Letter from Linda Bond (Pratt)

Hi Cousin Hamilton, I spent a long day with Mum last Friday going through her biscuit tin of photos.

I decided to send you a disk as there are too many photos to email. I hope there are some new pics in this lot for you to add to the website.

There are some photos of the Pratt family so I will just fill you in on Dad’s family (not a big family by Warren standards): Mother – Mabel Ellen Pratt (nee Kent) my nanna. Father – Frederick Joseph Pratt – died in 1950 so I never knew him Eldest child – Elizabeth Maisie – known to me as Aunt Betty (married name Marshall). You will see a couple of photos of her and son John Marshall. Second child – Maurice Pratt – known to me as Uncle Nobby. He was a lovely jolly fellow, didn’t marry until quite late and no children to my knowledge. he served in the air force in WWII. Youngest child – my dad Peter John Gilbert Pratt.

You will see a little poem written for him when he was at a firm of Chartered Accountants in Holburn – Gibson Appleby & Co. I worked there as a receptionist for a short time before we came to Australia.

(Admin: Linda also provided a newspaper article on her Dad’s retirement that you can read here: Peter Pratt Retires)

In the next stage of my research of the Pratts I have found a ‘Constable’ in the family. Maybe some connection to John Constable the landscape artist – who knows!!

Now, some of the other Warren photos that need explanation: Unknown child in sailors outfit – Mum has no idea who this is but I decided to copy it anyway – any clues???

I found a photo with Walther written on the back. Mum thinks this is one of the Kohlers – possibly Ruth’s son born just before she died or perhaps Prof Kohler married again and this is a child from a second marriage but then, if that is the case, why would mum have been given this photo. I think this name conflicts with an email I have seen from Alan to Janet where he mentions Ruth’s son as Graeme. Please let me know if you have any idea who Walter is:

The fascinating big truck – apparently our grandfather and Uncle Ally are there somewhere – I can’t pick them.

I also visited Barry’s mum on thursday and she has given me loads of family information on the Bonds – not collated yet but if you are interested I can send you some photos, her eldest brother was killed in a plane crash in Lincolnshire, England during WWII – an Aussie doing his bit for the mother country. I stayed with my brother Clive at Ingleside last Thursday night and we spent the evening looking at your website/photos/certificates etc and he is happy for me to send some photos of him and the kids for the website. I will get onto this as soon as I can. His eldest daughter Rachael has just celebrated her 21st birthday. Well I think that’s all for now. Love to everyone in Bangalow Linda Late final extra Through Ancestry.com I have just made contact with a distant cousin in Canada with whom we share our great grandparents James Warren and Julia Eleanor Brown. her grandfather Albert Arthur Warren was younger brother to our grandfather Thomas Samuel Warren. She must be part of the Warren clan that Uncle Ron mentioned in his email who went to Canada in the early 1900s. Will keep you posted as I find out more.