This is a photograph of six sisters all of whom were the living aunts of my wife Dorothy. With little more than the photo you see before you and a rough idea of where the ladies had been born, I asked Margaret McDonald our wonderful Hebburn genealogist, to produce a tree of my wife's family. Margaret has produced a magnificent volume of information drawn from England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada and the USA. It is incredible. Here are just a few of the hundreds of snippets extracted from Margaret's dossier. The sisters lived in St James Square, Gateshead during Victorian times. They never married until after the death of their father in 1914. Their mother had died in 1903 giving birth to her her tenth child, a fourth son. The baby survived and eventually, Patrick was to become the father of Dorothy and later, my father in law. Patrick went on to father a total of six daughters. Margaret, Elizabeth, Jane, Kathleen, Dorothy and Marie. Sadly they have all gone except for Dorothy my wife. Birth, death and marriage certificates. Oddities of adoption, how Patrick survived without feed from a mother. A "wet nurse" who wanted to adopt him. The contents of the lockets around the Victorian girls necks. Their father's reluctance to let his daughter's marry. It's all here before me, thanks to Margaret McDonald.