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William Harvey
(Abt 1808-1885/1887)
Susanna Grace Salway
(Abt 1812-1872)
Jane Lewarn
(Abt 1823-1849)
James Harvey
(1842-)
Ann Lake Lewarn
(1846-)
Kate Grace Harvey
(1881-1967)

 

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Ernest Robert Vickery

Kate Grace Harvey 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

  • Born: 18 Sep 1881, Plymouth, Devonshire, England 2 3 5 10
  • Marriage: Ernest Robert Vickery on 10 Aug 1908 in home of Rev. J. R. Monroe, Taber, Alberta, Canada 1
  • Died: 1967, Calgary, Alberta aged 86 2 13
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bullet  Noted events in her life were:

• Residence: 64 Baring Street, 1901, Plymouth, Devonshire, England. 11

• Immigration: S S Virginian, 24 Jul 1908, Liverpool to Quebec City. 8

• Residence, 1911, Taber, Alberta. 6

• Residence, 1916, Taber, Alberta. 4

• Residence: Riverview Avenue, 1921, Taber, Alberta. 3

• travel: S S Ausonia, 20 Jun 1927, Montreal to London. 7

• travel: S S Ausonia, 29 Aug 1927, Southampton to Quebec City. 10

• Residence, 1935, Taber, Alberta. 15

• travel: Southampton to Montreal, 19 Aug 1939, to Canada. 16 with daughter Joy . SS Ausonia. departed 19 Aug 1939.

• travel: border crossing Canada to Eastport, Idaho, 22 Mar 1941, Eastport, Idaho. 17

• Residence: 532 Crescent Road, 1963, Calgary, Alberta. 9


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Kate married Ernest Robert Vickery, son of William James Vickery and Eliza Grace Carter, on 10 Aug 1908 in home of Rev. J. R. Monroe, Taber, Alberta, Canada.1 (Ernest Robert Vickery was born on 3 Oct 1876 in 18 Charlotte Street, Bath, Somerset, England 2 3 11 18 19 20 and died on 2 Feb 1962 in Calgary, Alberta 2 13.)


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1 digital images; 1908 Lethbridge Herald, 13 Aug, 1908, page 1

WHAT TABER EXPECTS TO DO THIS YEAR
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Taber, Aug 11, 1908
A very quiet wedding was solemnized last evening at the home of the Rev. J. R. Monroe, when Ernest R. Vickery and Miss Kate G. Harvey were united in the bonds of matrimony, the Rev. J. R. Monroe officiating. Mr. Vickery is one of Taber's successful merchants. The bride recently arrived from England. Mr. and Mrs. Vickery will make their home in Taber. Their many friends wish them a successful journey through the thorny path of life.
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2 (MSS notes ); Hi Jim,
This is what I have/ know on my mom's side of the family:
William J. Vickery m. Eliza Grace _____?( my old notes had his sec. initial as I. instead of a J. it was corrected by my cousin...so, I think she is correct, i.e; a J.) I also have a note to say Eliza Grace died in 1917.
William and Eliza had 2 sons( not 100% sure if it was only 2) ..but they were:
Ernest Robert Vickery ( my maternal grandfather) & Albert ( Bert) Vickery) m. Beryl____?
E.R. Vickery was born in Bath, England... 3 Oct 1876. married 10 Aug 1908 to Kate Grace Harvey who was b. 18 Sept 1981, Plymouth......eventually lived in Taber AB , had 4 children...my mom was the second youngest.....then they retired to Calgary. He died 2 Feb 1962. Kate died 1967 in Calgary. I have lots of details on my maternal grandmother's side thanks to a cousin of my mom who lived near Plymouth.
What I don't know for sure is the number of sons that Albert had( there well may be only one, however)....the one for sure was Stanley Vickery who lived in or around Tavistock, Devon. He died in Dec. 1986. My notes say that he had 3 children....Christopher, John and Diana. I also think that Christopher had at least 2 children --a boy and a girl, my notes say. John may have had at least 2 as well...a boy and a girl? Diana may have one child whose name seems a very strange spelling...Faviell ? Christopher may moved to the Isle of Wight
John Vickery --was living last in / near Plymouth, England....my notes say he was probably a son of Stanley Vickery. Stanley was my mom's cousin ....sure wish I had asked her more about him and the rest of the family....but isn't that the usual story ?? !!!
My maternal grandfather E.R. Vickery knew he would not be in line to inheirit the family store in Plymouth which was called Vickery Dingles...now apparently called just Dingles...if it still is there.---( so he came to Canada - ship / date ?)..
The last known address I have for John....was 158 Lipson Rd. Plymouth, PL4 7NX....when I received this update...my cousin thought he might still be alive...but that was some time ago so likely not alive...death date ??.
What I hope you may find is the info on William and Eliza Grace; Albert and his wife, their son Stanley and his wife , and their children, John, Christpher and Diana and their wives / husband and possibly their children... for the latter really don't need to go to too much detail other for names...but you decide.
I hope I have NOT loaded this email with TOO MUCH info....If you need any more please let me know. Unfortunately, I do not have the emigration details for E.R....nor when my grandmother came over.
There are a few missing bits of info ....some b. / d. / m. dates on my maternal Grandmother Harvey's side...but that's a whole other story. If you were successful on the Vickey side, I would be tempted to ask you to try to fill in these as well at a later date. My mom's cousin traced some relatives back to someone who died in 1761.
Cheers..............Don.

