My grandfather was William Reynolds West who married, firstly Alice Louisa Heinemann and, after she died in 1902, her cousin, Adeline Bertha, my grandmother.

My mother's sister was Mary Eleanor West. Before she died, my brother talked about her early life. She remembered visiting a farm in Norfolk where Bessie and her brother Harcourt lived. That was when she was about 5 years old, which would put it at around 1912, and thought the name was Holly Farm in Roughton.

My understanding of Charles William was that he was the local vet who was badly injured when he was making a late night call in windy weather. The door of his trap blew shut on him and crippled his back. If my information is correct, he married Bessie in 1884 and died in 1903. The 1901 census shows the couple living in Docking, along with Clarence J Calver.

Apparently Harcourt went rubber planting in Borneo and Bessie then went to live in Ceylon with Clara, and subsequently married Henry Walden (sp?). When Henry retired from the Ceylon Wharfage Company, they came back to England, settling briefly in Southend before going to Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. My aunt remembers that they had a bungalow called Neuralia. We think that when Henry died, Bessie went to live with a woman named Madeleine in Docking, although that may not be accurate; there's also the possibility that she went to live in Kent, possibly with Clara.

My aunt's view of Bessie was that she was "ok".

I hope that this has been helpful.

Charles had a brother Alfred and a sister Emily who immigrated to Malden, Massachusetts in the United States. Alfred's son William also worked for AWA Plate for a time.

I was delighted to find this photo yesterday and to see Charles Heinemann, veterinarian, brother to my great great aunt-by-marriage Clara (Heinemann) Plate. Does anyone know how Charles ended up in a wheelchair? -- he certainly died very young.
Clara's family seems to have been a remarkable one...she is likely best known as the wife and partner of AWA Plate -- together they founded the photography studio AWA Plate & Co in Colombo, Ceylon and also opened a studio in Nuwara Eliya (in the heart of "tea country") Clara's other brother Herbert moved to Ceylon with his wife to assist with the studio, and he and Clara kept it going for many years after Clara and AWA apparently separated. AWA died in Austria in 1931. Clara eventually returned to England from Ceylon, where she died in Kent in 1954.

Yes - the man on the left is Mr. Percy Bloy. He is my grandfather and I remember as a child in the 1950s he spent many hours working on Hospital Sunday arrangements, and also for the Royal British Legion. He lived with his wife Sarah in Ivy Cottage, where she had a general store. His main recreation was to go for a game of dominos at the Hero pub. He was a very quiet serious man, who had served in the 1st World War.

Linda Newell

This was a great fancy dress idea - no body knew who they all were!!! The original Charlies Angels. Tom Ransom is my dad - good legs heh????