family tree on this link

 

http://www.myheritage.com/FP/home.php?s=10830501

 

Let's start with Stanley

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here he is - at about a week old with his parents. They are my younger brother, Jon and his partner Ginette. When Stan was born they lived in the Nunhead area of London. Now they live in Kent and Stan enjoys wandering along the beach with his young dog, Jim.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stan's dad Jon, is the youngest of three siblings. We were all born in Liverpool and are from the red half of the City.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Derek who was born in January 1958, divorced and living in London. He runs a corporate gift company.

Jane - that's me, born in August 1960, getting married to John in August 2007. Living and working as a teacher in Ely. John is a widdower and has two children, Grace (15) and Aidan (13), so I get two lovely step-children and Stan has two new cousins from this partnership.

Jonathan - was born in June 1964. He and Ginette live in Kent.

Judy and Arthur, our parents gave us a happy and secure childhood.

 

 

Not rolling in cash, but comfortable enough and plenty of love to go round.

Lets start with Judy's family. Her parents were Tom Taylor, who married Edith Martindale.

Tom was born in Yorkshire on 1st January 1900 - what a great birthdate! He was a lovely man. He suffered from typhoid as a boy and as a result was unable to fight during the wars, although he did try to sign up as a lad for WW1. He had a brother, Charlie and two sisters, Lena and Florence.

After the war he took the train to Leeds with a view to studying Classics at the University. He met a chap on the train who was planning to read Medicine. He thought that it sounded interesting and so he changed tack there and then and remained a Doctor for the remainder of his career. He moved to Manchester when Judy was a little girl, working in a General Practice in Salford.

Edith was one year younger than Tom. Born in Ulverston in the Lake District, she too went to study at Leeds University. She was reputed to have been a wonderful mathematician and physicist. Most girls left school at 14 at that time, but a teacher at the grammar school observed that she was bright and should be given a chance to further her studies. She was brought up, with her brother Walker, by her mother. She never discussed her father and he seems to have left the family, possibly emigrating to the USA.