OMIGOODNESS!!! I can't believe this. How exciting. My grandfather was Thomas Hall - Norah's brother. So I'm guessing that our connection is pretty close as from the sounds of it Janet and Thomas Hall were my grandfather's parents. Oh WOW!!!
Thomas (my grandfather) died several years ago and unfortunately none of his children are still alive - only his adopted son, who was from his marriage to Edith Mary Margaret Watson. He adopted Bob (Robert William) who was the child of Edith and her first husband who was a bigamist and had two sons of his own, Kenneth Duncan and Thomas Cloonan. I'm the illegitimate daughter of Tom's only daughter, his youngest child, Nancy Cloonan Hall who never married. He called his youngest son, Thomas Cloonan and Nancy was Nancy Cloonan, so I guess he wanted to keep that connection. I believe he came out here when he was 16, which would have been around 1918. From what I can gather their father was in the Queen's Guards or one of the army units, that was in India and that's why they were living with Uncle Willie.
I'd love to talk more about this. My email is (*). My second son is actually in Edinburgh at the moment. He's been there for two years now. Went on holidays for four months, then came back and got his youth visa. He's managing some bars for the University.
I'm SO glad you had that email alert set up. That's why I posted. I was hoping you would get the alert.
Please email me. I'd love to make contact.
cheers
Michélè
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