3 1921 census of Canada; RG 31; digital images; page 15, line 25
Vickery, Ernest, Riverview Avenue, owner, Head, male, married, age 44, born England, parents born England, immigration 1901, Merchant, General Store
Vickery, Kate, Riverview Avenue, wife, female, married, age 39, born England, parents born England, immigration 1908
Joy, Daughter, female, single, age 12, born Alberta, parents born England
Harvey, Son, male, single, age 10, born Alberta, parents born England
Dora, Daughter, female, single, age 7, born Alberta, parents born England

page 10, family 92
Hammon, Alfred, 3rd Street North, Head, male, married, age 55, born England, parents born England, immigration 1888, Ch of England, Doctor, Medical
", Jane, 3rd Street North, wife, female, married, age 42, Ontario, father Scotland, mother Irish, Ch. of England
", Harold, son, age 20, Manitoba, student college
", Sylvia, daughter, age 18, Manitoba, student college
", Mary, daughter, age 15, Manitoba
", Arthur, son, age 13, Sask
", Charlie, son, age 11, Alberta
", Margaret, daughter, age 7, Alberta
", Patricia, daughter, age 5, Alberta
", Vera, daughter, age 1, Alberta

4 1916 census of the Northwest Provinces; RG 31; digital images; page 15, line 12
Vickery, Earnest Robert, Tabor, Head, male, married, age 39, born England, Methodist, immigration 1898, Canadian, English, Merchant, General Store
Vickery, Kate Grace, Tabor, wife, female, married, age 33, born England, Methodist, immigration ?, Canadian, English
Vickery, Kathline Joy, daughter, female, single, age 7, born Alberta, Methodist
Vickery, Ernest Harvey, son, male, single, age 5, born Alberta, Methodist
Vickery, Dora Grace, daughter, female, single, age 2, born Alberta, Methodist

5 database; birth registered 4th qtr, 1881 in Plymouth, Devonshire
vol 5b, page 245
Kate Grace Harvey

6 1911 census of Canada; RG 31; digital images; :
page 9, family 89
Vickery, Ernest R, male, head, married, born 1876, age 35, born England, immigration 1900, English, Canadian, Methodist, Merchant
Vickery, Kate, female, wife, married, born 1883, age 28, immigration 1900, English, Canadian , Methodist
Vickery, Joy, female, daughter, single, born 1910, age 1 8/12, born Alta
Vickery, Harvey, male, son, single, born 1911, age 3/12, born Alta

page 21
Hamman, Alfred, male, head, married, birth April 1866, age 45, born England, immigration 1888, Anglican, Physician
", Jane, female, wife, married, birth Jan 1879, age 32, born Ontario, Anglican
", Harold, male, son, single, birth March 1901,age 10, born Manitoba, Anglican
", Sylvia, female, daughter, single, birth April 1903, age 8, born Manitoba, Anglican
", Mary, female, daughter, single, birth Jan, 1906, age 5, born Manitoba
", Arthur, male, son, single, birth Feb 1908, age 3,born Sask.
", Charles, male, son, single, birth April 1910, age 1, born Alta
",

