It's a part of my family that I only just learned about, recently.
My mom was going through some old photos she found and she sent my brother, sisters, and me this one:
It was taken around 1923 or 1924. In it, my great-grandmother, Florence Fairey, sits on the left; a young girl, Lena, is two or three years old, and would later become my grandmother. Sitting on the right, in a military uniform, is my great-grandfather, William Whimp, who has another young girl seated on his lap.
She's my Aunt Mae, who passed away in 2005.
But I didn't know who the young man, standing in the background, was, so I asked my mom. And, apparently, he's my great-uncle of whom I knew nothing before.
It seems that my great-grandmother had been married to a man with the last name of Wren (my mom doesn't remember his first name), and they had two children. One had died in infancy and the other, Arthur, the man in the photo, was adopted by William Whimp when he married Florence.
Sadly, Florence died a few months after this photo was taken. And, according to my mom, Arthur died a few years after that.
William remarried and my mom said that everyone in the family referred to her simply as 'Ma Whimp.' I remember meeting her once or twice but don't remember her very clearly.
Of course, I'm hoping that Ancestry will help me learn more about my distant family members. I especially hope that my mom, now in her 80s, is around to help me learn more.
Happy Thursday!
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