Denise WILLMOTT - born 22 January 1963, Hounslow, UK. I married Stuart William GREEN 18 March 1995 at Gravesend Registry Office. Moved to Fontainebleau France in October 1994 where our son Max William GREEN was born on 25 August 1997. Relocated to Belgium in July 1998 and had a daughter Rosslyn Valerie GREEN on 16 March 1999. We are still in Belgium living in a town called Grez Doiceau in Brabant Wallon.

Parents: Married in 1957, Trinity Church, Hounslow. Divorced 1966

Father: John Patrick WILLMOTT, Born 13 May 1936, Madrid India. Died 2002, Bury St Edmunds. In 1955 my father was the first of his family to emigrate to the UK. Between 1956 and 1976 his parents and his three sisters with their families moved to the UK. However in the mid sixties my fathers two brother Robert and Peter emigrated with their families to Australia, just outside of Sydney.

Mother: Valerie Joan MATTHEWS, Born 27 Sept 1937, Ipswich, Suffolk UK. Died January 1999. My mother lived in the UK all her life, although born in Suffolk she spent her early childhood in Chatham, Kent and used to tell us bout the air raids and remembering that returning home after one particular air raid, the street on which they lived had been hit. It was particularly memorable as one half of the street was almost flattened whilst the other half appeared untouched. Most of her adult life was spent in Teddington and Hounslow (at that time in the County of Middlesex) and she eventually retired to Weybridge in Surrey.

Paternal Grandparents:Married in 1926

Grandfather: Jeremiah Vincent WILLMOTT born 1900 in India and died in the UK in 1976. My aunt seems to think that he fought in Mesopotamia during the First World War, however he would have really young so I am not convinced, admittedly I haven't yet followed up on this. However I do Know he was Assistant Inspector General of Prisons in Madrid prior to his retirement. There is confusion/an element of doubt about his parentage as according to my Aunts, he told them he grew up in a catholic orphanage following the death of his mother in a cholera epidemic, only to find her alive in 1930 in a nunnery where she had been since 1901. I have not been able to verify this.

Grandmother: Dorothy Mabel EVELING born in India 1907. Much to the annoyance of one her sisters Dorothy converted from a protestant to a catholic at the insistence of Jeremiah.

Paternal Great Grand Parents: No record of marriage

Great Grandfather: John Percival WILLMOTT, born 1863 and was a telegraph Inspector residing in Adani. on 28 May 1890 at the age of 27 he married Evylin Sarah DALGAIRNS who resided at Coimbatore. Her father was James Edward DALGAIRNS and the the marriage was witnessed by Jas DALGAIRNS, C.A. CONRAN and I.WILLMOTT. However Evylin is not my grandfathers mother.

Great Grandmother: Emelia Maud EDWARDS daughter of John and Susan Edwards, Born in Madras September 1877. That's all I know about her.

Other than knowing that John Percival WILLMOTT'S father was also a John I have not progressed any further and given the confusion about my grandfather's parentage I may not even be a WILLMOTT. Given that this is probably an unsolvable mystery I claim the right to call myself a WILLMOTT until proved otherwise!

In the next journal I will follow my grandmother's family tree.