7 Passenger list, 20 June, 1927 "S S Ausonia" arriving London. :
Arrival: London, Date of arrival: 20 June, 1927, from Montreal
line 201: Vickery , Kate G., proposed address in UK: 64 Hospital Road, Plymouth, Housewife, age 45, country last residence: Canada
line 202: Vickery, Dora : Child, age 11
line 203: Vickery, Gladys: Child, age 4

8 1908 passenger list: S S Virginian. :
S S Virginian, departed Liverpool for Quebec City, date of arrival 24 July 1908

Kate Harvey, female, age 26, single, occupation: Grocer?, destination: Taber, Alberta

9 1963 Canada Voters List. 1963 Calgary Voters List
532 Crescent Road, Calgary, Alberta
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Vickery, Mrs. Kate, widow
Vickery, Miss Joy, missionary

10 Passenger list, 29 Aug 1927, S S Ausonia, arriving Quebec. :
S S Ausonia, Port of arrival: Quebec, departure port: Southampton
Kate G Vickery,wife, age, 45, born England, Plymouth, Canadian, 1908, Taber, Alberta
Dora G Vickery, female, age 11, Canada, Taber, Canadian, 1914, Taber, Alberta
Gladys L Vickery, female, age 6, birth Canada, Taber, Canadian, 1921, Taber, Alberta

11 1901 census of England; digital images; citing PRO RG 13; :
1901 census, Plymouth, Devonshire
page 89, family 252

William J Vickery, head, married, male, age 57, Outfitter, Clothing, Employer, born, Somerset, Langford
Eliza G Vickery, wife, married, female, age 50, born Devon, Exeter
Ernest R Vickery, son, single, male, age 21, Sulphite wood pulp maker, worker, born Somerset, Bath
Beatrice A Vickery, daughter, single, female, age 21, born Wilts, Salisbury
Ada E Vickery, niece, single, female, age 23, Teacher of music, born Somerset, Bath
Mabel J Brice, Servant, single, female, age 19, general domestic servant, born Cornwall, St. German


page 53-54, family 440,
64 Baring Street
James Harvey, Head, married, male, age 58, Architect & Surveyor, born Devon, Plymouth
Anne L ", wife married, female, age 54, born ","
Anne B ", daughter , single, female, age 27, born ","
Ada May Harvey, daughter, single, female, age 21, Millenary Showroom Asst., worker, born Devon, Plymouth
Kate G ", daughter, single, female, age 19, Teacher of Music, on own account, working at home, born ","
Henry A ", son, single, male, age 15, born ","

12 Kate Grace Harvey, 1908. Hand written Letter to Ann Lake Lewarn, the Mother of Kate Grace Harvey upon her arrival by train to Medicine Hat, AB ......Palace Hotel, July 30th 1908.

Transcribed March 23, 2015 by Donald Wilson of Kelowna,BC, from a photo copy of a hand written letter that I suspect Barbara Simpson obtained from her brother Henry ( Harry) Vickery upon her visit to Canada in April 1960

My Dear Mother,

Here I am at last. I arrived in Medicine Hat at about 7.30p last evening. We had about 20 minutes here so Ernest was able to have a chat with Mrs. Mudge and several of my acquaintances on the train and after the train had gone we had a walk around by the river. [Transcriber’s note: i.e. the South Saskatchewan River.] The sunset was just glorious and the reflection in the water enhanced its beauty all the more. It’s a very wide river, and there is a very fine bridge we saw across it; wild sage growing in abundance along its banks. Ernest had been meeting lots of trains and had been in Medicine Hat for 2 days owing to our delay and had not received my telegram as he was not in Taber when I sent it from Winnipeg. We had about 5 hours in Medicine Hat to wait for our train down here. It left at about 10:30p so we got here about 1:30 a.m. We came along to this Hotel; there was a man from the hotel at the station. Ernest then said goodnight to me. I was glad to get into a nice clean room once more without the racket of the train to disturb my slumber. I felt very tired as I have not slept on the train except for about two hours each night. It is so noisy. The trains are not anything like the G.W.R. for easy, smooth travelling but just go rattling along making tremendous noise and motion all the time. The whistles are exactly like a caller on a ship and the bell so noisy and clangy.

