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14th Jul 2019LaurieW5 commented on:
Searching & Finding People, Friends, Ancestors UKI live in the U.S., but I'm searching for information about my great grandmother. She's deceased as on 1972 - 1975. She had 2 children. Tony Morgan (married to Barbara). He served as a brigadier at the royal palace at some point in his life. May have been born a few years before or after 1921. He is also deceased. My grandmother, Agnes Joan McCleary was her other child. She was born on 8, August, 1921. In 1945, she was serving in the Royal Air Force during WWII. She met my grandfather, who was an officer of the U.S. Army. They married on 29, June, 1945 and she moved to the U.S. Her mother, my great grand mother was Sarah McCleary, later married to John Turtle. They were from somewhere in or around Broxburn. I do not know very much about her. When I was 7 years old, my grandmother, Joan, took me with her to England where we stayed for 3 months to visit her mum who was ill with lung cancer. The day we arrived, she had to be admitted into the hospital because of complications. She stayed in the hospital for the entire 3 months. We had to return to the U.S. in August. It may have been a few months later that we received a call that she had passed. My grandmother, Joan as she was called, raised me from an infant. I called her mama (mum). She passed away when I was 9, on September 9, 1975. My life was traumatized by the loss. My grandfather remarried but no one was like Joan. She was my life. I am trying to find anything that would help me learn about her history. It will be hard to track. I do not know if her birth certificate even listed her real father, because her mum never married her dad. No clue what the circumstances were. I know she later married someone later with the last name of Turtle, as that was her name. But her son was a Morgan. No idea how that fits in the picture. I feel a connection to my grandmother so deeply. And I want to know where she came from, where she grew up, any other family members I'm unaware of. Thank you