Individual Notes
Note for: Amelia "Mely" Jimenez Primicias, MAY 1928 - 21 DEC 2009
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Occupation: Place: Housewife
Burial: Date: 30 JAN 2010
Place: 4-Lot Chapel Premier Garden, Block 185, Manila Memorial Park, Sucat, Metro Manila, Philippines
Individual Notes
Note for: Bernardo "Bim" Gabaldon Angara, 19 SEP 1924 - 26 MAR 1981
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Occupation: Place: Politician
Occupation: Date: BET 1960 AND 1967
Place: Mayor of Casiguran
Burial: Date:
Place: North Cemetary, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Individual Note: Parents separated when he was about 4. Lived with sister "Ta" and raised by Lola Bandang Gabaldon, his great-grandmother (also buried in North Cemetary, Manila).
Ran away at 13 and stayed with father's relative. Lived in Cebu and Baler, Aurora Province for a time.
Studied studied law at MSQ (?) University and met his wife Amelia Jimenez also studying law there. They abandoned their studies at the outbreak of WWII.
Inherited ?US$3M? Inherited a farm at Pakak (sp?), Nueve Ecija, had to spend about two years there. Daughter Maria Zenieda stayed there during summer holidays at the hottest time of the year, can remember three things about the place:
1) Parents slept with a tripod mounted machine gun in the room because of Huk guerillas.
2) Lots of Mango trees
3) Had a recurrent dream in which the whole of the family were chased by snakes.
Played violin, so daughter's Zen and Tessie took lesons when they were young.
"Discipliarian who insisted everyone was on time for meals"
Love Jai Alai and gambling. Often had Basque Jai Alai players at the house.
Mayor of Casiguran (Sp?), Aurora Province, Philippines
Built an airstrip there.
Daughter Maria Zeneida went there 5 or 6 times on holiday visits. The village had no electricity and was lit by kerosene lights. Father caused great excitement by bringing an "electrolux fridge" that did not need electricity - people could have cold drinks AND it produced two trays of ice.
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Source - Tombstone
Located in North Cemetary, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. From the main entrance proceed along Main Avenue until the first road turning just before the rotunda. Turn left on 1st Street. About 150 metres. Proceed passed the first bend, along a straight stretch just before a second bend. You'll see two roads, one 9th Street, joining on the right. Exactly at this point take the path going between the family lots to the left. Turn right when you can't go any further and look for the lot on the right side. There are currently four people buried there: Bernardo, his sister, mother and father.
Inscription:
MAYOR BERNARDO GABALDON ANGARA
SEPTEMBER 19, 1924 - MARCH 26, 1981
HE KISSED THE JOY GOOD-BYE
TO LIVE IN ETERNITY'S SUNRISE
YOUR LOVED ONES
Individual Notes
Note for: John Dunn Collinson, 19 OCT 1923 - 21 AUG 2010
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Baptism: Date: 31 AUG 1924
Place: Chirst Church, Gateshead, Co. Durham, UK,
Occupation: Place: Chartered Electronic Engineer
Individual Note: Born in maternity home in ?Portland Road (an east-west road) in Hove, Sussex. Parents were living on Fontland Road at the time.
Baptism Certificate: John Dunn Collinson was baptised at Christ Church, Gateshead by H ?Bainlett? on August 31, 1924. The sponsors were (Uncle ) Jules Corte (with acute accent on e), John Bolam, Constance Bolam and Margaret Mason-Smith.
His parents split up in the early thirties, "six of one, half a dozen of the other" he says. For all or some of the time he was living with his father at a flat South Molton Street, "just off Bond Street" in London.
His mother was working as a receptionist at the Russell(sp?) Hotel.
Schools:Primary school: parents had already broken up, living in Harrow so some sort of school there. Westminsiter Secondary School / Westminister City School, Victoria.
In ?1938, his father decided to return to Australia, (with his mistress Ruby Selena Kingsley) and asked John to go with him. John declined. John then went to live with a Greek couple living near Kensington Olympia who were friends of his mother.
1938: He has a book given by his father's mistress Ruby Selena Kingsley nee Campbell on radio. It is inscribed "To John from Ruby Christmas 1938". It is also inscribed
"J Collinson
8 Concession Street
Kingston Onterio
1938-9"
Westminister City School. 3rd form, went into Modern stream (the alternatives was "Classics") - sciences, French, German.
