{"id":125,"date":"2015-04-15T21:57:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T21:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west\/?page_id=125"},"modified":"2016-02-03T17:21:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T17:21:58","slug":"the-england-cousins-of-today","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west\/the-england-cousins-of-today\/","title":{"rendered":"England relatives of today"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_928\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-928\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/04\/the-platter.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-928\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-928 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/04\/the-platter-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"the platter\" width=\"604\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/04\/the-platter-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/04\/the-platter-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/04\/the-platter-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roger and Jordan Barker from Elm Farm, Wantage present a willow pattern platter to the Vancouver Wests via Art.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Starting in 1969, I visited with many of our England relatives including Mary Irish (Birmingham); Uncle Percy (Grove); Joyce and Bill Prowting (Harrow &#8211; later, Susan and James); Eleanor, Phil and Jack Bryant, (Stowford, Trowbridge &#8211; later, \u00a0Son Phil); \u00a0Audrey and Keith Long (Falkland, Bath); Jack and Enid Ireson (Didcot); Billy &amp; Joan Smith (Grove); Herbert &amp; Doris Smith (Wantage); Brenda West (Garlands Farm) and recently, through the cousins trips to England in 2012 and 2015, several of us have had the pleasure of meeting the Garland Farm Wests: Muriel, Susan, Elisabeth, Rosemary, Peter and Joe; the Bridge Farm Smiths, Richard, Roger, Helen and Colin; \u00a0the Didcot Iresons: Mike and Ela, Long descendants Christine Jordan and \u00a0Rebecca Harris, \u00a0and\u00a0many others at the Bridge farm family picnic and lunchtime pub gatherings in October of 2012. \u00a0I&#8217;ve also had the pleasure of meeting and corresponding with several family genealogy &#8220;freaks&#8221;: \u00a0Helen Willemsen (Holland), Rebecca Harris, Helen Barker, Jackie Cooper\u00a0and Timothy Barker (Crowter family).<\/p>\n<h6>Cousins visits documents &amp; Photos<\/h6>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west-meets-west-brochure\/\">West meets West trip 2012 &#8211; Information and travel guide<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 180px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.finearts.uvic.ca\/~bmore\/westfamtree\/Tripphotosdiaries.html\">\u00a0&#8211; Itinerary &amp; photos from the trip<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/brucemore.ca\/invitation-second-visit-to-oxfordshire\/\">Invitation to second England trip 2015<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/04\/westtourbookwebsite.pdf\">Second<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/04\/westtourbookwebsite.pdf\">\u00a0England Tour guide &#8211; Oct. 2015<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h6>Other Photos of England Relatives of today:<\/h6>\n<p>(Page in progress)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting in 1969, I visited with many of our England relatives including Mary Irish (Birmingham); Uncle Percy (Grove); Joyce and Bill Prowting (Harrow &#8211; later, Susan and James); Eleanor, Phil and Jack Bryant, (Stowford, Trowbridge &#8211; later, \u00a0Son Phil); \u00a0Audrey and Keith Long (Falkland, Bath); Jack and Enid Ireson (Didcot); Billy &amp; Joan Smith (Grove); &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west\/the-england-cousins-of-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">England relatives of today<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-125","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"https:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/125\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucemore.ca\/west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}