A Habit of Dying (38 page)
Authors: D J Wiseman
Apart from her birth record, the only possible mention found of Rose is in a passenger list of arrivals in New Zealand in 1962. It appears that this Rose Joslin was killed in a motor accident a few months later.
Henry Myers (who married a distant cousin of yours) and their family
| Birth Date: | 1856 |
| Birth Place: | Braintree |
| Death Date: | 5 Nov 1928 |
| Death Place: | Chelmsford |
| Occupation: | Shopkeeper |
1891cen Braintree, age 34, shopkeeper’s assistant, recorded as Dix-Myers, with his wife Martha (32) and son Henry aged 6 months born Coggeshall.
1901cen Braintree, age 44, shop manager, recorded as Dix-Myers, with his wife Martha(42) and sons Henry(10) and James(8) born Braintree.
| Spouse: | Martha Dix (your 1 st cousin ‘four times removed’) |
| Birth Date: | 1858 |
| Birth Place: | Coggeshall |
| Death Date: | 3 Jun 1929 |
| Death Place: | Chelmsford |
| Spouse Father: | James Dix (1815-) |
| Spouse Mother: | Prudence Jolly (1817-1890) |
| Marriage Date: | 2 Jun 1886 |
| Marriage Place: | Coggeshall |
| Children: |
1 Henry Dix Myers
| Birth Date: | 22 Oct 1890 |
| Birth Place: | Coggeshall |
| Death Date: | 1916 |
| Death Place: | Paschendale |
Henry is standing on the far right at the back in the 1911 Longlands photo.
2 James Dix Myers
| Birth Date: | 4 Jul 1892 |
| Birth Place: | Braintree |
| Death Date: | 2 May 1968 |
| Death Place: | Braintree |
James is standing in the back row, second from the right next to his brother Henry in the Longlands 1911 photograph.
| Spouse: | Barbara Vaughan |
| Birth Date: | 1892 |
| Birth Place: | Colchester |
| Death Date: | 14 Jul 1920 |
| Death Place: | Braintree |
| Marriage Date: | 1919 |
| Marriage Place: | Colchester |
| Children: | Bertram Albert Dix |
| Other Spouses | Alethia Joslin (your great aunt) |
| Birth Date: | 2 Sep 1892 |
| Birth Place: | Bocking |
| Death Date: | 10 Jul 1970 |
| Death Place: | Braintree |
| Spouse Father: | Albert Joslin (1851-1923) |
| Spouse Mother: | Pitternell White (1858-1931) |
| Marriage Date: | 8 Mar 1922 |
| Marriage Place: | Chelmsford |
| Children: | Henry Dix |
| Verity Dix |
Bertram Albert Dix Myers (a distant relation ‘third cousin twice removed’) and his family
| Birth Date: | 12 Jul 1920 |
| Birth Place: | Braintree |
| Death Date: | 1 Nov 1971 |
| Death Place: | Chesham, Bucks |
This is ‘Bertie’ from the ‘RAF’ album of photos. After the war he moved to southern Africa, possibly Rhodesia, where his son Andrew was probably born. Bertie was captured at an airfield in France in 1939 and spent almost the whole war in POW camps. He was in the well known ‘Stalag Luft 3’, which was the one that the film The Great Escape was based on.
| Spouse: | Helen Fox |
| Birth Date: | 15 Aug 1922 |
| Death Date: | 2 Nov 1975 |
| Death Place: | Chesham, Bucks. |
| Marriage Date: | 12 May 1947 |
| Marriage Place: | Amersham |
| Children: | Andrew Stephen |
1 Andrew Stephen Myers
| Birth Date: | 19 Dec 1949 |
| Birth Place: | Rhodesia |
| Death Date: | 4 Apr 1992 |
| Death Place: | Oxford |
Andrew died after a long illness in hospital in 1992. According to his death certificate he was born in the old Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He had an address in South Africa when his father died in 1971. By the time his mother died in 1975 he was living in Chesham, Bucks. Andrew possibly worked in Oxford as an advertising copywriter.
Spouse: Susan Dorcas Ingleby (who was also a cousin of yours, a ‘2
nd
cousin once removed’ – her mother being Ethel Joslin)
| Birth Date: | 22 Sep 1952 |
| Birth Place: | Aylesbury |
| Death Date: | 3 Jul 2006 |
| Death Place: | Oxford |
| Spouse Father: | Frederick Ingleby (1924-1975) |
| Spouse Mother: | Ethel Beatrice Joslin (1929-1972) |
| Marriage Date: | 4 Apr 1976 |
| Marriage Place: | Abingdon, Oxon |
| Children: | Simon (died in 1978 as an infant) |