I hope you received my cable sent off last night. I addressed it ‘Vickery’ as it was cheaper and they will let you know quickly I think.

We had opportunity for long talks on the train coming down. I have not seen Ernest this morning but he is coming here for lunch. He has taken a small house on the outskirts. 4 rooms...a bungalow; it’s impossible to get a maid here so I am glad it is small. I’ll tell you more about when I have seen it. The kitchen is very large he says and a nice parlour and two bedrooms. Outside a nice piece of ground which has been cultivated, but is not very good at present as it is not in use. A verandah around the east side and we have also a well which is a luxury. This end of town buys their water but we shall have an advantage that way. Ernest has had a stove taken from the store for the kitchen. He is canvassing...?? [Transcriber’s note: this page is missing at least one line of script during the copying process, unfortunately]...... [Carrying on]....having from a firm he deals with in Calgary and some of the furniture. This stuff has not arrived from the east; neither have I seen anything of my luggage as yet but I hold the checks so it’s alright and safe only I want some clean clothes badly and I don’t know how I shall manage for a change of linen and stockings if it does not come by next train as the train travelling plays havoc with your clothes. I have never felt in such an unclean state in my life. After you get your baggage checked in Montreal you have nothing more to do with it and it should have come on the same train as I did but owing to the crowd travelling at present the train was divided into 4 sections and so you can’t depend on things at all; will send you a postcard as soon as I get them.

This is a very swell hotel and they charge $2 a day, but Ernest thought that if I stayed for a week I might get them to charge me 1 dollar. Things are very dear. I am in a very pretty drawing room just at present and have just been getting my fingers used to the piano...it is a beauty and a treat to play again, only unfortunately I have no music.
[Note: one more line of script missing due to incomplete copying]....filled out. Downstairs there is a fine dining hall, all the (dark green) blinds are kept down in the day time and the room is beautifully clean and cool. Breakfast is from 8-9:30am but I didn’t get down until 10:30 so it was all over. I strolled about and found the landlady and asked her if I could have something to eat and she said if I came with her she would get me something herself and so I went with her into the dining hall and she got me some tea and toast which was so good as I had had nothing except for some fruit and ice cream since tea time yesterday. She is a very nice lady about 28y.

The day is a hot as it can be. I shouldn’t like to go out until it has got cooler, but I am not feeling the heat like I did on the train...it was almost unbearable. After we left Winnipeg the scenery changed altogether instead of lakes and mountains the awful scenery (it fills you with awe so it is a good word for it) you get... [Two words not decipherable] farmers and their homesteads and their wheat fields. From where I am now writing I can see for miles, but it is not lonely as there are so many houses and so much life about. Please give my love to everybody. I suppose they will be about coming home when you get this. I am sorry to send this poor paper but that is all I have. Many kisses to you my dear Mother and Dad.

From your loving daughter Kitty.

PS: Tell Harry the engines on the train are such big, angry, snorting looking things. There was a lady on the cowcatcher on the front of ours!!

13 Joy Vickery, transcribe by Don Wilson, Kelowna, BC. Notes from the personal diary of Joy Vickery (1909-1995)

1909 Born
1915 Grade 1
1927 Grade 12
1928 Normal School
1929 Taught Grade 1-8 Purple Springs Elem
1930 Taught 2,3 Taber Elementary
1931 U of AB Edm
1932 Sherbourne
1933 U of AB Edm
1934 U of AB Edm
1935 Taught at Taber H.S.
1936-1940 taught at St. Hilda's
1941-2 Taught at McLeod H.S.
1943-46 Meteorology -Montreal
1947 Kings Hall Compton
1948-9 Mount Royal College, Calgary
1950 United Church T.S
1951-54 Trinidad Missionary/teaching at Naparina Girls School
1955 Furlough year
1956-9 Trinidad
1960 Furlough
1961 Trinidad
1962 Dad (Ernest) Died
1963 Calgary
1964-7 Trinidad...Mother (Kate) died in 1967
1968-74 Trinidad- 1974 Joy was 60y-retired from Trinidad
1975 St. Lucia- visiting with Dr. Constance (Connie) Wagar former teacher, Trinidad- Don Wilson visited both of them in St. Lucia on a holiday that summer.
1976 Resided in Calgary to 1995
1995 Joy died in Calgary Foothills Hospital Aug. 7th at 3:05 pm with Don, Dora & Rob Wilson, Patti Howell and Joy's sister-in- law, Margaret Hamman by her side.

