Never Dot - our family is not one for talking anyway! I am the youngest of 7, so can't really remember if it was my mum or one of my siblings that told me. I was always curious but never felt I could ask. I know that my dad did stay in touch with his brother who has also now died, but that he did not really have anything to do with his sister, I gather it was something to do with her being sent to be brought up by an Auntie and living a better quality of life, and the two boys basically being brought up by their maternal grandparents in fairly basic conditions. My Dads mum gassed herself and after registering the death, he gassed himself a few days later.