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The Greenock Telegraph Friday, 26th July, 1985 Colourful History Robert Pool from Cumbernauld is trying to trace the Greenock link in a family tree that stretches from France to Canada. His grandmother, whose name was Annie Lavelle, was brought up by Alexander Griffin and his wife, Margaret, at 25 Ann Street. Robert does not know why the couple came to raise the French-born girl, but the address is also on her certificate of marriage to Thomas Pool in 1925. He knows little about the couple, but there is one fascinating clue - Alexander Griffin received a medal at Buckingham Palace some time between 1939 and 1942. So far Robert (29), an Office manager for hi-fi distributors, has discovered that two members of the family were murdered. One was an uncle of his mother, who met an untimely end as a fur trapper in Canada. The other was a great-great uncle who was a sergeant in the Metropolitan Police about the turn of the century, and who was killed in the French port of Boulogne. Robert's address, for anyone who can help is 44 Chestnut Avenue, Cumbernauld, and his number is 02367 28534. (Margaret Griffin was in fact Annie Lavelle's sister, Margaret Lavelle. Margaret was Alexander Griffin's second wife. Alexander Griffin received the British Empire Medal for being in charge of the war ships launched in the river Clyde during World War ll. Annie Lavelle (Pool) accompanied Alexander Griffin to Buckingham Palace as her sister Margaret was ill at the time. The above information was supplied by Rachel Griffin, Alexander's daughter, when Robert Pool and his mother, Alexina Williamson (Pool) visited her at her home in Greenock in 1985. Alexina had met Rachel previously at a family function some years before but did not know her address at the time of the article.)
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