227. Family stories
WAH are visiting the 1950s today which is really apt. This a picture of my grandparents with my mother and brother, taken in 1953 in Wales on holiday.
I have pulled the very old albums out in order to scan them in for a newly found relative.
My grandfather had 2 brothers. One was stationed in Germany after the war and during that time had a german girlfriend. He returned to England leaving behind his girlfriend, not knowing she was pregnant and she never told him.
The baby, who was born in 1946, only recently found out that the man married to his mother is not his real father – it came out by accident, and his mother then told him the full story.
He eventually tracked one of the family down and then found his way to my mother and our family. And guess who has all the old pictures of relatives he never knew he had?
So he is my mothers cousin and he would have been 7 years old at time this picture was taken; my mum is about 10 in this pic.
this kind of meets the week 33 theme - Pandora's box.
227. Family stories
WAH are visiting the 1950s today which is really apt. This a picture of my grandparents with my mother and brother, taken in 1953 in Wales on holiday.
I have pulled the very old albums out in order to scan them in for a newly found relative.
My grandfather had 2 brothers. One was stationed in Germany after the war and during that time had a german girlfriend. He returned to England leaving behind his girlfriend, not knowing she was pregnant and she never told him.
The baby, who was born in 1946, only recently found out that the man married to his mother is not his real father – it came out by accident, and his mother then told him the full story.
He eventually tracked one of the family down and then found his way to my mother and our family. And guess who has all the old pictures of relatives he never knew he had?
So he is my mothers cousin and he would have been 7 years old at time this picture was taken; my mum is about 10 in this pic.
this kind of meets the week 33 theme - Pandora's box.