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My sister Judith was born September
4, 1943 at the Oakwood Nursing Home in Northampton. We grew up together with Mum and dad in the house at 62 Friars Avenue until we both left home in the early 1960s. Judith, after some experimenting with office work in Northampton and London, went to a teacher-training college in Saffron Walden, Essex, graduating in 1966. She then went abroad for a year of "Voluntary Service Overseas" — the British equivalent of the Peace Corps. Her posting was to Sarawak, on the northern shore of the island of Borneo in the East Indies. There she met an American, Alan Dailey, who actually was in the Peace Corps. Their daughter Tessa was born in September 1967 — Judith back home in England by now — and they married some time soon afterwards.
Alan and Judith first went to live in the U.S.A. — in Morristown, New Jersey for some time, and also other places. Then — I have no idea of the exact dates here — they went back to England and lived in a pleasant terraced house in Ivy Road, Northampton. They were there in 1973, when I returned to England from my first spell in the Far East.
They then decided that Hawaii was the place, and in summer 1974 came back to the States on their way there. By that time I was living in Elmsford, New York, and I chauffered them round to visit friends in Morristown and New York City. They then passed on to Hawaii.
Hawaii was not a success, however, and in fact broke up the marriage. Judith returned to England with Tessa (we are now around 1975-6, Tessa eight or nine years old). Judith lived with Mum and Dad for a time, working as a schoolteacher; then in 1976 married Philip Moore, an auto and truck mechanic, and went to live in a council house at Lings, one of the new estates on the east side of the town. Their son Marcus was born in January 1977. The photograph above was taken at Marcus's christening party in 1978.
Judith continued to work as a schoolteacher until taking early retirement in 1998. The family — Philip, Judith, Tessa and Marcus — bought a big old terraced house in Birchfield Road, Northampton; then, in the early 1990s, when Tessa had left home, to a smaller house in nearby Broadway. Philip and Judith are still living there as of end-2003.
Tessa Dailey married a fellow named Mark round about 1987 and they went to live in a house in the village of Geddington, near Northampton.
The marriage failed, however, and Tessa got a divorce.
She went to work for the National Theatre in London, as a dresser. There she met Paul McLeish, a lighting engineer employed by the National, and they married in the mid-1990s.
They have four children: a little girl Kesta and two boys, Tully,
Caden (born June
24, 2000) and Wolfgang Edward Allan (born November 16,
2003).