Fulfilling Promises
In 1998, my second cousin, Jeanie McGregor aged 78, travelled from her home in Sydney, Australia, specifically to meet me and pass on her mothers story, without children of her own she didn't want her mothers story to be forgotten. She had two younger half sisters whom she hadn't seen since that fateful night of 17th November 1928. She wanted to make sure her mothers story lived on as a reminder of the suffering and hardship the women before us witnessed and experienced. Jeanie handed me a photocopy of an old Govan, Glasgow, Newspaper dated 17th November 1928. Before I could read it she gripped my hand. "Please share it, make sure she isn't forgotten, make sure all the other women like her who suffered are not forgotten." To travel across the world at the age of 78 for the specific purpose of asking a second cousin to share the story of her mother was huge thing to do. Ironically I had lived in Australia for ten years with my parents, and at one point we lived le...