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LETT, ORBELL, STAPLES & SCULLY I am interested in making contact with anyone named Lett, Orbell, Staples, Scully or Warner. I have an adopted brother, Victor, and a sister named Rosemary. My parents were Charles and Mary Ann Laura Orbell (maiden name Lett). My maternal and paternal grandparents were Frederick & Mary Ann Laura Lett (maiden name Staples) and Charles & Elizabeth Rosetta Orbell (maiden name Warner). My parents were born and raised in Bermondsey. My mother’s parents owned and ran a pub and a small shop in the area, although her father was also a Thames Lighterman. His father, also called Frederick Lett, won the Doggetts Coat & Badge race in 1844. My paternal grandfather was the manager of a leather factory. My mother had brothers named Frederick, Henry (Bill), John and Edward (Ted). Her sisters were Eliza (Lal), Louisa (Lou), and Florence. On my mother’s side of the family, I had cousins named Rusty, Ernie, Johnny, Jimmy, Joe, John and Babs. Several of Mum’s brothers worked in the London Docks and the whole family lived and worked in or around Bermondsey until and during WW2. For part of the war, some of the family evacuated to Hurstpierpoint in Sussex, where I was born in 1944. After the war the family became more spread out – we moved to Croydon, Lou to Coulsdon, Rusty to Greece and Ted emigrated to Australia. Increasingly, over the years, as the family became more spread out, contact between family members became less frequent and eventually was mostly reduced to weddings and funerals! I know I have lots of cousins and second cousins out there and would love to catch up with anyone who thinks they may be related to me.