I Migrated to Auss, a real newbie, that a trip to the local store would take me hours, could never find the same shopping centre or my way home. I was always lost!! then one day lost again came across a street with my mothers maiden name. Thought ODD, unusual surname, and here is a street with the same name. I went to the local library and found that all the streets and this particular suburb was named after villages in and around Scarborough Yorkshire, the bug bit me!!
Years later I remarried and sat one night with a bottle of wine and as the conversation goes, I asked my husband if he could meet anyone dead or alive who would he choose. I picked famous and infamous people. My husband said he would like to meet his grandmother, whom he never met. I felt rather selfish by his answer, as I grew up knowing my grandparents and even my great grandfather. I thought well I can't grant his wish, but I could find out about her. Next question - what was her name?? the only information that he could give was her name was Katherine, she was German and lived in Pennsylvania. Oh boy what a task!!. I wrote to people with the same surname, and weeks later received a letter from a family member. My husband was told of cousins, Aunts and Uncles whom he never knew he had. Thankfully also Grandma's maiden name (spelled wrong) Since that time, with thanks to family members I been able to show my husband photo's of his grandparents, cousins and other family members. Family stories, and most importantly, how the family all knew of my husbands existence, and Grandma did have photo's of him when he was a young child. So I'm sure that they both would have loved to have met each other, just never had the opportunity.
Jane