?1938-39. Went to Canada because war loomed. Returned because threat seemed to be receding.
Sailed from Gothenburg and took a tram ride across the city by using German. On arrival, Dad "was put in prison". Landed in Montreal. Because a minor and therefore technically needed to be under supervision, they put him in prison technically, i.e. stayed on the boat while family were called to collect him. Which they did.
Also went to Canada for about 6 weeks in 1934. Montreal to Toronto. Then a local train to St. Catherines which he had been told was "close" to Toronto.
During the Second World War he first entered the Home Guard, being too young to enter the regular forces, and acted as motor-bike dispatch rider. Towards the end of the war he joined the Navy and ended up as a Chief Petty Officer involved with Radar and Radar instruction at HMS Collingwood in Portsmouth.
Joined up at Royal Arthur (old Skegness Butlins Holiday Camp) for primary training - bitterly cold in winter as only designed for summer. When completed, to Walthamstow (9 months) to start a "Telegraphy" (naval radio communications) course. Then a round of
HMS Scotia in Ayr (Point of Ayr?) anouther holiday camp. Spell at Army Radio School near RIchmond somewhere. The to signals school, HMS Mercury near Petersfield (West/East Mean?) for radio. Finished the training and drafted back to South West Essex Technical College, Walthamstow E17 to be at trainer until demob - one of two (pass/fail story). Officially attached to the Portsmouth division of the navy, but when became Chatham and demobbed from there.
When "graduated" they were all lined up and results read out ... except my Dad and one other. After, they were told they were staying on advanced courses and then as instructors themselves.
After demob, stayed on at tech college as a civilian. Then offered a job down at HMS Collingwood as a teach and went over to radar. [refitted HMS Eagle]
Freelanced in Portsmouth in 1950s in sound recorded. Parntered in a sound recording business with Commodore Alan Brown. Good business but customers did not pay. Through nay acquired a German Magnetophone - used in submarines, to get communictions they sent morse at very high speed and recorded it and played it back at normal speed. It was a very high quality machine for its day (Hitler speeches were recorde on studion version). John get the miliary machine, the specs for the stuido machine and rebuilt it. He has photos of it and recordings made by it.
Recorded Winston Churchill in Portsmouth when clearly drunk.
In 1953, got a job with Quad in Huntingdon.
He married Rosemary Christine Collinson in 1956.
Sometime previous to 1958 he got a job as a design engineer at Quad Acoustics in Huntingdon and bought a house - Craig Lea, Houghton Road, St. Ives. Quad produced a pioneering loudspeaker based on electrostatics and he was part of the design team. Later as a senior engineer in his own right he designed a famous valve hi-fi amplifier which is a collectors item today (2000).
In around July 1963 he moved his family to a larger house in the nearby village of Somersham - South View, Pidley Road, Somersham, Huntingdonshire.
In xxxx he had a disagreement with the Managing Director of Quad, Peter Walker (John wanted to move to the new-famgled transistor, Walker wanted to stay with valves), and became the Chief Design Engineer for another loadspeaker company, Wharfedale, based in Bradford, Yorkshire. He moved the family to nearby Otley in September 1966, first living at 23, Moor Drive and then in a larger detached house 17, West Busk Lane where he and Rosemary remained after the chidlren left home and were still living there in 2010.
In the 1970s, a group of three senior managers, Bill Escott (Production Manager), xxxx (Accountant), John Collinson (Designer and Factory Engineer), left Wharfedale and set up Castle Acoustics, a designer and manufacturer of high-end hi-fi loudspeakers using a tuned-cavity technique that John pioneered in the commercial sphere.
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Source - FreeBMD Births:
Surname First name(s) Mother District Vol Page
Births Dec 1923
COLLINSON John D Corte Steyning 2b377
Births Jun 1926
Collinson Peter C Corte Hampstead 1a883
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Source - Departing UK Passenger lists:
Note: In July 2010, JD Collinson did mention verbally that he had journeyed on the Ascania, "several times".
