Visit Of A Lifetime!

A Memory of Queensbury.

My father was born "on the road to Queensbury", as I was told. He grew up in the Queensbury/Mountain/Bradford area and I have ties to those places still. Dad came to the U.S.A. in 1927 and lived with an aunt who had come earlier. I have always been connected to my family in the UK, writing to my grandmother and aunt and my cousins. I was able to visit in 2007 and what a wonderful trip that was. I truly felt like I had "come home". I stayed with a cousin once removed, son of one of my first cousins, Bert. Bert had passed away in 2000 and of three first cousins, two had passed before I was able to visit but I got to meet the third. My cousin with whom I was staying took me all over the dales and the moors, to the east coast..Whitby, Robin Hood's Bay, Scarborough, many smaller places which I cannot name at this moment but can see in my mind. I bought old books at a shop in York. Bought some more in a little bookshop in Haworth. Just a delightful trip.Then in 2015 I was able to return. I would stay for 6 months if I could.

I am doing my genealogy, have been working on it since 1994, and it is great to have visuals in my head now of places where my ancestors lived. My dad's family was living in a parsonage or church basement when he was born. In 1911 they lived at 16 Haycliffe Hill, Little Horton, Bradford and I don't know if that was the parsonage or not. It was a Wesleyan non-conformist church.

It is wonderful to now have my own memories of these areas and I am hoping to run across some of the others of my relatives that I know still live there but with whom I have had no contact, mostly on my grandmother's side, which is Robertshaw. I also love making friends so please feel free to message.

Cynthia Anderson (nee Hodges) Knoxville, Tennessee U.S.A.