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by tealady @ 11 Feb. 2007 - 12:15:12 pm

Mum sent  me a photo of my great grandmother taken on Blackpool beach with her younger son Ken.
I've been researching  family history for a few weeks lately.

Annie Johnson (nee Henry) with Ken sitting on beach At Blackpool
http://www.blog.co.uk/srv/media/media_item.php?item_ID=1161998
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I thought I'd better find out where exactly in England Blackpool was, although I knew Anna (Annie) lived in Manchester with my grandmother Irene and her sons Doug and Ken and her husband Thomas.

I'm wondering if Blackpool beach is still as sandy as it appears in this photo?

I googled on Blackpool and came across this.
http://world.nycsubway.org/eu/uk/blackpool.html
I recall trams in Brisbane in my childhood days.

Lancashire(including Blackpool) is  now on my wish list of places to visit :-)
Just speaking to my Mum and she recalls her Mum (Irene) talking of  enjoying eating a Blackpool rock when she visited  the beach at Blackpool..a type of candy.

 I toured the UK for 6 weeks around Jun 2004. 
 I concentrated on Devon where some of my other relatives come from (Plymouth, Nth Perrot areas) as well as Cornwall and Wales and then thru to  Worchester area to stay with some friends in Kiddermister and tour a little around there..all really worth visiting with lovely people and scenery... the trip of my lifetime so far, but I sure hope to get back over there one day... so much more to see.
I found the people really friendly and it's just sooo green everywhere.
I felt some connection with the country and it's people, like a dream come true.
I can see what the aborigines say about some spiritual feeling/connection with the land.
Maybe it was being bought up with English books  or spending a lot of time with my grandmother or maybe it is the spiritual roots?

PS. Anna is my mother's mother's mother.. therefore I share the same mitochondria mostly I guess
mtDNA
The ABCs of mtDNA
by Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak

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MKBobMKBob [Member]
11/02/07 @ 17:35

Dear Jan,

The lady sitting on the beach (on the left) looks like one of the Lloyd (Welsh) family...could that be true?

L&BW Bob

tealadytealady [Member]
11/02/07 @ 20:33

Hi Bob,

No. The Lloyds are only related by marriage ..to an Annie Johnson(from Chorlton) who migrated to Canada after her marriage to a LLoyd in Chorlton. They might be related to someone from Wales, but I'm not. I guess the LL is Welsh somewhere though? or at least is it celtic to have an Ll? Nah, probably not as Celts were throughout Europe and Ll in only in Wales as far as I have seen?
Surprising as it may seem, I've never heard of the Welsh LLoyds!

The lady sitting on the beach is my great grandmother.. the one I inherited the majority of my mitochondria from ie. mother's mother's mother.

She was born in Belfast from her marriage certificate, but it's difficult to trace records from Belfast and it was worse then in Ireland with the protestant/catholic disputes than in the 1970, according to what my grandmother, I used to live with (Annie's daughter Irene)said in a conversation in the 1970's.
Thinking back to Nth Ireland then and now, It looks like their "troubles" may be coming to a peaceful end? They are both Christian ..a common ground to unite on in these times? Hopefully (trying to look for the positive in all things as usual)

My grandmother didn't like her name, Irene, BTW .. must have been fashionable around that time as there are a few around the time of her birth.

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