
Derek,
Terry & David in Cumbria
as we were evacuated there during the war
this was in 1944 sometime after June.
As Terry & David
saw & heard a Nazi V1 rocket.
w hich landed in Hampton, Middlesex about 3 km away
They started being fired into London during June 1944
We returned to Molesey some time before VE day on the 8th May 1945 as
the residence of the road had a bonfire, roasting ??? and
the road tarmacadam caught fire.
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George
Cannon was married before he married Olive & had a daughter called
Eileen, who went by the name of Gladys and who was David's half sister.
In the meantime Olive married George, & they had a son called
David, born 17th Dec 1936. When Olive died David's father George tried
to look after a new born baby. but after many months he found that he
could not manage it, with work etc. Roy & Clara ( Clare ) offered
to take and to raise him, he was about 9 or 10 months old at that time,
otherwise George said that he would be put into a home. Clara was concerned
that she was only married for a short time, but then she would suddenly
produced a bonny baby!!!!. David lived with Roy & Clara for a year
or two before they had a child of their own, called Terence ( me
) Roy & Clare had the opportunity to adopt David but decided not to,
as they thought that he should keep his own identity. My earliest memory
was sharing a double bed with David & for many years to come. David
always called Roy & Clare, Auntie & Uncle to maintain his identity.
No formal paperwork for taking David into their home was ever completed,
or suggested.
Gladys previously at one stage, went to live with Roy & Clare, It
might have been when Olive was having David, as the distance from Roy's
& Clare's house, to where Olive lived with George was within walking
distance.
After Olive died, David's father George was not interested
in how David was getting on & did not come to visit him at all, he
then started a new family & had several children with his new wife. David
had no contact with him at all, & when Terry was around 8 years old,
himself & David cycled over to his dads new family home several times
over a couple of years, but never meet the new wife or his Dad & were
never invited into the family home. We met his half sister & another
half sibling, and just played in the garden with them, for hour or two
then went back home to Molesey. |