Perkins/Routledge Heir Hunters

'Every year, thousands die without leaving a will

'and, seemingly, with no next of kin.

'But often a relative stands to inherit,

'and that's where the heir hunters come in.

'On today's programme, Dave Pacifico tracks down an unsuspecting heir

'and gives him quite a surprise.'

The call came completely out of the blue.

I was, to use a phrase, completely gob-smacked.

'And a family is amazed that they had an inventor for a relative,

'who spent his life searching for that eureka moment.'

Down in his cellar, it was made like a little workshop,

full of little models of things he'd invented.

'Plus, details of some of the hundreds of unclaimed estates.

'Could you be in line for a windfall?

'In the UK, about two-thirds of people do not have a will

'and, therefore, no record of their last wishes.

'If they die and an obvious relative cannot be found,

'then their money defaults to the government

'who, last year, made £18 million in unclaimed estates.

'Heir hunters must leave no stone unturned.

'There are over 30 companies competing to find beneficiaries

'of the fortune they never knew existed.

'With so much money at stake, there's a lot of competition

'so time is of the essence.'

We've every confidence in the team and I'm sure that we will triumph!

'Fraser and Fraser are one of the oldest heir hunting companies

'and have handled £100 million of inheritance in the last ten years.

'Run by Neil, Charles and Andrew Fraser,

'the company employs dozens of researchers,

'all keen to be the first to sign up an heir

'and solve the case as fast as possible.

'It's Friday morning and work at Fraser and Fraser is under way.

'Yesterday, the Treasury released its list of unclaimed estates.

'Although a lot of cases have been started,

'some less valuable, but no less challenging, ones are waiting to be cracked.

'Case manager David Pacifico is looking into one such case.'

Today's case we're looking at is Ruth Perkins, formally Logan.

She died in 2008 in Northampton.

We think it could be worth £30,000 and if so, worth looking into.

'The company has little information so they use census and birth, death and marriage certificates

'to build a family tree.

'Generation by generation,

'the team hopes to uncover potential heirs to an estate.

'Ruth Vera Joyce Perkins died in February 2008 in Northampton,

'leaving behind an estate worth an estimated £30,000, but no will.

'Ruth was known to friends as Joyce.

'She married Raymond Perkins in July 1947 in Northampton.

'They were together for 51 years until Raymond died in 1998.

'The couple had no children.

'Towards the end of her life, Joyce moved into sheltered accommodation and lived there for five years.

'Mary Spillane, the warden, became a good friend of Joyce's.'

Joyce was a very lovely lady, really independent.

Very social lady. She loved going on holiday.

A couple of times a year - when she could afford it, I think.

Joyce was a lady that you'd feel...

I looked on her as part of my family.

She lived just across the way there.

I'd pop round, even when I wasn't working, to see how she was.

'As Joyce entered her final years it seems she was aware that she would be leaving an estate,

'but not naming anyone as a beneficiary.

'Mary recalls how Joyce asked for her help.'

Joyce made me very aware that she didn't have immediate family.

She was chatting one evening with me and said,

you know, would I like to inherit and look after her.

I didn't know at the time that she did have any money, the lady.

But from my experience, over the years, I declined.

But I did visit her on several occasions at her private place.

She was very settled there.

'After Mary was unable to help, and despite earlier intentions,

'Joyce took the decision to not make a will.

'After only meeting in the final years of Joyce's life, her friendship made an impact on Mary.'

I will remember Joyce as an exceptionally lovely lady,

a real English lady.

'Back in London,

'David Pacifico is leading the investigation and feels the team has got off to a strong start.

'Joyce's mother's name is offering them some leads.'

Perkins is coming along. We've identified the mother's death.

She died unmarried in Northampton when she was 90.

We crossed checked it to her birth and she was born in Mile End, 1888.

The census shows that she was one of three children.

She's got two siblings and the question arises, did the siblings have any children themselves?

Hopefully, one of them did, so we may have cousins.

'William Logan married Ruth Cushion and they had three children -

'Ruth, William and Ethel.

'Ruth had a daughter, our deceased, Joyce.

'Did Joyce's aunt and uncle have children of their own?

'It looks as though the mother's side will produce the only leads,

'as Joyce was born illegitimately.'

We can't investigate the father.

No father's name is on the birth certificate of the deceased,

or, for that matter, on her marriage certificate.

We can only search the mother's side of the family.

