Hi Ledlad
Nice to hear from you and your memories of Bartestree. As you will have read on this thread I was visiting Bartestree a few years before you, the last time I visited was in January 1963. You will also have seen from correspondence that Lynn and I exchanged that Sister Mary Magdalen is still alive. I am quite worried about Lynn she seems to have disappeared and is not answering my personal messages to her, I hope she is OK.
You will also have seen that I have written to Sister Mary who replied to me three weeks ago, I have now sent her another letter. She remembered my old girlfriend and myself from all those years ago and sent me an old leaflet to look at about Bartestree which included photos of my ex. Given that it was when I was a teenager when we were together you may not be surprised to hear seeing her photo was a very bittersweet moment for me, you see the photo will have been taken when we were going out together. It was so long ago but seeing her happy and smiling made me happy and sad at the same time given that she passed away 27 years ago.!
Now Ledlad this will be of interest to you, one of the nun's pictured in the leaflet is a Sister Maura! I have copies of this leaflet on my PC so if you would like me to send you a copy I am more than happy to do so. In addition if you let me have your name and anything else you think relevant I will pass this on to Sister Mary when I am next in contact. I did promise that I would send her a Christmas card so at the latest I can send her your details then. By the way Sister Mary was in charge of the girls when I visited, she later became Mother Superior. If you do not know I guess she will know if Sister Maura is still alive and if so where she is.
I am sending you a personal message in which you can let me have your name etc and if you would like a copy of the leaflet let me have your e-mail address and I will send it to you. You can of course do this here but it will be safer in a personal message.
Look forward to hearing from you.
Dave