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Robert McGee Boyd
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Boyd Family
Mason Family
Boyd Ancestry
Lillian
Boyd
James Boyd
William Miller Boyd
Robert McGee
Boyd
John Noel Boyd
William
Miller Boyd
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to see a list of people & pages on this web site.
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Born: |
(Dad said that the
McGee name was originally Maggee)
24.1.1918
37 Holt Hill Road, Tranmere, The Wirral,
Cheshire. U.K.
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Photo
Opposite:
Holt Hill Road, Merseyside.
View of the
Ark Royal.
Dad once lived in this road and also worked on the
Ark Royal
This photo is in the Merseyside Maritime Museum at
Albert Dock. |
Click on the
link below to read the history of Tranmere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tranmere,_Merseyside
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Father: |
William
Miller Boyd |
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Mother: |
Elizabeth
Hastings |
Occupation:
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Boiler Maker / Welder
Worked at Cammel Laird Shipbuilders and Repairers -See
photo below
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for information about Cammel Laird.History |
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Married: |
Gladys Mason
28.10.1939
Birkenhead
Age 21
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to see
marriage certificate
Address then was 4 Laurel Road, Birkenhead |
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Children: |
Robert
(Bob)
(b.1941), Gladys
(b.1943 - d.1997). Irene
(b. 1947),
William Miller (Bill) (b. 1963) |
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family photos |
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Died:
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27.1.2009 (Just
after his 91st birthday)
Leighton Lodge Nursing Home,
Turramurra NSW Australia
Intestinal cancer - suffered from dementia and age related Parkinson's Disease
Cremated at Northern Suburbs Crematorium, Chatswood. NSW |
Siblings:
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(Sarah)
Lillian,
James,
William,
John,
William, Eunice (died at
3months old) |
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Below: taken
in 2004, at Bramblewood Retirement Village annual dinner. |
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Below: Dad, aged 21,
shortly after his marriage to Gladys Mason on 29th October,
1939. |
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Dad played in a band.
It was on one of the nights that he was playing at a dance
that he "chatted up" my Mum.
He played the piano (by ear). Mum would sing any tune and
Dad could play it. (1939?) |
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1999:
Ferry cross The Mersey with Cammell Laird shipyards in the
background.
Mum, Dad and I went to UK for Marge & Les Cooper's 50th
wedding anniversary |
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Notes:
During WWII
Dad was called up for the Tank Corps. he also volunteered
for the Royal Navy Reserve.
He was rejected for both because he worked in the shipyards,
a protected industry. |
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