Bernie and Kelly finally arrived this morning after a very long flight. They were shattered but did brilliantly well, lasting til around 6pm by the time their lack of sleep over the previous 72 hours finally caught up with them and they crashed!
So we managed to have a wonderful family reunion party at Karen and Greg's.
Gilbert Lionel Coleman was born in 1901, and had 5 sons; Christopher, Timothy, Patrick, Anthony, and Hugh.
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| Gilbert with Chris and Tim |
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| Ants in front with Chris, Tim, and Pat |
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| Tim holding Hugh |
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| Chris, Pat, and Tim |
Today there were two of Gilbert's sons; eight of his grandchildren, 8 of his great grandchildren, 2 of his great great grandchildren, and 9 partners/wives/husbands - 30 of us in total.
Below is a quick family tree with those there today in blue, direct descendants in bold, everyone else in regular text, (and those
not there today in brackets).
(Gilbert + Grace + Myrtle
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- (Chris + Jo)
- Nick + Ger
- Sally + Mick
- (Elly + Chris)
- (Hannah + Charlie)
- (Tim + Joan)
- (Susan + Jeremy)
- (Michael + Kiki)
- Lucy-Jane + Tim)
- (John + Jodi)
- (Leigh + Vincent)
- Tanya)
- (Tracy + Andrew)
- Bernie
- Kelly (+Sam)
- (Jason + April)
- (Judy + Mike)
- (Anthony + Anna)
- (Jonny + Shayna)
- Phil + Caitie
- Toni + Barry
- (Chris + Wendy)
- (Tom)
- (Dave + Sonya)
- (Peter)
- Pat + Doreen
- Karen + Greg
- (Guy + Natalie)
- Ross
- Emily + Curtis
- Gail + Brett
- Alison + Adrian
- Ants (+ Lyn)
- (Hugh + Pam)
- (Tom + Jane)
- Ami + Edward
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| Anthony and Patrick (Photo by Gail) |
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| Bernie and Kelly arrive after a very looooonnng flight (25 hours flying time in total over two stints in 28 hours) |
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| My sister is here! |
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| Ami and Ants |
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| Ami, Ants, and Bernie |
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| Phil, Barry, and Kelly |
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| Bailey, Ross, Ricky, Curtis behind door, and Phil |
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| Rickey, Imogen upside down, Maddie on the floor, and Curtis |
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| Rickey and Imogen wearing his glasses |
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| Maddie, Curtis, Bailey, and Ross |
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| Phil trying on his All Black flag from his Mum |
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| Reunion; Bernie catches up at last with Ger, Sally, and Nick |
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| Dylan, Curtis, and Bailey |
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| Ger, Nick, Sally, Gail from behind, Bernie, Imogen, and Ricky hidden behind her |
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| Ami, Ants, Pat, Doreen from behind, and Edward |
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| Edward, Ami and Ger partly obscured, Nick, Karen in red, Adrian, Immy and Zack in the conservatory, Toni, Kelly and Caitie on the right (Photo by Barry) |
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| Maddie, just over a year old. |
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| Kelly (a little spaced out and jet lagged) and Caitie |
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| Edward, Ami, Karen holding Maddie, and Nick |
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| Brett, Bailey, Gail, Doreen, Kelly, Caitie, Phil, and Ants |
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| Edward, Ami, Karen holding Maddie, Nick, Bernie, Brett, Bailey, Gail, and Doreen |
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| Emily and Imogen at the dessert table - Anzac biscuits, chocolate brownies, bread and butter pudding, lemon cake, pumpkin pie, Stollen, cream. Dinner was several casseroles, new and mashed potatoes, vegetable lasagne, bread.... no one went home hungry, that's for sure! |
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| Group photo time... see if you can guess who is who! (Photos of groups by Ger) |
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| First cousins! Our Dad's are all brothers. |
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| Maddie and Zack |
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| Phil, Kelly and Caitie |
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| Immy in Ricky's glasses. They suit her I think! |
Somehow Greg managed to avoid all these photos - probably because he was busy hosting - and running us to our motel - thanks Greg!
Fabulous day and Dad, everyone misses you and sends their love. Hugh and Pam also send their love via Ami. xxxx
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