My Mother's parents, (Biological),
This will be confusing even for me because I just realized how little I know about my Grandparent's lives, together anyway, because you will see later that my Grandfather plays much more of a role in my life than any other extended relative.
My Grandfather's name was Carleton, but he went by Pat. My Grandmother's name was Ann. I don't know how they met, but I can imagine that my Grandfather's family, and their money played a role in their getting together. He was very rich and she was an immigrant from Russia who was beautiful. I know that my Grandmother did a lot of modeling and she was a very vain, woman. And one other thing that is significant is that she had a daughter when she met Pat. My mother has an older sister named Judy. I have never met Judy in person, I have had correspondence as a child, and heard about her life second and third hand and that is about it. I will talk about her briefly later on. These are facts that I do know. At the same time I know she had a huge heart. I just think her Narcissism, and vanity, held her back from her family more than anything else. It seems she may have been a bit of a gold digger from an outside perspective. I have never even heard a reason that made sense to me, as for why my Mother's Grandparents adopted she and her sister. I do not know either what happened with Pat and Ann. I am not positive that they ever married. I think from what I know about Pat's parents, they would have seen a single mother as an unsuitable match for my Grandfather. Especially as their only child. It just now occurred to me what may have happened, and what is most likely. my Grandfather was an only child and if he and Ann were separating My Great Grandparents would have probably gone to any lengths to keep my Mother and her sister Susie. They could have even paid Ann off to be able to adopt them. I don't know why them and not my Grandfather but I can imagine they did not see him as a suitable parent at that time, or ever for that matter. My Grandmother eventually married Norbert and remained married to him until she passed away a few years ago, and Norbert was set to go to Seminary school when he met Ann and he had money, and I am not sure what his profession was but he did very well in his life. And my Grandfather married I believe a total of 10 women in his lifetime. Not any bigamy I believe. You will understand why I say that later on in my writings. I will be talking about some of my Grandfather's wives through telling my story.
My fathers parents,
O.k. I messed up on this one. I went over my Father's parents yesterday. I think the reason I made that mistake was I had gone over my Mother's Grandparents, and that is because they adopted her. And I know nothing about my Father's Grandparents at all. But what I went over yesterday was what I know about My Father's parents.
It never ceases to amaze me how much comes to me through this process. I am enjoying the format as well. I love having this as a journal of sorts. It allows for some explaining and letting people know more about me, and how I think, and eventually people will know how I became me. That is the most interesting thing about all of this, and that is but for the fear and pain and the good as well, I would not be this person sitting here today. In today's writings, I figured out something that I had not even put much thought in and that is how my Great Grandparents wound up adopting my Mother and Aunt. It made sense as soon as I put all the things I knew together, and now my life is shaping up to be more interesting than I thought.
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