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Published: Sunday, 17 March 2024 at 10:00 AM<\/p>

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Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine reader Val Thorley from Aberforth, West Wales<\/a> shares her family photographs.<\/p>

This is the wedding of my paternal aunt Nancy Packe to Albert William Oliver in Leicester. I\u2019m on the far right, aged two, with Mum, Dad, Granny, Grandad and brother Roger.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Here is my paternal great grand aunt Elizabeth Philpotts (n\u00e9e Smithies) with her husband William and their daughter Nellie<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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My mother Vera May Steeples married my father Bernard Packe at Sheffield Register Office during the Second World War<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>
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This photo shows (left to right)<\/em> my mother, Roger, my aunt Nancy and Granny Packe<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Elizabeth, her daughter-in-law Louisa and Louisa\u2019s mother Hannah Brearley<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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My father is sitting on his mother Annie Packe\u2019s knee in 1912<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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This photo shows Mum, Dad and Roger out on a bicycle<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Here are my grandmother Annie\u2019s second cousin Ethel Maud Farniss (n\u00e9e Smithies), her husband Lawrence and their son Alfred in 1918 \u2013 Lawrence was an acting corporal in the Royal Engineers<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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My paternal great aunt Louise Timms was born in Northampton in 1867<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Louise\u2019s son Reginald was born in 1899 in Castlethorpe<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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This photo from c1922 shows Dad (far right)<\/em> playing with friends<\/figcaption><\/figure> <\/body><\/html>\n
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