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Joseph Judson standing with Carole Scragg and brother Barry Davis
Joseph Judson standing with Carole Scragg and brother Barry Davis
Dorothy May Judson (neƩ Davis)
Dorothy May Judson (formally Davis)

Siblings Reunited


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Barry has just celebrated his 70th birthday with this family, including his half brother Jo Judson and his sister Carole Scragg.

They were particularly welcome guests at the party as throughout his childhood Barry had believed his mother to be dead and had absolutely no idea that he had siblings.

But the truth was that his mother had left the family home when Barry was 2, thereby consigning her child to the poorhouse, from whence his father quickly reclaimed him...

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