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"A Family Story" by Angela Whawell
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Joan had often wondered why she had never been allowed to be evacuated. Also, her Mother, Dolly and her father, Thomas Abraham, were very secretive about their family. Joan had often said to them that she would have loved a brother or a sister but her words were met by stony silence.
In 2001, after both her parents had passed away, Joan, now 71 and her three grown up children, Angela, Christopher and Julia decided to use The Internet to try to solve the family mystery. Angela, an Art Historian, decided to begin by looking up her grandparent’s marriage certificate. However, when she put Thomas Abraham and Dolly into the search engine, there was no marriage certificate for them around the 1920’s and 30’s, which would have been about the right time. But there was a marriage certificate for Thomas Abraham Maber and a May Constance Nicholls in September 23rd 1913. Maber is such an unusual name and, combined with Thomas Abraham, Angela reasoned it must refer to her grandfather. Had her grandfather been married before marrying her grandmother, Dolly? Was there a child of this union? Angela searched the birth records and, she found that just three years after the marriage, a son, Douglas Thomas Maber was born on 28th July 1916.
In great excitement Angela phoned her mother Joan, now living in Spain, and broke the news to her that she did indeed have the brother she had always longed for.
Joan was ecstatic. Julia now joined the family hunt to find the whereabouts of Douglas Thomas Maber. Disappointment was to follow. Douglas Thomas had died just the previous year in the year 2000. If only, they thought bitterly, they had begun the search in 1981, when Dolly had died, eight years after Thomas Abraham.
But, Angela reasoned, there still could be other members of the family out there to find. Had Douglas Thomas had any children she wondered? Back she went to The Internet.
Did Angela find her missing relatives....
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