Tag: Family Trees

Girl on a Motorcycle – Part Two

Continued from Part One. I knew the line was coming… “And I never saw him, again,” said my grandmother. It was the story of grandmother’s eldest brother; a man deeply important to her, almost another parent – she the youngest sibling. There was a tone of bitterness there. My Grandmother had suffered a hard life. Her husband, my paternal Grandfather, had also survived the … Read More Girl on a Motorcycle – Part Two

A game of three halves (3 of 3)

Continued from Part Two So, this one day, considered in all its facets, resolves itself into a journey, a destination and an arrival – an arrival at a meeting with a French relative we have never met, and whose unlikely presence, here in the north-west corner of Wales, completes a cycle of mystery and loss lasting ninety-three years… As we journey along the spine … Read More A game of three halves (3 of 3)