In search of the family

PERRY FAMILY PHOTO Having completed the 52 Ancestors challenge in 2021, many of the stories within those themes show how I identified many of my ancestors and those I have yet to authenticate the identity. So for this weeks theme I thought I would talk about the first photograph I received of my paternal family taken around 1931/2. As the photograph has been passed amongst the family so names have been  agreed and suggested. Looking at other family photo's, some other names can be guessed at and through knowledge of family deaths and relationships other may be attributed but not necessarily correctly. So working from left to right, on the back row, of 5 men, I can identify:- ?Percival David Perry ?Ernest Perry My Grandfather Maurice Frederick Perry Hubert Jay Leslie Mark Perry not visible on this copy of the photo but on another there is possibly Edward Perry and why Percy and Ernest may also be in this photo. The middle row of women and children:- Dorothy Jay nee Perry My Grandmot...

This is not the story I would have chosen to write. But I am mindful of the subject and that this man's behaviour was such that it affected members of a generation that are still living. The man in question is long dead, but he is not here to defend himself and therefore I am using personal experiences and comments from others. So there is no named person in this story and I am writing from a personal perspective, with minimal detail and information. The gentleman is question was bought up by his grandparents as their own, when their unmarried daughter gave birth to him whilst unmarried. His adoptive siblings, therefore his blood Aunt's and Uncle's were unaware of his parentage and that he was not in fact their brother. There is a story that he too was unaware of his place in the family until he was called up to serve in the 2nd World War. But this is not the reason that I would consider him as an 'outcast'. His adoptive mother was said to have described him as ...