DAVID WRITES:
Dear Karen
I’m hoping you can help me.
Until I was a teenager I was brought up by my mother and a man, who I believed to be my father. However my mother Ann Thomas left the family home and I was told that my father was unknown. My mother had always been secretive, but I learnt that her real name was Ann Kelly and that her father William Kelly had killed her mother Sarah Bradley when he found out she was seeing other men. I have found a newspaper article reporting this in 1961 and I know that William and Sarah had emigrated from England in 1959 to Australia in an attempt to ‘start again’ due to Sarah’s adulterous affairs. This obviously went badly wrong.
Other than these names I knew nothing about my family. I don’t know where my mother is or even if she is still alive.
I decided to take an Ancestry test to find my father and discover more about Ann’s line. This hasn’t helped at all. I don’t recognise any surnames on my matches, even the ones I thought I had. I’ve also noticed that some of my matches show links to central