Passenger lists leaving UK 1890-1960
Name: John COLLINSON
Date of departure: 18 August 1934
Port of departure: Southampton
Destination port: Montreal
Destination country: Canada
Date of Birth: 1925 (calculated from age)
Age: 9
Marital Status:
Sex: Male
Occupation: None
Notes:
Passenger recorded on: Page 7 of 15
Last Address: 2a?, Clevedon Place, Eaton Square, London
Ship: ASCANIA
Official Number:
Master's name: J G P Bissett
Steamship Line: Cunard
Where bound: Montreal, Canada
Square feet:
Registered tonnage: 14012
Passengers on voyage: 257
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Source - UK Phone Books:
1967:
Name: John D Collinson
Address: 23 Moor Dr
Exchange: Otley
City/Town: Otley
Directory Title: Bradford Apr
Publication Year: 1967
Directory County: York
Page Number: 1076
1969:
Name: Collinson John D Collinson
Address: 17 West Busk La
Exchange: Otley
City/Town: Otley
Directory Title: Bradford May
Publication Year: 1969
Directory County: York
Page Number: 99
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Source - Wharfedale and Airedale Observer, August 26:
http://www.wharfedaleobserver.co.uk/wharfedalecommunity/bmds/ and printed paper.
COLLINSON, JOHN DUNN
COLLINSON John Dunn Peacefully, at Red Gables, Ilkley, John, aged 86 years, of Otley. Pioneeer hi-fi and radio engineer, well-loved husband of Rosemary, dearly loved father of Michael and Margaret, with their spouses Zen and Gary and much missed grandad of Elena, Sam, Amy and Ben. Funeral service will be held at Rawdon Crematorium, on Tuesday, August 31, at 11.40a.m. Family flowers only please but donations in lieu may be made to the Marie Curie Centre and Macmillan Cancer Support for which a collection box will be available at the service. Will friends please meet at Rawdon Crematorium. Any enquiries to Good's Funeral Service, Otley. Tel. 01943 46264
[Written by Michael John Collinson]
Individual Notes
Note for: Maria Luisa "MaryLou" Angara, 28 AUG 1954 - 2009
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Individual Note: Born Guimba, Nueve ?Ejicia on her Dad's farm.
Lived in there and Manila until kindergarten at St. Pauls College, Quez on City.
Went to High School at Assumption Convent, Manila and graduated 1972.
1972, entered Uninversity of the Philippines, UP, to do a BS in Food Te chnology. Graduate 1977/78
Went to Japan, Sophia University and did some MBA units.
Got a fellowship, FooD Technology, for one year in Shizuoka at a food p rocesing & canning factories.
Her Dad died while in Japan so she returned to Manila, Fuji Streel.
Didn't go back to Japan, instead workd for Sea Mark Enterprises, an ice cream factory, for 5-6 years.
Went into restaraunt business: Zebrina's, Adriatico, Filipino food.
Kabayan newspaperm office on Taft Avenue, for 2-3 years.
Married Roberto Alea Lao, 15-Dec-1992. Lived in B??? then 28, Fuji Str eet, BF Homes, Paranaque, Metro Manila.
Individual Notes
Note for: Florence Edith Stutchbury, 7 MAR 1896 - 31 MAY 1977
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Occupation: Place: Teacher. Worked as "certificated teacher" during the First World War -
Residence: Date: 1901
Place: 178, High Road, Chiswick, Middlesex, UK
Residence: Date: 1911
Place: 8 Little George Street, Brighton, Sussex, UK
Individual Note: My maternal grandmother - Michael John Collinson
Died in Brighton, West Sussex, England where she had lived for many years.
Born at 28, Charleston Avenue, Rathmines, Dublin.