14 Donald Wilson, April 2015, gleaned from notes by Barbara (Dommett) Simpson. Notes on the family of James Harvey and Ann Lake Lewarn, April 2015

Notes on the Children of James and Ann Lake Lewarn HARVEY

1. Frederick William HARVEY: 1866-1906.
I never heard anything of him or his family except that we have the names of his five children—the last two were twins, Walter Arthur Charles & Dorothea. The following are notes about Walter ( Bobby )“Walter was always known as ‘ Bobby ‘ & was a captain in the navy and the sea was his great love. He, “Bobby “ put his age “ on “ to enlist in the 1914-18 war, during which his ship was torpedoed and wrecked. He had his Master’s ticket & became a Master Mariner, I knew him when his ship occasionally came into Plymouth Dockyard, He was again shipwrecked from a torpedo during the 1939-45 war when he was on the North Atlantic convoys. He famously used hi seamanship to outwit the Egyptian Embassy during the Suez Crisis in 1956. (See attached newspaper clipping).

2. Arthur James F.R.I.B.A. : 1889-1968
He was a very talented organist & music composer as well as being an architect. His music talent led him to compose the march for Queen Victoria’s 80th birthday. He designed several buildings in Plymouth. Later on, he was an architect for London County Council. His hobby, apart from playing church organs was taking clocks and watches apart & repairing them. He died at the age of 99+ years. He married but had no children.

3. Herbert Charles: 1871-1909.
He apparently died in a mental hospital ~ age 38, according to an entry in the family bible. No Children.

4. Annie Blanche: 1873-1959 -was frequently referred to as Auntie Ciss. She married Will Goddard. They had no children.
She and her husband, Will Goddard were tenant farmers of Washwell Farm, Painswick, Gloustershire all their life. Famed for her acid tongue: even dear Joy named her Auntie ‘Lemon’ Annie! As the first girl in the family she had to do all the darning and if any of the children fell down and cut their knees she would say “never mind your knee bleeding—have you torn your socks / stockings?”
5. Lily Kate: 1875-1876...Unfortunately the writer of these notes knows nothing of her....though she died quite young...living only ~ 11 months.
6. Ernest George: 1878 -1962. A dear loving man. His first wife—Ellen Winifred PAYN, died of puerperal fever( sepsis) a few days after giving birth to Ernest Payn HARVEY, ( aka Jim) who is Robin Grant HARVEY’s father. He, (Ernest George) later married Agnes, who brought Robin’s father (Jim) up. Ernest worked long and hard hours as a manager of a grocer’s shop and died of lung cancer having never smoked a cigarette in his life.
7. Ada May (Kathleen): 1879-1959. Barbara Simpson’s mother was a very lovely mother to her. She had beautiful contralto voice and once sang in the Guildhall in Plymouth with Dame Clara Ellen Butt a famous English Opera singer. Ada married Harold Milton DOMMETT in 1910 whose only child was Barbara Ella (nee Dommett) Simpson who is the author of these family notes and early ancestor research, without whom this project would never likely been started.
8. Kate Grace: 1881-1967—Married Ernest Robert VICKERY in 1908, Taber AB.
9. Henry (Harry) Anthony HARVEY: 1885-1977. Married Florence Mary (aka auntie Flo) ________? In ________?
Another side note from Barbara...Ernest George HARVEY’s son, Ernest Payn (aka uncle Jim) who is Robin Grant HARVEY’S Father) was said by Barbara “to be a darling of a man, so quiet & gentle; loved music and Robin is exactly like him in voice and in mannerisms.” Jim had a fine knowledge of antiques and managed a shop in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

