This is the first quarter, 2022 THFFI Newsletter, The Hungerford World Tree, Vol. VIII, No. 1.
In this Issue:
- THFFI Database Riches
- Points of Interest
- We have more than 107,000 profiles, up from 42,000 in 2015.
- Material saved to the database already has disappeared from the internet.
- THFFI needs more member support to be sustainable.
- More Database Riches:
- Database Update:
- 107,022 Hungerford profiles (104,227 last quarter)
- 69,648 Marriage records (67,710 last quarter)
- 14,395 Different surnames (14,057 last quarter)
- 8,828 Library entries (8,380 last quarter)
- 18,127 Photographs (16,931 last quarter)
- Notes From Your Editor
- Royalty in the THFFI Database
- Mary Julia Murray Hungerford Enduring the March 1910 Nebraska Prairie Fire
- Richard’s Research Into the Foregoing Story
- Washington, District of Columbia, USA 1929 City Directory
- Free Public Access to Federal Records
- U.S. Federal Census Personal Information Available From 1910 Through The 2020 Census
- 1950 Census Will Increase Access to Records
- Claiborne de Borda Pell GCC GCM (US19699)
- Wampage I
- Darla Kay Stevens Abla (US19683)
- Hungerfords Who Have Departed Us:
- Peter Scott Hungerford (SH1314)
- Jennifer “JenJen” Linda Drake Kitching (UNUS3050) )
- Diane Clare Pollock Hungiville (UNIR210spouse1)
- Dr. William David Varner (US1169)
- Robert “Bob the Junk Man” Pernell Hungerford (UNUS2242)
- Barbara “Barb” Anne Hungerford Philips (US3554b)
- Darla Kay Stevens Abla (US19683)
- James “Jim” S. Young (US8312aspouse1)
- Dr. Harold Ralph Hungerford (US3468)
- Madeline “Beth” Hungerford Bourne (US2862b)
- Paula Kay Hungerford Myran (SH1160b)
- Laken Hungerford (US19759)
- Ilene “Squeaky” June Arnold O’Connor (US3241)
- William “Billy” Hastings (IR3405dspouse1)
- Brian David Hungerford Wood (IR3409)
- The Quarterly Quiz Answer
- The Quarterly Quiz: A certain “Lady of the Bedchamber” was perhaps the most notorious mistress kept by any King of England. She was reputed to be generous with her young lovers by supporting them with money that she received from the King. A certain gentleman who would become a duke was in bed with her once when the King dropped by unexpectedly. Her lover jumped out a window, the King walked to the window, and the king told the him that he forgave him because he only made love to her for the money.
Her jilted lover subsequently demanded five thousand pounds and that she make love to Sir ____ Hungerford who had expressed the desire to be where the King had been previously. She told Sir ____ Hungerford that her fee would be ten thousand pounds (she wanted to keep “a little extra” for herself). Hungerford agreed to the fee but she duped him by sending another woman to meet him in a dark room and collect the payment.
She told Hungerford about her subterfuge and offered herself to him again for another ten thousand pounds which he declined after coming to his senses.
- The Quarterly Mystery Answer: Last Quarter’s Quarterly Mysteryconcerned Joy Hungerford who was said to be the daughter of Bertram Vivian Bowden, Baron Bowden (18 Jan 1910 - 31 Jul 1989) in an image published 11 Feb 1926 in the Derbyshire Times. Lord Bowden was born in 1910, so it seemed improbable that he had a daughter identifying herself as such in 1926. We asked who is Joy Hungerford? No one proposed an answer.
- The Quarterly Mystery: pertains to Eric Henry Holdich-Hungerford (UNEN1192) 22 Jan 1915 apparently in England - 24 Jan 2003 apparently in England and Eric Vincent a.k.a Eric Henry Holdich-Hungerford (UNEN1286) born about 1931 apparently in England.
Eric (UNEN1192) was raised with half-siblings, only later using his real surname. Before WW2 he worked on a farm and then served in France as a Gunner in the Royal Regiment of Artillery sustaining wounds when his ship HMS Jaguar was bombed. While convalescing in Oxford, he saw a vehicle from his regiment drive by, collected his kit, and re-joined, serving in North Africa and the Western Desert with the 8th Army. After the War he worked as a film librarian and in the motor trade. He married Joyce E. Thorp Jan 1948, lived at 30 Western Avenue, Welland Gardens, Ealing, London, England for many years, and had 4 children and 4 grandchildren, names unknown to us. He became a Chelsea Pensioner in 1989 and suffered from Parkinson’s disease.
And then we have this: a Notice published in the 10 Jun 1947 edition of The London Gazette: “a natural born ‘British subject of 16,’ The Warren, Heston in the county of Middlesex (lately called Eric Vincent) has assumed and intends henceforth and upon all occasions and at all times to assume and ‘be called by the name of Eric Henry Holdich-Hungerford in lieu of and in substitution for his former name of Eric Vincent.’”
We have no other information about those people. Who are they and how are they related to the Holdich families and Hungerford families?
- Mission Statement
- About THFFI
- Appendix: Hungerford v. Hungerford
- Database Update: