant: Mr and Mrs Patch, Whitehole Farm, Whitehole Hill, Leigh on Mendip, Somerset, BA3 5QE
Approve With Conditions 05-Apr-2013
From 192.com
John E Patch Whitehole Farm, Whitehole Hill, Radstock, Avon, BA3 5QE 01761 233 839

Not followed that line yet, but the Ivor SMITH mentioned in obit of Ethel married in 1933 her sister Dora Esther Oliver.
Ivor Lancelot Reason SMITH b 24 jul 1902 died abt Sep 1976

 

I think Ethel is on the 1901 census as Effie Oliver, living with the Caple family in Stanton Prior, Somerset. Emily Caple went on to marry Alfred Paget, and Ethel was with them in 1911. Both sets of families were represented at her funeral, so maybe they were distant family after all.