| |  | | Robin with his Mexican uncle, Arturo |
| |  | | Grandma Ruth and uncle Arturo |
| |  | | The foundry in Bellavista |
| |  | | Arthur Greenhalgh and Don Domingo (?) at the Foundry in Bellavista |
| |  | | Petra holding a photo of Arthur Greenhalagh |
| |  | | The back of a 1908 photograph of Arthur Greenhalgh |
| |  | | Arthur Greenhalgh in 1908 |
| |  | | The back of an Arthur Greenhalgh photograph |
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Mexican Relatives
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Robin was about 10 when he heard stories about his great grandfather's trips to Mexico.
It all started in 1894 when Robin's great grandfather, Arthur Greenhalgh, the son of a cotton mill owner set sail from Liverpool aged 24. He travelled overland from New York to the Western slopes of the Sierra Madre in Mexico.
Arthur - or "Arturo" as he is still referred to in Mexico became involved with Maria, a cotton factory worker in the same factory where he became a director. They had a child, who had eleven children, all of whom had many more children...Robin has sinced traced 300 relatives in Mexico.
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