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« on: Monday 21 May 12 21:45 BST (UK) »
Hi Laura
Many thanks for your message (I am new to this site so don't know how to reply to it privately). Yes, you and I are, I think, second cousins. Joyce is my mum - still alive and just celebrated her 79th last week. My uncle Kenneth died in 1977 when only 36. I remember some of the Reeds from when I was little and living in the north-east as some lived next to my dad's parents in Jarrow. My mum remembers a lot about her uncles and aunts - the family was so big that the older children were old enough to be surrogate parents to the younger ones. As as result many of mum's cousins were ancient when she was still only in her twenties, as her dad was one of the younger ones. I have details of the Reeds back to about 1790 in Bishopwearmouth, but there are quite a few gaps. I have got the Beatons back to about the same in Coll, Scotland and the McAllisters (Elizabeth Lang Beaton's mother's family) back to the late eighteeth century in DUmbartonshire. Happy to exchange details - just tell me how! Where are you? I am on Worcestershire.
David
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