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Great, thanks. I had seen that photo, but this is the first time I've seen it with the sanatorium actually named.

I don't know if they ever divorced, but I also don't know when Beatrice actually died. But as Fred and Joyce had Barbara in 1949 before they were married in 1953, then if Fred and Beatrice never divorced this might make some sense.

What we do know about Frederick Charles Mason is that he left Beatrice (who was 8 years older than him) for a 20 year younger woman - Joyce - and that only our mom, the youngest of his kids with Beatrice, kept in touch with him. His other kids wanted nothing to do with him. We also know he was a...

Wow, this is great information, thanks MWS. We have struggled to find anything. If you can give us more, then great, we have never known anything about our mom's Mason side.

Thanks Lyn, I wasn't sure where I should be posting.

Our mom, Margaret, with her step sister little Barbara, in the sea at Weymouth 1953

Our mom Margaret (left) with Joyce and little Barbara. Weymouth 1953

This is our mom, Margaret, with Joyce and little Barbara. Visiting Weymouth 1953.

This is Frederick Charles Mason with his wife Joyce and their daughter Barbara.

This is Frederick Charles Mason with our mother, Margaret Rose Mason, and her little step sister Barbara.

Hi everyone. My sister and I are researching our mom's past and we've hit a bit of a brick wall after her father. Our mom is Margaret Rose Mason, born 1934 to Beatrice Maud Steel/Brightley and Frederick Charles Mason. Our mom had two sisters and a brother. Here eldest sister Muriel Brightley was...

To keep things a little more organised, I'll start a different thread with reference to our mom's father and the Mason's.

Some of the nurses.

Tommy Steel visited the hospital at some point when my mom was there: