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I am writing from New Zealand and have been researching my husband's family for a long time.

This may sound rather out of the blue but I am hoping you can help me. I have been looking into Hettie Rutton Murdock. She died on 11 March 1943, at 59 Springfield Road, Hastings which was the same house that two Maclachlan sisters died.

I am positive that she was visiting at the time, she would have been 62 and I think these two women were the daughters of a Reverend that would have been a family friend of Hettie’s father when she was little (her maiden name was Drake, the daughter of Rev John Alexander Drake and Louisa Creery Furley who were married in Hastings but lived in Brockley, Suffolk raising their family there - it is the Drake line that I am following).