15 database; 1935 Canada Voter's LIst

Vickery, Ernest R, merchant, Taber
Vickery, Mrs. Ernest R (W) , married woman, Taber
Vickery, Harvey E, clerk, Taber
Vickery, Miss Joy K , teacher, Taber

16 Passenger list, SS Ausonia, 1939.

17 database; 1941 border crossing: Canada to Eastport, Idaho, 22 Mar 1941, Eastport, Idaho. Ernest Robert Vickery
accompanied by wife Kate Grace
Place of birth: Bath, England, Oct 3,1876, age 64, male, Merchant
Kate Grace Vickery
Place of birth: Plymouth, England, Sept 18,1881.age 59 years,

English, English, Nationality: Canada, address: Taber, Alberta
Name & address of relative: son Harvey Vickery, Taber Alberta
Been in US before? Yes, trip through Banf Mont August 1938.
Destination: Vancouver, BC, daughter Dora at General Hospital
in transit
Height 5 ft. 10 inches, complexion: medium,
hair: grey, eyes : Brown

18 database; :
1876 birth registered 4th qtr, 1876 in Bath,
volume: 5c, page 612

1876 Birth in the Sub-district of Lansdown, in the County of Somerset

No. 81
When and where born: Third October, 1876 , 18, Charlotte Street
Name: Ernest Robert , sex: Boy,
father: William James Vickery,
mother: Eliza Grace Vickery, formerly Carter,
occupation of father: Commercial Traveller,
informant: W. J. Vickery, Father, 18 Charlotte Street, Bath
when registered: Twenty eighth October, 1876,
registrar: Frederick Hanhaus, Registrar

19 1891 census of England; digital images; citing PRO RG 12; :
page 4
No of schedule: 21
26 Bedford Street
William J Vickery, Head, male, age 47, Outfitter, born Somerset, Langford, Burrington
Eliza G Vickery, wife, female, age 40 born Devon , Exeter
Albert W ", son, male, single, age 15, Outfitters Assistant, born Somerset, Bath
Ernest R ", son, male, single, age 14, scholar, born Somerset, Bath
Louisa G ", daughter, female, single, age 13, scholar, Somerset, Weston Super Mare
Beatrice A ", daughter, female, single, age 11, scholar, born Wiltshire, Salisbury
Walter C ", son, male, single, age 9, scholar, born Wiltshire, Saisbury
William G Bond, Servant, single, male, age 27, Outfitter Assistant, born Berkshire, Woodcote
Emily R Hardy, Servant, single female, age 17, Domestic Servant, born Devon, Newton Abbot

____________________________________________
page 34,
33 Baring Street
James Harvey, Head, married, male , age 48, Architect and Surveyor, born Devon, Plymouth
Annie L ", wife, married, female, age 45, born ","
Arthur J ", son, single, male, age 22, architects assistant
Annie B ", daughter, single, female, age 17, born ","
Ernest G ", son, single, male, age 12, scholar , born ","
Ada M ", daughter , single, female, age 11, born ","
Kate G ", daughter, single, female, age 9, born ","
Henry A ", son , single, male, age 5, born ","
Clara Spiller, Servant, female, age 16, General Servant, born Devon, Morice Town

20 database; 1844 marriage register: Joseph Carter - Eliza Helmore, St. Thomas, Devonshire, vol 10, page 424

Certified Copy of and entry of Marriage
1844 Marriage solemnized in the Church in the Parish of St. Thomas in the County of Devon
No. 246
When married: June Eighth
Name and Surname: Joseph Carter, of age, Bachelor, profession: Yeoman, residence: St. Thomas, name of father: Joseph Carter, occupation of father: Yeoman

Name and Surname: Eliza Helmore, of age, Spinster, residence: St. Thomas, name of father: Thomas Helmore, occupation: Ironmonger

Married in the Church by Licence according to the Rites and Cermonies of the Church of England by me, John Medley.

This marriage was solemnized by us, Joseph Carter, Elize Helmore in the Presence of us, G. M. Gould, Mary Sanders


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