Fagg Family Tree

Beatrice Fagg;

My grandmother was an accomplished Pianist, though she never took it up professorially, she taught piano.  Beatrice who had Osteoarthritis said that all her brothers had Rheumatoid-Arthritis and did not live beyond age 50 (I had Rheumatoid-Arthritis from age 15 to age 27 and my Granny told me about her brothers then).  One of her brothers was married to Popsy – possibly, but this was one of grandad's brothers.

Beatrice corresponded with a school friend; Miss Edith Duff – who left John Harold Lohmann a pocket watch, I believe her fiancée was a casualty of the first world war.  Beatrice was from a musical family, inherited from her father’s family.  My father John inherited a considerable appreciation and understanding of music.  She was highly qualified, but did not pursue a concert pianist career.  There is a photo of her wearing her cap and gown for her qualification as a pianist.  Beatrice’s mother died young at age 50 of a stroke and then fell down the stairs (I recall hearing this story when I was a boy visiting my grandparents).  Her father disgraced himself by re-marring, as a result Beatrice never let him in the house when he came to visit her grandson (John).  Mum says Beatrice’s mother owned 8 houses.  Beatrice saw the Zeppelins when they bombed Ramsgate and Margate, which is as far as they could travel.  The Zeppelins were silent and when shot down in flames came down silently, so people could hear the crew screaming as the balloon came down.  The crews were not given parachutes.  People left Ramsgate and Margate and there were auctions where Beatrice purchased a clock for she was with her mother and heard it striking and wanted to find it and buy it, which she did for about £2, I think.  At Ramsgate? There was a tram line along the seafront in 1901 a very large tram was built it ran along the seafront and tumbled off killing many.

When I looked at the Ancestry census, I found that Beatrice's friend Miss Eddie Duff was also her childhood neighbour as well as a school friend.   My sister and I used to get Christmas cards from her with a 5/- postal order, I think, (25p).  We then had to write a letter telling her what we were doing and thanking her for the postal order.