I have just started to gather genealogical material on my family and will publish my findings here as they come. Anyone reading this who might have information to add please e-mail me.

My parents were Ernest Thomas (1901) and Ellen Lilian (1908). My mother was born Braxton, and had a step-father William Carey. They were married in 1935 and I was born 1936. I have two brothers Leslie Roy and Graham Edwin. Leslie was born in November 1939, after our father had left for France with the British Expeditionary Force, (he survived Dunkerk). Graham was born January 1947, part of the post-war baby boom. My experience during the war had a profound emotional effect on me that has continued until the present. More about this in my Bio page.

Leslie married Shirley (?). they have no children.

Graham married Carole (?) and has two daughters.

I married Patricia (Paddy) Enid Stafford (grandmother's surname, taken at adoption. Nee McGuirk) June 1 1957. We had four children of our own, John David, Portsmouth, England, Dec 30 1957; Andrew Keith, Portsmouth, England, Sept 29 1959; Elizabeth Jane Kingston, Ontario, May 4 1961; Jennifer, Kingston, Ontario, June 8 1963 and adopted (at 18 months) Sally Irene, Portsmouth(?), England, June 1961, the daughter of Paddy's sister Mary.

Today, January 11, 1999, I am updating this from a terminal in the VIA Rail station at Kingston. Ontario. I was in Ottawa on Friday, the 8th, for a memorial service for my second son, Andrew, who died in a fire on New Years Day. I met Andrew's daughter, Carley (age 11), at the funeral and yester