If her siblings didn't get married or have surviving descendents,

this could be a dead case.

'Senior researcher Alan has made a breakthrough in investigating Joyce's aunt and uncle.

'It's not the news David was hoping for.'

-March 1983, Northampton. Spinster.

-Oh.

Well that's... The aunt has died a spinster in Northampton.

Which means we may be down to just the uncle.

It's not so good news now.

We've eliminated, it looks like, one branch of the family.

Unless the uncle gets married, there could be nobody entitled.

'This is potentially very bad news for the team.

'Their research could be in vain and they could make a loss.

'They need to find out what happened to Joyce's Uncle William,

'as he's their only hope.'

Ethel died as a spinster and I'm now trying to identify the death of the maternal uncle, William,

in the First World War.

I couldn't identify a death for him in the records after 1969.

One of several scenarios. He either died before 1969.

Or he may have gone overseas.

'And things go from bad to worse.

'The team thinks they've found a marriage for Uncle William,

'but the dates don't fill Dave with confidence.'

We've found a possible marriage for William Samuel Logan.

If it's right, he married age 47.

'Unless William married a younger woman or had children by a previous marriage,

'there is little chance of children at all.'

With the aunt dying a spinster, unless she's got illegitimate children,

this case is not looking too good at the moment.

We occasionally get cases where there's nobody.

One of those things. So the government get the money.

'The cash the government could collect, they estimate at £30,000.

'At this stage, all hope is pinned on William having had children.

'Otherwise, the case is dead in the water.

'Under pressure, Alan thinks he's found a child of William's.'

-That marriage?

-Definitely a child.

He could have married a much younger person and had a child.

I'm talking absolute rubbish.

'But it seems he's read the records incorrectly.

'It's one step forward and two steps back.'

I was looking at the marriage form not the birth form.

'Kiera and Alan are looking at the records of births around the time William might have married.

'They've had a few possible matches.

'Could this be the breakthrough they've been hoping for?'

-I was looking at marriages thinking they're births.

-None of these are...

-What about Kenneth S?

-Any of those could be.

-Can you print that one out?

-Northampton, Alan.

'All is not lost.

'After a closer look, William may have had children after all.'

Possible marriage for William Samuel in Pancras in 1939.

Got two possible boys, though they're both born out of area.

One of those boys I've got an up-to-date address for in Brighton.

It's probably a red herring, the wrong marriage.

I've got a phone number for the guy. We can ask him.

Hopefully, he's up to date.

'With a potential marriage for William and possibly two sons,

'Alan is keen to start the tree, even if he's not 100% convinced.'

I'm going to write in pencil.

If it's all wrong, you can rub it off easy.

He married very late in life.

If it is correct, it's possibly going to be a second marriage.

'Alan might be clutching at straws,

'but it's better to try something rather than nothing.'

-If it is correct...

-Thanks, Alan.

'When Dave calls the potential heir, there's nobody at home.

'It's another anticlimax for the team.

'Coming up, Dave finally sees some light at the end of the tunnel.'

There could still be an heir on this case, which is good news.

'Frasers' deal with thousands of unclaimed estates,

'mainly awarding large sums of money to unsuspecting beneficiaries.

'Some cases unearth secret lives that turn out to be

'far more valuable to a family than any estate could be.'

People are often just a name, so it's very nice to discover history about the deceased.

'The history uncovered about Kenneth was that he was an inventor.'

Very interesting fella to have known. I'd love to have known him.

I bet he were really nice to talk to,

find out what were going on up here.

'Kenneth Clement Routledge died in August 2006 in Leeds.

'Records show that he never married and had no children.

'He left an estate worth an estimated £160,000, based on the value of his property -

'a highly valuable case for the Frasers' team.

'Kenneth kept himself to himself and was not a social figure.

'Lewis Bentley was his neighbour.'

In my mind, he was a bit of a hermit.

We could go months without seeing him, or anybody seeing him.

You would occasionally see him walk to... I would think he walked to the shop and back.

He was up straight. He could walk about OK.

He didn't use a stick or anything.

He was tall, over six foot.

He had his cap and his raincoat.

He were dressed the same every time we saw him. He never changed.

Whether it be winter, summer or whatever.

'Lewis and the neighbours were only able to monitor if Kenneth was OK by the sounds from his house.'

If you asked the neighbour

had he seen him, he would say, "No, but he must be all right.

