Percy Cowderoy

He's listed on the immigrants list coming into the US in the early 20th century. It says he had blue eyes - his son, Jim, also had blue eyes, as did his two grandsons.

He died before I met him, in his garden - where he'd gone to smoke a cigarette. They found him. He married Dorothy Isabel Pritchard (not a Catherine) - she went to the US to marry him in someone's front room, and they were out in the west together looking for oil. Later they were in perhaps Romania, and certainly in France where Jim had a French governess - I have his French Memento Larousse that she gave him, signed "A Jimmy. Souvenir tres affectuex Laguier 8-5-24. Mlle Goulard.