Cato Blacksmith

A Memory of Fowlmere.

I [WILLIAM COATES] was brought up by my father's parents [ they adopted him]. attended school there , was in choir in church and was friends with Colin Swan.When both in RAF , we met up by chance, in Canada[both on courses] and stayed together as friends for a night to catch up. He was killed soon after. We had spent many hours cycling to and from Cambridge to work before we went into RAF.
mY GRANPARENTS, William and Eliza CATO were very poor but very good to me. Grandad was a blacksmith . My parents lived in a house nearby -in High Street but moved away with brothers , split up and my father, William Coates also , came home occasionally. My grandfather [ natural one ] was also William but I never met him.
I would love to find more about my family but can't trace anything more. I cared for Granny Eliza nee Moule at my home till her death. Grandad died while I was in RAF .

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