Cheryl now wants to find out about her mother's side of the family and she's
back in Newcastle to see her mum Joan my mother is very much a friend I can
confide in her about anything it just feels a bit more mysterious on that say
of the family I never heard stories I never heard tales I think she had a lot
of questions herself when I was growing up Joan was born in Newcastle
her parents were Joseph and Olga Callahan Olga was born in 1932 and grew
up with her twin sister greenie but Jones always had questions about the
rest of her mother's family even with me it was all hush-hush it was I think
there was something together was a hidden he there was a secret of like
don't ask you weren't allowed to ask questions or know anything it was named
your own business and you should be seen in r2 you used to say that to us you
know I didn't yes you did but I can't remember that one but I just remember my
mom telling me once that she's got a big family there's about 11 of them but most
of them are adopted 11 of 11 on her side but I never ever met any of them never
seen any of them do you think that's weird I think it's very strange I do
have a couple of all for what graphs I can show you maybe hopefully elites
somewhere that's my mom and dad get married it's quite handsome miss Mimi
dad you look at the debris Emma really your thing yeah I do
so this is aunt Irene he's sweatin so there's aunt Irene II obviously you can
see my mom and then this is main and at your great Nana
Oh God and she was called Edith Annie which is so she looks happy on her
daughter's wedding day doesn't she yeah mm-hmm Wow what it's very strangers I
never knew the grandad whether he had passed away or what happened whether
they're divorced I don't know what went on was never spoken of so I would really
be interested to find out who my granddad was this is all I've got if the
older photographs that's it that's it that's it
that I said what a matter well the only thing I've really got to go off
is mean R&R sisters name so do you know their maidenly the maiden
name was written Lee Joan believes that her mother Olga came from a large family
but doesn't know anything more about them
Cheryl wants to get to the bottom of this
so she's ordered the marriage certificates for her grandmother and her
grandmother's twin sister to find the name of her great-grandfather they said
here we've got certificate for me Nana in 1954
father's name and surname Joseph really deceased so Rainey's marriage was in 52
and he was deceased by then Joseph Wilson rudely so I'm gonna now see if I
can find Joseph Wilson really I got okay so this is the 1911 census name and
surname Joseph Wilson Ridley head of the family age 29
so his occupation was a grocery warehouse man I say went to the core
okay Mary Anne Ridley
wife me mom said that our name was Edith Annie so something's off here sounds off
yeah Cheryl's discovered that her great-grandfather was called Joseph
Wilson Ridley he lived in County Durham not far from
Newcastle she's also found out that in 1911 he had
a wife called Mary Anne and they had three children together Cheryl's not
sure how her great grandmother Edith Annie
fits in she's also found Joseph in army service records online named Ridley
Joseph Wilson regiment Durham a lie here Service reckons from the fifteenth of
the twelfth nineteen fourteen place France to Michigan to France
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