One hundred years on it is hard to imagine the impact of the Armistice. I was too young to discuss it with any of my relatives who survived the war. I imagine amidst the celebrations there would have been a sad reckoning.
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11 November, 2018
On this day 100 years ago: Armistice
17 August, 2010
The Family of Eileen Fell’s father-in-law Francis Steinthal
The Family tree of Eileen Fell’s father-in-law Francis Steinthal and his wife, Emeline Petrie.
In World War One, their children changed their surname to Petrie (see The Family of Eileen Fell)
The Family of Eileen Fell
- Eileen Mary Fell was a first cousin of my paternal grandmother, Marjorie Fell Faulder (née Lendrum). Her mother Elizabeth Fell was a sister of Eileen’s father Henry Fell.
- Eileen was shown by Marjorie Fell Faulder (in her notes) to have married a Paul Cuthbert Petrie, but I could not find a reference to this marriage.
- I could however find a reference to a marriage to a Steinthal – but not to his death.
- It turns out that Paul Steinthal had changed his name during WW1 to Petrie (his mother’s maiden name).
- Searching through on-line sources such as the London Gazette and the London Times plus being provided with photographs of a family memorial helped identify Eileen’s descendants and their immediate cousins.
