I Need Help To Find Long Lost Relatives

A Memory of Stanford-le-Hope.

Losing my mother and father, I know very little of my family on my mother's side. I do know she worked in her grandfather's shop. He owned 3 shops, a tobacconist, a hairdressers, a store, on the Pavement in Stanford. His name was Mr Henry Arnold, my grandmother was Edith, my aunts were Lillian and Edith. My grandmother was Edith who sadly died many years before I was born. My mother's name was Agnes, my aunt Lillian, known as Cissy, has 1 son, Harry.

My eldest sister Elizabeth and I would like to find our relatives from this part of our family. I have photos, but I need more, I have a longing to find a family I was too young to remember and unable to get to know.

My great-grandfather died in a car fire on the return from collecting stock for his shop in London some time after the war. I have 2 members of my mothers family left, they are aging, one is nearly 90 and does not want to tell us anything. The other wants to but cannot remember anything.

I know that my mother's maiden name was Held, we have relatives with the name Arnold and Evans. Does anyone out there recall this family?

So I am asking anyone who reads this to contact me if you have any memories of my family or that you are related, I would have to ask you some kind of ID a copy of a birth certificate, so that I can confirm who you are. I am waiting to hear from my long lost but not forgotten family. I was so sad that after the war everything changed and families went their separate ways. I have many health problems to get out there to search for you, but I know in my heart that you are there. Email me if you need more info.

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