"Cos his radio was on."

He listened to his radio.

That's the only way we knew that there was somebody in there.

'But after leading a deeply private life for so long,

'one day, things took a dramatic turn for the worst.'

The day that they found him, the police bashed the door down, like they do.

He asked me, "When did you last see him?"

I said, "Oh, it's weeks, months."

Um... He said, "I'm afraid this is bad news."

How long the body had been there, we don't know.

It was sad, actually, to know that he'd died alone

in the circumstances he'd died in.

I did feel sorry for the chap, yes.

When I saw them take him away, it were really sad.

That he'd been alone,

died alone

and he left alone.

'When the case arrived for the Frasers' team, senior researcher Gareth set to work.

'With the estate worth an estimated £160,000,

'they knew they could face competition so could waste no time.'

Because Routledge is quite a good name,

we were confident we were on to the right family.

We established that there was no kin -

the deceased didn't have brothers and sisters and had no children.

So we started looking at cousins.

Basically, Thomas, the father, and Gladys were both Yorkshire people.

The family seemed to come from Yorkshire, which was a help for us.

Routledge being a good surname and the family staying in the area all help in our research.

Because it was a Yorkshire name,

we sent people to the area to pick up the certificates,

the birth certificate of the deceased and of the parents.

'Alongside birth, death and marriage records is the census,

'another weapon in the heir hunters' armoury.

'Censuses record every person who lived in a property at that time,

'and are made public 100 years after they were first recorded.

'In this case, the team made great use of the census from 1901.'

The first thing we saw from the 1901 census

was, although the deceased's father, Thomas, was born in Hunslet,

where we expected him to be born,

his siblings were all actually born in Ireland.

The fact that we found Thomas's birth was a lucky break.

We would never have found the brothers and sisters, or it would be much harder.

'From the census, the team could begin to build a family tree.

'John Simpson married Mary Hall and they had five children.

'One of these children was Thomas.

'He married Gladys Windsor and they had one child,

'Kenneth, our deceased.

'Kenneth never married or had children.

'The team looked to the brothers and sisters of Thomas.

'If they had children they would be cousins, who could be heirs.

'With four stems to investigate,

'it looked like a busy tree for the heir hunters.'

It looked like most of the heirs would come from the Routledge side.

The Windsor side, there was one uncle James, who died without issue.

So it looked like all the heirs would come from the Routledge side.

We actually were falling over heirs.

We found all of the heirs almost of the entire case on the same day.

For instance, we quite quickly found Isabelle's marriage.

She married Mr Elmey and it quite quickly led us

to Kenneth John Elmey, who was a cousin once removed of the deceased.

We were able to contact him on the same day.

From our point of view, a good day's work.

'Kenneth had four aunts and uncles -

'Isabelle, Henry, Robert and John -

'all of whom married and had children.

'Isabelle married William Elmey and had two boys, John and Horace.

'John married and had two sons, both of whom would be heirs.

'One of these sons was Ken Elmey.

'In total, the team would find seven heirs,

'all entitled to a share in Kenneth's £160,000 estate.

'When Frasers' put their call in to Ken, they were met with scepticism.

'Fearing a hoax, Ken was less than receptive to the idea that he might be about to inherit a fortune.'

I put the phone down

and thought about it for a while.

My son-in-law checked on the internet and found that Fraser and Fraser were genuine.

So I rang them back and arranged for one of their researchers to see me.

'Frasers' sent a local researcher to interview Ken immediately.'

We sat down, he asked a few questions about my mother and father, my grandma

and any other relatives.

And then told me that I could be due for an inheritance.

'Despite being named as an heir to Kenneth Routledge's estate,

'and potentially inheriting a considerable sum, "Routledge" was completely unfamiliar to Ken.'

I'd never heard it before.

I didn't even know that my grandma's name was Routledge before she was married.

When I visited my grandma, it was Grandma Foster.

That was the first time I heard the name Kenneth Routledge.

'Ken was made the administrator to Kenneth's estate.

'It was up to him to prepare the house for the market.'

I visited two or three times to let people look around,

and also to get all the...

terrible rubbish that was in there, everything out

and clean it up for re-sale.

'Ken had little information on the circumstances surrounding Kenneth's death.

'Visiting his home helped him begin to understand his distant cousin.'

Seemed like he was a loner. He was devoted to his mother.

