They were relatives of my dad’s mum Joyce Halliwell from Bolton, who died in the late 50s when my dad was 8.
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My parents both died in 2005 when I was 21. But before we sold our family home in Northumberland the card from Edith and Jim kept on coming every year.
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It would say things like ‘We’re getting on a bit now, but still think about you’ or ‘We were passing through Carlisle and almost stopped in to see you’. Without their address I couldn’t reply to tell them what had happened.
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But they were the only relatives from the Bolton side of the family (my parents were both only children). So in 2009 I took out an ad in the Bolton News asking if anyone knew of an elderly couple named Edith and Jim related to Joyce Halliwell or her parents Thomas and Maud
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The Bolton News even ran a little feature about it. But no one responded with any information.
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Then yesterday my sister found an old address book & sent me this photopic.twitter.com/xE8lIITZCI
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Some Googling later and it turns out that Edith sadly died in 2015 aged 91 (presumably Jim too from the wording here)https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/announcements/deaths/deaths/11874895.Edith_Barnes_Nuttall/ …
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But though Edith didn’t have kids of her own she was a ‘beloved aunty, great aunt, great great aunt and friend of many’ in Little Hulton, and readers, when restrictions are lifted in 2021, I am going to find them
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PS in the unlikely event anyone knows any Nuttalls from Little Hulton or Halliwells from Bolton (or the intersection of the two) do send me a message!
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Not as frustrating as getting one for a previous occupant who moved out yrs ago.
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