Belsen camp

My cousin David, has recently sent some information to the site re his father Abel, my great uncle.
David's mother divorced Abel and David grew up to hate his father, it was not until the end of his life that David and his father made contact and it was when he stayed with David and his family that the true story of his war activities were known.

Great Uncle Abel was one of the force that liberated Belsen. The affect of this, coupled with all the times he had been blown up and sent back for more, must have made a great impact on his life.

He never spoke of the war, he hated it, said Rememberance Sunday glorified it, and he recalled it was no glory. I was on parade one year for British Red Cross, and he said, go and make all the Broome's proud lass, for your old Uncle won't be joining you.

I marched proudly that day, for him, and for the other heroes of our, and of other's families, who gave their all for our freedom.

The full story about Great Uncle Abel, and all our other family history and stories is on the family website.

Linda

Remembering

I couldn't go to our Rememberance Sunday parade this year as I was in Scotland, but before I went I put the crosses on our cenotaph at Earlestown for our granddad's three lost cousins, the rain smudged the writing on the crosses, but they are there. My brother Martin, nipped up to the cenotaph and took this photo for me.

In memory of John Peters, Peter Edwards and Walter J Stokes - all first world war.

Linda

Updates

Working alongside my cousin, who is also researching into her particular branch of our family, we have put together a link with Joseph Broome 1811 and a John Broome born 1808, as brothers, although I had previously disregarded this family. There are two John Broome's born to the same parents, which although unusual, could be quite possibly true. Both show on the census, with the same mother. So there is an entirely new branch of the family to research and confirm data on, also this links with another chap who has a family tree on ancestry with these names on, I emailed him a couple of years ago, but at that time neither he, nor I could find a connection, however this now connects the two, i have emailed him again, hope he replies, and we can view each other's trees to see what can be gained.
I have now got information on Martha Wainwright who married Thomas Broome, the father of the above, and managed to get quite a bit of information on her family, and another name has arisen from this i.e. her mother was Margaret Leyland - we are going back now into 1700's, and the info to find from that era is scant, but maybe we might get a breakthrough.
We now have 1421 names on our site - and adding to it weekly as more research is made and verified.

L