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Some Special Interests => Travelling People => Topic started by: Prue Heron on Wednesday 27 November 19 10:58 GMT (UK)
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Hi, have several posts on here as searching for my bio father (probably long-gone). I and newfound paternal 2nd cousins have discovered many showground family names amongst the dna matches. I have been researching fairgrounds around my conception time (Sept/Oct 1946). I have just spoken with a new Ancestry person in that world who suggested a Circus... I looked and found that Bertram Mills Circus returned for first time after war around Sept/Oct 1946. What's more, they toured in the area where my Mother had been a Land girl - i.e. Bulwick area. (Northamptonshire area). I wonder if she encountered my father at the circus? She might have had my then 6 year old brother with her. (Not putting that very nicely - sorry Mum - she was a very proper person!)... but could that be the connection. Would the circus hire fairground workers? Would anyone still remember those days? And I'll just throw in a curved ball... all the info I have about my unknown Dad is that he was a "friend of the family and POW" which may well have been made up but...you never know. Any thoughts gratefully received. We have already cracked one puzzle on here.