Three siblings in their 70s travel across the world to meet for the first time
Three siblings in their 70s who have met in person for the first time after discovering they all share the same dad have said they were “overjoyed” to have found one another.
Lorraine Williams, 74, from British Columbia, Canada, discovered fellow retirees James “Jimmy” McLoughlin, a 77-year-old from Liverpool, and Isle of Wight resident Josephine Morey, 75, through a family history website in summer 2023.
It turned out that Lorraine’s father, Sydney, born Arthur Sydney John, who died at age 80 in 2000, had fathered James and Josephine in the UK before he emigrated to Canada in 1951, where Lorraine and her mother joined him the following year.
James’ birth mum had a “brief fling” in 1946 with Sydney, who had moved to Liverpool for work, and said his mother left him on the doorstep of an orphanage at three weeks
