Joy
1944 August Joy and Ray Here is Photo Number 2 for the February Photo Collage Festival. It is of my first cousin once removed Joyce Isabel and her husband Ray Jeffery. Joy was more of an Auntie to me being my mother's first cousin. Joy's mother Belle and my mother's mother Kit were twin sisters. Apparently I look a lot like Joy. Joy married Ray in 1942. Joy very kindly gave me a beautiful ring of hers and I wear it on my left hand on the middle finger. It is very difficult to remove! The inside of the ring is inscribed with the words "To my darling Bub" and then the dates 22.10.44 - 29.11.44. I always thought this was connected to the birth and death of their first child - Robert William Jeffery but I have looked up his death in the NSW BDM index and he died in 1943. This was during the war years so I wonder if the dates relate to their second honeymoon. Going through an old photo album of Joy's it does seem to f...