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Pegg Sid and Ray

Sid and Ray Pegg Sid was born as Sidney Christopher in 1919 and Ray as Raymond in 1928. (These dates are presumed from public records on the basis that the maiden name of the mother […]

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Garner Ray and Alan

 Ray and Alan Garner   Ray Garner and his identical twin brother Alan were born fifteen minutes apart on the 5th June 1929 at the Bath Road Nursing Home, Wolverhampton. They were easily distinguishable to […]

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Krasner Ray (Rachel)

Ray (Rachel) Krasner (Westland-Krasner) Rachel Krasner’s parents had come from Vilna in Lithuaniato Britainaround about 1902. Ray’s brother – the eldest of four sons and a daughter – was born there in 1901. (Krasner is […]

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George Ray

 Ray George Raymond George was born on the 28th November 1928 in Tettenhall Wood, near Wolverhampton. He came from the skilled working class; one grandfather, who had been employed as a master baker in Malvern, […]

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Waterman Alec and Ray

 Alec and Ray Waterman (Entry from Pete Waterman.) My father, Alec Waterman (as he eventually came to call himself) was born with the surname Nasibirski in Blonie, outside Warsaw, 1907. Nasibirski, I was given to […]

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Watkinson Ray

Ray Watkinson   Raymond Watkinson, who died aged 89, was also a designer, illustrator, typographer, art editor, critic, exhibition curator and, most especially, from 1937, an art teacher. He was born on December 17th 1913 […]