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From: "Johnson, Eric [CCS]" <>
Subject: RE: [CANAL-PEOPLE] Canal death in Hull
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 15:50:56 +0100


Hi Julie

Try http://www.virtual-hull.com/lost-friends.html

On this page there is a Pat Deller-Smith seeking information about her father-in-law, John Deller-Smith who was born in Hull about 1914. She wants to know more about him or his family. Her email address is


Maybe you should drop her a line. Two heads are better than one, etc.

Eric
Carlton, WRY

> -----Original Message-----
> From:Mrs Julie Goucher [SMTP:]
> Sent:Wednesday, March 29, 2000 3:30 PM
> To:
> Subject:Re: [CANAL-PEOPLE] Canal death in Hull
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> Hi,
> > I am hitting brickwalls before I have even started with my husbands
> family. He knows little about his father's family except that they were from
> Hull in Yorkshire.
> > A story from a relative says that ggrandfather was drowned when he had an
> epileptic fit and fell in the canal. Details are very sketchy but I thought
> someone might know some thing.
> > The name was DELLER-SMITH (not even a forename)
> > Date around 1900
> > Place Hull
>
> Try the local newspapers, they may well have reported this.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Regards
> Julie Goucher
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