I found all his mother's clothes upstairs,

all neatly folded and put away and everything.

They were all her clothes.

But...he had...a strange way...

In the house, upstairs, we found a box,

a big cardboard box with 40 pairs of trousers with the tags on.

They hadn't even been tried on.

And another box with 20 or 30 shirts.

All the same, though, all checked shirts that had never been tried on.

So he must have had nothing to spend his money on. He just spent it.

Anyway, they all went to the charities.

'Coming up, Ken delves into the imaginative mind of his cousin.'

"An electric hold-on jam jar lid."

He's quite inventive, as you can see.

'For every case that is cracked, many thousands remain a mystery.

'These sit on the Treasury's unsolved list and can remain there for up to 30 years.

'The estates range wildly in value from £5,000 to millions,

'with the rightful heirs unaware of the windfall they could claim.

'Today, we've got two cases heir hunters have failed to solve.

'Could you have the answer? Could you be in line to inherit?

'Ronald Irwin passed away in January 1997 in Newcastle Upon Tyne.

'In the 13 years since, nobody has come forward and offered any clues

'which might lead to a rightful heir.

'Could you be in line to inherit his estate?

'Dorothy May Firman died in June 2001 in Ipswich, Suffolk.

'She left behind an estate and a mystery.

'Might you offer information that might lead to her beneficiaries?

'Or could you personally be entitled to her unclaimed fortune?

'Joyce Perkins passed away in 2008,

'leaving an estate worth an estimated £30,000.

'Although Joyce married,

'she never had children and was an only child born illegitimately.

'The team's only hope of finding an heir

'lay with brothers or sisters Joyce's mother had.'

The aunt has died a spinster in Northampton.

Which means we may be down to just the uncle.

So it's not so good news now.

'During her final years, Joyce had a friendship with Mary Spillane.

'Chats often turned to reminiscing about Joyce's early life.'

Joyce used to talk about her husband.

She told me she worked on a farm in the early years of her life.

'Joyce was referring to her time in the land army.

'Records show that she served in 1942, when she was 22 years old,

'one of 80,000 women in the land army during the Second World War,

'putting in 50 hours and earning just 28 shillings a week.

'Their jobs could be anything from harvesting wheat to tending animals.

'Whilst the work didn't prevent rationing, it did prevent famine,

'and the efforts of women like Joyce were required for several years after the war ended in 1945.

'Back in the office, David is following up two potential cousins, children of her Uncle William.

'After calling one with no answer, he's keen to contact the other.

'Just as the team seems to be making progress, Alan calls with an update

'which throws everything into question.'

He had an address of a cousin. That cousin we now know is not correct.

'But there is some good news, too.

'Alan's found another marriage of a William Logan.

'On this marriage, William would have wed at 26, a more realistic age

'and, better still, it looks as though he started a family.'

He may have had a child of that marriage. That child would be a cousin.

I need to check what they have got but there could still be an heir, which is good news.

'With this revelation, Alan confidently starts the tree again.

'This time, he's doing it in ink, rather than pencil.'

-He married as plain William.

-Are you sure?

-Yeah, because he's left a probate.

-To...?

-Dorothy Querry.

They had a daughter, Winifred Eve.

-Born when?

-Sep 19.

-In Romford.

-Any issue on that marriage?

-Yeah.

Two sons. There's a Roger A.

'According to Alan's new research,

'Joyce's Aunt Ethel died a spinster.

'Her Uncle William married and had a daughter, Winifred.

'She was married to Kenneth Broughton and they had two sons,

'one of whom is Roger.

'Both could be the sole heirs to Joyce's estate.'

It looks on this case we're going to have kin, cousins once removed.

Possibly only two people.

'By mid-afternoon, the team can put in a call to Roger Broughton,

'fairly confident that he's one of the heirs they've been looking for.'

Hello, Mr Broughton...?

'And best of all, it seems he's at home.'

..son of Winifred Broughton, formerly Logan.

We believe that a cousin of your mother's on your grandfather's side

has recently died without leaving a valid will.

You and your brother could well be entitled to share in this estate.

We're not certain what the value is. Would it be convenient to see you?

One of my colleagues, probably Mr David Hadley.

Bye bye.

'At last, success!

'Roger has confirmed much of the team's research

'and it's finally time to send a travelling heir hunter to see him.

'Throughout the UK, Frasers' have researchers on stand-by,

'able to hit the road at a moment's notice.

