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Hi Di. This is so exiting as my brother John & I have never known about Mum's side of our family...Now the start as far I we have gone back to the HEAFFEY'S is with William Heaffey born approx. 1780. He married Elizabeth Flyn a good Irish name.. They had a son James born: 12 March 1805 he married Catherine Hennessy another Irish name. They had a son John William born: 5 November 1826 he married a Catherine & they had William John born in Mallow 1848... It looks like my Great Grandmother was a twin to Arthur George as they were both born 1885 at Stoke Damerel Plymouth.... Yes my Grandmother Norah's first 2 children were Mary 1925 at St Pancres & Percival Robert  9th May 1926 also at St Pancres... We called him Uncle Bob.. He died in 1971 but I thought it 1972..... My Mum Peggy was born 8th Dec 1927... Looks like my Grandmother was a naughty girl as 3 children in 3 years & no known Father... All 3 were in orphanages till they left school... This is probably why Mum never knew anything about her Family as she said it was never talked about.....There is no record of Mary's death only her husband Alex in 1990 in North Surry... So looks like we are long lost Cousin Di.. How do we contact each other? I am on Face Book if you happen to be on that.... Now Jack my Uncle Bob looked very much like him as we have a picture of him from one of the ancestry sights its so amazing.... Hope to hear from you soon Joan
P.S. I was born 3rd Dec....... 

My Grandmother was Norah Heaffey, Daughter of Catherine Heaffey. Norah had 3 children but was unmarried as was her Mother. Norah's children were Mary, 1925 Robert 1926 & Peggy 1927... Robert died unmarried in 1970 & my Mother Peggy died in 2002. I think my Grandmother Norah died in 1984 but cant remember.. Mary married & became Grant & had a daughter Judith. They Lived in Swindon. My Mother married William Douglas Stevens in 1948 in St Ives Cornwall as she came down in the Land Army... I was born  in Dec 1950 then my brother John in 1959... So that makes Catherine Heaffey my Great Grandmother & her Father John William Heaffey her Father my Great, Great Grandfather........ I do know that my Mother & Sister were brought up by Nuns in London, & Robert was brought up by Monks again in London... They hardly saw their Mother Norah as she had to work... Hope this is a help to any of my Heaffey Relations out there..