ANCESTRAL WANDERINGS
The East Riding of Yorkshire is where one branch of my family lived for generations in such places as Kexby, West Ella and Hull. From farm workers in the countryside they joined the masses who moved to the cities during the Industrial Revolution and Hull was the place where the men took up their occupations as wood turners, shipwrights and latterly fishermen. The First and Second World Wars were not the only thing to mix the gene pool as the fishing industry in Hull took my ancestors to live and work in Aberdeen, Great Yarmouth and even Milford Haven in Wales. The last ancestor on my direct line to be born in Hull was my great-grandmother Hannah Lumley (née Hodgson) in 1881 and I do have a photo of her at the age of 75 when I was only two. With the Scottish influence I was born with the surname of McDonald but in a village on the edge of the Lincolnshire Fens, where I suppose my surname was unusual at school and only upstaged by some Eastern European names such as Rogalski and Schuller. The Stackowicz family changed their surname to Stacey.