Dear Uncle Ted

I am proud to announce that my darling daughter, Roxanne, is now engaged Thomas 16th April 2010.

They plan to marry next year, 20 th August 2011 at Kieghley Registry office.

Love as always

A very proud and happy Annette x

http://www.unctad.org/infocomm/anglais/timbertrop/companies.htm When Frank Marillat spoke to his children of his own upbringing, he talked of his sister who went to Russia with a circus, and of a sister who was a dancer, and then another who had trained chickens to perform in a circus. We ( the family) all assumed that this was one person, and that it was Marie, who we know ran a vaudeville act in the small theatres of New York state with her husband Samuel.

She continued to use her stage name of Marie La France (which had been her name when she was a dancer) the vaudeville act was a farmyard with performing animals. They lived in New jersey before they/she moved to Dakota and where we know she died.

However we have since found Eleanor Marillat returning from Russia to the U.K. on the 3.4.1920 on the S.S.Tagus into Southhampton. Latter on that year we know that Olive Agnes and daughte...

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Who will ever know what skulduggery or dangerous deeds the lonely figure standing at the quay side waiting for the S S HENZADA had performed in the name of King and Country

When Frank Marillat boards the ship this will be it's last port-of-call before it steams to Plymouth and the safety of blighty. Having left Rangoon 15 days earler calling only at Port Sudan and Port Said, Frank knew he could say to goodby to that way of life, posing as a colonial civil servant and return to the hum drum life as an engineer in his native London.

Now that Borgarde has gone who could play the part of Frank, should any director have the courage to tell the story

For those of you who have been on the moon for the last five years. The Marillats of machen have held a sprout eating competition after their Christmas lunch for the last five years, this is an international event drawing competitors from England, wales and many other countries in Africa and the fars east. A cup is awarded and enscribed with name and sprouts eaten, the currant winner at 90SP / 2008 is David Rogers followed by Vivian Davies( a new contestant and our only marathon runner) with a credable 65, followed by a former winner Ian marillat with a disappointing 56. Unsportingly Ian contested the result by claiming that David had used mint sauce, the whole thing got ugly but was sorted out by the rules committee.YOUR ON THE SPOT REPORTER.