I want to know more about my Latchford Family
Jennifer Latchford
My name was Jennifer Ellen Latchford. My Father was a teacher from Dacorum College. He also worked in Vauxhall. Did anyone know my father? What was he really like?
I have recently found out that I am related to my next door neighbour, Alice Gower. I lived next door, but I was never allowed to meet her.
My grandmother raised me frim 18 months. I can’t talk. I’ve never been taught. I was never allowed to see anyone. I am badly disabled. My grandmother was Ellen Florence Shaw and she married my grandfather Horace Monk Latchford.
I a famous Ballroom Dancer. I was taught with Keith and Betty Bouston in high town. I have also been on television. I am famous. I had to go into Hill End Mental Asylum. I am now 69 years old.
My cousins lived next door. I had an uncle, Tony Foster, who built his house next door to my aunty. Nanny wouldn’t let me go into his house at all. I had to watch his children play in the garden Her sisters were Ethel with Alice who still live in Greeenend Road. I never met nanny’s sisters. She also had a brother Albert Shaw. He lived on Puller Road. I was not allowed to walk up his road in case in I saw him in the garden and he said hello to me.
I want to know what a real family is like. I am alone, no parents, can barely talk, rotten childhood and I need help finding out about my past. I’d like to know some of them.
Won’t someone help me? I literally cant talk.
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Hi Jennifer
I’m going to send your request for information to my colleagues at Herts Archives & Local Studies in case they can help.
Thanks
Marion (editorial team)