INFORMATION on a shop in Chagford is being sought by someone tracing their family history and whose relative ran the shop for a number of years.

Ian Fowler is researching his family history on his mother's side. His great uncle, Ernest Albery, had a daughter Florence, who married Alfred Gale in Guildford in 1932. Alfred came from Chagford and the couple moved there and ran a shop for a number of years.

Ian does not know what kind of shop it was or any other details and would like to hear from anyone with any information about it or his relatives. He has found an Okehampton registered death of a Florence Gale, aged 83, in May 1990 which he feels sure is his relative.

Alfred Gale died in 1960 and the couple had a daughter Diana, born in 1933 and registered in Okehampton. One possible address for the Florence Gale was 42 The Square, Chagford.

Anyone with any information about the shop or the family can contact Ian at [email protected]">[email protected]