A weekend in the south coast sunshine as Julie, Ben, Lisa and I travelled down on Saturday morning to Christchurch for my sister-in-law’s 60th birthday celebration at the local Sailing Club.
A pleasure to join the gathering of the clan, included my brother Ken and his lovely wife, birthday girl Debz; my sister Janet and her husband of nearly fifty years, Frank; my niece Katherine, my nephew Steve, his wife Trish, and their daughter Beckie.
The following day, Janet and I made the short drive to Mudeford and we spent a fascinating couple of hours with Ken looking through family records and scanning some special photographs. These included our great grandparents in the accompanying pictures: John and Elizabeth Seamark in Cottesbrooke, Northamptonshire; Sarah and Thomas Ames in Strood, Kent in the 1880s (on right of picture); plus Sidney and Charlotte Hague in Selsley, Gloucestershire, on the day of their 60th wedding anniversary in May, 1933.
I am still searching for a photograph of the fourth couple from that generation, Alfred and Emma Chamberlin, our mother’s grandparents who lived in Farleigh, Surrey.
