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’s family.  The family ties must have been very strongly set during this period, for thereafter exists a strong bond between Bill and his younger brothers and sister Margaret, also a fond and continuing affection with the Leach family.

Chapter 2         The Last Generation & Family Trees.

Bill Pettard (1917 to 1999)

William J. F. Pettard known to the family as Bill was in the words of his younger sister Margaret to play a big part in the up bringing of the family.  With the birth and death of their seventh child Francis, Florence also died and a lot of the responsibility for the rest of the family fell to the oldest son.  These pressures coupled with the need to work six days a week in the very demanding and arduous steel foundry got too much, leading him to leave home and move-in with the Leach family, his mother

He missed the call to war having married a Dorothy Mary Kelly, known to all as Mary; however, he did have an eventful war, as did all Londoners.  Somehow, and I am not sure how, he spent the entire war working for Vickers Armstrong Aircraft Division at Weybridge in Surrey, first as a metal worker and then as a draughtsman, a natural progression in both the aircraft and ship building industries in those days.  The metal workers would scribe and cut directly to the metal plate and in so doing draw as well as work and form from the metal patterns, those metal workers that showed ability in pattern making and an understanding of geometry soon progressed to producing drawings for others to work from.  The whole process was copied from the Ship building industry, geometry, terminology, layouts and process were all adopted from ship builders where the draughtsman were sited high above the keel of the ship looking down on metal pattern makers, cutters and formers below.  So it was with the aircraft industry, drawing office built above the work below known as the Loft and its members called Loftsmen, a term used up until the 1960’s when the title Full Scale Draughtsman was considered more appropriate having moved away from the need to draw directly to sheet metal, brought about by advancement in printing techniques and the advent of computers.  Today aircraft terminology is still that of the ships, port wing, starboard engine, aft exit etc.

	Family of William and Mary Pettard
1940	Marries
William	Dorothy
John	Mary		1941		1947
Frances	Kelly
Pettard
			Melvyn		Dennis
			Francis		John
			Pettard		Pettard
	1973	Marries
	Melvyn	Jacqueline
	Francis	Lewis -		1972	Marries
	Pettard	Palmer		Dennis	Kathleen	1975	1978
				John	Clarke
				Pettard
	2003	Divorced				Marc	Natash
						Pettard	Pettard
	2004	Marries
	Melvyn	Barbara
	Francis	Ann
	Pettard	Burrow -
		Hughes