'They find records and track down clues to help crack the case.

'Dave Hadley is based in the southeast.

'It's up to him to interview the potential heir and fill in any gaps on the tree.

'Roger Broughton lives in Colchester and could be a beneficiary to Joyce Perkins' estimated £30,000 estate.'

I don't think that the heir knows who the deceased is.

I don't know how close he would be to the deceased anyway.

So perhaps a little bit of delicate questioning when I first go in.

If the deceased was close to the heir, it's going to come as a shock and they're going to be upset.

That's my main concern.

-Mr Broughton?

-Yes.

-Hello. David Hadley.

-Your mother was Winifred?

-Yeah.

-Your father Kenneth?

-That's right.

-And therefore, your grandfather would have been William Logan?

-Yes.

-And your grandmother Dorothy Query. Query, Querry?

-Yes. Querry.

I did say to David that, being a fella,

I've never been overly interested in genealogy.

I've been, "Forget yesterday, drive onwards to tomorrow."

-Sort of thing, you know?

-Yeah.

-So I don't know a great many names from old aunts.

-That's OK.

A lot of memories are from when I was quite young,

so they're probably a bit hazy.

Traditionally, it is ladies and wives that hold families together.

There were two sons.

-You're the oldest?

-My brother is four and a half years younger.

-We did use to visit some old, very old aunts...

-Yeah?

-In Northampton.

There was a very old lady and her two daughters all living together

in one small house in Northampton.

Ah. Right. Well, that might be...

I'm not sure where they fitted into the picture. Never paid it a great deal of attention.

'David's fairly confident that the aunts Roger remembers visiting could be Joyce,

'her mother and her aunt.

'With his knowledge of the family, it seems Frasers' have found the correct family.

'They sign up Roger and his brother, who will share Joyce's estate.'

If you've got any questions, don't hesitate to give David a call.

-Pleasure to meet you. Thank you.

-Thank you very much. Bye bye.

He told me a little bit about the family. Nothing we didn't know.

He signed the agreement.

Everything's going to go through smoothly, I would think.

It's a pretty straightforward job. It looks like only two heirs.

They'll be sharing the estate. It's been quite a quick result.

And a good result. It's a job well done.

'Confident in his research, David Pacifico is happy as the case draws to a close.'

The case was fairly easy to solve, although we did have a couple of false starts.

In this instance, the deceased was illegitimate

and therefore, we only had to look at the maternal side of the family.

We've managed to sign up the only two heirs who, between them,

will now, we believe, receive the whole estate.

'Roger is already dreaming of foreign shores

'and how he might spend his surprise windfall, whatever it's worth.'

I want to make use of any legacy sufficient to enable me to travel

farther afield, like New Zealand,

China - fascinating places. Have a look at Hong Kong.

Not sure about Dubai. Something a bit new about that.

Some older places in the world will be interesting to visit.

'Frasers' have been looking into the case of Kenneth Routledge.

'Although the case was fairly simple to solve, it uncovered some details

'that were really rather unusual.'

This little book

of all the things he thought of which he would try and invent.

There must be 50 or 60 items.

'Kenneth Routledge was a private man who kept himself to himself.

'On his death, he left behind an estate worth an estimated £160,000,

'but no will.

'His cousin once removed, Ken Elmey, is one of seven heirs to his estate.

'Tragically, although Kenneth died alone in his Leeds home,

'he had scores of relatives locally, who never knew of his existence.'

I passed his house hundreds of times. I have relatives up there.

And I've probably passed within a hundred yards of his house

countless times over the years.

Whether he would have let me in if I went to see him, I don't know,

but I'd love to have had the chance.

'The first news the family had of Kenneth's life

'was when they were informed by the heir hunters that they would be inheriting his estate.'

It would have been lovely to have met him.

He must have brought it on himself, to an extent.

He didn't socialise much.

I think he must have died a sad man.

Pity.

'Naturally, Ken felt compelled to pay his respects to his distant cousin in person.'

Wish I'd have met you.

You certainly changed my life.

And I thank you very much.

I don't know what else to say.

But it's still nice to know where he is.

Um...

Definitely. Nice to know that he's...

I'd love to have seen a headstone, though, or something.

Maybe we can do something in future.

We'll see.

'As administrator to the estate,

'Ken was in charge of some of his cousin's belongings,

'and began to understand his relative a lot better.

