by John Wordsworth | Feb 3, 2020 | Family History
I thought I’d better give my grandfather on the Wordsworth side, Sydney Leonard, equal billing to my Gramma, whom I recently profiled. I feel fortunate to have such great memories of both of my grandparents. Gramps and Gramma were married for 70 years, which is pretty...
by John Wordsworth | Jan 29, 2020 | Family History
Many of us don’t have a strong connection to our grandparents, often because we never met them, or were too young to have a good recollection of the part they played in our lives. I have many photos of my Dad’s mother, my grandmother, Florence Joyce Wordsworth, but...
by John Wordsworth | Dec 11, 2019 | Family History
As I have been making my way through the old family photos albums, I was very excited to come across this photograph. This is my Mom, Joyce Florence Wordsworth, during World War II. It actually would have been Joyce Healy at this point because she had yet to meet my...
by John Wordsworth | Oct 21, 2019 | Family History
It’s been more than a decade since my big sister, Hazel Coburn (nee Wordsworth) passed away after a battle with cancer. I miss her very much and she was a very big part of my growing up. As my daughter Jessica and I have been organizing our family photo albums, I’ve...
by John Wordsworth | Oct 4, 2019 | Family History
One thing going through old photo albums does is remind us of some of our old dreams and aspirations, and of the dreams of family members. I hadn’t recently given any thought about how my sister Hazel had wanted to be a ballerina. There is a lovely colour image of her...
by John Wordsworth | Sep 23, 2019 | Family History
In the recent “Healy Side of the Family” blog I mentioned my Uncle Reg as being quite a character. He and Gramps worked together in England. I believe Reg was asked to leave the family home at the age of 11. His parents could not afford to feed both him and his little...
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