I was born in a house on Upper St. Helen's Road, Hedge End, Near Southampton, Hants, England. My  mother was very ill and died when I was 3 months old.  I was adopted by friends of the  Capel family who lived not far away in Hedge End and became Julie Keys.

This is my curious glimpse into the past of people with my DNA. Something I knew very little about  until I started doing some digging. It's a work-in-progress. I have been working on the site for a  year now and one thing that came out of my digging is that I found a first cousin I never knew I  had. One of my mother's sisters who I had never heard about before as she passed away at age 24 in  1929, apparently had a son just before she died. Sadly, my cousin himself passed away in 1992

My obscure connection to the Royal Family is that my great great grandfather's cousin's wife's  cousin, Sineta Lambourne was the first wife of the Queen Mother's grandfather, Charles Cavendish- Bentinck.