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    Alex Niven‏ @Alex_Niven 20 Dec 2020

    Every year when I was a kid we would get a Christmas card from ‘Edith and Jim’. At a certain point my parents lost their address & got frustrated they couldn’t send one in return.

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      2. Alex Niven‏ @Alex_Niven 20 Dec 2020

        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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      3. Alex Niven‏ @Alex_Niven 20 Dec 2020

        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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      4. Alex Niven‏ @Alex_Niven 20 Dec 2020

        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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      5. Alex Niven‏ @Alex_Niven 20 Dec 2020

        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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      6. Alex Niven‏ @Alex_Niven 20 Dec 2020

        The Bolton News even ran a little feature about it. But no one responded with any information.

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      7. Alex Niven‏ @Alex_Niven 20 Dec 2020

        Then yesterday my sister found an old address book & sent me this photopic.twitter.com/xE8lIITZCI

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      8. Alex Niven‏ @Alex_Niven 20 Dec 2020

        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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      9. Alex Niven‏ @Alex_Niven 20 Dec 2020

        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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      10. Alex Niven‏ @Alex_Niven 21 Dec 2020

        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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      1. NickV On Merseyside #ReportAntisemitism #RJCOB‏ @NickVStH 20 Dec 2020
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        Not as frustrating as getting one for a previous occupant who moved out yrs ago. 🤔

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