Christmas Extravaganza

Family Christmas at Nan & Jons...

There were those who didn't want to be seen, those who wished they hadn't been seen, and those who couldn't care either way! Of course, a constant was the Yorkie who LOVES watching TV, Video or anything else on a monitor- sometimes even when there is nothing on!!

Christmas is a time for family get togethers, and we managed this in a grand way, with sons, daughters, their spouses, grand kids and of course a house full of dogs! More than enough food for all with Nan and Jon's special touch allowed everyone to have their fill.

Watch out for that DARN CAMERA!!

Long Lost Cousin

Recently through a genealogy post, Geof discovered a long lost cousin who has the same great grandfather as he does. It got very interesting after sending a family picture taken around 1910 specifically showing the great grandfather George Edward Woodford, and his children and their children. My cousin Donald and I had both our grandfathers represented and I had my father in the picture as well as a young child. My cousin's grandfather travelled to South Africa where they have lived since. My father went to Canada and eventually British Columbia where we live.



Herbert Kelsall Woodford b 1872 d 1946. Donald's Grandfather

In 2002, while travelling in England, we visited Chester and Ruabon where the family's roots originated. In the process we connected with a whole lot of cousins at a reunion near Ruabon, and even got a picture of the gravestone marking George Edward Woodford's burial spot.

Even more bizarre, we found at our church another long lost cousin who descended from the Caldecott family line which George Edward Woodford's own grandfather married into. This created a connection to the famous illustrator, Randolph Caldecott, who was a cousin of George Edward Woodford. What a small world and how interesting the ties!