Eileen Smailes

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Member Since: November 2004 Posts: 2 Send Message	Kathyren	Report	8 Apr 2005 19:48
Member Since: November 2004 Posts: 2 Send Message	Is anyone related to the late Eileen Smailes who originated from Bisop Auckland, Co Durham, born 1918? She did not keep in contact with any relatives when she left Bishop Auckland around 1940?
Member Since: November 2004 Posts: 2 Send Message	Kathyren	Report	5 Feb 2014 21:56
Member Since: November 2004 Posts: 2 Send Message	We found my husbands long lost brother Harry and his wife and family directly through this post. Harry was taken into care when Eileen left Bishop Auckland and brought up in a care home- Eileen never saw him again. After a reunion -and a lot of family members research we found out a lot of details that Eileen had never disclosed to any of her family about her life in Bishop Auckland-of which she was undoubtedly ashamed. No one from the Bishop Auckland Smailes family has been in contact with any other information as we believe she was cast out from the family in 1940.