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Researching Horace

2:41pm Monday 16th June 2008


April Clark emails: "I am trying to find where Horace Skinner was buried or cremated. He died in Brighton Hospital on February 21,1956.

"I have been researching him and his family for some time now.

"Horace had a daughter called Victoria who I would also like to trace. She was widowed in 1929 after three short years of marriage."

Please email: adale41@googlemail.com.

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