A man who achieved his late father’s “life’s goal” of finding his long lost family after his dad spent more than 50 years searching, discovered his cousin unknowingly nursed his father in hospital and lived just down the road. Ian Harrison, 66, a business coach born in Portsmouth and now living in Alberta, Canada, with his wife of 27 years, Christine, 69, wishes that his dad, Peter, was still alive to meet his long lost family, as he always wanted to know who his own father, Percy, was.
After finding more of his family through Lynda, the niece that unknowingly nursed Peter in his final days, it was discovered that he and one of Ian’s uncles looked “like twins” and even had the same job. Ian is still in touch with his new relatives, and he says he “could not have wished for a nicer family”, but he cannot help but get upset to think his dad did not have the same pleasure.
Ian thinks, after meeting his dad’s two brothers, they “would have been best friends” and thinks it’s “heart-breaking” all three never got to meet. “I just wish my dad was still here to meet these wonderful people – I still can’t believe they were all so close for all this time,” Ian said.
