Rowe
Symons
Connor
Cobley
Chapell
Harper
Mitchell
Hendy
R.N.
The Ancestors
of Terence Rowe & Ellen May Symons
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The Ancestors of Terence Rowe & Ellen May Symons
Terence Lony Rowe, born 6th
December 1920
Terence
Rowe was born and spent his childhood in Laira
Plymouth, a lot of his holidays being 
spent at Cawsand where his family was based. He
was in the Territorial Army with is father James John and had
a happy childhood. On leaving school he started an apprenticeship
as a painter and decorator but left this in order to work for
the Great Western Railway were he graduated from engine cleaner
to fireman. Based at Southall his war was spent running ammunition
trains through the London blitz they used to try and get into
tunnels during air raids. He married May on the
9th September 1942. His war service was with the Home Guard. After the war he
left the railway and worked for the Western National Bus Company
also working for Royal Blue long distance coaches eventually
pioneering the Rapide motorway services to London for National
Express.
Ellen
May Symons was
brought up at Prince Rock in Plymouth and on leaving School 
studied shorthand and typing at Priors
Academy . She then spent a short period working in London living
with family at Hayes in Middlesex. May was very homesick so she
returned to Plymouth and worked as a Women Police Constable,
shorthand typist at Greenbank. She left in 1943 to have children
not working again until the early 1950's when she worked as a
clerk typist for Riviera Confectionery. She also worked at Palmer
& Harvey. She worked all her life and both her and Terry
enjoyed an happy retirement. Terry predeceased her by several
years but she coped very well on her own, leading a full life.
Terry and May had two children Robert Ivor born 14th January 1944 and Pamela Elizabeth Born 22nd November 1947 both were born at Flete in Holbeton Devon.
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