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Hi. Yes we are on the same family! that is Amos my dad. He was a Pow In Burma. My brother Chris did some research into my dads time in the Northumberland Fusilliers on the FEPOW website. He was married with 3 children then but on return from the Far East discovered his wife had gone awol with another man and the children. He then married my mother a few years later. He became a psychiatric nurse at WInterton Hospital Sedgefield. This was where he met my mother.
I would love to be able to see anything you have. Maybe copies via email. My dad Amos died in 77 when I was 10. So I don't have many memories of him and doing family tree is difficult as none of my dads siblings are alive now and it's hard tracing cousins.
My sister thinks it may have been our grans funeral. She was called Mary Ann Callender she married Amos Lawton...my dads father also called Amos. Mary Ann or Polly as she got called died in 72 so maybe my sis saw Tom at that funeral too with his wife.
I would love to know who Toms parents are. I have quite a bit of family tree done on the Lawton side.
I am youngest of seven children so my eldest sis is mid 60s and can tell me little stories she knows.
I have also told my eldest sister all you have told me. She mentioned that Tom may have been in India during the war. She says she remembers him being at my dads funeral in a car with her and 2 of my other sisters and he said my dad was the only man he knew who would travel to India to see him/someone ?? and that my dad was a lovely man. My dads brother George was also in India so maybe it was him he went to see, or maybe even both of them!
I can only think that Thomas was also a lovely man to have kept things about my dad. It really is emotional to think that a man who was related and knew my dad is so highly thought of about friends, I only wish I had known him too.
The bible with Uncle George in. He would have been my great uncle George. I would certainly love to see what you have and I would definitely share any photos or tree information if your interested. If I knew Thomas' parents I could surely research his tree further.
Thank you so much for helping me find Tom. He may be gone but he hasn't been forgotten by this part of his family.
Thank you
Debbie
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