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THIRD
INTRODUCTION
 've
wanted to get this our GANDER family history more up to date
for some time, the impetus finally came when I set up the
web site for the GANDER One-Name Study - which, if you're
reading a print copy of this, is at: www.gander.cjb.net
- coupled with my learning to find my way round various desktop
publishing programs and wanting to try my hand.
So this is more of a tidying-up to the last printed copy of
A Gaggle of GANDERs I put together in 1987 than any
report on great break-throughs on the research front. ['Printed'
makes it sound very grand - Gaggle was put together
using an electric typewriter, the pages - together with photographs
- were all photocopied and I was embarrassed to later find
just how many spelling mistakes I'd made.]
I found 2 more children of William and Ann Susan and been
able to link another we knew about. I've established who
'Granny Smith' was in relation to my grandfather,
Harry Gander.
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SECOND
INTRODUCTION
 dmund
Gander, to whom Frank refers in the last paragraph of his Introduction,
sadly died shortly after Frank's The Gander's of Upper
Thames Street was printed in April 1983. Edmund was a member
of the Society of Genealogists and had been pursuing his own extensive
London Gander family history for over 20 years collecting a mass
of other incidental Gander records on the way. It was Edmund who
originally put me in touch with Frank and Frank's second cousin
Terry [Terence Michael Gander] although it was just as Frank's
booklet was produced that I made the breakthrough in my own research
and proved that I too was descended from the same William Gander,
through his eldest grandson Thomas William Gander (1895-1912). I
am therefore a third cousin once removed to Frank and Terry.
I too wish to record my own researches of 'my side' of the
family in such a way that our mutual family history can be appreciated
by more of William's descendants. As Frank did such a splendid
job with his original booklet I have tried not to change it too
much and have made alterations only where further research has thrown
up different theories or more facts eg my finding the place and
date of William and Ann Susan's marriage). So I wish to point
out that Parts 1.3, 1.5,
2.2, 2.3,
2.4 and all of Part
3 are with very minor alterations if at all, reprints from Frank's
original booklet whilst Parts 1.1,
1.2, 1.4, 1.6,
1.7, 2.1
and Appendices II & III
are also from The Gander's of Upper Thames Street but
have been updated. My acknowledgement and thanks go to Frank for
his permission to do this.
I should also like to thank those relatives of mine who took trouble
to answer my enquiries about my grandfather Harry Gander (1886-1932)
and came up with many snippets of information which eventually helped
to link a family history together. Particular thanks must go to
my Aunt Mary for her continuing interest and help, and to my above
distant cousin Terry for his help also.
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