Family

After so many years of only really having extended family on my mum's side, its nice to finally have found some on my dad's, all thanks to my research, and trying to find out the family history.

John Vincent had a total of 10 children and step-children. Amazing! 5 children with his first wife, (one of whom sadly died as a newborn) and 5 with his second wife, and of course, his children in turn grew up and had their own children (and grand-children, and Great-grandchildren!), and so I have an army of cousins who I'd not known before!

So here are some of our family...



  First picture is Me, my dad and my great aunt, who is the youngest and only child of John Vincent still living. We are by the James Caird boat- the actual boat that sailed that 800 miles from Elephant Isle to South Georgia (currently in Dulwich College!)Aunt Dawn was in England for a holiday from her home in the US.

Next picture is me and my cousin Helen. we met purely by chance at Westminster Abbey, for the 100th anniversary service of the landing on South Georgia. We ended up sitting right next to each other and got talking, discovered we were related to the same crew member! Amazing co-incidence, I think someone was watching over us that day!





Finally, myself and my cousin Tracy, who I chat to a lot (and I bet she's reading this because she's the only person who knows about this blog!) We got in touch via our great Aunt and have a fair bit in common, mainly that we are both researching John Vincent. Here we are with John Vincent's cup and boots from the Endurance expedition. They are currently in the archives of Hull Maritime museum, and not normally on display but they were kind enough to bring them out for us to view.


How lucky I am to have such wonderful people around me, and that we've met in such symbolic places. Hopefully I will be able to discover more of us Vincent clan, as time goes on!