Help me to build my tree – from Tasmania
A PENSIONER who emigrated to Australia from Tottenhill more than 50 years ago is appealing for help to trace her West Norfolk relatives.
Eileen Appleby (81), who lives in Tasmania with husband Allan (77), wants to get in touch with her cousins and other descendants of her father’s brothers to complete her family tree.
Mrs Appleby grew up in Tottenhill with her siblings and parents Samuel and Martha Auker, and moved to Southend with her husband Philip Cunningham when she was 20.
In 1954 the couple emigrated to Tasmania with their children Jenny (8) and Nigel (7) and in 1969 she was featured in the Lynn News following her first visit home since leaving England.
Her husband became chronically ill with cancer soon after arriving in Tasmania and died some years later. In 1995 she married Allan Appleby, who she met 34 years earlier while working for the Government of Tasmania. It turned out Allan had arrived from England on the same ship she and her family had done – and even worked in an office on the same road in which Mrs Appleby lived in Southend! ‘It seemed strange that we both had to go half way round the world before meeting and marrying,’ she said.
Mrs Appleby is now hoping to get in touch with any descendants of her father’s brothers Ralph Auker, George Auker and Allan Auker.
She believes all three brothers served in the Army, and that relatives still live in the Lynn area.
Mrs Appleby also wants to thank the “lovely postie” who delivered her letter to the Lynn News as it was addressed: ‘Dear Mr Postman, please can you deliver this to the right place. King’s Lynn newspaper office, street – I haven’t a clue, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England.’
Relatives can contact Mrs Appleby by writing to: Unit 4, Olive Place, Kingston, Tasmania, Australia, 7018, emailing: px2alx2a@eftel.net.au or telephoning + (03) 62297947.
Mrs Appleby said people are welcome to reverse the charges but to please bear in mind that Tasmania is ten hours ahead of England.
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