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Australia / Re: family tree pllease excuse me i am still new to roots chat
« on: Tuesday 21 August 12 03:06 BST (UK) »
I'm sorry if I upset you Elaine, I am only telling you what has been told to me. I have only my grandfather's story to go by, and he went to work at age 12 to help support his family after his parents split up. It's obvious that you were well looked after and have fond memories of Leslie, my family have none of those. Its a pity that he lost contact with his children. I know very little of the Mabb family, though I do know that there were an awful lot of them. Mabel was the eldest of something like 10 children, so there will be plenty of them around still. I understand some of them were around Mt Isa, I think possibly a brother, but I'm not sure. I've only just started to look into this side of my family history and thought I had hit a brick wall when I was told that the St Clair name was made up. There's a mystery here.