00:00So Roger hello sir how are you? Fine thanks yeah. And we're here in in Tettnall? Yes Tettnall.
00:07Tettnall Wolverhampton and a bit of a family mystery that you've never quite been
00:11able to solve despite best efforts. Your dear aunt Lily. Correct. Just fill us
00:17in a little bit on what we know then. Bit of a mystery as to what happened to her.
00:21We know very little actually. Yeah. Except that Lily disappeared from her home on
00:27Armistice Day in 1918. Yeah. In All Saints Road. And that was the last anyone ever saw her.
00:35Yeah. So I understand she'd she'd gone missing just a few days before that
00:41actually. I think she'd gone missing once or twice. Yeah. But after that date nobody
00:47saw her ever again. So she popped up back home. Hello mum here I am and a day later
00:54she was off again. Correct. So what do we know about her then? So she was born?
00:591898 in Wolverhampton. Yeah. She was a couple of years older than mum obviously. So your mum was
01:07Dulcy. Dulcy yes. And mum's brother Bill William Brew he died in his
01:17fifties. Yeah. And that knocked mum about a bit of course and possibly that brought
01:22more recollections or reminiscences about Lily into her mind. Yeah. And since then to
01:30cut a long story short I've been trying to track down what became of Lily. So Lily
01:35Broom was that a common name back then or was there quite a few? I think it was
01:40fairly common. Yeah. I don't know of any other Brooms. Yeah. But if you look in the
01:45found books that's not an uncommon name. Yeah. So over the years you've had a few
01:50different leads that you've but they've just come to nothing have they? Absolutely nothing. So did your mum
01:56speak of Lily much? Now and again. Yeah. And obviously that's why I took on the search. Yeah. I mean it
02:04must have been frustrating for yourself to have a picture of her there in your
02:08hands but never know what happened. It must have left a hole really in your
02:14mum's life as well. Oh she never forgot it. Yeah. As I say she didn't talk a bit
02:19often. Yeah. But now and again she'd say I wonder what happened to her Lily. Yeah. And that's where it all stems from. Yeah. So you're
02:30wondering because you've you know you're all kinds of searches isn't it you've
02:35done over the years. Oh yes. So you're starting are you starting to come to
02:38conclusions she may have ended up going abroad then? I think it's possibly the
02:43answer. Yeah. And I don't know where to start with that. Yeah yeah totally. To be honest. And you
02:49were saying although we've got the internet which makes it in some way
02:52easier to look at records back in the day you could just fill us in on what
02:56you were saying about the services they used to offer years ago that we don't
02:59have now. Well I used to go to the reference library to do all the research because we
03:04haven't got computers then for all the births marriages and deaths records
03:09which the commonplace now to find on the internet it's free. Yeah. And but then I
03:15had to go to the reference library and sit there for hours trawling through
03:19stuff. Yeah. To try and find births marriages or deaths. Yeah. And people used to you were
03:25saying there was a service where they used to be able to pay if you had a list
03:28of names you could pay a couple of quid and they'd do a check whereas now it's
03:32kind of 15 quid at a time on a certificate. You have to buy the certificate now if you if
03:37you think it's a possibility. Yeah. You can't have it checked for three or four
03:41pounds at the GRO general registry office. You have to buy the certificate. So it can
03:46end up becoming a dear game as well. Well if you've got dozens. Yeah yeah. So what what would it
03:52mean to you you know personally if you could kind of close this chapter and put
03:58the end to this story. Just that. The end of the story. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. What became of Lily. Yeah. So did your mum
04:07just kind of try and console herself and just think well she's met a chap she's
04:12gone abroad and you know. I think that's what mum thought. Yeah. Yeah. But you don't you don't know I mean I've even checked deaths you know. Yeah. I can only check underbroom. Yeah. But there's nothing there. So she was
04:25popular with the lads there was some thought that mum might have had a bit of
04:29her telling off with her saying you know calm it down. That's true. But there was
04:34nothing really to your knowledge nothing major that kind of gave her a reason to
04:39disappear really. Not major no. Yeah. No. That's why it's a mystery. Yeah. So a birth certificate and two
04:47little pictures is all that remains that we know. Well we wish you all the best in
04:52putting an end to this this family story Roger. Thank you very much.
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