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Source - 1901 England Census:
Living in Chiswick, London with parents:
NameAge in 1901BirthplaceRelationshipCivil ParishCounty/Island
William T Stutchbury42 Dalston, London, EnglandHead Chiswick Middlesex
Laura Stutchbury32 Edmonton, Middlesex, EnglandWife Chiswick Middlesex Florence E Stutchbury5 IrelandDaughter Chiswick Middlesex
Living: 178, High Road, Chiswick, Middlesex, UK
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Source - 1911 England Census:
Name: Relationship to head: Marital Status: Years married: Sex: Age in 1911: Occupation: Where born: Report error View Original Page
SLUTCHBURY, WILLIAM TREACHER HEAD MARRIED M 52 SHOP ASSISTANT DALSTON MIDDLESEX
SLUTCHBURY, LAURA WIFE MARRIED 16 F 42 EDMONTON LONDON
SLUTCHBURY, FLORENCE EDITH DAUGHTER F 15 SCHOOL DUBLIN IRELAND
SLUTCHBURY, FREDRICK WILLIAM SON M 9 SCHOOL LONDON CHISWICK
Living: 8, Little George Street, Brighton, Sussex
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Source - 1911 Ireland Census:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Rathmines___Rathgar_East/Charleston_Avenue/51958/
Residents of house number 28 in Charleston Avenue (Rathmines & Rathgar East, Dublin)
Surname Forename Age Sex Relation to head Religion Birthplace Occupation Literacy Irish Language Marital Status Specified Illnesses Years Married Children Born Children Living
McAuley Margaret 56 Female Head of Family Roman Catholic Co Tipperary - Read and write - Widow - 30 7 6
McAuley Henry T B 24 Male Son Roman Catholic Co Dublin Civil Servant Dept of Agr Read and write Irish and English Single - - - -
McAuley Eileen Lily 23 Female Daughter Roman Catholic Co Dublin - Read and write Irish and English Single - - - -
McAuley Joseph A 21 Male Son Roman Catholic Co Dublin Commercial Clerk Motor Co Read and write - Single - - - -
McAuley Doris 18 Female Daughter Roman Catholic
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Living at 8, Little George Street at the time of marriage.
Lived at 'The Haven", Woodingdean, Brighton after marrying.
In late 1928 moved to 56, Colbourne Avenue, Moulscomb, Brighton.
Then to 2, Richmond Terrace, Brighton in approx 1932.
In about April 1936 to 37 Park Crescent. During the Second World War e vacuated temporilly to Blackboys near Uckfield, Sussex but proved to be very dangerous are as the British fighter interception area for the Berl in to London bombing route - the bingalow was surrounded by searchlights and Ack-Ack batteries The german fighters would "hedge-hop" - literally - to avoid the searchlights and try and knock gunbs and searchlight emplacements for the bombers. Rosemary remembers digging bullets out of the lawn.
Daughter Rosemary lived in Park Crescent until she married. Florence then moved to xx, Roundhill Crescent off Ditchling Road, Brighton and finally to West Place Place off the Seven Dials, Brighton.
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Teacher. Worked as "certificated teacher" during the First World War - "certificated" meant she had permission to teach but had no formal qualification.
At the time of her wedding she had been teaching but at the time was keeping house for her father and brother in Little George Street, Brighton.
Later in life she built up a repertoire of entertaining and ediucational lectures. In the Second World War she lecgtured for the Workers Education Association and later for the Soil Association. She was under the aegis of Sir Albert Howard of the Soil Association, who introduced the "Indore Method of Composting" from India for the production of organic foods.
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Source - Rosemary Collinson nee Stutchbury
St. Patrick's Day
The marriage took place at the Unitarian's Christ Church (formerly New Road Chapel), Brighton. This is probably on New Road which is in the centre of Brighton (and where later daughter Rosemary went to church with her mother).
Civil Index entry:
Brighton 2b 446 Jan-Mar quarter 1923
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Source - 1911 Ireland Census:
These are the resisdents of the house in which she was born, there seems to be no connection but kept just in case.
Residents of house number 28 in Charleston Avenue (Rathmines & Rathgar East, Dublin)
Surname Forename Age Sex
McAuley Margaret 56 FemaleWidow born Co. Tipperary
McAuley Henry T B 24 Male born Co. Dublin, Civil Servant
McAuley Eileen Lily 23 Female born Co. Dublin
McAuley Joseph A 21 Male born Co. Dublin, Commercial Clerk, Motor Co
McAuley Doris 18 Female born Co. Dublin
Individual Notes
Note for: Alan Tweedie Cummings, 17 OCT 1894 - 7 MAR 1950
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Occupation: Place: Teacher then liason officer for RNIB after becoming almost blind.
