Exciting life stories...
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5potTurbo said:
BoRED S2upid said:
Come on Chim we need the next instalment. If your still with this woman I'd be amazed after this trip 
Haven't you seen Chim's story before?I'm sure I have.
ked off and left it all behind for a job or something thread.The rest is good so I won't spoil the copy and paste he is going to do.
I don't know if it's exciting or not, but some family history I only recently found out from my Dad (who's now 70) during a recent trip we made to the U.S. to visit my eldest brother. This came to mind again this weekend when I watched a recording of Reggie Yates' "Who do you think you are?".
My Granddad, who died in 1965 (I was born in '70), used to work on a dredger out of Southampton. This dredger regularly travelled to/from the West Indies dredging some of the ports there. This carried on into early WW2, when, having (allegedly) been torpedoed twice whilst crossing the Atlantic, and my Granddad having survived this, my Gran insisted he give up the merchant sailor life and he took a job at Vospers in Southampton.
One day, whilst working at Vospers, there was a Luftwaffe bombing raid on So'ton that wiped out the family's house. Fortunately the family had been evacuated to Bormuff just before the raid, and my Granddad then CYCLED the ~30miles from So'ton to "Bormuff" in search of them!! Bormuff is where they then remained.
To the Reggie Yates' genealogy story link; my Granddad also had another family in W.I with a local Afro-Caribbean woman and this was only found out after he passed in 1965!
My Granddad, who died in 1965 (I was born in '70), used to work on a dredger out of Southampton. This dredger regularly travelled to/from the West Indies dredging some of the ports there. This carried on into early WW2, when, having (allegedly) been torpedoed twice whilst crossing the Atlantic, and my Granddad having survived this, my Gran insisted he give up the merchant sailor life and he took a job at Vospers in Southampton.
One day, whilst working at Vospers, there was a Luftwaffe bombing raid on So'ton that wiped out the family's house. Fortunately the family had been evacuated to Bormuff just before the raid, and my Granddad then CYCLED the ~30miles from So'ton to "Bormuff" in search of them!! Bormuff is where they then remained.
To the Reggie Yates' genealogy story link; my Granddad also had another family in W.I with a local Afro-Caribbean woman and this was only found out after he passed in 1965!
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