People Update – April 2016

Ola, and eyes down for a mega update which has been brewing now for the best part of a year. It starts with Joseph Close (1676) and his family in Greenwich, Connecticut and winds its way into the rest of America…

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Henry Joseph Close (1884) – World War 2

Henry Joseph Close (1884) was born in New Haven, Connecticut, America, the son of George Brown Close and Sarah Kettendorf. He spent most of his life as a shipyard electrician in Quincy, Massachusetts. In 1942 he was drafted into the…

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