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Great grandfather Thomas Michael Clifford, eldest son of Thomas and Mary, born in  Gilson near Warwick, in 1839.  He was a goldsmith of considerable talent, and also an accomplished tenor who, at one time, sang with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.  This photo is circa 1906.  He died  in 1915 at the age of 76.

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Great grandmother Lucy Clare (nee Arnold), born 1841.  She married my great grandfather on December 25, 1858 at Bishops Ryder, Birmingham, Warwick.  They had 13 children, including 2 sets of twins,  but not all survived infancy.  The youngest child, named after her mother, was my grandmother.  She died January 30, 1892 at the age of 51.

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Grandfather Arthur Henry Haysom, only son of Arthur and Jane, born in Surrey in 1886.  He was an engineer, and at the outbreak of the first World War joined the army and served with the North Surrey Regiment.  He was killed on September 6, 1915 at the Battle of Loos, leaving my grandmother a widow with 3 young children.

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Grandmother Lucy Clare Haysom (nee Clifford, later Smith) born July 9, 1883.  The Haysoms lived in Worcester Park, Surrey.   This photo was taken in 1919 just before she emigrated to Canada as the wife of Art Smith of Regina, Saskatchewan ( he had served overseas during the war).  What a shock it must have been to go from outer London to Regina at that time!  The children are, from left to right, Winnifred Clare (my mother) age 5,  Arthur Walter age 11, and Veronica Marie age 7.

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