Although this site is about the Cranstoun side of the family, I would come to learn what my mother never knew about her family and found quite an interesting family history on her side.
When I found her history I wished I had started this project while she was alive, as she would have been pleased to know she wasn't as alone in this world as she thought.
Eric and Gladys had 6 children, 3 sons and 3 daughters, we are able to fill in the family tree further from this point on however as all children are living we will stop this branch here The Story of "Battlin' Billy". Money their parents could have used in their old age and I kept quiet as I needed to hear the other side of the story before I wrote the family history. It took me two years of emailing, sometimes waiting three months for a reply before my cousin finally agreed to talk to mee.
Our first conversation in over 50 years and she laid out a forty minute rant on her dislike of my father after all that time as she believed it and I listened and remained silent. I did not want get into an argument over something that happened over 50 years ago.
Something we as children had nothing to do with or could control. But also there was something I knew she didn't know and I did not want to say anything becaause there were things I wanted to see. It took a lot for me to quietly listen, for I have a shorter fuse than he.
