Bernard James Ward

[Ian Blakesley]

Hullo, Amy Ward! Only today I have picked up your post here and your comment on Ancestry. I have so little on my family connections in Canada and the USA that anything you can give will be vital in my research. My Ancestry profiles on your father and his brother Eric are likely to be incomplete, so I would like to complete them. I really do look forward to hearing from you.

            Warmest regards

                               Ian Blakesley.

[ADW1972]

Welcome to Roots Chat, Amy.  Hopefully, Ian will be notified of your post & come back to respond.  In the meantime, new members need to make at least 3 posts to have access to the private messaging system.  If you make two more posts, you will be able to send Ian a private message with your e-mail address.

Thank you for the welcome and your help!

[ADW1972]

Hello, Ian Blakesley!
I wonder, then, are you a second  or third cousin, or similar?  It doesn't matter, of course.  Exciting to have new family at all.  My father's brother is still living, although I haven't heard from him in ages.  I believe he has two daughters, at least one of which has a son.  Then my dad had two sons, three daughters (including me), and perhaps another?  You mentioned a daughter born at some point in the 40's.  Curious!

[Amandasbananas]

Hello Ian!  I am Amy's sister, Amanda.  This is very exciting for us!  Our dad also had a sister named Cecily who is deceased.  Looking forward to hearing from you!

[Ian Blakesley]

Hullo, Amanda, Amy's sister! Amy has contacted me through the Ancestry Members' Message System and will be giving me, hopefully, lots of information and photographs about your side of the family. The only information I have about your father Bernard is what I have gathered through the records available to Ancestry. (which are primarily UK) and through verbal memories from my late father. These contacts are the first I have had since September 1958, when your father's parents James and Hannah visited my grandfather Harry Blakesley (Hannah's first younger brother) and Walter (her second younger brother) here in UK.  It's been too long.  Let us reestablish contact.

          Best wishes             Ian Blakesley.

[Amandasbananas]

I look forward to getting to know you!

[Amandasbananas]

Here is post #3, now I can join you on the message system.

[Ian Blakesley]

Hullo, Amanda! Thank you so much for repying to my posts.

Your sister Amy sent me a lovely e-mail, with another to follow soon, giving me lots of detail about your family, yesterday. I have updated my profiles for your father on Ancestry and have found out  where he was living from 1993 in West Harwich, Massachusetts.

I know a certain amount about your uncle Eric and his family through his daughter ^(*) in Vancouver, Canada, who I have spoken with on SKYPE back in January this year.  Gradually I am building up a picture of you all, my long-lost American cousins and, one day, I hope we can all meet up.

Best wishes

Ian Blakesley


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