Glen TK
28-11-13, 22:18
I joined a group on facebook a while ago and got chatting to a lady called Katie whose father witnessed a Lancaster crash in Lincoln many years ago, all but one of the aircrew perished.
She put a lot of effort into discovering more about the incident and asked me to look into some of the family stuff, come the anniversary of the accident "Katie's Boys" were remembered by members of the group.
Katie also has a fascination with a grave in Lincoln of the Beechey family, a tragic story about a family who lost five sons in WWI. Recently she noticed some damage to the grave and left a note on it asking for help to replace a small cross with a photograph of one of the sons, when she went back a few weeks later she found the cross had been replaced, (by persons unknown) to match those of the other sons.
Find a grave has some fantastic information about the sons
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=103644047
The Lincs Regiment website also has some information
http://www.thelincolnshireregiment.org/beechey.shtml
I've spoken with Katie a few times on the phone and we have talked about strange co-incedences and mentioned how the same little things seem to attract us and always lead to something in my family tree but the number of times it's happening recently is unbelievable.
She posted a comment on facebook today and I happened to look at my tree, a daughter of the Beechey family married my great uncle. I'm sat here shaking like a leaf at the story and the circumstances of how it has come about.
She put a lot of effort into discovering more about the incident and asked me to look into some of the family stuff, come the anniversary of the accident "Katie's Boys" were remembered by members of the group.
Katie also has a fascination with a grave in Lincoln of the Beechey family, a tragic story about a family who lost five sons in WWI. Recently she noticed some damage to the grave and left a note on it asking for help to replace a small cross with a photograph of one of the sons, when she went back a few weeks later she found the cross had been replaced, (by persons unknown) to match those of the other sons.
Find a grave has some fantastic information about the sons
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=103644047
The Lincs Regiment website also has some information
http://www.thelincolnshireregiment.org/beechey.shtml
I've spoken with Katie a few times on the phone and we have talked about strange co-incedences and mentioned how the same little things seem to attract us and always lead to something in my family tree but the number of times it's happening recently is unbelievable.
She posted a comment on facebook today and I happened to look at my tree, a daughter of the Beechey family married my great uncle. I'm sat here shaking like a leaf at the story and the circumstances of how it has come about.