I am trying to find information in regard to a pen pal from North Cheam with whom I corresponded from approximately 1947-1954.

We were both pre-teenagers when we began our letters and she was engaged to be married when we lost touch with one another. I do not know who or if indeed she married at that time. I was then living in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Her name was Amy Dudley and her address was 9 Whittaker Road, Sutton. Her mother's name was Florence, and she had sisters called Joyce (born 11 January 1930, married 1952/3) and Janet (born 1945) and a brother David (born 1941).

Amy was born in 1934 and her birthday was June 8 (the same as my granddaughter). We had a wonderful distant friendship and I was always sorry that it ended so suddenly.

I might have moved once more and her letter didn't catch up with me, or she might have been so busy with her new fiance - as I was with boyfriends.

I still have many of her letters and photos. In 1951 Amy worked at the ITP Football Pools and at one time she had a boyfriend named Barry Murchinson, who was going in the Navy.

I know from the Local Studies Centre in Sutton that Florence and Joyce were listed on the electoral role in 1952 but by 1955/56 they were no longer at the address.

I wonder whether the family emigrated, or simply moved. Joyce would be married shortly after, and perhaps her mother went to live with her, though what happened to the younger children is a puzzle.

I'm hoping that you could print an outline of my search and maybe, just maybe, some of your readers will remember the family, if they are not themselves still in the area.

Amy would now be about 73, as I am 71 this year and she was about two years older than me. I'm certainly aware that she might be deceased, which would be very sad, but as I am in very good health and as 70 is now the new 50, she might be out there, and from time to time might think of her old pen pal from Canada.

Any assistance you could give me would be dearly appreciated.

WENDY EDWARDS BEARDALL 64 Waterford Lane Fredericton New Brunswick Canada E3A 0E2 wbeard@nb.sympatico.ca