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Couldn't understand any conversations with my elders on my Mums side as they spoke Romany..........But on knowing certains things now i wish my Nan was still alive lol

Awwww how sad do you know the name of the ship at all ? You see this where I get side tracked..lol

I have a gt.gt. aunt, who I was determined to find. She was the eldest girl of a largish family, and the mother died relatively young. I hoped that she had had some sort of a life, and family of her own. After the mother died, father moved in her sister, though no' marriage' was ever found. Recently had contact with the husband of the grandaughter, of the child of the second marriage. Hope that makes sense. He said, one of the old aunts had always said the gt.gt aunt never married. Not to be put of, I digged a little further, and had contact with a grandson of the sister of the said gt.gt. aunt.
Gt.gt. aunt had sailed to Singapore when she was about 48yrs, and married a sea captain. Alas, after the fall of Singapore, she was offered a safe passage to Australia, only for the ship to be sunk by the Japanese Navy. I have not as yet , been able to find her on any records, but she did achieve some happiness in her life. None of this has been passed down through my Gt. Grandad, her brother, and what few of us that are left in the family, are oblivious to the fact he had any other siblings.
Julia in Derbyshire

I mean someone who lived long before you, I remember as a child older family members talking about this person and as she wasn’t that closely related to me and no longer alive I never thought about it. Last year I came across her and remembered the things that was said about her in hushed conversations and my oh my what a colourful character she was, I have found all sorts of information about her and I am total addicted to researching her.