My Great-grandmother was May Oliver

Barb Silvester · Senior Member

RE: My Great-grandmother was May Oliver

jenny · Member

Hi Barb I will get a copy of the photo of your grandparents with my grandparents.As you can imagine I have many boxes of photo`s which I brought back from mum`.As soon as I get myself organised I will get it scanned.It`s a lovely photo.Sorry to have missed you it would have been lovely to chat.Hope you are ok and also hope your lovely mum is too.Will be in touch love Jenny x

Barb Silvester · Senior Member

Hi Jenny:

I 'm sorry to hear that your Mum passed away this year. I remember her well. She was a lovely lady. I'm Martina's sister, Barbara, and I remember you and your sister, Shirley.

I was really interested to hear that you have a photo of your grandparents and my grandparents. They so rarely had their photos taken that any new photo is a gem. Maybe Shane could post it on the website.

Barb

jenny · Member

Hello Ros, I have a photo of your great grandparents May and Thomas Harris, taken with my grandparents George and Kate Oliver.Mr and Mrs Harris lived at No.1Combe rd. Stonesfield and my grandparents lived at No.4.I often visited your grandparents with your Mum Martina.We were school friends.My Mum was Kathy Styles who sadly passed away in July 2014. Jenny

Shane Bywaters · Guru

Hi There Ros,

Really nice to see that you've found the website, and thanks for joining and posting to the message board.

I had a fantastic afternoon with your grandmother Rene earlier in the year learning more about May and Thomas and their family, and I have to agree that she also spoke very highly of May and Thomas and what lovely people were.

Your Aunt Barbara was kind enough to share one or two photos of Tom and May, one in particular with the two boys Bernard and Henry - all of whom incidentally joined us at a recent Oliver Family History in Stonesfield by way of the picture below being included in a photo slideshow.

We actually sit very closely in the overall vastness of the Oliver Family tree, your Great Grandmother May and my Great Grandfather Frank were brother and sister, being two children of Edward and Lydia, our Great Great Grandparents.

Hope you enjoy having a look around the website and hope you find some new bits of information about the history of the Oliver Family.

Thanks for now,
Shane

Ros · Newbie

Hello

I'm Roslyn Young (nee Hall) and found out about this site when my grandmother, Irene Harris, showed me the invitation she received from Shane. Irene (Rene) married Bernard Harris (d.), and he and his twin brother Henry (d.) were the sons of Thomas Harris and May Oliver. My mum, Martina Elizabeth Hall (nee Harris) (d.) spoke so fondly of her grandparents Thomas and May, and my brother's middle name is Thomas in his memory.

I know very little of my family history beyond this, but it is nice to see the information being researched and shared in this way.

Good luck with your searches.

Ros

-- Edited by Ros on Monday 19th of April 2010 07:05:48 PM