Charles Howard Sandell

“There is a family tradition that the Sandells descended from a Norman knight, John de Sandell, who came over with William the Conqueror. Joseph was a school master who founded a school in Oxford which closed only in 1975. Joseph died in 1866 and Leah then brought her young family to Hackney.” — Frank Middlemiss’s online notes

“Ida ... married William Malcolm on the 25th July 1908. From early in the 2nd World War they were living at 3, Sandringham Road, Leyton, opposite the Stutchburys, where William died in 1949. My wife Florence and I inspected the house in 1954 with a view to buying it, but we decided not to. Ida and William had three children, Frank, Alan and Kathleen.”

Bearman Family tree by Dr. Frank Middlemiss

From early in the 2nd World War they were living at 3, Sandringham Road, Leyton opposite the Stutchburys, where William died in 1949. My wife Florence and I inspected the house in 1954 with a view to buying it, but we decided not to.

Frank Middlemiss - online notes

Was an infantry officer during the 2nd World War and was wounded in Italy in 1943, according to Frank Middlemiss’s notes.

Alan was a conscientious objector during the 2nd World War, according to Frank Middlemiss’s notes.

Kathleen “is my exact contemporary. In 1921, when I could just walk and she had not yet learned to do so, I held her hand while she took her first steps. At the age of 20 she was engaged to a Theology student, a year older than herself, whom she met at college. She was described at the time as "looking no more than sixteen". In September 1942 she started teaching in a boys' grammar school at Brentwood, Essex, and was married in the summer of 1943. Her husband was called Kenneth Oram. He had a successful ecclesiastical career, eventually becoming bishop of Grahamstown, South Africa. After Kenneth's death, Kathleen lived at Worthing.” Frank Middlemiss