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Recently made contact with a class-mate from primary/junior school.

Her husband was a copper, my son is a copper.

Her son is a Chartered Accountant, I am a Chartered Accaountant.

Her husband has had prostate cancer, I have had prostate cancer.

Weird !

Also recently discovered that my wife and a junior school class-mate share a common ancestor.

Strangest co-incidence I have had.... bloke I had been having a drink with once a week for a few years asked me to find out about an ancestor of his. Hmmm, I thought, surname seems familiar. It turns out that his uncle married my great aunt.

Yesterday on a forum I saw someone asking for military help re a relation who had been awarded an MM in WW1. It was for his child's school project.

Military help was offered but as it was my home town I volunteered to see if anything was in the local papers. There wasn't so I offered to chase up info re his children. I started on the youngest, a daughter. I found her marriage in 1950 and her daughter's arrival in 1951 - my sister's classmate and friend. I knew the woman and her daughter. :-S

My dad's stepfather had an unusual surname -which my dad took when he was adopted.
As his stepfather died before I was born, oh, and his immediate family weren't too keen on my gran ;-) I knew nothing of this family.
When I was at school and decided voluntary work was preferable to RE, PE, double games etc, I found the head of voluntary services at the place I wanted to do voluntary work had the same surname :-S
Transpires, he was my dad's stepdad's nephew - but old enough to be my grandad - knew about the family feeling towards my gran - and disagreed with them.

This afternoon I decided to see if I could solve a little problem that has nagged at me since the age of 11.

In one of the first classes at high school, the teacher queried my surname, and asked if I was related to Vera xxxxx in a higher grade.

I said no, and then asked Dad that evening ............. he said "she's one of the other family. We don't talk to them."

OK, that was that!!!

But I've sometimes wondered, so today I decided to see if I could solve it.

Yes, we were related ................... way back when! Her xxxx times grandfather was the younger brother of my xxxx times grandfather, with mine born in 1758 and hers in 1762.


But what was weird was discovering Vera listed on an electoral roll as living on the same street but about 15 houses away from where my father's sisters lived for all their married lives! At least one of the aunts would have been still alive when Vera moved there!