Saturday 9th June

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Met a long lost relative last night

Digging around with family history

Facebook is great for reaching out

And then adding to our life’s story

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We share a great, great grandfather

Master mariner, sailing the seas

Fourteen years, penal servitude

Pirate and smuggler, if you please

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Another young man, aged just nineteen

Sailed on the ill-fated Titanic

On the 15th of April, 1912

He drowned in the middle of the Atlantic

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Searching genealogy records

So many more ancestors to find

Fascinating, yet time consuming

A worthy task to engage the mind

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Think you would have been excited

Having a pirate in the family

That would have piqued your interest

As you wove a fairytale fantasy

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I do miss you so much

Darling Angel son

xxxxxx

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Nearer my God to thee,

Nearer to thee.