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Mager / Lynde Emily Phyllis Lynde Born on the 30^th April 1892 and was the youngest daughter of Walter Lucas Lynde (surveyor) and Alice Rose Lynde (Nee Dobell) of Brookbank, Chinbrook Road, Grove Park, Lee, in the County of London.  She became engaged to John Herman Mager at the beginning of the First World War in 1914 and married him when the war was over. During the war, she worked in the City of London in the Bank of England as a cashier, she was in the Bank of England when it was hit by German bombs dropped by Zeppelins but was not injured.  She later joined the Women’s Land Army and worked on a farm in Surrey.  In November 1919, the year after the First World War was over, she married John Herman Mager and they had two sons.  During the second World War she worked in the Red Cross as a supervisor in charge of the stringing and dispatch department of the Prisoner of War Parcels Centre, Leicester.  She was the last person to check the parcels before they were sent via the Red Cross to the Prisoner of War camps in Germany.  She received a letter of commendation for this work, from Mrs Clementine Churchill, wife of Sir Winstone Churchill, Prime Minister.  After her husband was demobbed from the army they went to live in Yorkshire, firstly at Ellingstring and then at East Witton where they managed the Post Office and General Store.  After the death of her husband, she became blind and went to live with her son Richard and his wife Barbara at Maldon, Essex.  Then finally with her son Tom, where for a period of time was housekeeper to an old lady despite her blindness.  She survived her husband by 22 years and was buried with him in the churchyard at East Witton. John Herman Mager The third son of Karl August Berthold Mager and Emma Jane Mager (nee Payne) of 26 Sandbourne Road, Deptford, London.  His Father came to England with his brother as a young man and started a lace business during the latter days of Queen Victoria.  At the outbreak of the First World War together with his three brothers William, Leonard and Edward they joined up whilst on holiday at the Norfolk Broads on their sailing boat ‘The Gipsy’. He joined the Norfolk Regiment and was subsequently sent to the Middle East where he served as a Staff Officer under General Allenby.  He was promoted to the Rank of Captain and mentioned in dispatches for gallant and distinguished service.  After the was he married Emily Phillis Lynde and re-entered the family business and did free lance work as an accountant. At the outbreak of the Second World War he was called up and joined the Pay Corps where he spent the war years in Leicester.  After his demob he and his wife purchased a business (General Stores and Village Post Office) at Ellingstring and later East Witton until he died on the 12^th December 1958 aged 68 years.  He was buried in the churchyard at East Witton They had two children:- 1. Richard John Dobell Born 11^th May 1921, married twice A.   Ivy Cooper B.   Barbara Wire 2. Thomas Edward Lynde Born 20^th December 1925 died 27^th October 1999 married twice:- A.   Fiona Carlisle -had three sons:- 1.  Richard B. 24^th January 1948 2.  Bruce B. 21st April 1950 3.  David B. 17^th February 1953 B.   Ruth Hipkins