More Reunited Stories 7

Person Looking: A. Clarke
Person Missing: M. Skuja
Relationship: Cousin

Reason for separation: Not known. However within 30 minutes of opening the letter, looking on the 192.com and calling her back, the cousins were talking on the telephone again.

No. of people reunited: 2+
Person Looking: D. Phillips
Person Missing: D. Matthews
Relationship: Friends at school

Reason for separation: They were in touch until the 1960's but lost touch after Mr. Phillips got married.

No. of people reunited: 2
Person Looking: D. Brad
Person Missing: M. E. Hill
Relationship: Friends

Reason for separation: Lost contact when posted to Germany. D. and his wife had had to live apart when he was postedto Germany and M. and his wifewere very kind to her. They lost touch in the mid sixties and as his wife suffered from MS she was unable to remember their surnames. Through 192.com his wife and her friends were reunited in 2001.

No. of people reunited: 4
Person Looking: D. Faulkner
Person Missing: Y. Hazell / A. H. Faulkner
Relationship: Daughter and Son

Reason for separation: He and his wife divorced in 1956 and since then he had lost touch with his children. After putting off searching for them for years due to the fear of rejection, at the age of 75 he read about the successes of Gill through the Daily Mail and it prompted him to write. His children were found and they were reunited through 192.com.

No. of people reunited: 3
Person Looking: Mrs. M. Collings
Person Missing: J. McAteer
Relationship: Brother

Reason for separation: parents separated in 1959, J. went with his dad. M. went with her mum, she last saw him when she was two. The brother and sister are now reunited and all is well.

No. of people reunited: 2 +
Person Looking: S. Thomas
Person Missing: B. Monaghan
Relationship: Father

Reason for separation: Father was not married to mother, S. was born in 1970, and her mother had contact with her father for about two years. She was desperate to make contact with him, as she had never known him and wrote to Gill. Her father was located through 192.com and they have been reunited. He had three brothers and three sisters.

No. of people reunited: 8
Person Looking: Mr. W. Hetherington
Person Missing: A. J. Carnall
Relationship: Half-brother

Reason for separation: A. was unaware of his brother's existence, until he traced his father to Angelesey, his mother and he had had a brief fling in 1928. When he discovered where his father was he also discovered he had a half-brother. But after being too scared to contact him where he lived, he finally plucked up the courage only to discover he was no longer listed in the phone book and he did not know where he lived. His half-brother was traced through 192.com.

No. of people reunited: 2
Person Looking: S. Hill
Person Missing: J. Cavanagh
Relationship: Friend

Reason for separation: S. left the UK to live abroad in 1957, and dearly wanted to make contact with his friend again after all those years. J. was found easily through 192.com and all is well.

No. of people reunited: 2
Person Looking: L. Carey
Persons Missing: R. Munday / P. Hoban
Relationship: Service Pals

Reason for separation: Were in the RAF together but R. returned to the UK before L. and they have not seen each other since the 1950s. A number of his other mates had either passed on or emigrated, but both R. and P. were found and all is well.

No. of people reunited: 3
Person Looking: I. Levisohn
Person Missing: R. Levisohn
Relationship: Half-brother

Reason for separation: Simply lost track owing to I.'s constant moving house dating from 1985. They have now been reunited and all is well.

No. of people reunited: 2

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