'Although Kenneth hid himself away, he was certainly keeping busy.'

It seems he was a bit of an inventor

and liked to tinker with all types of thinks.

In fact, his cellar was made like a little workshop.

It was full of bits of aluminum and plastic

and little models of things he'd invented.

It transpired that the deceased sounds like an interesting chap.

Working the case, he's just a name.

As the case progressed, we found more about him.

As far as I recall, and I've been doing this job for a while, he's my only inventor

I can picture him a bit more than just a name now.

It's always good to have extra information. It humanises the job.

This is a suitcase we found.

And it's full of...

Well, it's full of photographs

and all his letters from the patent companies

where he sent the inventions.

There's quite a few patents among them as well.

Inventions.

It seems he took newspaper cuttings,

adverts, and tried to improve on them,

and then wrote off and asked is his idea better than that one.

And so we've quite a lot of letters, some to America, some to Japan,

a lot of companies in Britain, and all had answers back.

Whether he actually made the items or got the items made, I'm not sure.

'Every time we put on the washing, make a phone call or set our alarm,

'we are utilising someone's unique invention that, more often than not, improves our quality of life.

'In 2008, more than 16,000 seemingly original ideas and inventions

'were filed with the UK Patent Office, with over 2,000 granted.

'Many applications fall on the desk of Lawrence Smith-Higgins at the UK Patent Office.'

We're proud of the tradition we've got

in terms of invention and innovation.

We've had some outstanding innovators,

the great Victorian age of invention, where wealth was created.

It's a tradition that we carry on to this day.

We still are proud that there is a great number of British inventors.

British inventors demonstrate dogged determination,

a characteristic we're proud of.

It's one thing to have your idea.

It's another thing to know what to do, get it protected by a patent.

Probably the biggest hurdle is to get your idea to market.

'Among those British inventors desperate to see their idea in production was Kenneth Routledge.

'Records show he had an original and imaginative mind

'and invested time developing his ideas and filing for patents.'

What's interesting is the breadth of applications.

Mr Routledge was not just interested in one patent. He had several.

'A favoured design was one for a hairdryer.'

We looked at our database and pulled up a copy of the application.

Importantly, the drawings.

I would presume, certainly one of the unique features

is that this hair drying device, though heated electronically,

once on the head,

as Mr Routledge puts it, "..enables the wearer to move about freely during the use thereof."

Which means that you can be drying your hair while doing other things,

and not sitting under the plugged-in,

static kind of hairdryers that would have been popular at this time.

From our research, it looks as though Kenneth had four patents,

three relating to hairdryers and one for a darts game.

The latest patent was filed in 1971.

Unfortunately, our records can't tell us

whether these were ever turned into a commercial entity - that we can't say.

Their value really lies in the fact that Mr Routledge

has joined a unique band of individuals

who have had patents granted for their unique innovative ideas.

'Some of Kenneth's ideas never made it past the drawing board.'

There's some ideas he had.

"Foam plaster paper.

"A wig setting block.

"An electric hold-on jam jar lid."

So he's quite an inventor, as you can see!

"Artificial respirator. Unsinkable lifeboat."

CHUCKLES

"Two-way astro jet engine!" I don't know what he was going for!

So it shows he never stopped inventing things.

He seems a very interesting man.

I wish he could have been more successful.

We found some photographs here

of his family and old war photographs.

I think this was his mother or his grandmother.

I think this is his grandmother and grandfather.

'Thinking he had no tangible connection to Kenneth,

'Ken was in for a surprise when he looked through the photographs.'

This photograph is my grandmother,

Bella Routledge or, as I knew her, Grandma Foster.

That's my father and that's my Uncle Horace.

This one, also, is of my father and my mother.

And my! Doesn't she look trendy?!

It's fantastic that, to find a picture of my mother again.

They're the only two I found of my family in his box.

But he must have known them and they must have known him,

though they never told me about him.

Seeing that really shocked me, actually. It's quite nostalgic.

I've never seen photographs of my mother and father

at that stage of their life.

I can't believe my mother's such a good-looking woman. Beautiful.

It might be his mother that knew my mother and father.

'Opening up this box of photographs has raised questions for Ken.'

Perhaps my mother and father, who obviously knew him,

took his name to give me.

Maybe they liked the fella.

Maybe they got on right well with him in his younger days

and maybe I were named after him.

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