I want to give thanks to my dad for helping me with this. I know that it really means a lot to him to have his family tree researched and to see it written down. I made a few phone calls to Ireland over the past few weeks to dad to ask him about the…
This was an image I saw this morning, whilst walking to take my daughter Rosie to her grandparents house. A mum and her daughter with plastic tubs picking blackberries straight off the bush. It brought back memories for me as a child being with my own mother when she used to do the same. We…
I had been thinking for a while about my mothers side of the family. She was born Margaret McCormick and lived in Ballycastle Co Antrim in Northern Ireland. As a child growing up I didn’t really know much about my mothers side of the family.Yes, i knew who my aunties and uncles were, but as…
When my mother Margaret was in Hammersmith Hospital in London she would often go to the chapel to pray. My mother was an Irish Catholic and her faith in God had always been there. It was here that she first heard of the Pilgrimage to Lourdes in France where many sick people would go from…
As a little girl I would often go on holiday to where my mum was born. She was born in Ballycastle Co Antrim N Ireland. It was a seaside town and very quaint. We would go most years to visit my family for our summer holiday. We went by plane from our local airport East…
I love and miss my mother Margaret everyday. She went too soon. Her guardian angel came for her when she was 48 years old and took her up to heaven. She had a beautiful face and smile. When I think of her I can see her smiling at me. Our house had four men and…