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      Happenchance             

By Rodney Gascoyne

An evolving web based resource - see change history here         © 2003 Rodney Gascoyne

This is a personal memoir where I recount events, experiences and opinions as I now recall them and, where possible, giving an account of the sensations and reasoning that I encountered during changing times in the past 50 years or so - in an unusual, unique, unconventional, individual and lucky life that twisted and turned, sometimes taking off at tangents, as if almost by Happenchance: Echoed: Ad & banner free site http://members.shaw.ca/GascoyneR/Happenchance.htm

1: Forbears:                    

2: Beginnings:                  

3: Schooldays: Bethany & Habs. 

4: Out into the World:      

5: Life at Sea:                   

6: Voyages & Ships I:

7: Voyages & Ships II:

8: Life Ashore again:

9: Working in Industry:

10: Working in the Community:

11: Looking to the future:

12: Married life and a family:

13: Moving to Canada:

14: Back in London:

15: Working for myself in Canada:

Appendix A: Thomas Alcock's 1864 Diary

Appendix B: Family pictures (enlargeable)

Appendix C: Family Member Databases

                

Click on any Chapter to begin reading there     'Home' here goes to my main Website              'Home' on Chapter pages returns you here          'Next Page' takes you to the first Chapter

 

Relevant Links:     #1:  My account (5-7 above) of 'Life At Sea with Union-Castle', plus photgraphs that can be enlarged, to celebrate 2003 creation of The RMS Windsor Castle Trust.     #2:  Gascoyne family history article carried 25th May, 2002 in the Worcester Evening News.     #3:  History, images and tales from Bethany School, Goudhurst, Kent, recounting the first 100 years to 1966, as covered in the centenary edition of The Bethanian.   #4:  Website of the Alumni: The Bethanians' Society  

© 2003 Rodney Gascoyne