Family Ties

I have had THE most exciting week!

Last Saturday, I jumped on to check Facebook, & had received a message from a lady I didn't know, Kel, trying to locate her partner Chris's family, as Chris's dad was deceased & he had never known him.

Turns out,...the man they were talking about was/is my Uncle!

They had contacted all of our family who had Facebook accounts, & we were all kind of reeling with the info!

Wow!! How exciting! Here was the one link we had to our Uncle Wayne, even though I was only a baby when he died, we grew up knowing about him, & knowing that everyone in Dads family was the way they were due to being affected by the loss of this man.

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Uncle Wayne was my dads eldest brother.

He had one son, Troy, to one lady, & another son, Chris, to another.

He had separated from Chris's mum, & was living with another lady directly behind my Nan & Pops house, in some units, where my Aunty, (& Wayne's little sister Jan) also lived, in a different unit.

One night, Uncle Wayne & his partner had rowed after a bit of a drinking session & Uncle Wayne fell asleep.

He never woke again. He was 27 years old.

His partner stabbed him numerous times & then went to bed.

She woke the next morning & went to my Nan & Pops to inform them that she thought she "may have killed Wayne."....

The lady was put on trial, but this was back in the day of no blood alcohol testing, & she managed to convince the court that she acted in self-defence and was not sentenced.

Meanwhile, my Dads entire family would never be the same again.....

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So,...what a shock it was to read Kels message!

Chris had never even seen a photograph of his Dad, so it was a great honour to scan & post that for him. He also never knew that he had an elder half-brother Troy, who we also haven't seen for a long time. Troy used to visit Nan & Pop, but then stopped, & I'm unsure why.

I have spent the past few days getting to know Chris & Kel & hope to oneday have a big family catchup with them!