Occupation: Date: 1911
Place: Porter and Laboratory Assistant
Residence: Date: 1911
Place: 15 Wilson Street, Thornaby-on-Tees, Yorkshire, UK
Burial: Date:
Place: Ashes scattered in Epping Forest, UK
Individual Note: Died in University College Hospital, London. THe death was registered in South West St. Pancras sub-district of St. Pancras, London.
His ashes were scattered in Epping Forest.
Birth registered at Thornaby sub-district in Teeside. From hearsay he lived at some time in Yarm nearby.
Family recollection (Rosemary Christine Collinson nee Cummings and her mother Florence Edith Cummings nee Stutchbury):
His father married twice. Alan was from the second family and almost certainly the oldest (1901 Census suggests he was in fact the second eldest of the second family). One of 13 children. Two families - one of 7 children, the other of 6 - he was the eldest of the six.
During the First World War he had acute astigmatism and so was unable to join up, so instead he was worked as a metal salvage collector for the war effort - he even took his future wife's saucepans
Listed as residing at 32, Grand Parade, Brighton, Sussex in his wedding certificate. (wedding cert currently with Rosemary Chistine Collinson).
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Source - Rosemary Christine Collinson nee Cummings, daughter
Teacher then liason officer for RNIB after becoming almost blind.
Left school early and first job was in a flour mill.
Listed as elementary schoolmaster in his marriage cert.
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Source - FreeBMD Births:
Births Dec 1894
Cummings; Alan Tweedie; Middlesbro; 9d;613
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Source - 1911 England Census:
Name: Relationship to head: Marital Status: Years married: Sex: Age in 1911: Occupation: Where born: Report error View Original Page
CUMMINGS, JANET HEAD WIDOW F 51 KIRKENDBRIGHT BERRICK RESIDENT
CUMMINGS, WILLIAM SON SINGLE M 17 APPRENTICE SHIP PLATER YORKSHIRE THORNABY
CUMMINGS, ALAN SON SINGLE M 16 PORTER AND LABORATORY ASSISTANT YORKSHIRE THORNABY
CUMMINGS, FRED SON M 13 SCHOOL YORKSHIRE THORNABY
CUMMINGS, WINIFRED DAUGHTER F 12 SCHOOL YORKSHIRE THORNABY
CUMMINGS, ATHOL SON M 10 SCHOOL YORKSHIRE THORNABY
CUMMINGS, KENNETH SON M 8 YORKSHIRE THORNABY
BLACKIE, JOHN BOARDER SINGLE M 40 GRATE FITTER STIRLINGSHIRE YORKSHIRE RESIDENT
Living: 15 Wilson Street, Thornaby-on-Tees, Yorkshire North Riding
Individual Notes
Note for: Pierina Elena Corte, 18 MAY 1898 - 16 FEB 1991
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Occupation: Place: Hotel Receptionist
Occupation: Place: Catering Manager
Residence: Date: 1911
Place: 68, Stockwell Road SW, Stockwell, London, UK
Burial: Date: 1991
Place: Ashes scattered in Washburn Dale, West Yorkshire,
Individual Note: My much loved grandmother was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, UK
She lived in London and Milan among other places while young but ended up in Brighton before the Second World War and remained there until her last years spent living with son John Collinson in Otley, West Yorkshire, UK .
She died in Otley, West Yorkshire on 16th February 1991 while I was away in Japan.
Roman Catholic
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Source - England and Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837-1900
Corte, Pierena Elena
Year: 1898 Quarter: June
Record Type: Births Volume: 8b
District: Toxteth Park Page: 214
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Occupation notes:
Hotel Receptionist - fluent Italian speaker and probably also French.
Worked in Paris for Vogue magazine, secretarial, and modelling work, specialising in hats and gloves.
Sergeant Major in ATS in Second World War.
Roedean School, Rottingdean, Sussex (a well-known private boarding school for girls) - Catering Manager until retirement.
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Source - England & Wales, Death Index: 1984-2005
Name: Pierina Elena Collinson
Birth Date: 18 May 1898
Death Registration Month/Year: Feb 1991
Age at death (estimated): 92
Registration district: Leeds
Inferred County: Yorkshire
Volume: 5
Page: 1006