04 December 2011
Dear Kate (‘Tibbey’), As you will remember, we only met together once at Brian Wilson's house in Auckland 40+ years ago, when my wife Fien and I were near the end of our world-tour honeymoon and about to return to my ‘oil’ job in Brunei. Since then we've exchanged letters with you and Alec at Xmas from a wide variety of other countries. Brian (& his wife Geraldine) still live in the same house in Auckland). He and I are cousins (and very active at 80+ and ‘80 next month’ respectively). We are both relatives on the Tibbey/Rowson/Morris family tree, this branch of which seems to have originated around the 1600’s in the general Church Pulverbatch area of Shropshire UK, just a few miles due south of Shrewsbury, as you very well know.
You may (or may not) be aware that the above Rowson tree (with numerous Tibbey & Morris branches) is available on the Internet www.myrichardsons.info/?surname=rowson The site has the suggestion : repeat the search with the omitted results included
This latter instruction leads to a huge number of pages, names & trees which will probably be of great interest to a number of readers of your message.
I’ve not done much from my side to update the tree lately (apart from avoiding falling off it!) – too busy to find time, as yet, and I am only recently back from a business trip to India.
Alec was a great writer with a lovely sense of fun and we still have some a number of your letters on file from years ago.
Our sincerest condolences to you, Kate and family, at the loss of a truly fine man, husband and father.
Norman and Fien Edwards