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Mary and Walter Godbee

Mary and Walter Godbee

Posted: 18 Jun 2014 1:59AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Bert Godbee, Mary and Walter Godbee
Hallo,
I'm hoping you can help. My grandfather, real name John Herbert Upton (b 14th Nov 1913 in Bangalow Died 21st May 1963, Gladesville), was brought up by a Godbee family in Casino and not by his biological parents and I'm trying to unravel the puzzle. My father (Douglas Ronald Upton) recalls a Aunty Beck, and a Auntie Ollie. Also a Joan and Tudor Griffiths when he as a boy lived in Casino. I believe that Walter and Mary Godbee may have brought John Herbert Upton up from a baby and I would love to know the circumstances. They may have called him Bert. He married Ella Ormsby. John Herbert's real parents were Pauline Lindsay and Herbert Arthur Upton. They were married two weeks before my grandfather's birth. They went on to have another three boys and a daughter who my grandfather never got to know about. John Herbert only got to find out he wasn't a Godbee when he needed his birth certificate in order to get married. Im hoping you can shed some light or at least advise someone I could contact. Did the two families know each other? Carol Goodwin
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