A South London girl is on a determined search for answers to a 60 yr previous thriller after her grandma ‘woke up one morning and just left’.
In 1960, Patricia Mary Jones, recognized to her household as Patsy, was 35 when she walked out on her husband and seven youngsters.
The youngest little one was just a few months previous.
Now her grandaughter, Pip O’Neil, 28, who lives in Crystal Palace, is looking for out precisely what occurred and why Patsy left all these years in the past.
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She instructed MyLondon: “I’d like to know what occurred to her. I hope that she discovered some happiness, discovered some peace.
“If it seems she did have extra youngsters and I’ve extra household that’d be unimaginable.
“But just figuring out she discovered some peace could be sufficient for me.”
Although Patsy was briefly in contact with a number of of her youngsters after leaving, this shortly tailed off and she seemingly
London mum of seven ‘woke up one morning and just left’ 60 years in the past – now her granddaughter is ‘desperately’ searching for answers disappeared for good.
Patsy Mary Jones (R) woke up and walked out on her massive household
(Image: Pip O’Neill)
The final time any member of the family noticed her was years later in Brixton Market.
Pip defined: “Her brother noticed her in Brixton Market in 1963/64 with two small blended-race youngsters.
“He noticed her throughout the market however did not attain her in time.
“She was gone by the point she he bought there.”
It is not recognized in the event that they have been her youngsters or not.
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Pip’s mum was three when Patsy walked out, leaving her husband to lift the seven youngsters.
Pip continued: “My mum handed away in 2015 and she all the time wished to know what occurred.
“It was an actual formative time to lose your mum.”
(*60*) ‘There are most likely some type of skeleton’s within the cabinet’
Patsy and her husband moved from Cobh, close to Cork in Ireland , to London within the Nineteen Fifties searching for higher prospects.
They discovered a spot in Chelsea, the place she had pals and household, however one of her daughter’s reacted badly to London’s thick smog.
For cleaner air and hope for work on the rising Gatwick Airport, the household moved to Crawley, West Sussex in 1959. The subsequent yr she disappeared.
Pip defined: “There have been a great deal of theories on the time.
“As far as we all know, she didn’t return to Ireland, she stayed in London.
“But trying again we expect she could have had postpartum despair.”
The simiralitiesy between Patsy (proper) and Pip’s sister are uncanny
(Image: Pip O’Neill)
She defined: “The concept is that she remarried, and couldn’t go residence with out revealing that she hadn’t divorced her first husband.”
Pip continued: “We assume she additionally missed her household and undoubtedly missed the intense lights of town.
“Back then Crawley was a brand new city. There wasn’t a lot there, just a number of villages round Gatwick.
“She did not have a lot freedom as a married immigrant mom. The 30 miles to London would have felt loads additional again then.”
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(*60*) ‘If th ey knew one thing they took it to their graves’
Now Pip is working with different members of the family to strive resolve the thriller of what occurred to Patsy.
Pip stated: “I’m not anticipating it to be this large blissful ending, I believe there are most likely some type of skeleton’s within the cabinet.
“It was a fancy and troublesome time for her. We’re not anticipating Patricia to return out as saintly.
“We just need to discover out what occurred.”
It is not the primary time the household have tried to seek out their lacking relative. Patsy’s dad and mom employed a personal investigator to strive and discover her nevertheless it got here to nothing.
In the Nineteen Nineties Pip’s mum tracked her down by means of the Salvation Army however they stated that Patsy did not need to be discovered.
Patsy (second from left) with her household again residence in Cork. Her dad and mom (additionally pictured) pooled their little cash to rent a personal investigator after she disappeared nevertheless it got here to nothing
(Image: Pip O’Neill)
If Patricia was nonetheless alive, she could be 97 now. Although it was clearly very troublesome on the time for everybody concerned, Pip thinks that’ sufficient time delve into it once more.
She defined: “After all this time we really feel it is the correct time to seek out out extra info with out actively hurting anybody.
“None of the uncles and aunts knew what occurred or in the event that they did they took it to their graves.
“I believe that for her youngsters, it might have felt like opening Pandora’s field.”
Pip is now sharing Patsy’s image as extensively as attainable within the hope somebody will recognise the picture as their relation.
She pleaded on social media: “Does anybody know what occurred to Patsy Jones? Was she blissful? Did she dwell an extended life?
“I just need to know. Thank you upfront, fingers crossed somebody is aware of one thing.”
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